Episode 7

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4th Jun 2026

Whitney Mann and the Electric Heart

Today, on Taste the Music, show co-creator Whitney Mann comes to talk about her new single, called Electric Heart, that is available everywhere on Friday . She also reveals some ways the scene has changed and some ways it hasn’t, and how a person in her esteemed position stops worrying so much about the past.

Whitney Mann, singer, songwriter, and storyteller, has played with the likes of Willie Nelson and Loretta Lynn. Her melodies, a combination of country grit and folky singer/songwriter assuredness, rope you in from the moment they waft across the bar and into your ears.

Whitney has a new single, Electric Heart, coming out Friday June 5 on Bandcamp and all the other places you can listen to music. It’s a banger. She’s playing Tumbled Rock Brewery in Baraboo on June 6 and August 16, Sheboygan July 9th, Shell Lake on August 16 – she’s everywhere – then a very special Electric Heart EP release show on September 11 at the Burr Oak with some very very special guests and surprises. Don’t miss it. Learn more at Whitneymann.com.

Today’s show was produced and edited by Mark Griffin. Taste the music was created by Whitney Mann and Mark Griffin. Every episode, including the very first episode of Taste the Music in which Whitney Mann tells her origin story – it’s a beautiful episode – is available at TasteTheMusic.org or all the places you get your pods.

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Taste the Music: Conversations about creating.
Interviews, stories, and talks about why artists create.
Taste the Music is a show where the artist tells their story about what drives creation. Here we’re going to figure out the reasons we’re driven to make music, and how that vocation ends up forming in some people, or maybe in all of us.

Each week we’ll hear an account of the path to creation by artists, and we’ll try to get at a few questions: why do this? Why write a song, paint a painting, recite a poem, tell a joke, or craft a beer?

And we’ll also seek to answer another question, something that we hope gets at a cultural truth about who we are as a people: why do we choose to sometimes not do these things?

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Mark Griffin

Mark is a science and culture writer based in Madison. He's written about groundbreaking cancer treatments, advancements in renewable energy, and trying to figure out how to find a mushroom in the woods. He currently resides in Madison, WI.