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EP. 151 1982 BILLBOARD HOT 100 - OCTOBER 16, 1982!

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One chart date can tell you everything about an era, and October 16, 1982 is one of those weeks. We go guest-free and turn the Ben Ma…

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EP. 150 Claude Carmichael: The Music Stories You’ve Never Heard & His New Album Tennessee Hill

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Claude Carmichael joins The Ben Maynard Program to discuss his new Americana and country-leaning album, *Tennessee Hill*, and a remar…

6 days, 20 hours ago

EP. 149 Bob Dylan’s Country Roots Explain More Than You Think

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Bob Dylan gets labeled a hundred different ways, but one connection keeps coming back: COUNTRY.

On this episode of The Ben Maynard Pro…

1 week, 6 days ago

EP. 148 DARLENE KOLDENHOVEN — FROM CHURCH SOLO TO HOLLYWOOD, GRAMMY SUCCESS & YANNI

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What does it take to build a music career that lasts more than 45 years?

GRAMMY Award-winning singer, pianist, composer and educator D…

2 weeks, 6 days ago

EP. 147 VAN HALEN....THE SAMMY YEARS!

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Van Halen loses David Lee Roth, and the world starts writing the obituary. Then Sammy Hagar walks in—and everything changes.

We go rec…

4 weeks ago

EP. 146 9/11 Never Forget

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You can watch 9/11 footage any day you want, but it still doesn’t recreate what it felt like when the second plane hit and an entire …

1 month ago

EP. 145 We Revisit 1986 By Counting Down Albums That Still Hit Hard

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1986 isn’t just a year in music history, it’s a whole ecosystem: MTV turning videos into rocket fuel, labels chasing crossover single…

1 month ago

EP. 144 JOHN LENNON'S LAST INTERVIEW!

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One ordinary walk out of the Dakota turned into a memory Laurie Kaye has carried for decades. Laurie is the author of Confessions Of …

1 month, 1 week ago

EP. 143 Charlie Calv Explains How A Modern Indie Label Survives On Quality And Trust

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Vinyl is back, CDs are creeping up again, and streaming still pays less than most fans realize. So what does it actually take to run …

1 month, 2 weeks ago

EP. 142 ANSON CORSAIR - What If One Song Could Save Someone

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He walked away from a dead-end lab job, flew to India for 40 days of yoga teacher training, and came home with a new relationship to …

1 month, 3 weeks ago