Trauma, Medicine, Pain and Beauty with Jessica Robbins of Course: The Echoes Interview
John Diliberto and Course’s Jessica Robbins
On the next Echoes, the pain of Ankylosing Spondylitis, a spinal disease causing immense pain. But Jessica Robbins, who records as Course, creates some beautiful music out of that pain on her album, Hue Mirror. It’s an exploration of her years long journey to find a diagnosis, a treatment and relief, if not a full on cure. Medical travails have rarely sounded so haunting and beautiful.
Jess Robbins: I didn’t want to dwell on the pain, even though it’s in there. I didn’t want to be so on the nose with all the songs, besides MRI.
Join John Diliberto when he brings us the fascinating story of Jessica Robbins and Course on Echoes from PRX. You can purchase her album exclusively from the Spondylitis Association of America 
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Monday, July 21, 2025 – Echoes Program 2529A |
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Start Time |
Group Name |
Song Name |
Album Name |
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First Half Hour |
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| 0:01:00 | Rena Jones & KiloWatts | We Dance Again | Caesura |
| 0:06:00 | Molly Dean | Through it All | Interwoven |
| 0:10:37 | Andrew Schoen | New Start (feat Joe Nutter and Dino Pacifici | Common Community |
| 0:14:35 | aeseaes | Algorhythm | Opia |
| 0:18:00 | MusicTellers | Arizona | Speaking in Song |
| 0:20:00 | J Arif Verner | In Lucid Dreams | A Vision Beyond Light |
| 0:25:36 | Sine | Mirror | Impuls |
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Second Half Hour |
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| 0:30:00 | Interview: Course | ||
| 0:45:18 | Course | Believer | Believer (single) |
| 0:51:33 | Course | MRI | Hue Mirror |
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Third Half Hour |
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| 1:01:00 | Colin Rayment | Sleep Inertia | Transitional States |
| 1:06:00 | Kaela | Eternal Post | Supraliminal |
| 1:11:50 | Lisa Bella Donna | The Messenger | Counterpoints |
| 1:14:59 | Bat For Lashes | Safe Tonight | Lost Girls |
| 1:19:12 | Rival Consoles | Catherine | Landscape from Memory |
| 1:24:31 | Anvaya | Ud Jaana | Sands Between Us |
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Fourth Half Hour |
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| 1:30:00 | Sumner McKane Group | 223 Benner Lane | Live at Slates (2006) |
| 1:35:12 | Amy Millan | Make Way for Waves | I Went To Find You |
| 1:39:05 | Arc De Soleil | Chimera | Lumin Rain |
| 1:42:37 | Lena Natalia | Gemini | The Time Before Us |
| 1:46:07 | Tan Cologne | In Resin (Trentemøller Remix) | In Resin (Single) |
| 1:51:40 | Quiet Resonance | Sunlight Again | Asleep at the Wheel |
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