Who is David Dye & World Cafe

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David Dye Presents the Freshest Music on World Cafe

David Dye has been serving up tasty new music at the World Cafe since 1991. New artists and bands with new albums swing by and chat, play their songs, and talk about their own favorite music. Between live segments, Mr. Dye offers treats from across all genres, to satisfy even the most discriminating palette.

Below I've compiled the albums of live performances on World Cafe, the feed from the site at NPR.org, videos of some of the performances, and more. If you've got something to add, please pop down to my guestbook and share it. Thank you!

Contents at a Glance

World Cafe: The Easiest Way to Find The Best Music
Get World Cafe Song Recommendations for Every Occasion
The Latest from the World Cafe

Want to Read More About David Dye?
Get the Best of The World Cafe
Read What Folks Tweet about David Dye

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World Cafe: The Easiest Way to Find The Best Music

Head over to the NPR Music page for the World Cafe to find full recordings of the sessions from recent shows. You'll find headliners from Glen Campbell to The Puppini Sisters to Feist to Flight of the Conchords. Check the right sidebar for links to previous shows and the Best of the World Cafe.

David Dye has such an easy interviewing style and smooth sense of humor that musicians really open up with him and seem at their ease. It's a joy to be a fly on the wall as people passionate about music talk candidly. For what more could you ask from a radio show?

Great music? Mr. Dye's got that in spades. And if he runs out of inspiration he can always take entries from Submit 5, where listeners have nominated their five favorite songs and included a reason why they're special. If I could only pick my absolute favorite five, I'd submit my own list. Why not do yours, on the page linked above?

Get World Cafe Song Recommendations for Every Occasion

David Dye and Staff Give 176 Pages of Playlists

The World Cafe Playlist Handbook: Music Mixes for all Styles and Occasions

by: David Dye, Staff of WXPN

Amazon Price: $7.95 (as of 07/11/2009)

David Dye and the staff at the World Cafe have compiled dozens of playlist recommendations for every conceivable occasion. Since these folks have interviewed thousands of bands and have been listening to (and sharing) the best music out there every weekday for 18 years, they know what they're talking about. Add a few favorite songs of your own to personalize and you can become an instant DJ!

The Latest from the World Cafe

David Dye Shows How Cool He Is

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Want to Read More About David Dye?

NPR, ever the thoughtful radio organization, has provided a terrific profile of Mr. Dye on their web site (it comes with the lovely photo, to the right here). This legend has been on the radio since 1972, if I've got my math right, and is still finding better music than the thousands of "DJs" that litter the commercial airwaves. How does he do it?!

He's been hosting the World Cafe since 1991, interviewing bands and singers about their new releases and generally exploring the world of music with an ear toward the original and the well-done. David Dye isn't a fan of one genre or particular sound. That makes his broadcasts a resource for music fans rather than a recounting of the week's highest-paying record label releases.

Get the Best of The World Cafe

Fresh, interesting, and unusual music, served hot every day. Get the best of the best.

Live At the World Cafe - Tenth Anniversary Edition

by: The Story, Joan Osborne, Ani Difranco, Bruce Cockburn, Phish, Steve Earle, Sarah McLachlan, Lucinda Williams, Coldplay, Richard Thompson