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Jeff Woods, “Canada’s voice of classic rock,” is back behind the microphone with a brand-new weekly podcast. Long having created content and context around music through his radio programs and series such as World Album Premiere and The Legends of Classic Rock, Jeff drew an audience of more than a…

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    • May 22, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
    • every other week NEW EPISODES
    • 31m AVG DURATION
    • 263 EPISODES


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    263: Classic Albums of 1975 Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2025 21:48


    Another in the recurring theme takes you back to the spring of '75, when out came albums including the one that found a pre-Steve Perry Journey fronted by a former Santana singer, plus a fourth from ZZ Top, a fifth from The Doobies, a sixth from Nazareth, the BIG one from Aerosmith, #9 from Elton, and appearances from McCartney, WAR, Neil, and the rockstar who take away your worries of today and leaves tomorrow behind. All aboard for this 22 minute flashback with Jeff Woods. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    262: Jeff Buckley's Classic 1994 Album GRACE Revisited

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2025 22:01


    A favourite album of other artists, and Jeff's too, we go back to 1994 with the landmark Columbia label release that put the name Jeff Buckley into the world and his music into the hearts and minds of fans who this time get to hear the reflections shared after his passing, by Raine Maida of Our Lady Peace, and by Jeff Buckley's mom, Mary Guibert, plus Jeff Woods' own reflections of a special time in music history, when Buckley and his friend Chris Cornell roamed the earth and sang like nobody does anymore.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    261: Let's Get Physical Graffiti with Led Zeppelin

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2025 30:59


    Special Zeppelin episode featuring a set up from Jimmy Page and then Robert Plant, in conversation with Jeff, about the magic of the mighty Zep, and what it was that first attracted them to the blues in the sixties, and then in the spotlight: every one of the fifteen songs over the four sides of the classic double album of 1975 -- Physical Graffiti. Jeff gets into how it got made, where each song was recorded and when, and more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    260: Are You Ready for the Country - Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2025 41:14


    Here comes the second of two parts featuring some of rock's most celebrated artists who had a penchant for the rich traditions of the corner stone of rock and roll music that leans to the country, including Eric Clapton and J.J. Cale, U2, more Neil Young, more Rolling Stones, Allman Bros, CCR, John Hiatt, Brinsley Schwarz, Nick Lowe, The Who, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, Pink Floyd plus a Canadian tribute to them, PLUS a ton of bonus content (making this the most in depth radio show podcast episode yet, with yet another dozen plus rock bands, some of whom are sure to surprise, who found themselves in the country too. I'll give you a hint: Metallica country?!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    260: Are You Ready for the Country - Part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 26:08


    I was born ready and invite you to delve into the first of two parts featuring some of rock's most celebrated artists who had a penchant for the rich traditions of the corner stone of rock and roll music that leans to the country, including Tom Petty (who inspired this mini-series), Neil Young, Beatles and Stones, Dylan, The Band, The Byrds, and Led Zeppelin. It's as much as lesson as it is a celebration. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    258: Legendary Bang Sessions of Van Morrison

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2025 19:32


    I smile every time I hear these early essential songs from one of the finest soul singers of our time. This is a MUST for fans of the brilliantly soulful voice of Van Morrison, investigating and celebrating the first Van music post-THEM (his seminal rhythm and blues band that gave us “Here Comes the Night”, etc.), in songs that takes us well beyond Van's Brown Eyed Girl, which by the way started out with a different title about something else brown she had. Put a pin that and come dive inside the Legendary Bang Sessions of Van Morrison – his earliest American recording sessions captured by Bert Berns in New York City in March 1967. If you love soul singers, we're pretty sure this one's sure to be Blowin' Your Mind! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    257: Classic Albums of 1975 Part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2025 22:07


    We're headed back to the early months of '75, and key albums out in Jan/Feb/March, including he who was tangled up in blue, plus the Beatle who'd been caught standing in a Hamburg Germany doorway pondering his band reaching the toppermost of the poppermost, as he put it, plus the earliest ACDC, Led Zeppelin get physical, The Coop, Bowie, the Acid Queen, the first so-called solo Jeff Beck, and the British band who swore they were not in love. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    256: Rock's Swan Songs Part 3

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2025 29:01


    The conclusion of Jeff's celebration of Swan Songs, this time featuring three final cuts in the career of Pink Floyd (with and without former frontmen Roger Waters and Syd Barrett), Roxy Music, Queen, Nirvana, Chris Cornell (with a Johnny Cash angle), The Band, Tom Petty, Warren Zevon, John Lennon, and David Bowie.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    255: Rock's Swan Song's Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2025 18:18


    The 2nd of three parts this time – a celebration of the artistry in studio mostly, and the most iconic of final public performances, we're calling Swan Songs, with stories and music to go with from a Jacksonville kid, two of rock's most incendiary drummers, plus a bit about the logo that inspired this min-series, and the rockstar frontman whose swan song would finish, with a nod to Robin Williams. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    254: Rock's Swan Songs Part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2025 23:38


    Whether it's a death of an artist, or the end of a band, there has to be one last recording and one final public performance, in every artist's career. And so this time, a good look at some of Rock's Swan Songs, from the summer of love through the early seventies.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    253: Beginners Guide to Steve Earle and 10 Years of Terraplane

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2025 21:37


    Because there's so much more to Steve Earle than Copperhead Road, Jeff brings you select cuts from his stellar career of songwriting and performing, including from his acclaimed 2015 album Terraplane, plus a perfect in-concert Steve Earle story, and more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    252: A Tribute to Garth Hudson and THE BAND

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2025 20:50


    It finally happened. The last Last Waltz, as it were. The last Canadian among four Canadian musical legends who with their American drummer, became known the world over, with Bob Dylan. And even before that, with another American who'd make Canada his home – Ronnie Hawkins. January 21st 2025, Garth Hudson passed, and so this episode pays tribute to he and the whole band, with select songs pre and post Last Waltz, and a moment from Jeff's final conversation with Robbie, about the early days.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    251: Under the Covers Revisited

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2025 26:36


    Jeff takes you back through the years with select songs you'll know best in the hands of artists who typically didn't do them first and didn't write them, in an episode that takes you under the covers, with earlier versions of songs made famous by CCR, Nazareth, Rod Stewart, Janis Joplin, Grand Funk, Soft Cell, Rolling Stones, George Harrison, Joan Jett, Johnny Cash, REM, Blondie, and more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    250: Gone in 2024 Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2024 19:36


    To close 2024, one more tribute and the conclusion to Jeff's look at music legends we lost this year, and one very influential radio broadcaster too. Comes with thanks to you for listening to Records & Rockstars. Spread the word about this music history and story-telling podcast, and all the best to you.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    249: Gone in 2024 Part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 28, 2024 20:45


    It's a bittersweet time, paying tribute to rockstars we've lost in the last 12 months and this is the first of two parts celebrating their artistry and contributions to music. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    248: Classic Albums of 1974 Part 4

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2024 18:05


    Here's the final of the recurring four-parter looking back in celebration of the Classic Albums of 1974 with swan song records from King Crimson and Genesis, Mick Taylor's final with The Stones, the album that saved Supertramp, The Who, Tull, YES, Kraftwerk, and more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    248: Strange Sounds Part 3 - Phasors on Stun

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2024 20:04


    While last time the effect in the spotlight was the talk box, this time it's an equally cool effect and rather strange sound from the studio that makes the music and/or the vocal, sound like jets overhead! Call it phase-shifting or stereo flanging, nothing but that this time in a trippy episode titled after the classic song "Phasors on Stun" by the classic Canadian band known as FM. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    247: Strange Sounds Part 2 - Talk Box Rock

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2024 15:13


    The 2nd of a 3-parter, this time an episode featuring the finest examples of the magical effect in which mouth and guitar meet to produce an unmistakable sound on some big ones from the 70s, 80s, and nineties. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    245: Strange Sounds from Studio and Stage Part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2024 23:51


    The first of a 3-parter that begins with a wizard, a true star, and HIS first big song, plus a game called sounds of the studio, in an episode that also features bagpipes, slide whistle, home-made kazoo, and a dog fronting a band that plays to no one. The strange continues with didgeridoo, sugar packets, and more.Plus a call to you for theme ideas. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    244: Night and Day Part 2 - Good Day Sunshine

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2024 17:11


    This time to follow our choice night songs, an episode featuring select songs about the day in your life, and the day trips, the beautiful days, and perfect days, starring everyone from Beatles to Beatle influencer Buddy Holly, and Beatle soundalikes Badfinger, and a surprise even to JW, one day in the middle of the 1990s, Sheryl Crow did a duet with Johnny Cash about the kind of day Bob Marley had long ago sung about. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    243: Night and Day Part 1 - Night Songs

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2024 16:37


    After 800 weekly radio show episodes it seems like high time we do a 2 parter on day and night songs. Here comes part 1 and it features Bob Seger recounting how in Toronto, he laid down a song he believed in despite his management wanting him to do three other songs, and it became a career maker!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    242: The Name of the Song is the Name of the Band

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2024 18:56


    Can you think of any bands that share their names with songs? Here comes nineteen now.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    241: The Billys of Rock

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2024 21:25


    Not only the Billys of ROCK, because we've adopted the adage, "untethered by genre or era", happily colouring outside the lines this time again, with Williams turned Billys and with Billies too, from rock and jazz and blues and more, and a few Billy Joes to boot.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    240: Led Zeppelin Mando-Music

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2024 15:03


    There's something about the sound of the instrument, smallish in size, that adds something special to select rock songs. It's Italian. It has strings. It's part of the lute family of stringed instruments with long necks and and rounded bodies. Most often played with a pick, it typically has four courses or sets of 2 strings, tuned in unison and making it an 8 string instrument, and when you put two strings close together like this, you get more volume, just like with a 12 string guitar has that shimmer of strings vibrating against one another. Mandolin after the Italian mandolino, and it's in the spotlight this time in nothing but the songs of Led Zeppelin.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    239: Don't Bore Us Get to the Chorus!

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2024 17:58


    Songs that start not with the verse but with the chorus, with lots of Beatle angles, plus Bowie, Blur, and a funky interlude or two.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    238: Bands of Brothers and Bands of Sisters Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2024 19:56


    Jeff packs another ton of bands from the 1950s to now, into the 2nd of two parts celebrating bands with brothers and bands with sisters. This time, brother and sister bands from the letters I through V. Q: recognize the brothers in the photo? The cradle will rock is right! That and more right here.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    237: Bands of Brothers and Bands of Sisters Part 1

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 27, 2024 22:37


    Jeff packs a ton of bands from the 1950s to now, into the first of two parts celebrating bands with brothers and bands with sisters. This time, brother and sister bands from the letters A through H. Q: recognize the brothers in the photo? Think Macon Georgia, The Fillmore East, and some of the finest southern blues rock ever made. That and more right here. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    236: Classic Albums of 1974 Part 3 Summer Releases

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 19, 2024 18:54


    Taking you back to another time, another place, if you're up for the downstroke, with a rock 'n' roll doctor, and a trip to 461 Ocean Blvd, where we're sneakin' Sally through the Alley, but Sally can't dance, but we can ride the tiger. Hints as to the array of classic albums we're pullin' out this time, from July/Aug/Sept 1974.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    235: Performances: Steve Marriner

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2024 29:04


    Another special session in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests, and a condensed versions of the original sessions, with song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time not only a musician's musician, but a total people's choice player. Ottawa raised, Toronto based, Steve Marriner has been a blues harmonica player since the age of 11, and was just 13 and playing clubs, and only 14 when he won the Ottawa Blues Harp Blow-Off! In short, he's a monster player, but not just blues harp, but also guitar, bass, organ, and and he's a helluva singer and songwriter, and record producer/mixer too. We get into that a bit, in this performance focused cut of Steve's original album special session with Jeff, celebrating the release of his 2021 album Hope Dies Last. Steve delivers 3 live performances and talks about his evolving tastes and growth through listening and learning. Enjoy this 29 minute version of the original session.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    234: Performances: Joan Smith and Tom Juhas

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 10, 2024 24:30


    Another special session in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests, and a condensed version of the original episode, with song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, from Toronto, powerful performances and conversation with the principle members of Joan Smith & The Jane Does, Joan Smith and Tom Juhas, including a scorching cover of In the Pines (Where Did You Sleep Last Night). Runs: 24 minutes.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    233: Performances: Nickola Magnolia

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 4, 2024 23:42


    Another special session in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests, and a condensed version of the original episode, with song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, From Port Hope, Ontario, not simply a recording artist, but an outstanding tattoo artist too, Nickola Magnolia comes with her guitar, and delivers two live renditions of original songs, including one she'd never publicly shared before, plus the one about just how much she “loves country music more than she ever loved ______”, and Jeff gets inside her unique story that comes with so much of her unique wit and charm and talent. Runs 24 minutes.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    232: Madison Galloway by Madison Galloway

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2024 37:16


    The return (after 4 years) of the wise beyond her years 2023 "Southern Rock Artist of the Year" at the Josie Music Awards in Nashville. Thing is, she is southern, but Southern Ontario, and in this one on one convo with Jeff, we learn a bit more about her unique guitar buying strategy, (two heads are better than one, apparently), we learn of word of her reach farther and wider still as evidenced on Joe Bonamassa's “Cutting Edge Blues” playlist, plus a Records & Rockstars first revelation about her soon coming first tour in the UK. Guitar and slide in hand, we let a bit of the demon loose, as Madison Galloway performs two songs and Jeff happily plays you two additional songs direct from Madison's second long player (LP), simply called Madison Galloway, available far and wide as of June 27 2024! Get it on record and cd, plus there's merch and more at madisongalloway.com note: Madison's first appearance on Records & Rockstars is available as episode 55 (March 6 2020 for the Moon and Mercury album).See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    231: Run The Plank Interview and Performance

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2024 43:54


    A heaping helping of country punk/alt folk complete with stand-up bass, banjo, acoustic guitar, and drums, Run the Plank (formerly Murky Waters) makes a stop at Wild Woods Blue Studio on the eastern leg of their Thrasberta Tour, as these wandering spirits from Calgary with roots in Ontario, perform three songs live in Jeff's attic, and tell tales about being a working band, road-testing songs, making the best of break-ups, and co-writing music. Runs 44 minutes.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    230: Classic Albums of 1974 Part 2

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2024 18:37


    We're back into into the recurring four-parter featuring long-players out April, May and June of '74, and this "Second Helping" gives you a diverse playlist that'll take you to the Bridge of Sighs, with Diamond Dogs, in an Endless Summer of Good Vibrations, with solid weirdo bands from Budgie to Sparks, and a bit of my conversation with Paul Rodgers on the formation of the band who were the first to come with an album on Led Zeppelin's Swan Song label.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    229: Performances: Bernadette Connors

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2024 19:19


    Another special session in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests chatting with Jeff and delivering song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, fresh from an evening gig on the shore of Georgian Bay, Bernadette Connors delivers two outstanding original song performances, pulled from the 46 minute original session of episode #148, including “Georgina” (and where that is), and “All the Way to Nashville”, plus what it was like growing up in a music store, the value of curiosity, and more.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    228: 1994 The Year in Rock

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2024 23:05


    Compared to MOST years since the seventies, 1994 gave us so much more than most -- a year of some of the finest albums in rock, and one of the most impacting years in music. This is the podcast version of Jeff's weekly music radio show, charting around the world and enjoyed by music fans who love to hear what made artists tick, plus the stories behind the songs. This episode features an excerpt from Jeff's conversation with Jeff Buckley's mother, about her working with Chris Cornell to preserve the legacy of Buckley's music, plus we're hitting on all the heavy records of '94 from Grace to Superunknown, Vitalogy,The Division Bell, Wildflowers, Definitely Maybe, and so much more. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    227: Performances: Glenn Milchem

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2024 37:56


    Another special session in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests chatting with Jeff and delivering song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, lotsa laughs and talent too, pulled from the 56 minute session of episode #163, wherein the update features highlights from one of the finest and most diverse rock drummers around, showing his other side as a singer/songwriter and how that feels versus drumming, as Glenn Milchem performs two of his own songs, and tells of his feelings around stepping out from behind the kit to sing, of his tenure with Blue Rodeo and of their induction to Canada's Music Hall of Fame, and of giving life advice to his kids in the words to one of the two songs he does here. We also find out that we share in our love of what we're happy to call the finest live band around, and they're Canadian too. Here comes 38 minutes of pure music talk and performance, from Glenn Milchem. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    226: Performances: Justin Rutledge

    Play Episode Listen Later May 30, 2024 9:59


    One of the most intimate and moving performances yet, it's another special episode in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests chatting with Jeff and delivering song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, pulled from the full 90 minute album premiere special (Episode 182 May 2023), we “head for the hills” with an excerpt from it, featuring an outstanding acoustic performance of a stand-out cut from “Something Easy”, Justin Rutledge's tenth record. His story finds Rutledge having negotiated major life changes as he overcome numerous obstacles on his path to better ways forward. And his growth as a recording artist, engineer and producer has been immense, too. His 10th album “Something Easy” is a profound work, and you get a taste of it performed live right here. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    225: Performances: Eamon McGrath

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2024 29:34


    It's another special episode in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests chatting with Jeff and delivering song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, pulled from the original Feb 2022 full 51 minute episode #123, from Toronto, it's the incomparable Eamon McGrath, sharing songs from the accliamed album “Bells of Hope”, and more. Eamon, on his Martin guitar, gives you two exceptional renditions of original songs, and tells of playing in a band backing Daniel Johnston (RIP), and covering his poignant and everlasting “True Love Will Find You in the End”, which is also included! Episode run time: 29 minutes. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    224: Performances - Dani Strong

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2024 38:11


    Here's the fourth in a recurring series we call “Performances”, featuring past guests, and how it works is we go back to those sessions, and pull out a bit of the introduction, along with the artists song set-ups and stories, followed by the live performances they delivered at Wild Woods Blue, this time featuring multi-award-winning artist and songwriter Dani Strong, who brings her guitar and her smile and her stories to Wild Woods Blue Studio. Her songs have landed in television and movies, and on record, and here with her Martin guitar in hand, she performs two gems: “Slow Down”, and “Loved” and her voice and playing are PERFECT. Plus, as Dani Strong is both a teacher and manager of other artists, for anyone thinking of creating and releasing music, hear Dani's Dos and Don'ts. Runs 32 minutes. (For more, hear the full episode #191, runs 88 minutes).See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    223: My Special Guests: Angus Young of AC/DC

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2024 22:52


    I remember this day vividly. November 1997, when I was still recording artist interviews to quarter inch tape, and using a razor blade to move stuff around and add in the perfect songs, to get the special ready for radio. In walked Angus Young. He wasn't alone. In fact, he was dwarfed by the presence of two people, sitting on either side of him, across the recording console. Their presence seemed to fade from my view as Angus and I got into his memories of the great Bon Scott, to whom AC/DC was paying tribute with the then forthcoming box set Bonfire, titled, in a way, by the former front man himself. Angus tells that story, and so many more about his and Bon's bond, and their rise together on the long way to the top. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    222: My Special Guests: Carlos Santana

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2024 22:21


    Somehow, I had never been to Las Vegas. Then along came the opportunity to talk to Carlos Santana, September 3, 2010,when I got to the Hard Rock Hotel with guitar in hand—a black Gibson SG, knowing that the SG was the model of guitar Carlos had long ago played, and it's truly one of the classic models (also associated with Angus Young of AC/DC and Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath). Carlos happily autographed it for use in an auction event I would later stage to benefit music therapy services in Canada. I thanked Carlos for coming and congratulated him on the imminent release of Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time, featuring guest performances by everyone from Joe Cocker to Chris Cornell, Scott Weiland and more. This is that.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    221: Performances - Eric Schenkman

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2024 30:21


    Is that a pocket full of kryptonite or are you just happy to see me? This time, the third in a recurring series we call “Performances”, and what a performer he is! A guitarist whose talents and hits would land him on the cover of Rolling Stone (Jan 1993), and on stages all over North America to this day. Joining Jeff Woods in-studio, solo, for a chat and impassioned acoustic performances, it's Spin Doctors guitarist Eric Schenkman. We're going back to a select session from March 2019 at Wild Woods Blue Studio, from which we've pulled out set-ups and stories, preceding three killer performances including two spirited originals: Who Shot John, and Agent Orange Blues (guess who that's about!?), and one classic cover: Statesboro Blues, in a loving nod to the Allman Brothers and the Blind Willie McTell song of 1928. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    220: Performances - Delyn Grey

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2024 17:11


    Here's another in a recurring series of special episodes, Records & Rockstars Performances, taking you back to select sessions, as we pull out songs and set ups and stories to go with, as delivered at Wild Woods Blue, this time starring Jeff's special guest, from Toronto and playing left-handed, it's Delyn Grey with two stellar performances of original songs.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    219: Rolling Stones & Jeff Beck

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2024 18:31


    From Jeff's personal archives, it's all things Rolling Stones, with one-on-one conversations with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in Toronto (1998), talking about the Stones in concert (including playing Russia for the first time), Ronnie Wood in New York (2010) talking about art and music, playing guitar and playing bass, and Jeff Beck (Toronto 2010), with the story about how he "auditioned", so to speak, for the Stones before they ended up acquiring Ronnie. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    218: Gregory Childs and Heart Lung

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2024 38:55


    Not one but two tall drinks of water, as Gregory Childs and his wife bring along crack guitarist Jonathan Billings and band, to Wild Woods Blue to play a couple new songs, and one long ago made famous by Waylon and Willie, plus Greg opens up to Jeff about the who, what, when, where, why and how of his need to write and sing and play. Sometimes a school-teacher's doubt is just the thing a kid needs to fire up his soul and sing his heart out! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    217: Jeff Buckley's Mother and Jimi Hendrix's Sister

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2024 21:43


    With fans like David Bowie and Bob Dylan and Robert Plant, and close friends that included Chris Cornell, Jeff Buckley was an artists revered the world over for his unique talent. In the 1990's Jeff got signed to Columbia Records, and made an album called GRACE, that can only be called essential. And then suddenly without warning in May 1997 Jeff Buckley was gone. At the time of his death, he had been working on a batch of new songs that, with a little help from his friends and Jeff's mother, saw the light of day about a year after his passing. That's when I had the good fortune to speak to Mary Guibert, about her son and his music and the final day of his life. And, the family affair continues, with my conversation with Jimi Hendrix's sister, Janie, about the life and times of the greatest rock guitarist in history. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    217: My Special Guests Page & Plant

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2024 17:21


    My Special Guests mini-series, this time featuring Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Excerpts from one of my favourite chats with Robert, from 2002, and bits of 2 conversations from 2015 with Jimmy Page, about all things Led Zeppelin. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    215: Performances - Miss Emily

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2024 12:37


    This is a first in a recurring series of special episodes featuring past guests, and how it works is we go back to those original sessions, and pull out a bit of Jeff's introduction, along with the artists song set ups and stories, followed by the live performances they delivered at Wild Woods Blue. Hence the name "Performances", and this time starring Miss Emily.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    214: Under the Overwhelming Influence of The Beatles

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2024 18:51


    So many reasons to do this show for you. Including the fact that of the thousands of concerts and shows I've seen none were more engaging visually and sonically, than Beatles Love - starring Cirque de Soleil. That and that fact that within the 384 pages of my first book, Radio, Records and Rockstars, there are 398 mentions of Beatles. Not simply by me, but by the vast majority of artists featured in the conversations in the book, who themselves had fallen, and many hard, under the influence of The Beatles. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    213: Nelson Sobral and Kunle

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 7, 2024 56:27


    He's a winning combination of Jujutsu black-belt and soul singing prowess, with an affinity for Black Crowes, Keith Richards, and Tina Turner, and he brings a new single plus a another original and plays both plus a classic cover, inside of a 57 minute special, as Nelson Sobral from Toronto, with the ever-worldly percussionist Kunle, join Jeff at Wild Woods Blue Studio for conversation and performance. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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