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Joe Boyd 2025
Season 1 Episode 172
Producer Joe Boyd (Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention/Richard Thompson, R.E.M.) has written a massive, highly entertaining, illuminating book about worl…
1 year, 2 months ago
Bob Mould
Season 1 Episode 171
No one mixes fury and vulnerability, ferocious energy and pop smarts like Bob Mould. His 15th solo album, Here We Go Crazy, comes out March 7, and he…
1 year, 3 months ago
Mike Mills (R.E.M.)
Season 1 Episode 170
Mike Mills of R.E.M. and the Baseball Project and a new supergroup with Darius Rucker is here, and we’ve got questions: How did R.E.M. come to share …
1 year, 3 months ago
Dave Alvin, Pt. 2
Season 1 Episode 169
Part 2 of our conversation with guitarist-songwriter-singer-storyteller Dave Alvin begins with him discussing musical biopics and the one that put hi…
1 year, 3 months ago
Dave Alvin, Pt. 1
Season 1 Episode 168
Dave Alvin has had such an epic career that we’re going to need two episodes to fit it all in. Much of Part 1 spotlights Alvin’s values as a musician…
1 year, 3 months ago
Bob Jackson (Badfinger)
Season 1 Episode 167
Do you know the tragic story of Badfinger? Behind such life-affirming songs as “No Matter What,” “Day After Day” and “Baby Blue” and the much-covered…
1 year, 4 months ago
Nora O'Connor (The Flat Five)
Season 1 Episode 166
Nora O’Connor is a super collaborator, someone who loves singing harmonies and makes everyone sound good. She’s a member of the Chicago all-star grou…
1 year, 4 months ago
Macie Stewart (Finom)
Season 1 Episode 165
Macie Stewart, half of the Chicago-based duo Finom, is one of those musicians who can do almost anything. She’s a classical pianist and violinist who…
1 year, 4 months ago
Michael Jerome (Richard Thompson, The Third Mind)
Season 1 Episode 164
Michael Jerome had been drumming in a post-industrial metal band when he auditioned for Richard Thompson in 1999, little knowing he would be this bri…
1 year, 4 months ago
Kevin Gray 2025
Season 1 Episode 163
It's time for our fourth annual check-in with masterful mastering engineer Kevin Gray as he comes off yet another crazy-busy year. What new did he an…
1 year, 5 months ago