Elizabeth Nelson & Amy Rigby talk about music - living it, loving it - just like they're hanging out in a dingy backstage somewhere. Loosely themed episodes cover current fave reads and listens; music memories and influences; songwriting, recording, performing and the pain and fun of looking for the magic.Elizabeth Nelson is singer-songwriter for the D.C.-based garage-punk band the Paranoid Style and a regular contributor to The Ringer, Oxford American and Pitchfork amongst others. In 2020 Spin Magazine ranked the Paranoid Style the 27th best rock & roll band currently working, thereby adding twenty six names to her renowned Enemies List.Amy Rigby has been writing, performing and recording her transcendent songs about everyday life for over thirty years, first with bands Last Roundup and the Shams in NYC’s East Village, then as a solo artist beginning with classic album Diary Of A Mod Housewife up through The Old Guys (2018) and 2020 single “Vote That F****r Out” with sometime duo partner Wreckless Eric. Her first book, Girl To City: A Memoir was published last year.
Tonight we're going to party on the Looking For The Magic podcast - Amy and @paranoiacs Elizabeth Nelson will discuss the weird magic of birthday shows, wedding gigs gone wrong...join us live at 6:30 pm, working on your birthday is proof you're alive.Happy Birthday Amy!
Elizabeth and Amy discuss firsts. First studio recording sessions, first tours and more! Looking For the Magic stream live on Youtube Wednesday's at 6:30pm EST on the LFTM youtube. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcVrR6LQ_mBP3ae1IOBs56Q
Elizabeth and Amy discuss the unfolding insurrection in Washington D.C. and talk about protest songs.
Good riddance to 2020, the shittiest year. Sharing stories of worst gigs, stage outfits, venues and performances by other bands. Also things we thought might be crap that turned out to be good.Referenced in this episode:The Center Of Nowhere - documentary about Springfield MO music sceneBobby Keys documentary: Every Night's A Saturday NightGlenfargPhillyBusiness suits on stage"The jacket"Replacements at the RitzLuton on LSDLove for NRBQRod Stewart's autobiography
Elizabeth and Amy brave a December snow storm Wednesday night. It doesn't take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.Bee Gees docLuc Sante's Maybe The People Would Be The TimesAlright Alright Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed & ConfusedBraving the elementsJimmy Page's argyle vest; Kurt Cobain's sweaterYo La Tengo's Hanukkah shows & Do You Remember ThatSex Pistols Pittsburgh show that never happened
We share memories of first live shows, last live shows, best nights ever and hope for future gigs.Peter Murphy at RoselandSonny & Cher The late David OlneyDrive-By TruckersWussyFave music venueshttps://youtu.be/PwXQpT7Vkqk
This is the second episode of our new podcast about music. This week we share some reflections on Columbia Recording Artist Bob Dylan.Show Notes: 11.25.20Conversations with Tom Petty / Paul ZolloThey Might Be Giants / Live at The Music Hall of Williamsburg 11.29.15Emma Swift / Blonde on the TracksPeter Paul & Mary / Blowin’ in the WindHippies / Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues AgainBob Dylan / Biograph Bob Dylan / True Confessions Tour with Tom Petty & The HeartbreakersBob Dylan / ChroniclesSuze Rotolo / A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the SixtiesCarole Bayer Sager / They’re Playing Our Song: A MemoirBob Dylan / Knocked Out LoadedBob Dylan / Street-Legal / The Changing of the GuardsBob Dylan / I Contain Multitudes (Emma Swift / I Contain Multitudes)Charlie Daniels / Off The Grid: Doin’ It DylanOxford AmericanBob Dylan / Nashville Skyline / New Morning (Charlie Daniels)Charlie Daniels / Drinkin’ My Baby Goodbye (Last Roundup)Amy Rigby / The Old Guys / From philiproth@gmail to rzimmerman@aol.comTony GarnierMary Lee Kortes / Mary Lee’s Corvette / Dreaming of DylanBob Dylan / Theme Time Radio HourBruce Bennett / Action Swingers / Hoodies / Mike BloomfieldRatso Sloman / On The Road With Bob DylanBob NeuwirthBob Dylan / Planet Waves / Going Going GoneBob Dylan / Fort Worth Texas / May 16, 1976The Last WaltzThanksgiving Bucket Hats
Looking For The Magic gets off to a start with a discussion of current reads, brushes with greatness and things you shouldn't say to your heroes.Discussed in this episode:Peter Frampton's memoir Do You Feel Like I DoChris Frantz's book - Remain In LovePittsburghRichard ThompsonShantsInterviewing NRBQ; Terry AdamsBill Monroe & The Bluegrass BoysTouring with Warren ZevonJill SobuleTom PettyJoe Strummer; The ClashBeethoven; Theme from St. Elmo's FireHerb Alpert - Whipped Cream & Other DelightsAll the greens from all the (pressing) plantsRecorded live here https://youtu.be/cVm_5Sr6Vno
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