We're *taking it to the streets* on this episode of Music In Time. Freshly back from New York City, host Evan McCormick spins songs that reference streets, avenues, and other pathways through NYC -- in this case, the very streets he traversed last week. More than personal travelogue, the songs offer images of the city from different eras, showing how in a place like New York, even a basic commute can feel like a trip through time. 

1. Penn Station - The Felice Brothers (2009)
2. Across 110th Street - Bobby Womack (1972)
3. 125th Street & 7th Ave - Oliver Nelson (1975)
4. 53rd & 3rd - The Ramones (1976)
5. Broadway - Old 97s (1997)
6. 14th Street - Rufus Wainwright (2003)
7. St. Marks Place - Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project and Lydia Lunch (2010)
8. Positively 4th Street - Bob Dylan (1965) 
9. Vernon Jackson - The Brought Low (2006)
10. Pulaski Bridge - Yellowbirds & Sam Cohen (2011)
11. Calyer - Beach Fossils (2011)
12. 6th Avenue Heartache - the Wallflowers (1996)

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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.