Asheville’s Jar-E, aka Jonathan Reid, was featured Sunday on NPR and interviewed by host Guy Raz. Jar-E came to the attention of Raz through Twitter, where Jar-E had been poking him incessantly about what Jar-E said was the unappealing nature of Raz’s voice. Jar-E is one of Asheville’s wittiest tweeters.( (Jar-E on Twitter.)
From the NPR interview:
RAZ: Jon, I want to ask more about your music, obviously, but let’s just get to the bottom of this Twitter business. Would you really rather listen to a radio show hosted by this woman?
(Soundbite of TV show, “The Nanny”)
Ms. FRAN DRESCHER (Actress): (As Fran Fine) You really do talk like that. Who would make this up?
(Soundbite of laughter)
RAZ: Fran Drescher is very, very (unintelligible). Would you rather listen to Fran Drescher?
Mr. REID: I – no. I wouldn’t. And I do have to say that your voice has really grown on me.
RAZ: Oh, good. Good. All right.
Mr. REID: I think it’s – you know, change is difficult. And as I kind of said in the blog that I read about this whole thing, like, I kind of grew up with Michele Norris and Jacki Lyden and Robert Siegel and all these people and it’s – you know, change is difficult, but I…
RAZ: Oh, yeah.
Mr. REID: And I, you know, I was kind of blowing out of proportion for comedic effect for sure.