Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John is sharing selections from the Off-Ramp vault to help you explore this imperfect paradise.
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This week’s Off-Ramp song of the week is “The Right Stuff, the latest single by the Los Angeles band The Americans. True to their name, "The Right Stuff" is American as apple pie — or Bruce Springsteen and Tom Petty, at least.
https://soundcloud.com/theamericansmusic/02-the-right-stuff2
Formed in 2010, the Americans have served as the backing band for Lucinda Williams, Nick Cave, and Courtney Love. They've performed on the Late Show with David Letterman, and you can hear their music on PBS's upcoming documentary American Epic.
Check out a video of The Americans performing "The Right Stuff" live for Oregon Public Media: