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Nashville's 'Discoverers': Can A Prominent Critic's Words Shape A Band's Future

WPLN | By Emily Siner
Published September 10, 2015 at 7:04 AM CDT
Ann Powers, critic for NPR Music, says fans and musicians have more influence now than in previous years.
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Ann Powers, critic for NPR Music, says fans and musicians have more influence now than in previous years.

Hear the radio version of this interview.

It's not hard in Nashville to find people who love discovering new music. Those people surely covet the job of Ann Powers. She's a music critic for NPR — that's national public radio, not Nashville — who highlights talented bands for a very large audience. She talked to WPLN's Emily Siner in our live series Movers & Thinkers about the influence of her discoveries.

This audio is an excerpt from the latest episode of our Movers & Thinkers podcast. Hear more of the conversation with Powers, as well as two other people who discover things for a living, by downloading our podcast on our website or on iTunes.

Copyright 2015 WPLN News
Emily Siner
Emily Siner is an enterprise reporter at WPLN. She has worked at the Los Angeles Times and NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., and her written work was recently published in Slices Of Life, an anthology of literary feature writing. Born and raised in the Chicago area, she is a graduate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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