ROOTS Music History Podcast

🎵In the high-stakes world of the music industry, few figures have wielded as much influence—or stirred as much controversy—as Irving Azoff. For over five decades, Azoff has been at the epicenter of t...

27 Aug 202423min

🎵The death of Jim Morrison and truth about how he died (or if he even did) has been controversial and suspicious from the very beginning. From the possible lies his girlfriend, Pamela, told the US em...

19 Aug 202428min

🎵The sad, spiritual truth that inspired George Harrison to write one of the greatest rock and roll songs "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" from The Beatles White Album is far more complex than you think...

4 Aug 202425min

🎵I've been fascinated by Janis Joplin for a while. Maybe fascinated isn't the right word....but, perplexed. I've yearned to understand her...psychoanalyze her if you will... and understand how someon...

15 Jul 202448min

🎵After a massively successful career in his 20s and 30s, Phil's downward spirals started to become worse and worse as he progressed through his life. Everything came to a head for him on February 3rd...

7 Jul 202420min

🎵Phil Spector was 100% the most disturbed music producer in history. Many may recognize his name from his infamous murder trial after he killed a beautiful woman named Lana in his mansion in Hollywoo...

30 Jun 202442min

🎵There's one very important man who entered Leo Fender's life in 1948. It wasn't until years later that Divine Music Intervention struck and brought Forrest White back into Leo Fender's life a 2nd ti...

23 Jun 202420min

🎵Leo Fender's Incredible Story. How he overcame life's challenges to build some of the greatest guitars in America. 🎵 🎶 Roots Music History | Music Journalist & YouTube Podcaster 🎶 #LeoFender #F...

17 Jun 202436min