Podcast Episodes
Back to Search178b–Naptime’s Over
Where have I been? Life, Cousin. Life got in the way. A lot of things sidetracked me, and even though I was keeping the feed for this show active, I…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
178: Influential Women, Part 3–Jane Asher
Of all the people in the Beatles' inner circle, Jane Asher is perhaps the most mysterious. Not because she's reclusive--far from it, in fact. Jane A…
2 years, 1 month ago
177: Influential Women, Pt.2–Rosanna Arquette
In case you haven't heard, we're on a little bit of a journey, meeting various women who have had an influence on multiple pop songs. In today's epis…
2 years, 2 months ago
176: Influential Women, Pt1–Renee Fladen-Kamm
For the next several episodes, we're going to take a look at the women who inspired some of the Rock Era's most iconic songs. There will be six epis…
2 years, 3 months ago
175: In the Still of the Night
After this many episodes, it gives me a moment of "Huh, isn't that interesting" when I start writing the post for an episode and discover that I have…
2 years, 4 months ago
174: Don’t Fear the Reaper
This is an episode I wrote in the Southern Studio, so I may have been in a better mood than usual to write it than I ordinarily am, given the subje…
2 years, 6 months ago
173: Wichita Lineman
By 1968, Glen Campbell had moved from session musician to a star in his own right. His single "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," written by Jimmy Webb, …
2 years, 9 months ago
172: A World War Two Christmas
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate! Today we're looking at three Christmas songs that are born from the anxieties of World War Two. Two of the s…
2 years, 10 months ago
171: Save the Last Dance For Me
...before we were so rudely interrupted... This is a song that I'm long-overdue in covering, if only because of the backstory it has. It's simultane…
2 years, 10 months ago
170: I Fought the Law
How many times now have I gone into the backstory with a song and learned that the person who wrote it says something akin to, "Yeah, I knocked that …
3 years, 1 month ago