"I Look Around" by Rain Parade
In 1983, while the musical world was rushing toward synthesizers, drum machines, and the future, a handful of musicians in Los Angeles were looking backward. Rain Parade were digging into the psychede...
30 Syys 34min
"Fallin' Rain" by Link Wray
Before distortion became the language of rock and roll Link Wray discovered its power.With “Rumble” he created one of the most influential guitar sounds in music history, inspiring generations of musi...
2 Syys 21min
"Gonna Move" by Paul Pena (Part 2 of 2)
For nearly three decades, one of the greatest albums you never heard sat trapped on a shelf. Meanwhile, the man who made it lost his sight, watched another artist turn his song into a hit, and quietly...
12 Heinä 9min
"Gonna Move" by Paul Pena (Part 1 of 2)
A lost album. A forgotten release. A song that seems to already understand the shape of the life it belongs to.In Part One of Dustbin Prophecies, we follow Paul Pena from his early life in Massachuset...
12 Kesä 15min
"Big Bird" by Eddie Floyd
In this episode of Dustbin Prophecies, we explore the haunting soul classic “Big Bird” by Eddie Floyd—a song born from the devastating loss of Otis Redding in 1967.Written during a flight into Memphis...
9 Touko 13min
"Red Cadillac and A Black Moustache"
A jealous question. A vivid image. And a story that never quite confirms itself.In this episode of Dustbin Prophecies, we explore Warren Smith’s “Red Cadillac and a Black Moustache”—a hypnotic Sun Rec...
19 Huhti 8min
"Dark Was The Night - Cold Was the Ground" by Blind Willie Johnson
In 1927, gospel-blues preacher Blind Willie Johnson recorded two songs in a temporary studio in Dallas that would echo across the next century. On one side of the record: the haunting, wordless medita...
7 Huhti 16min
