Podcast appearances and mentions of Ralph J Gleason

THE BAND – The eponymous second album with special guest JOHN NIVEN. This interview took place before and after we listened to the vinyl album. The Band's debut, ‘Music From Big Pink' and their eponymous second LP are two of the most influential albums ever made. John Niven's novella, Music From Big Pink caused the Band's Robbie Robertson to ask, “Was that guy in the room?” John is one of the UK's greatest writers and has published over ten acclaimed books. His latest offering is the truly wonderful O Brother. It's a brutally honest family memoir about his young brother Gary, that is both hilarious and devastatingly tragic. CAT Club stalwart, Ian Clayton was in the interviewer's chair. THE BAND – edited review by Jason Draper (www.udiscovermusic.com) The self-titled second album by The Band honed everything from ‘Music From Big Pink' with deft performances and an innate knack for storytelling. If The Band single-handedly created Americana with their debut album, on their self-titled sophomore effort (aka “The Brown Album”), they honed everything that made ‘Music From Big Pink' so quietly epochal. Initially, the group relocated from their iconic Woodstock home to a New York studio in order to work up the 12 songs that formed their self-titled second album, but the pro facilities didn't suit the group's laidback, down-home approach. Packing up and heading west, they recreated the Big Pink vibe with what lead guitarist Robbie Robertson called “a clubhouse feel” at 8850 Evanview Drive in West Hollywood, a house that had previously been owned by Sammy Davis Jr. The place had enough bedrooms that the group could reside there with their families and a pool house where they set up the studio. The Band's second album came after a difficult period. Bassist Rick Danko had broken his neck in a serious car crash and had taken time to recover. The move from East Coast to West Coast proved an invigorating change. Crossing the vast expanse of North America was apt: The Band was almost simply titled America, and its songs are populated with characters from the continent's past; like the lucky hopefuls who set off west in search of the American Dream in the mid-1800s, The Band struck gold. Truckers, sailors, Civil War soldiers: it's the sort of roll call that would feel contrived in lesser hands, but Robertson and co's deft performances and innate knack for storytelling allowed these disparate characters – like the wide array of instruments the group rotated through – to coalesce, working up a collection of songs that, as Ralph J. Gleason put it in his Rolling Stone review, are “equal sides of a 12-faceted gem, the whole of which is geometrically greater than the sum of the parts.” This event took place on 30th November 2023 in the Pigeon Loft at The Robin Hood, Pontefract, West Yorkshire. To find out more about the CAT Club please visit: www.thecatclub.co.uk This podcast has been edited for content and for copyright reasons. Happy Trails.

Maggie LePique speaks with Jann Wenner, whose memoir "Like a Rolling Stone" chronicles his life as the co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine.Rolling Stone founder, co-editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offers a "touchingly honest" and "wonderfully deep" memoir from the beating heart of classic rock and roll (Bruce Springsteen).Jann Wenner has been called by his peers “the greatest editor of his generation.”His deeply personal memoir vividly describes and brings you inside the music, the politics, and the lifestyle of a generation, an epoch of cultural change that swept America and beyond. The age of rock and roll in an era of consequence, what will be considered one of the great watersheds in modern history. Wenner writes with the clarity of a journalist and an essayist. He takes us into the life and work of Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Bono, and Bruce Springsteen, to name a few. He was instrumental in the careers of Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, and Annie Leibovitz. His journey took him to the Oval Office with his legendary interviews with Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, leaders to whom Rolling Stone gave its historic, full-throated backing. From Jerry Garcia to the Dalai Lama, Aretha Franklin to Greta Thunberg, the people Wenner chose to be seen and heard in the pages of Rolling Stone tried to change American culture, values, and morality.Like a Rolling Stone is a beautifully written portrait of one man's life, and the life of his generation.Rolling Stone founder, co-editor, and publisher Jann Wenner offers a "touchingly honest" and "wonderfully deep" memoir from the beating heart of classic rock and roll (Bruce Springsteen).Jann Wenner has been called by his peers “the greatest editor of his generation.”Source: https://www.littlebrown.com/titles/jann-s-wenner/like-a-rolling-stone/9780316415392/This episode is from an archive from the KPFK program Profiles adapted for podcast.Host Maggie LePique, a radio veteran since the 1980's at NPR in Kansas City Mo. She began her radio career in Los Angeles in the early 1990's and has worked for Pacifica station KPFK Radio in Los Angeles since 1994.Support the show

Dr. Allison Bumsted joins Phoebe and Daphne to discuss how rock journalism in the 1970s re-shaped Paul McCartney's critical reputation for the next three decades (and beyond).  Also discussed in this episode: authenticity, gatekeeping, rock aesthetics and rhetoric, hyper-masculinity and the inherent inclusivity of pop.   SOURCES Paul McCartney interviewed on Radio Luxembourg May 12, 1973 Something About the Beatles, “Critiquing the Critics” Episodes 176a and 176b A Women's History of the Beatles, Christine Feldman-Barrett (2021) The Beatles and the Historians, Erin Torkelson-Weber (2016) Truant Boy: Art, Authenticity and Paul McCartney, Martin Shough (2017) Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music, Yuval Taylor and Hugh Barker (2007) “Main Lines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader,” Lester Bangs (2003) “Physical Graffiti” review by Jim Miller, Rolling Stone (March 27, 1975) John Landau reviews RAM, (July 8, 1971) Wildlife review by John Mendelssohn, Rolling Stone (Jan 20, 1972) Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, written by Allen Evans, NME (May 20, 1967) “The Jefferson Airplane and the San Francisco Sound,” Ralph J Gleason (1969) “Just Two Superstars from Middle Rock,” NY Times (Aug 3, 1975) “Imagine” review by Ben Gerson (Oct 28, 1971) “The Former Beatle Gets Personal” Paul Gambincini, Rolling Stone (Jan 31, 1974) “Records: Paul McCartney and Wings” Band on the Run review by Dave Downing, Let it Rock (1974) Band on the Run review, Jon Landau (1974) “Paul and Linda McCartney: Bionic couple serves it your way” Lester Bangs, Creem: 34–39 and 72–73 (1976) “Yesterday, Today and Paul” Rolling Stone, Ben Fong-Torres (June 17 1976)  "Paul McCartney & Wings" Rolling Stone page 14; Paul Gambaccini (June 21 1973)  Life Magazine (November 7, 1969) “Man of the Year” Rolling Stone, Jann Wenner (February 7, 1970) “Sound effects: Youth, Leisure, and the Politics of Rock ‘n' Roll” Simon Frith. New York: Pantheon Books (197.) "Rod Stewart's Holiday Turkey: Blondes Have More Fun Review" Rolling Stone, Janet Maslin (Feb 8, 1979) "Every Picture Tells a Story" Review Rolling Stone, John Mendelsohn (July 8, 1971)   OTHER WRITERS MENTIONED Pete Wiley, Robert Christgau, Matt Brennan, Holly Tessler, Leonard Feather, Leroy Jones, Barbara Gardner, Nat Hentoff, Simon Frith, Jim DeRogatis    ALLISON'S LINKS My social (Inast and Twitter @Allison Bumsted) Website: www.allisonbumsted.com (I update it with what's happening) Book Link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-85543-7 Chapter Link:: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-85543-7_5 (ask your local library to get a hold of the book!)   PLAYLIST The Mess (live at the Hague) WINGS Band on the Run PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS Wildlife WINGS Too Many People PAUL & LINDA MCCARTNEY I Am Your Singer WINGS Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey PAUL & LINDA MCCARTNEY Mama's Little Girl PAUL MCCARTNEY & WINGS Let Me Roll it PAUL MCCARTNEY & WINGS Rockshow WINGS

È il momento di “Nota sulle note” quinta puntata del programma musicale settimanale di Radio Nostra, nel quale annoto per voi piccoli appunti prima di lasciarvi ai brani scelti, che di puntata in puntata andiamo a conoscere. Oggi ci occuperemo di canzoni tratte da una classifica effettuata dalla rivista statunitense di musica, politica, cultura di massa. Il suo nome trae origine dalla celebre band i “Rolling Stone”, i quali, a loro volta, si ispirarono al singolo di Muddy Waters “Rolling Stone”, brano del 1950. La rivista fu fondata il 9 novembre del 1967 da Janne Simon Wenner e dal critico musicale Ralph J. Gleason. Ha sede a New York dal 1976. Il periodico divenne così influente che i “Dottor Huck” e “Medicine Show” scrissero la canzone: “Cover Rolling Stone”. Per festeggiare il cinquantesimo di vita della rivista, l'attuale editore Will Dana ha deciso di pubblicare alcuni elenchi a tema, fra i quali quello delle migliori canzoni mai scritte in tutti i tempi. Ne selezionò 500. Ne ho scelto per voi alcune, estrapolandone solo una lacrima, che mi auguro vi sia gradita. Blowing in the Wind, Bob Dylan, 1962 I got You (I feel good), James Brown, 1964 Baby Love, Supremes, 1964 My Generation, The Who, 1965 Brige Over Trouble Water, Simon and Garnfunkel, 1970 No Woman, No Cry, Bob Marley, 1974 Hot Stuff, Donna Summer, 1979 Graceland, Paul Simon, 1986 Simpathy for The Devil, Rolling Stone, 1994 Clocks, Coldplay, 2002 Cry Me a River, Justin Timberlake, 2002 Craze in Love, Beyoncè, 2003 Rehab, di Amy Winehouse, 2006 Buon ascolto da Lorella Turchetto Michieli --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/radio-nostra/support

Los 500 Mejores Álbumes de Todos Los Tiempos de la Revista Rolling Stone Una de las discusiones más diversas el el gremio durante la reciente semana es la última actualización de los 500 Mejores Álbumes de la revista Rolling Stone. En la creación original de noviembre de 2003, la Revista liberal dedicó un número completo a lo que significaban los "500 mejores álbumes de todos los tiempos". Era una edición extra gruesa y brillante que se llamaba a sí misma un "problema especial de coleccionistas", editada para las personas que podrían quedarse con ese tipo de cosas, como algunos de nosotros. Para compilar la lista, los editores del medio fundada por Jann Wenner y Ralph J. Gleason hace 53 años pidieron a 273 músicos, críticos y "figuras de la industria" (desde productores hasta directores gerentes de marcas) hacer listas ponderadas individuales de lo que consideraban los 50 mejores álbumes jamás creados. Mucho se ha escrito sobre estos ilustres 273, pero no hace falta decir que eran en su mayoría blancos y casi exclusivamente estadounidenses y/o predominantemente angloparlantes. No se dice necesariamente que esto condene la lista, sino que la coloque en un contexto muy importante (quizás predecible). De todos modos, Rolling Stone tomó esas 273 listas ponderadas y contrató a la firma de contabilidad Ernst & Young para que elaborara un sistema de puntos, analizara los datos y los clasificara adecuadamente. Como era de esperar, se produjo mucha protesta y un debate irritante en la cultura pop y empezaron a llegar las actualizaciones en 2007, 2012 y en 2020 para concluir que se parece un poco a lo que comenzó y que cada vez se acomoda más a lo "políticamente correcto" de la era. Escucha y comparte un adelanto del episodio dedicado a los 500, que puedes escuchar en 95.9 Cámara FM, Medellín los sábados a las 10 AM y 8 PM. Agradecimiento especial a Juan Pablo Restrepo. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/gabriel-posada/message

Bill Graham biographer unravels the story of Graham's organized protest of President Reagan's visit to the Bitburg cemetery and the subsequent bombing of the Bill Graham Presents offices. An award-winning novelist, playwright, journalist, and screenwriter, Robert Greenfield is the author of several classic rock books, among them S.T.P.: A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones as well as the definitive biographies of Timothy Leary and Ahmet Ertegun. With Bill Graham, he is the co-author of Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out which won both the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award and the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award.

Fred Goodman is a New York-based author and reporter. His books include The Mansion on the Hill, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the Ralph J. Gleason Award for the best music book of the year. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, where he was an editor, as well as the New York Times and many national magazines. Allen Klein was like no one the music industry had seen before. The hard-nosed business manager became infamous for allegedly catalyzing the Beatles’ breakup and robbing the Rolling Stones, but the truth is both more complex and more fascinating. As the manager of the Stones and then the Beatles—not to mention Sam Cooke, Donovan, the Kinks, and numerous other performers—he taught young soon-to-be legends how to be businessmen as well as rock stars. In so doing, Klein made millions for his clients and changed music forever. But Klein was as merciless with his clients as he was with anyone else, earning himself an outsize reputation for villainy that has gone unchallenged until now. Through unique, unprecedented access to Klein’s archives, veteran music journalist Fred Goodman tells the full story of how the Beatles broke up, how the Stones achieved the greatest commercial success in rock history, and how the music business became what it is today.