One of my recurring life fantasies is to be in a family band.

Like can you imagine having a family where you could be on a stage at a crowded amphitheatre

or just hanging around after a Sunday dinner.

Everyone's got out their instruments, you know the same songs, all that you know of each other

gets put to sound, and the ways you're different mixed together

to create distinct harmonies?

What a dream.

And also, as Martha Wainwright tells us in this episode, being part of a sprawling family

of talented musicians is not without its complications. You're contending with fame, you're

contending with egos, you're comparing yourself to your family members all the time while you're trying to be in relationship with them.

When I go on stage now I feel you can see I'm a bed descent, know a beast of the stage you know so who likes it and I was always

like that you know I was always sort of trying to stand up in front of everybody and

push people to the side and sing loud and stick out which was

quite hard to do considering who was around me and and also folk music you also

need to learn how to sing together.

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Martha Wainwright comes from a family of folk musicians.

If you're picturing milk toast buttoned up folkies like from the movie The Mighty Wind,

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