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The Marcus King Band On World Cafe

The first thing I remarked after finishing my conversation with Marcus King: "This guy doesn't act or sound like a 22-year-old at all." He's incredibly perceptive, and thoughtful, and the music he's making sounds like it's coming from someone who's been working at it for decades. But I mean, he's been playing guitar for audiences since he was 11. I should have seen this coming.

Marcus King is one of the best guitarists in America. His chops are well in order, sharing the stage with legends like Derrick Trucksand Warren Haynes, the latter produced Marcus' debut album. Part of the reason King was on stage at such a young age was thanks to his dad, Marvin King, who's also a talented guitarist. Marcus talks about playing with his father, as well as his new album, Carolina Confessions, a deeply personal record exploring leaving the Carolinas and finding his place while still caring very much for his home.

Let's get started with one of those confessionals, "Side Door." Hear the complete session in the audio player.

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World Cafe senior producer Kimberly Junod has been a part of the World Cafe team since 2001, when she started as the show's first line producer. In 2011 Kimberly launched (and continues to helm) World Cafe's Sense of Place series that includes social media, broadcast and video elements to take listeners across the U.S. and abroad with an intimate look at local music scenes. She was thrilled to be part of the team that received the 2006 ASCAP Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast Award for excellence in music programming. In the time she has spent at World Cafe, Kimberly has produced and edited thousands of interviews and recorded several hundred bands for the program, as well as supervised the show's production staff. She has also taught sound to young women (at Girl's Rock Philly) and adults (as an "Ask an Engineer" at WYNC's Werk It! Women's Podcast Festival).