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Peter Guralnick
Season 1 Episode 197
Peter Guralnick, an author I've long admired, wrote the definitive Elvis Presley biographies Last Train to Memphis and Careless Love and has returned with The Colonel and the King. Drawing on fresh r…
Published on 16 hours ago
Peter Orner
Season 1 Episode 196
I’ve been a Peter Orner fan for a long time, appreciating how—whether he’s writing short stories, novels or essays—he makes every word count. Stories and chapters are short, sentences lean, zero fat.…
Published on 6 days, 15 hours ago
Emma Swift
Season 1 Episode 195
Emma Swift is a sublime singer of her own songs as well as those of Bob Dylan, as she demonstrates on her new album, The Resurrection Game, and the previous Blonde on the Tracks. She says The Resurre…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Scott McCaughey 2025
Season 1 Episode 194
Scott McCaughey returns to Caropop as busy as ever. He’s currently on the Baseball Project/Minus 5 September Doubleheader tour, with each band consisting of Steve Wynn, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, Linda …
Published on 3 weeks ago
Robbie Fulks 2025
Season 1 Episode 193
Robbie Fulks released his debut album back in 1996, and here we are in 2025 with him, at age 62, still on the rise. His awesome guitar-picking skills and singing drew the attention of Steve Martin, w…
Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago
Chris Difford (Squeeze)
Season 1 Episode 192
Squeeze’s Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook are one of rock’s greatest songwriting tandems, with Tilbrook crafting indelible melodies around Difford’s emotionally detailed lyrics. Here Difford digs in…
Published on 1 month ago
Summer Recess
Season 1
We're going on summer recess--for a good reason: Caropop is getting a long-awaited tune-up. We’ll be tweaking the presentation and improving the way we let you all know about episodes. In addition to…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
Craig Finn (The Hold Steady)
Season 1 Episode 191
No surprise, talking music with Craig Finn is stimulating and a lot of fun. The Hold Steady’s frontman/lyricist recently released his sixth solo album, the character-driven song cycle Always Been. He…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Gina Birch (The Raincoats)
Season 1 Episode 190
Bassist Gina Birch is a founding member of the legendary British post-punk band the Raincoats, whose self-titled 1977 debut album is an off-kilter classic. More Raincoats albums followed, as did stin…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Dennis Dunaway (Alice Cooper)
Season 1 Episode 189
Bassist Dennis Dunaway was—and is—one of the key figures in the 1970s rock band, Alice Cooper. That’s right, the band Alice Cooper, which recorded seven albums between 1969 and 1973 (and had such hit…
Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago