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80s Roll 2: How the Late 70s Disco Implosion and Early 80's Stagnation of AOR Radio Made 1984 Possible
Season 18 Episode 9
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ed Legge continue their discussion of Michaelangelo Matos' "Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year" with a loo…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Great Brill Building Songwriting Teams: Lieber & Stoller, Goffin & King, Pomus & Shuman, Bacharach & David, Sedaka & Greenfield, Mann & Weill and Barry & Greenwich
Season 18 Episode 8
Host Nate Wilcox welcomes Ken Emerson, author of "Always Magic in the Air: The Bomp and Brilliance of the Brill Building Era."
Buy the book and suppor…
3 years, 3 months ago
80s Roll 1: How Great a Year Was 1984 for Pop Music?
Season 18 Episode 8
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ed Legge open their discussion of Michaelangelo Matos' book "Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year" with an o…
3 years, 3 months ago
Surf Rock, Motown, Girl Groups and a Second Wave of Doo-Wop Were on the Rock 'n' Roll Vanguard in JFK's America
Season 18 Episode 7
Host Nate Wilcox talks to Richard Aquila, author of "Rock & Roll in Kennedy's America: A Cultural History of the Early 1960s," about the four cutting…
3 years, 3 months ago
Alice Cooper Combined Proto-Punk and Vaudeville to Shock the World
Season 18 Episode 6
Host Nate Wilcox and Cooper biographer Gary Graff discuss his new book "Alice Cooper @75", the cloud of rumor and myth that swirled around the band i…
3 years, 3 months ago
The Holy Trinity of Texas Gospel and a Devilish Businessman
Season 18 Episode 5
Host Nate Wilcox asks Michael Corcoran to share the stories of Texas gospel greats Arizona Dranes, Blind Willie Johnson and Washington Phillips as we…
3 years, 3 months ago
Steppenwolf's John Kay Came to Hard Rock from the Toronto Folk Scene
Season 18 Episode 4
Host Nate Wilcox asks John Einarson about John Kay, Steppenwolf and how the group came together out of the Toronto folk and R&B scene but had to move…
3 years, 3 months ago
Sun Records Presided Over the Dawn of Rockabilly With Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis
Season 18 Episode 3
Host Nate Wilcox asks Peter Guralnick to tell the story of Sam Phillips and Sun Records. From the early days as a blues studio recording Ike Turner, …
3 years, 3 months ago
Bettye LaVette Took Her Time to Get to the Top
Season 18 Episode 2
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Brooks Long discuss the unlikely career path of Bettye LaVette from having a top 10 R&B hit at age 16 on Atlantic Records to re…
3 years, 3 months ago
John Lennon's Political Activism Got Him Targeted By the U.S. Government
Season 18 Episode 1
Host Nate Wilcox interviews David Leaf, co-writer & director of "The U.S. Vs. John Lennon" which tells the tale of a rock star targeted for deportati…
3 years, 4 months ago