Jeff Lynne: ELO to Joe Walsh to Petty / Ep. 82
Jeff Lynne = Electric Light Orchestra, right? That's his legacy. That's what is front and center. I argue that his career as an album producer for other rock and roll artists is equally important a...
23 Aug 58min
Any Good? Top 20 Songs from July, 1985 / Ep. 81
One week from the summer of 1985. Top 40 radio, pulling ballads, pop-rock tunes, and a surprising amount of new wave-ish music, plus a couple of straight-up rockers. We listen to what was on your hit ...
20 Jul 57min
Mike Campbell and The Dirty Knobs / Ep. 80
In his career with Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - a group in the conversation for "Who is the greatest American rock and roll band ever?" - guitarist Mike Campbell's rare lead vocal was on a track ...
1 Jul 37min
The Road to the Bottle Rockets / Ep. 79
Alt-Country. Americana. The line that led to The Bottle Rockets. Gram Parsons to Crazy Horse to Skynyrd to Jason and the Scorchers to Uncle Tupelo and a whole lot of Seger/Petty in between. A show loo...
25 Jun 58min
Songs You (Maybe) Have Never Heard From Bands You Like / Ep.77
Two things that drive me batshit crazy with radio stations and the way they present their versions of rock and roll: 1. The same four songs from every artist, played over and over and over and... 2. ...
15 Mai 37min
The Black Crowes Survived? And Have a New Album? / Ep. 76
They’ve been fired from tours for speaking their mind, they’ve broken up more times than a high school couple, and yet, they remain as the band that still carries the flag for 70s-inspired blues-rock....
10 Apr 57min
Finding Steve Earle / Ep. 75
Steve Earle is rock and roll, he is country, and Earle has deep roots in early Americana all the way back to Guy Clarke, Townes Van Zandt, and Rodney Crowell, among many. A songwriter first, I found h...
5 Mar 56min
