Musician To Musician: Our 5th Annual Thanksgiving Chain Of Gratitude

For the fifth year running, All Things Considered's annual musical gratitude chat is back. This Thanksgiving, NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with four different artists, each guest having been named as a reason to be thankful by the previous artist.

This year, the chain starts in Canada with , lead vocalist and guitarist of . He expresses thanks for rising Cree language dream-pop outfit nêhiyawak, whose frontman, Kris Harper, talks to Ari about , a movement of indigenous people speaking up for native in Canada. From Harper, the chain continues to Virginia-raised rapper and concludes with legendary pianist .