Podcasts Society & Culture Personal Journals The Kitchen Sisters Present 136 - The Lou Reed Archive with Laurie Anderson

136 - The Lou Reed Archive with Laurie Anderson

Published: Feb. 25, 2020, 2 p.m.

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Lou Reed\\u2014music icon, poet, photographer, Tai Chi master, vital force in the cultural life and underworld of New York City. Lou died in 2013 and left not a word of instruction about what he wanted done with his archive of
\\nrecordings, instruments, gear, his Tai Chi swords, jackets\\u2014from his days with The Velvet Underground, through his solo career and last recordings.\\xa0He left everything to his wife, artist and musician Laurie Anderson. Over
\\nthe next six years Laurie and a team of Lou\\u2019s \\u201ckeepers\\u201d created a vision.

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In March 2019, on the occasion of his birthday, The Lou Reed Archive opened to the public at the New York Library for the Performing Arts with parties, friends, family, fanfare and a drone concert at the largest cathedral in the world. During that week and beyond we spoke to many of Lou\\u2019s archivists, family, and friends \\u2014 Laurie Anderson, Curator Don Fleming, Jason Stern and Jim Cass who worked with Lou, drone wizard Stewart Hurwood, Producers Tony Visconti and Hal Willner, Carrie Welch\\xa0from the New York Public Library, Curator Jonathan Hiam and a devoted crew of librarians and archivists at the New York Library for the Performing Arts, and Lisa Shubert at Cathedral of\\xa0Saint John the Divine. Many thanks to all.

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The Keepers, stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, historians and collectors, is produced by The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) in collaboration with Nathan Dalton & Brandi Howell and mixed by Jim McKee. Special thanks to story interns\\xa0Sydney Stewart and Josh Gross.

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The Kitchen Sisters Present is part of the Radiotopia Podcast Network from PRX. Support for The Kitchen Sisters comes from Radiotopia, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Grammy Museum Foundation, The Marin Community Foundation/ Susie Tompkins Buell Fund, Cowgirl Creamery, The Kaleta Doolin Foundation, The Robert Sillins Family Foundation, The Robert Lee Hudson Foundation, the TRA Fund and listener contributions to The Kitchen Sisters Productions.

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\\u201cThese are really terribly rough times and we really should try to be nice to each other as possible.\\u201d \\xa0Lou Reed.

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