The Song of the Soul: The Authorised Biography of Martin Stephenson

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The Great Songwriters - Beginnings Vol 1: Lennon & McCartney Bob Dylan

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Linda Ronstadt: A Life In Music

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Riffs & Meaning: Manic Street Preachers and Know Your Enemy

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Stone Roses: 'Talking'

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I Just Can't Stop It: My Life in the Beat

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Kim Wilde: Pop Don’t Stop

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Superstar in a Masquerade

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Soul Citizen - Tales & Travels from the Dawn of the Soul Era to the Internet Age

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Dazzling Stranger: Bert Jansch and the British Folk and Blues Revival

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Your Song Changed My Life: From Jimmy Page to St. Vincent, Smokey Robinson to Hozier, Thirty-Five Beloved Artists on Their Journey and the Music That Inspired It

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House of Fun: The Story of Madness

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Our Lady of the Harbour

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Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop Music: A History

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The Music of Carly Simon

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Who I Am: A Memoir

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The Decibel Diaries: A Journey through Rock in 50 Concerts

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Yesterday Once More: The Carpenters Reader

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Undiscovered Dinosaur: Adventures with Rock Legends of the 60s, 70s and 80s

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Gods of the Hammer: The Teenage Head Story

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Nostalgia: Stars of Yesteryear

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Rock Chicks: The Hottest Female Rockers from the 1960s to Now

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Alice Cooper in the 1970s

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The Beatles: A Life in Music

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Crossing Bridges

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Big Star: The Story of Rock’s Forgotten Band

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Tracks: Memoirs from a Life with Music

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A New Day Yesterday: UK Progressive Rock & The 1970s

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The Music Gods are Real: Vol. 3 - The Winter Tour

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Music's Cult Artists

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Joni: The Anthology

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E147: Ellen Sander on rock life in the sixties + Robert Palmer audio: Ellen Sander joins us to discuss her classic 1973 book Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties

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Ep. 42 - Steve Silberman: Steve Silberman is an award-winning science writer whose articles have appeared in Wired, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Boston Globe. He is the author of "NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity" - a widely-pr...

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Episode 82: Dan McLaughlin / Bruce Springsteen [Part 2]: Scot and Jeff discuss the second part of Bruce Springsteen's career (1980-2020) with Dan McLaughlin.

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Episode 29: Terry Teachout / The Band: Scot and Jeff talk to Terry Teachout about The Band.

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Episode 112: “She Loves You” by The Beatles: This weeks episode looks at She Loves You, the Beatles in 1963, and the start of Beatlemania in the UK. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus epi

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Episode 016: When Sixteen Sirens Sing

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Episode 21: Bruce Walker / The Monkees: Scot and Jeff talk to Bruce Walker about The Monkees.

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Ep. 41 - Daniel Donato: Daniel Donato is one of the best guitar players in today’s music scene. He’s 27 years old and his musical style has been said to blend the best of Nashville honky-tonks with an improvisational spirit rooted in the ethos of the Grateful Dead. Daniel t...

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Martin Sexton, ep. 136: Martin Sexton's career was built by his work as a street musician on the Boston scene in the 80's and early 90's. His audience knows him for being connector by making them a part of the magic he, the performer, creates onstage. On the street, he would use tricks like strategically placing himself in an area that would bottleneck a crowd and keep people around with delightful audience participation and soaring, imaginative vocal aerobics: imitating a flute or saxophone or singing into a vocal processor like his hero Peter Frampton. All the while, Sexton, who goes by "Marty," was writing incredible music. The tricks made them listen, but the songs made them stay. Marty's from a big family: 12 kids in Syracuse, NY, featuring different orientations, occupations, political views and just plain differing opinions. From that structure, he's learned how to get along, how to love and how to talk to people he disagrees with. His message of unity has been going strong sin

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Ep. 127 - MARTY STUART ("Tempted"): Five-time Grammy winner Marty Stuart discusses what he learned from Johnny Cash about the craft of songwriting; the three people he considers THE standard of country songwriting; the album that cost him a record deal, a band, a manager, and a publicist; how a photo of Louis Armstrong gave him a sense of mission for his band; why his greatest songwriting motivation is a deadline; and the reason he used to send Harlan Howard and Ralph Mooney $100 at the start of every year. American Songwriter Podcast Network: https://americansongwriter.com/podcasts

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Ep. 45 - Janice Mitchell (author of ”My Ticket to Ride: How I Ran Away to England to Meet the Beatles and Got Rock and Roll Banned in Cleveland (A True Story from 1964)”: In this episode of the "Here, There, and Everywhere" podcast, Jack Lawless interviews Janice Mitchell about her fascinating adventure overseas when she ran away from home to meet The Beatles in 1964, her experiences, and how she got rock and roll ban...

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Loreena McKennitt & Lady of Shalott: Loreena McKennitt shares the story about how Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem “The Lady of Shalott” became a song on her 1991 album The Visit. Classic poetry and books are often used as inspiration for modern songs. Marc Gunn shares why he wrote a song

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Episode 5: The Ballad of Bob and J.R.: A quick prologue: we stop by the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, where they opened up a very cool exhibit in March of 2015. Then we move on to Newport, Rhode Island, where Pete Seeger is about to introduce Johnny Cash, an established country star playing for the first time to a folk festival audience. After a rough beginning, the show goes very well. Afterwards, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan—mutual fans—meet for the first time and begin a lifelong friendship. We then spend some time getting to know the Man in Black; we learn about the family tragedy that moved J.R. Cash to write and make music. We find out the real origins of “Folsom Prison Blues.” We leave Johnny Cash in Memphis for the meantime, and head north to Hibbing, Minnesota and check in on young Robert Allen Zimmerman. As a teen, Bobby is a leather-jacketed Rock N Roll rebel; but he takes on a new name and identity when he discovers folk music as a freshman at the University of Minn

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Podcast 275: Remembering Paul Hostetter with Henry Kaiser and Rick Turner: Henry Kaiser and Rick Turner take over this week’s episode of the Fretboard Journal Podcast to share H-13: A Tribute to the Santa Cruz Model H Guitar with us. This is a collection of newly-recorded tracks celebrating the musical life and legacy...

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Ep. 52 - Matt Buechele: Jack Lawless sits down with comedy writer & musician, Matt Buechele, in this episode of the "Here, There, and Everywhere" podcast.   Matt is a writer, composer, and musician who’s written comedy and original music for Netflix, Comedy Central, and...

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Beatles & Outlaws: Ken Mansfield Comes Down From The Roof: Ken Mansfield has been "in the room" for several major cultural watershed moments. After a meteoric rise through the ranks at Capitol Records in the 1960s, where he worked with artists like Lou Rawls, The Band, and The Beach Boys, Ken was personally chos...

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Ep. 51 - Ella Ballentine: In this episode of "Here, There, and Everywhere," Jack Lawless sits down with the incredibly talented actress, Ella Ballentine, for an enlightening conversation about the enduring influence of The Beatles. Acting for over 10 years, Ella has been the ...

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Confessions of an Icon: The Story of Madonna's 'Hung Up'

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Whose Country Is It Anyway? Featuring Miko Marks and Tookta Topline: Join us for a conversation about how race and sexuality challenge what we think about country music. Revel in their musical talent while exploring each of their journeys as immensely talented musicians who don’t fit the industry mold.

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Peter, Paul and Mary

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PP Arnold, John Eliot Gardiner: Singer PP Arnold, artist Mackenzie Thorpe, poet Charly Cox and the Reverend Peter Allen.

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Ruth Merenda of The Mammals, ep. 78: Ruth Merenda of The Mammals on Basic Folk!

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Ep. 32 - Carson McKee: Carson McKee is a folk musician from Charlotte, North Carolina. Perhaps best known as the lead vocalist and principal songwriter of The Other Favorites, a project shared with longtime collaborator Josh Turner, McKee’s style represents a contemporary ...

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Outsider Art w Finster & Yingst + Mountain Goats on The Jukebox (True Tunes Live): True Tunes host John J. Thompson recently traveled to Cleveland, TN, to speak at a festival in honor of Rev. Howard Finster – the enigmatic painter, pastor, and musician who first came to international prominence when his art was used on album covers...

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Ep. 47 - May Pang: In this episode of "Here, There, and Everywhere", Jack Lawless sits down with May Pang, a renowned photographer, music industry executive, and the former girlfriend of John Lennon. May recently released a new film called "The Lost Weekend: A Love Sto...

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Richard Thompson, ep. 166

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E132: Steven Daly on Orange Juice + Suede + Sugar Hill + Lizzo: In this episode we welcome "gamekeeper-turned-poacher" Steven Daly, who Zooms in from his adopted Brooklyn to tell us about drumming in Orange Juice and his stellar writing career in America. Steven revisits his musical youth in '70s Glasgow and his first encounters with Edwyn Collins and Postcard's Alan Horne. He talks about the creative divergences within Orange Juice, his eventual move into writing for The Face and Edinburgh's Cut magazine, and the decision in the late '80s to base himself in New York. His hosts focus on three of his pieces, written over the course of 15 years for Spin, Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair, with Steven reminiscing about meeting Joni Mitchell and Sugar Hill matriarch Sylvia Robinson. Clips from Steven's May 1993 audio interview with Suede's Brett Anderson and Mat Osman provide a good excuse to discuss the emerging "Englishness" of post-grunge Britain and the abiding fantasy of UK bands "taking

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Episode 85: “Three Steps to Heaven” by Eddie Cochran: Episode eighty-five of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at Three Steps to Heaven by Eddie Cochran, and at the British tour which changed music and ended his life. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and

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The John Simon Interview

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Ep. 101 - KINKY FRIEDMAN ("Sold American"): Kinky Friedman reveals who he believes deserves credit for starting country music's outlaw movement; what Waylon Jennings said when he saw Kinky walking down the street with his laundry; how he ended up receiving the Male Chauvinist Pig of the Year Award from the National Organization for Women; the way Nelson Mandela embraced one of his songs; the advice Willie Nelson gave him that changed his life; the reason he writes about Jesus so much; and why he says you've got to be miserable to write great songs.