As the lead singer of The Gap Band,Charlie Wilson had huge hits — as well as a debilitating drug habit. He tells his memoir of recovery and rebounding to the top of the charts with the befriend of Snoop Dogg, Justin Timberlake, or Kanye West in the new memoir “I Am Charlie Wilson.” Also,The Silver Lake Chorus commissions new songs from indie rock's greatest songwriters, and we hear the memoir behind one Aimee Mann wrote for them. And, and for a poet obsessed with the passage of time and the cessation of the world,Mary Jo Bang has a surprisingly upbeat personality.
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