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The Jersey Gospel
Season 5 Episode 518
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This is the story of Bruce Springsteen—“The Boss”—a kid from a working-class town who turned everyday American lives into epic songs, who built a career on sweat, loyalty, doubt, faith,…
Published on 4 weeks, 1 day ago
American Mirror
Season 5 Episode 517
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Today we are stepping straight into four decades of controversy, choreography, and calculated control.
Madonna.
Not just “the Queen of Pop,” but an artist who has treated her own life as …
Published on 1 month ago
Inner Visions
Season 5 Episode 516
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If you've been following this series of modern day musicians, you may remember a concert I mentioned with the Rolling Stones. It is true that the Stones were able to hold the audience a…
Published on 1 month ago
World's Favorite Alien?
Season 5 Episode 515
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Today, we turn to an artist who never seemed entirely earthbound.David Bowie.For some listeners, Bowie is the sound of discovery: that first moment you realize a song, a costume, a perf…
Published on 1 month ago
The Price of Being Michael
Season 5 Episode 522
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Today, we’re going to spend some time with a figure who shaped pop music, dance, music videos, and the idea of celebrity itself—only to become a tragic warning about what happens when t…
Published on 1 month ago
Tears in Heaven
Season 5 Episode 514
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Tonight we turn to a musician whose name has become shorthand for guitar mastery, blues devotion, and, depending on who you ask, the very idea of the rock “guitar hero.”
Eric Clapton.
For…
Published on 1 month ago
Who Are You?
Season 5 Episode 513
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In this podcast episode, we’ll walk through where they came from, what shaped them, how they crashed into the United States—and then spend some real time inside Tommy: not just as an al…
Published on 1 month ago
Riffs and Myth
Season 5 Episode 512
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In this series, we’ve been spending time with artists who didn’t just make hits—they changed the language of modern music.
Today, we turn to a group that took blues, folk, volume, and my…
Published on 1 month ago
Both Sides Singing
Season 5 Episode 511
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Today we meet an artist who doesn’t blow the doors off with volume or choreography, but with something quieter—and in many ways, just as radical.
A woman alone with a guitar in an open t…
Published on 1 month ago
Supreme Intentions
Season 5 Episode 510
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Our story begins not with sequins but with a housing project.
Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard both grew up in Detroit’s Brewster-Douglass projects, one of the first federally funded hou…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago