This pledge drive episode of Music In Time is giving…slow. That’s right, for WGXC’s “Slow Down, Tune In” summer pledge drive, host Evan McCormick takes listeners on a retrospective of his favorite slow tracks from episodes of Music In Time past. The episode showcases the various approaches the show takes to exploring the connections between history-telling and music, all as a way to highlight the unique environment WGXC has created for shows like this one to model informative, thoughtful expression. There’s no other community like it, and it’s all made possible by the support of listeners like you!

Track Listing:
1. I Live With You - Grizzly Bear
2. Drive - The Cars
3. Every Broken Heart - Spike Priggen
4. Four-Day Interval - Tortoise
5. Lay Me Down - Dark Mark & Skeleton Joe
6. Redemption Song - Bob Marley & The Wailers
7. Austin Texas Mental Hospital, pt. 3 - Stars Of The Lid
8. Total Falsch - Bohren & Der Club of Gore
9. Windswept (Reprise) - Johnny Jewel
10. In The Z Plane - Winter

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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. Host Evan McCormick uses different formats to play with the idea of music in time—sometimes focusing on a single album and detailing the social and political circumstances surrounding its release, sometimes putting together playlists that explore a theme or concept in songs through the years. Each broadcast asks: how is music shaped by its own historical moment, and, in turn, how does music shape the histories that we remember?

By day, Evan McCormick is a historian at Columbia University, where he uses oral history interviews to understand how people remember and make sense of the past. 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.