Serious Rock Talk Podcast

Kennedy's Corner - Oh No Canada: Failure of the 2025 Junos Our own Ferris Kennedy has a deep, passionate love for Canadian music. That's why the 2025 Juno Awards sent him down a deep well of depressio...

5 Nov 20258min

Janis Joplin: I Met a Girl Who Sang the Blues Immortalized in songs, films and musicals, Janis Joplin burned bright in a brief career. The manner of her untimely death—though not wrapped in the same c...

22 Okt 202520min

Gram Parsons: Dark Death of the Cosmic Cowboy Few musicians have started a genre—but that's what Gram Parsons did. He is the reigning pioneer of country rock—a huge influence on bands that came afte...

29 Aug 202515min

Rock Trios: When Three is Not a Crowd Usually a rock band has at least four members. Why would anyone settle for just three? Oh, there are many good reasons, and in this episode you're going to expe...

18 Aug 202531min

The Real Roll of Sex in Rock Like birds of a feather, sex and rock go together. But why? You don't find this corporeal attachment in jazz or classical. Why rock? Dr. Clarke, diplomatically and with ...

6 Aug 202518min

The short answer is that no one really knows for sure. But we have a pretty good idea. We address one of the great questions of the universe—unafraid, energetic, and always entertaining. So listen in.

25 Juli 202545min

Robert Johnson: Was the Devil at the Crossroads? One moment he could barely play the guitar. Six months later, Robert Johnson became the most important blues guitarist of all time. How is it possible...

14 Juli 202516min

Rock Trivia Episode: Stump the Chump It takes some guts to go before an audience of thousands and reveal depraved ignorance in a subject about which you're supposed to hold some competence. But that's...

4 Juli 202523min