On October 12, 1999, John Linnell granted an interview on the National Public Radio (NPR) show "All Things Considered" to discuss the release of his solo album, State Songs. The host of the show was Noah Adams. The segment included clips and commentary of the following tracks from the album, as well as some remarkably candid (for Linnell) background:
The audio file below is an mp3 of that interview I found on a filesharing network, just under 10 minutes long and rendered at 128 kbps, which includes a brief news-of-the-day intro by Noah Adams and Linda Wertheimer (very interesting for historical context):
http://tmbw.net/upload/1085528838-JohnLinnell-NPR10-12-99.mp3
The interview is also available directly from NPR via RealPlayer HERE, but only streams at 8 kbps and doesn't contain the news intro.