Podcast Episodes

188: Midnight Rider

Brothers Duane and Gregg Allman had been playing music since childhood, and by the late 1960s, Duane had become a sought-after session guitarist, wor…

6 hours ago

187: Blue Suede Shoes

Somehow I think I undersold it when I called “Blue Suede Shoes” a game-changer.

I think about stuff like this a lot when it comes to songs of this na…

1 week, 5 days ago

186: Eye In The Sky

Today’s episode is about a song that might make you wonder who—or what—is watching you. But despite what the title might suggest, George Orwell and B…

1 month, 1 week ago

185: I’m Not In Love redux

I don’t remember if I mentioned this before, but when I first launched this podcast, I recorded the first four or five episodes and then decided that…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

184: Highway to Hell

Despite the allusion in the title, today’s song has no spiritual content or religious references. It’s just a description of life on the road with a …

6 months, 3 weeks ago

183: Diss Tracks

And once again my voice has a case of Peter Brady. I need to quit recording late at night.

We have a variety of diss tracks here for you, all but one…

7 months, 1 week ago

182–Old Man

Today’s episode is about a song that was written just up the hill from where I was born and in the same town where my wife and and I were wed. So it …

7 months, 3 weeks ago

181: Influential Women Part 5–Stevie Nicks

One of the things that always amazed me about the songs that became big hits in the pop era between the 1950s and the 1990s was the sheer variety of …

8 months, 1 week ago

180: Green River

Hidy, friends and neighbors. Good to be partnering up with Claude on another podcasting project! This episode is about a song whose title vaguely sou…

9 months, 2 weeks ago

179: Influential Women, Pt. 4–Pattie Boyd

Ladies and Gentlemen, the queen of them all.

Pattie Boyd was the inspiration for a huge number of songs. Some of them went to the top of the charts, …

9 months, 3 weeks ago