Everything's gone green on this episode of Music In Time, which celebrates the coming of spring with a playlist of songs that reference things that grow as the seasons turn anew: trees, grass, seeds & weeds, vegetables, fruits, and the like. Highlighting songs that came out in the spring months of their respective release years, host Evan McCormick explores how the early warm weather days -- all showers & sprouts, buds & pollen -- frame the music we hear, and vice versa. 

Episode Playlist
1. Plantasia - Mort Garson (1976)
2. Teeth In The Grass - Iron & Wine (2004)
3. The Little Acorn - The Fruit Bats (2003)
4. Homegrown Tomatoes - Guy Clark (1983)
5. Know Your Onion - The Shins (2001)
6. Onions - John Lee Hooker (1980)
7. Boll Weevil, Holler - Shirley Collins & Davy Graham (1964)
8. Boll Weevil - Presidents of the United States of America (1995)
9. Flowers - Galaxie 500 (1988)
10. Run Into Flowers - M83 (2003)
11. Stick - Ovlov (2018)
12. Tip Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me - Tiny Tim (1968)
13. Blue Orchid - The White Stripes (2005)
14. Coming Up Roses - Elliot Smith (1995)
15. Music Field - Roy Shirley (1967)

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Music does not just exist. It exists in specific times and places and in the sonic world of each individual listener who engages with it. That’s the basic idea behind "Music in Time," which explores the social and political context in which songs and albums emerge, are listened to, and reflected on over the years. Each broadcast focuses on a single album, detailing the social and political circumstances surrounding its release and moments in time that made certain music resonate anew. How is music shaped by these historical moments, and, in turn, how does it shape the histories that we remember?

By day, Evan McCormick is a historian at Columbia University, where he is part of the Obama Presidency Oral History project, interviewing a range of people — from cabinet members to ordinary folks — about their memories of the Obama years. By night, McCormick is a music lover and singer-songwriter, recording under the stage name Egan Caufield. For most of his life these two worlds remained separate, but after relocating to Catskill, in 2020, he chose to bring history and music together over the airwaves, and "Music in Time" was born.