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Chris Stamey 2025
Season 1 Episode 188
When I spoke with Chris Stamey way back for Caropop Ep. 30, he shared a sheet music collection called Marvelous Melodies Songbook, New Songs Vol. III. Several of those songs appear on his wonderful n…
Published on 3 months ago
May Pang (John Lennon)
Season 1 Episode 187
May Pang was John Lennon’s companion for the late-1973-to-early-1975 period that has become known as Lennon’s “lost weekend.” Although Pang has used that phrase for her documentary and photo exhibiti…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
Jim Davis (Mobile Fidelity)
Season 1 Episode 186
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab has been a top audiophile label since its 1977 founding and 2001 reboot after Jim Davis, president of the high-end audio equipment company Music Direct, bought it out of ban…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago
John Hall (Rickenbacker)
Season 1 Episode 185
John Hall has been CEO of the family-run Rickenbacker guitar company since 1984, right around when R.E.M.'s Peter Buck was inspiring a generation of jangly bands with his Rick riffs. The Beatles had …
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
David Lowery 2025
Season 1 Episode 184
David Lowery is looking back while pushing forward. The brainy, witty Camper Van Beethoven/Cracker frontman just released a two-CD, three-LP solo album, Fathers, Sons and Brothers, that’s a sort of m…
Published on 4 months ago
Zev Feldman, 'Jazz Detective'
Season 1 Episode 183
Zev Feldman, a.k.a. the “Jazz Detective,” has turned his crate-digging passion into a career: He tracks down previously unreleased recordings and jumps through the necessary hoops to get them release…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
Vicki Peterson & John Cowsill
Season 1 Episode 182
Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill, who are married to each other, have been making music for many years but recently released their first album together, Long After the Fire. Peterson has been singer-s…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Chad Kassem (Acoustic Sounds)
Season 1 Episode 181
Called "the Wizard of Vinyl" by the New York Times, Chad Kassem has devoted his professional life to the cause of great-sounding records. In addition to running Acoustic Sounds, a go-to mail-order co…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Mitch Ryder
Season 1 Episode 180
With mid-‘60s hits such as “Jenny Take a Ride!” and “Devil with a Blue Dress On,” Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels all but created the rock ‘n’ soul rave-up, and he became the musical godfather of …
Published on 5 months ago
Jason Jones & Steve Woolard (Rhino, Yes, Talking Heads)
Season 1 Episode 179
How does a label execute ambitious rerelease campaigns for its key artists, in this case Yes and Talking Heads? We talk with Rhino A&R directors Jason Jones and Steve Woolard about the Super Deluxe E…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago