Summary: This week, host Bob Boilen sits down with Roxy Music frontman Bryan Ferry to chat about the universal allure and importance of love songs. Ferry has had a long and transformative career, beginning with his years in the rock group Roxy Music, to a solo career that's spanned forty years and fourteen albums. Though Ferry has long had a well-earned reputation for being a romantic crooner, he tells Bob "it's always easier for me to write the sad songs and sing the sad songs. The moments I feel more creative are when I'm feeling introspective and maybe a bit sad. It's rather a lonely occupation, writing songs." Ferry recently released his innovative and completely surprising new album, The Jazz Age, which re-imagines classic Roxy Music tracks, as well as songs from Ferry's solo career, as 1920s-era instrumental jazz songs. On this edition of All Songs Considered, we'll hear a few of those songs, along with some of Ferry's personal (and sometimes heartbreaking) favorites, from artists such as Otis Redding, Aaron Neville, The Shirelles and Al Green. 1. Otis Redding: That's How Strong My Love Is 2. Roxy Music: Love Is The Drug 3. The Bryan Ferry Orchestra: Love Is The Drug 4. The Bryan Ferry Orchestra: I Thought 5. Al Green: Let's Stay Together 6. Bryan Ferry: Make You Feel My Love 7. Aaron Neville: Tell It Like It Is 8. The Shirelles: Will You Love Me Tomorrow 9. The Bryan Ferry Orchestra: Reason Or Rhyme
