Podcast Episodes

Gary Klebe (Shoes)

Season 1 Episode 219

More than a half century after co-founding the classic power-pop band Shoes, guitarist-singer-songwriter Gary Klebe is releasing his first solo album…

2 months, 1 week ago

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Ronnie Barnett (The Muffs)

Season 1 Episode 218

Ronnie Barnett was a rock journalist in Houston when he met Kim Shattuck, then bassist for the Los Angeles band the Pandoras, and their fates intertw…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

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Vince Wilburn Jr. (Miles Davis)

Season 1 Episode 217

Vince Wilburn Jr. was growing up on Chicago’s South Side when his mother would get him all dressed up because his Uncle Miles Davis was coming to tow…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Len Kasper

Season 1 Episode 216

Len Kasper is starting his sixth season as the Chicago White Sox’s radio play-by-play announcer after 16 years as the Cubs’ TV play-by-play guy, but …

2 months, 4 weeks ago

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Christine Sneed

Season 1 Episode 215

Any author would dream of the kind of acclaim and attention that Christine Sneed has received, including a front-page Sunday New York Times Book Revi…

3 months ago

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Graham Parker (Howlin' Wind)

Season 1 Episode 214

Musicians are said to have a lifetime to create their first album and six months to make the follow-up. That was literally the case with Graham Parke…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

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Michael Blair

Season 1 Episode 213

Michael Blair had much training in percussion, including a degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, by the time he pulled out the mar…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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Victor Krummenacher 2026

Season 1 Episode 212

I saw bassist Victor Krummenacher, one of my favorite music people, perform twice within three weeks last fall: with Camper Van Beethoven to end perh…

3 months, 4 weeks ago

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Dag Juhlin

Season 1 Episode 211

I first saw and interviewed Dag Juhlin more than 30 years ago when he was singing, writing and playing guitar with the power-pop trio the Slugs. He’s…

4 months ago

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Marc Ribot

Season 1 Episode 210

I first noticed Marc Ribot’s slinky, spiky guitar playing as “Jockey Full of Bourbon,” from Tom Waits’ Rain Dogs, slithered over the opening of Jim J…

4 months, 1 week ago

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