Podcast appearances and mentions of Ry Cooder

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Send us a message, so we know what you're thinking!Back in Season 1, we talked at length about Warren Zevon, one of the great American songwriters and one of our idols.  So, this year Warren Zevon has been inducted into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame, along with Bad Company and Cyndi Lauper, and we thought that was a perfect excuse to close the loop on our coverage of his career.  It's all here – his later career, final album, appearances on Letterman.  We loved doing it, and we know that you will love listening to this one! Our “Album You Must Listen to Before You Die” is John Lennon's 1980 hit, “Imagine”.  As usual with Lennon's solo albums, it's more (and less) than it seems on the face of it, containing some of Lennon's best work along with some filler.  But, hey, it's a strong album and gave Roxy Music their worst-ever cover (FYI - “Jealous Guy”). We also venture into the world of ChatGPT to find out the Best Albums of 1972.  Fairly strong list – Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Lou Reed and..............................Wishbone Ash!  Who?    References – Globite Travel Bag, Warren Zevon, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, “The Wind”, Zach Starkey, The Who, Bad Company, Paul Rodgers, Cyndi Lauper, Jordon Zevon, CHAT GPT, 1972, Letterman, alcoholism, Rolling Stone magazine, Jann Wenner, Zevon Live in Australia, The Bridge Hotel, St Mary's Band Club, The Hilton Sydney, Little River Band, Linda Ronstadt, pleural mesothelioma, Enjoy Every Sandwich, “Sentimental Hygiene”, Neil Young, “Detox Mansion”, “Splendid Isolation”, “Heartache Spoken Here”, “Searching For a Heart”, “The Indifference of Heaven”, Life'll Kill Ya, My Ride's Here, “Hit Somebody”, Tony Levin, “Basket Case”, Carl Hiassen, “Bad Monkey”, “The Wind”, Crystal Zevon, Springsteen, “Knockin' on Heaven's Door”, Dylan, Grammy Award,  “Keep Me in Your Heart", “Enjoy Every Sandwich”, Jackson Browne, Billy Bob Thornton, David Lindley and Ry Cooder, Pixies, Jorge Calderón  Playlist – Music from the episode Enjoy every sandwich The Wind 

Here is my music podcast from Thursday May 8, 2025. Included is the music of Taj Mahal, Ry Cooder, Luther Allison, Savoy Brown, The Animals and more. Just click on the link/picture and enjoy. Art by Brian Kramer. Check out his site for more wonderful music art.

"The Basher" himself, Nick Lowe returns to the Record Store Day Podcast to talk about his recent records with Los Straitjackets, including this year's RSD First Release live disc, (Not) Indoor Safari Vol. 1. But while we've got, we get the esteemed songwriter and record producer to go crate digging through his expansive back catalogue of recorded work to share some personal stories of working with The Pretenders, Elvis Costello, John Hiatt, The Damned, Ry Cooder, Graham Parker, and more. The Record Store Day Podcast is a weekly music chat show written, produced, engineered and hosted by Paul Myers, who also composed the theme music and selected interstitial music.  Executive Producers (for Record Store Day) Michael Kurtz and Carrie Colliton. For the most up-to-date news about all things RSD, visit RecordStoreDay.com   Please consider subscribing to our podcast wherever you get podcasts, and tell your friends, we're here every week and we love making new friends.

"Safe as Milk" is the debut album by Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, released in 1967. The record is a wild blend of blues, psychedelic rock, and experimental music, showcasing the unique and often eccentric vision of frontman Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart).While rooted in traditional electric blues, Safe as Milk already hints at the avant-garde style that would define Beefheart's later work. The album features intricate guitar work, odd rhythms, and surreal, poetic lyrics. It's more accessible than Beefheart's later records like Trout Mask Replica, but still packed with creative risks and strange beauty.The album features a young Ry Cooder on guitar, whose contributions helped shape the sound and keep it grounded, even as Beefheart pushed boundaries.Though it wasn't a commercial hit at the time, Safe as Milk has since become a cult classic and an essential record for fans of psychedelic and experimental rock. It marks the beginning of one of the most iconoclastic careers in 20th-century music.Listen to the album on Apple Music Listen to the album on SpotifyWhat did you think of this album? Send us a text! Support the showPatreonWebsitePolyphonic Press Discord ServerFollow us on InstagramContact: polyphonicpressmusic@gmail.comDISCLAIMER: Due to copyright restrictions, we are unable to play pieces of the songs we cover in these episodes. Playing clips of songs are unfortunately prohibitively expensive to obtain the proper licensing. We strongly encourage you to listen to the album along with us on your preferred format to enhance the listening experience.

Another time, another place. That time? 1984. That place? The movies! Where a rock & roll fable was born, yet no one watched it at the time. In America, anyway. In Japan, someone saw it. A few someones. A few someones, that would go on to make some of the coolest anime and video games around. Now, in 2025? It's the perfect time to go back to that another time, and another place. To go back to the 1984 cinematic cult classic, that is the theatrical film Streets of Fire. Or at least we did. You should too!OSMnotesSadly right now there is no easy to way to just find a handy dandy streaming service to watch Streets of Fire, but it's around to buy digitally…or even physically!Streets of Fire, How to Watch and/or Buy:Stream on Devices that Streamon Amazon Video (Buy or Rent)on Apple TV (Buy or Rent)on Fandango At Home (Buy or Rent)Buy on Blu-Rayon Amazonon Shout! FactoryPlus, Time Cues:We start the OSMcast!ing – 00:00General Gabbing (Talking about the Switch 2 Announcements) – 00:45OSMplugs (Discord, Patreon, TeePublic) – 10:58Streets of FireStreets of Fire, Sans Spoilers (Mostly) – 12:01Streets of Fire, Full of Spoilers – 27:24OSMs Out of OSM and Final Thoughts – 1:08:36We also have YouTube Channels! Both for OSMcast proper and The Carbuncle Chronicle! Please subscribe, hit the bell, and share amongst your friends.And as always, feel free to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Oh, and if you still use Spotify, go ahead and get on that mobile device and throw us some five stars there too. Tell your friends! As well, just like we mentioned when we do the OSMplugs, you can also join the Discord and support us on Patreon! PS If you have ever wanted some OSMmerch, feel free to check out our TeePublic page! PPS We appreciate you.

Extrait : « … En réalité, ce serait bien là le seul fait d'arme de ce musicien anglais, à la rousseur flamboyante, comme celle de son amie Florence Welsh, celle de Florence & The machine, dont il a fait la première partie il y a quelques années. Un type sans histoire, propre comme un sou neuf, 3 albums en poche dont personne n'a entendu parler, avec une musique touche à tout, tour à tour rock indé, pop rétro, soul, électro, folk baroque, lo fi. Comment subterraneans a-t-elle atterri dans mon mobile, aucune idée, en fait il se trouve que ça s'écoute bien, la guitare rappelle de loin en loin Ry Cooder, ça ne va pas bouleverser ta vie, mais tu vas mieux dormir et rêver que tu pètes le nez de Jean-Pierre Foucaud … » Pour commenter les épisodes, tu peux le faire sur ton appli de podcasts habituelle, c'est toujours bon pour l'audience. Mais également sur le site web dédié, il y a une section Le Bar, ouverte 24/24, pour causer du podcast ou de musique en général, je t'y attends avec impatience.   Enfin, si tu souhaites me soumettre une chanson, c'est aussi sur le site web que ça se passe.   Pour soutenir Good Morning Music et Gros Naze : 1. Abonne-toi 2. Laisse-moi un avis et 5 étoiles sur Apple Podcasts, ou Spotify et Podcast Addict 3. Partage ton épisode préféré à 3 personnes autour de toi. Ou 3.000 si tu connais plein de monde. Good Morning Music Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

From the first moment I heard this ditty, it became my theme song. I learned to play it - (in a far cruder fashion than Ry, of course) and worked it into my set list. Just like the character Bill in the narrative, - (my name, btw) - my reprobate ways had also been domesticated by love. And, another harmonic convergence: I had even spent a year in Louisville, Kentucky. Jack Yellen, the Jewish-Polish immigrant who wrote these Jazz-age lyrics, also penned Happy Days are Here Again, and Ain't She Sweet. If he had only created these three songs, his oeuvre would have been impressive. His art was another example, like that of Irving Berlin and the Gershwins, of the affinity young Jewish musicians expressed for black culture.  And, like the Semitic moguls of old Hollywood - they became reflectors of America's aspirational self-image.Ry Cooder's Jazz album was not exactly an anomaly - he has always been a musical archeologist, but on this collection he strove for unparalleled authenticity. Check out his jaw dropping rendition of Bix Beiderbecke's In A Mist. Sublime. He's a national treasure, and if the jaunty swing-time on this number doesn't get your feet tapping - check your pulse - you might be dead.

Aquesta setmana comencem amb el nou disc de la superbanda de Ghana Santrofi i el seu Highlife clàssic, descobrim el projecte Creole de Sonny Trouppe des de Guadalupe al Carib "Expéka", recomanem els concerts que farà Eliades Ochoa a la nova sala El Molino i acabem recordant a Ry Cooder en el seu 77è aniversari.

BMG recording artist/singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist A.J. Croce's new 11-track album, "Heart of the Eternal," will be released on March 7. Produced by Shooter Jennings (Brandi Carlile, Tanya Tucker), "Heart of the Eternal" will feature a selection of songs that journey from psychedelia to Philadelphia soul to Latin-infused jazz-pop. Croce, son of legendary singer/songwriter Jim Croce, has toured with/collaborated with such legends and luminaries as B.B. King, Willie Nelson, Ray Charles, Leon Russell, Allen Toussaint, Neville Brothers, Bela Fleck and Ry Cooder, to name a few, all while building up an acclaimed catalog that blurs the boundaries between blues, soul, rock & roll, Americana, and much more. In conjunction with "Heart of the Eternal," Croce's upcoming yearlong "Heart of The Eternal Tour" will kick off nationwide on February 20 at The Parker in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, through April 6 at the Opera House in Lexington, Kentucky (check A.J.'s website and local listings for additional performances to be announced in 2025). Tickets can be purchased for the "Heart of The Eternal Tour" at www.ajcrocemusic.com  "Heart of the Eternal" is the latest collection of Croce's songwriting and heart-on-sleeve emotion -- the follow up to his critically lauded cover album "By Request" -his first original body of work since 2017's "Just Like Medicine," which was hailed as "brilliant" by No Depression and a "fluid expression of sorrow and gratitude" by Pop Matters. Says Croce: "I've always felt that music is the heart of our humanity. It's the purest way to connect to one another. Every songwriter I've ever met has told me that they don't know where their greatest songs have come from. Maybe it's our dreams or subconscious that allow us to draw from that eternal well of creativity. I don't know the answer but I'm always looking for it. While stylistically diverse, this album is my search for the heart of the eternal." Recorded at the Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, California, Croce's 11th studio album features bassist David Barard (a Grammy-winner who performed with Dr. John for nearly four decades), drummer Gary Mallaber (whose credits include Van Morrison's Moondance and Tupelo Honey), and guitarist James Pennebaker (Delbert McClinton, Jimmie Dale Gilmore). The album was completed during Croce's downtime from his ongoing "Croce Plays Croce" tour-a widely celebrated run in which he performs classic songs from his late father Jim, along with his own material and a number of specially curated covers.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-unplugged-totally-uncut--994165/support.

DJ St. Paul neemt de muzikale week door met liedjes van o.a. Pale Blue Eyes, Chloe Qisha & OMD. Deze keer in de albumrubriek een uitgebreid gesprek met muzikant Jori Collignon over Chavez Ravine van Ry Cooder.Tracklist:Billy Paul - EastJeremy Bradley Earl - Let The Snow FallThe Stooges - 1969ATRIP - Rainbow (Megra Remix)OMD - Enola GayLove Unlimited Orchestra - Love's ThemePale Blue Eyes - How Long Is NowCameron Winter - Love Takes MilesThe Smashing Pumpkins - 1979Najib Alhoush - Ya Aen DaliChloe Qisha - Sex, Drugs & Existential DreadElliott Smith - TwilightRy Cooder - Poor Man's Shangri-LaInterview Cameron Winterhttps://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/cameron-winter-not-kidding-this-timeBernie Sanders Michigan Rallyhttps://www.brooklynvegan.com/watch-the-armed-cover-the-stooges-search-and-destroy-at-bernie-sanders-event-in-detroit/Barry White, The Man And His Musichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDwjYDV4YKUCollignon in de Nijverheidxhttps://collignonmusic.com/

DJ St. Paul neemt de muzikale week door met liedjes van o.a. Pale Blue Eyes, Chloe Qisha & OMD. Deze keer in de albumrubriek een uitgebreid gesprek met muzikant Jori Collignon over Chavez Ravine van Ry Cooder.Tracklist:Billy Paul - EastJeremy Bradley Earl - Let The Snow FallThe Stooges - 1969ATRIP - Rainbow (Megra Remix)OMD - Enola GayLove Unlimited Orchestra - Love's ThemePale Blue Eyes - How Long Is NowCameron Winter - Love Takes MilesThe Smashing Pumpkins - 1979Najib Alhoush - Ya Aen DaliChloe Qisha - Sex, Drugs & Existential DreadElliott Smith - TwilightRy Cooder - Poor Man's Shangri-LaInterview Cameron Winterhttps://www.thelineofbestfit.com/features/interviews/cameron-winter-not-kidding-this-timeBernie Sanders Michigan Rallyhttps://www.brooklynvegan.com/watch-the-armed-cover-the-stooges-search-and-destroy-at-bernie-sanders-event-in-detroit/Barry White, The Man And His Musichttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDwjYDV4YKUCollignon in de Nijverheidhttps://collignonmusic.com/

BMG recording artist/singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist A.J. Croce's new 11-track album, "Heart of the Eternal," will be released on March 7. Produced by Shooter Jennings (Brandi Carlile, Tanya Tucker), "Heart of the Eternal" will feature a selection of songs that journey from psychedelia to Philadelphia soul to Latin-infused jazz-pop. Croce, son of legendary singer/songwriter Jim Croce, has toured with/collaborated with such legends and luminaries as B.B. King, Willie Nelson, Ray Charles, Leon Russell, Allen Toussaint, Neville Brothers, Bela Fleck and Ry Cooder, to name a few, all while building up an acclaimed catalog that blurs the boundaries between blues, soul, rock & roll, Americana, and much more. In conjunction with "Heart of the Eternal," Croce's upcoming yearlong "Heart of The Eternal Tour" will kick off nationwide on February 20 at The Parker in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, through April 6 at the Opera House in Lexington, Kentucky (check A.J.'s website and local listings for additional performances to be announced in 2025). Tickets can be purchased for the "Heart of The Eternal Tour" at www.ajcrocemusic.com  "Heart of the Eternal" is the latest collection of Croce's songwriting and heart-on-sleeve emotion -- the follow up to his critically lauded cover album "By Request" -his first original body of work since 2017's "Just Like Medicine," which was hailed as "brilliant" by No Depression and a "fluid expression of sorrow and gratitude" by Pop Matters. Says Croce: "I've always felt that music is the heart of our humanity. It's the purest way to connect to one another. Every songwriter I've ever met has told me that they don't know where their greatest songs have come from. Maybe it's our dreams or subconscious that allow us to draw from that eternal well of creativity. I don't know the answer but I'm always looking for it. While stylistically diverse, this album is my search for the heart of the eternal." Recorded at the Sunset Sound in Los Angeles, California, Croce's 11th studio album features bassist David Barard (a Grammy-winner who performed with Dr. John for nearly four decades), drummer Gary Mallaber (whose credits include Van Morrison's Moondance and Tupelo Honey), and guitarist James Pennebaker (Delbert McClinton, Jimmie Dale Gilmore). The album was completed during Croce's downtime from his ongoing "Croce Plays Croce" tour-a widely celebrated run in which he performs classic songs from his late father Jim, along with his own material and a number of specially curated covers.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.

Over the past three decades, A.J. Croce has established his reputation as a piano player and vocal stylist who pulls from a host of musical traditions and anti-heroes — part New Orleans, part juke joint, part soul. From his 10 studio albums, it's clear that he holds an abiding love for all types of musical genres: Blues, Soul, Pop, Jazz, and Rock n' Roll. A virtuosic piano player, Croce toured with B.B. King and Ray Charles before reaching the age of 21, and over his career, he has performed with a wide range of musicians, from Willie Nelson to the Neville Brothers, to Béla Fleck and Ry Cooder. A.J. has also co-written songs with such formidable tunesmiths as Leon Russell, Dan Penn, Robert Earl Keen, and multi-Grammy winner Gary Nicholson. His albums have all charted on an impressive array of charts: Top 40, Blues, Americana, Jazz, College, and Radio 1. The Nashville-based singer/songwriter has landed 22 singles on a variety of Top 20 charts.  His songwriting and style has evolved from Jazz & Blues on his debut and sophomore albums, to the roots-rock of the more recent collaborative recordings like Cantos with Ben Harper, Twelve Tales with Allen Toussaint, and Just Like Medicine with Vince Gill. He recently toured with his show "Croce Plays Croce" where he paid tribute to his father, singer/songwriter Jim Croce.   

"Chávez Ravine" can mean many things. Obviously, there is an area in Los Angeles by that name. But there is also a book, a short documentary, and a Ry Cooder album, in that order. Cooder's 12th solo effort wouldn't exist without the book or the documentary. Like the Buena Vista Social Club, it came about almost by accident. And again, it was an opportunity he knew how to seize. It became his own ode to a lost Shangri-La – a masterful street-corner opera.This podcast frequently uses small snippets of musical recordings in podcast episodes for educational, review, and commentary purposes. In all cases, without exception, we believe this is protected by fair use in the U.S., fair dealing in the U.K. and EEA, and similar exceptions in the copyright laws of other nations. No more of the original than necessary is used, and excerpts are edited into long-form narratives, making the use transformative in nature.Written, produced and edited by Frank SchnelleTheme and background music by Chris HaugenVoices produced with text-to-speech AIFollow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok and YouTubeThe Ry Cooder Story WebsiteSupport us on PatreonChávez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story on YouTube Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

La Palme d'Or Paris, Texas est notamment mythique pour ses costumes qui ont marqué nos rétines : le cowboy moderne à la casquette rouge, la femme fatale en robe pull d'angora rose.Mais saviez-vous que cette robe était originalement blanche, jusqu'à ce qu'un lavage la réduise à la taille d'un timbre poste ? Et que la créatrice des costumes, Birgitta Bjerke, était avant sa carrière dans le cinéma la reine du crochet, et que ses créations étaient notamment portées par Eric Clapton ?Je suis Céleste Durante, et dans ce nouvel épisode de Profession : Costumière, je vous raconte l'histoire d'une des robes les plus iconiques de l'histoire du cinéma.

Lloyd Baggs talks about his early years building guitars and pickups for Ry Cooder, Jackson Browne, and many others. Lloyd gives us an inside look at a revolutionary new acoustic-electric guitar. Lloyd is always insightful and fun. More info on the guitar and L.R Baggs pickups here: https://www.lrbaggs.com

Cada cual de su padre y de su madre. ¿De dónde salió ese tipo Mini Reilly? ¿Y esos guitarristas extraterrestres Ry Cooder, Robert Fripp o Andy Summers? Qué decir de Les Hommes o Los Hermanos Gutiérrez o de los maestros compositores Morricone, Thomas Newman, Bill Conti O Ryuichi o Sakamoto. ¿Conoces al neocelandés Lance Ferguson?  CLO PROMO REBECCA DISCO 1 THE DURRUTI COLUMN Messidor (Cara 1 Corte 4) DISCO 2 HERMANOS GUTIÉRREZ Low Sun (2) DISCO 3 LES HOMMES Hallucinations (3) SEP MARTÍN X (TWITTER)+ SEP ANKLI R3 DISCO 4 RY COODER I Think It’s Gonna Work Out Fine (14) DISCO 5 ROBERT FRIPP & ANDY SUMMERS I Advance Masked (Cara 1 Corte 1) DISCO 6 KHRUANGBIN Pon Pón (5)  CUÑA BUSCAS SAMUSTINA+ INDI PODCAST LUCAS DISCO 7 THOMAS NEWMAN An American Quilt (16) DISCO 8 LANCE FERGUSON L'océan de Toi (ESCA) DISCO 9 PATRICE RUSHEN Number One (13) CLO LUCAS EXPLORANDO + PRES. LÍA ALCANDA  DISCO 10 ENNIO MORRICONE My Name Is Nobody (Disco 2 Cara 4 Corte 3) DISCO 11 RYUICHI SAKAMOTO Energy Flow (1) DISCO 12 NEIL LARSEN At The Sunset Royal (9) DISCO 13 BILL CONTI Theme from Broadcast News (ESCA)Escuchar audio

El amigo secreto y Máximo Pradera se atreven con los primeros acordes de una de las canciones de Jevetta Steele y Ry Cooder más recordadas. Al ritmo de "Paris, Texas y Bagdad Café" empezamos la mañana.

Frequent Fretboard Journal contributor Cameron Knowler returns to the Fretboard Journal Podcast to talk about his forthcoming new album, CRK. Inspired by classic Terry Allen and Ry Cooder records, CRK features expansive acoustic guitar playing and atmospheric touches that evoke Cameron's Southwest roots. We also go deep on good vs. bad guitars; horse trading with Norman Blake; the groundbreaking technique of Riley Puckett; drummer Jay Bellerose and more.   Pre-order CRK and listen to Cameron's new single, “Felicity,” here: https://worriedsongs.bandcamp.com/album/crk Our next Fretboard Summit takes place August 21-23, 2025 at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music. Register today: https://www.oldtownschool.org/concerts/2025/08-21-2025-fretboard-summit-2025/ This week's show is sponsored by: Stringjoy Strings: https://stringjoy.com (Use the code FRETBOARD to save 10% off your first order) Mike & Mike's Guitar Bar: https://mmguitarbar.com Peghead Nation: https://www.pegheadnation.com (Get your first month free or $20 off any annual subscription with the promo code FRETBOARD at checkout).

La guitare Hauts-de-France de Clément Nourry et la folk alternative de la Libanaise Mayssa Jallad. Notre 1er invité est le guitariste Clément Nourry pour la sortie de Amor.Après sept ans d'attente, Clément Nourry revient avec un nouvel album solo, Amor, véritable manifeste de liberté artistique. Il y trouve une échappatoire créative, loin des attentes esthétiques et des contraintes extérieures. À travers les huit titres de Amor, Clément Nourry tisse un lien entre la noise qu'il affectionne et les mélodies qu'il compose à la guitare électrique, son instrument de prédilection. Entre fingerpicking délicat et feedbacks électroniques, il crée un univers sonore à la fois sauvage et intime, où se rencontrent deux mondes musicaux. L'album a été enregistré en seulement deux jours à la Free House, dans une atmosphère brute et authentique. Un homme, une guitare, un ampli, une prise.Une fois les performances capturées par Ted Clark. Amor est marqué par des influences profondes, comme la bande originale de Paris, Texas de Ry Cooder et celle de Dead Man de Neil Young, qui ont laissé une empreinte indélébile sur sa jeunesse. Amor puise dans l'expérience nocturne de  Clément Nourry, qui a composé, écrit et mixé principalement la nuit. La pochette, conçue par l'artiste Margot Degert, capture cette ambiance, évoquant des dunes et des paysages désertiques, un clin d'œil à Ry Cooder et aux souvenirs du désert.Titres interprétés au grand studio- Amor Live RFI- Le Cœur Léger, Fumée du Crépuscule et Bête Aveugle, medley extrait de l'album- Serpent Live RFI.Line Up : Clément Nourry, guitare.Son : Mathias Taylor, Camille Roch.► Album Amor (Capitane Rd 2024).Youtube - Bandcamp. Puis nous recevons Mayssa Jallad pour la sortie de Marjaa : The Battle of The Hotels.«Marjaa : La bataille des hôtels» est né des deux vocations de la chanteuse/compositrice Mayssa Jallad : la musique et l'architecture. Écrit en collaboration avec le producteur Fadi Tabbal, l'album explore les étincelles de la guerre civile libanaise en 1975. Durant cinq mois, les factions opposées se disputent le quartier des hôtels du centre de Beyrouth cherchant à dominer les hauteurs architecturales de la ville. L'issue de cette bataille détermina la ligne de démarcation est-ouest qui scinda la ville pendant plus de 15 ans. Une division violente qui résonne encore aujourd'hui dans la culture libanaise.Les chansons de Mayssa s'adressent à la génération de l'après-guerre à qui l'on n'a jamais enseigné cette histoire difficile. Elles sont aussi un appel au renouvellement (plutôt qu'au recyclage par l'oubli) de la classe politique qui tient le peuple en otage de sa violence historique.Titres interprétés au grand studio- Baynana, Live RFI- Markaz Azraq, extrait de l'album- Mudun, Live RFI.Line Up : Mayssa Jallad (chant / guitare), Julia Sabra (claviers / guitare / chant), Pascal Semerdjian (batterie).Son : Mathias Taylor, Jérémie Besset, Camille Roch.► Album Marjaa : The Battle of The Hotels (Ruptured Music 2024).Site - Bandcamp - Youtube.

La guitare Hauts-de-France de Clément Nourry et la folk alternative de la Libanaise Mayssa Jallad. Notre 1er invité est le guitariste Clément Nourry pour la sortie de Amor.Après sept ans d'attente, Clément Nourry revient avec un nouvel album solo, Amor, véritable manifeste de liberté artistique. Il y trouve une échappatoire créative, loin des attentes esthétiques et des contraintes extérieures. À travers les huit titres de Amor, Clément Nourry tisse un lien entre la noise qu'il affectionne et les mélodies qu'il compose à la guitare électrique, son instrument de prédilection. Entre fingerpicking délicat et feedbacks électroniques, il crée un univers sonore à la fois sauvage et intime, où se rencontrent deux mondes musicaux. L'album a été enregistré en seulement deux jours à la Free House, dans une atmosphère brute et authentique. Un homme, une guitare, un ampli, une prise.Une fois les performances capturées par Ted Clark. Amor est marqué par des influences profondes, comme la bande originale de Paris, Texas de Ry Cooder et celle de Dead Man de Neil Young, qui ont laissé une empreinte indélébile sur sa jeunesse. Amor puise dans l'expérience nocturne de  Clément Nourry, qui a composé, écrit et mixé principalement la nuit. La pochette, conçue par l'artiste Margot Degert, capture cette ambiance, évoquant des dunes et des paysages désertiques, un clin d'œil à Ry Cooder et aux souvenirs du désert.Titres interprétés au grand studio- Amor Live RFI- Le Cœur Léger, Fumée du Crépuscule et Bête Aveugle, medley extrait de l'album- Serpent Live RFI.Line Up : Clément Nourry, guitare.Son : Mathias Taylor, Camille Roch.► Album Amor (Capitane Rd 2024).Youtube - Bandcamp. Puis nous recevons Mayssa Jallad pour la sortie de Marjaa : The Battle of The Hotels.«Marjaa : La bataille des hôtels» est né des deux vocations de la chanteuse/compositrice Mayssa Jallad : la musique et l'architecture. Écrit en collaboration avec le producteur Fadi Tabbal, l'album explore les étincelles de la guerre civile libanaise en 1975. Durant cinq mois, les factions opposées se disputent le quartier des hôtels du centre de Beyrouth cherchant à dominer les hauteurs architecturales de la ville. L'issue de cette bataille détermina la ligne de démarcation est-ouest qui scinda la ville pendant plus de 15 ans. Une division violente qui résonne encore aujourd'hui dans la culture libanaise.Les chansons de Mayssa s'adressent à la génération de l'après-guerre à qui l'on n'a jamais enseigné cette histoire difficile. Elles sont aussi un appel au renouvellement (plutôt qu'au recyclage par l'oubli) de la classe politique qui tient le peuple en otage de sa violence historique.Titres interprétés au grand studio- Baynana, Live RFI- Markaz Azraq, extrait de l'album- Mudun, Live RFI.Line Up : Mayssa Jallad (chant / guitare), Julia Sabra (claviers / guitare / chant), Pascal Semerdjian (batterie).Son : Mathias Taylor, Jérémie Besset, Camille Roch.► Album Marjaa : The Battle of The Hotels (Ruptured Music 2024).Site - Bandcamp - Youtube.

Henry St. Claire Fredericks, Jr., aka Taj Mahal is 82 years of age, and like that monument in Agra, he stands as an ageless edifice of blues - rock grace. On his latest recording he croons in that familiar rasp: “I'm too young to be this old,” and there's no denying the truth of that declaration. As the years have passed, it's gratifying to contemplate that, 60 years ago, Taj and Ry Cooder combined forces in the seminal, interracial rock group The Rising Sons, then went their separate ways to establish themselves as the foremost living treasures of Americana and world music.  I would venture to say that, similarly to the white British rockers who influenced a generation when they recycled the blues back to America, Taj and Ry did the same thing, on their home soil, with more humility..I have a distinct memory of being ensconced during an arduous Iowa winter, laboring to get this song down for my set at the student union: one man, one guitar,- trying to catch the funky groove of the thing. The syncopation between Al Kooper's piano, Jesse Ed Davis's guitar and Gary Gilmore's bass, propels this cut forward, moving it along a track of joy - even as the singer is bemoaning his lost love. That's the thing about Taj: his ever-present, infectious humor is fundamental to his magical appeal. And, the fact that he took his name in tribute to Gandhi, a man of peace, speaks mightily to his personal mission to make us all happy.

Among the walnut shells, wrapping paper, dried tangerine peel and broken toys beneath the Christmas Tree Of News we found a few unopened presents, among them … … Marine Homicide Unit solving murders in Scottish waters or former rock star dumping toxic waste? A crime drama Stackwaddy special. … Roy Bittan, Duke Ellington: how musical “professors” date back to ragtime. …'Suzanne' and the other three songs Leonard Cohen gave away. … Mary Martin, unsung connector and catalyst of folk-rock. … how the spare, monochrome simplicity of John Wesley Harding flew against the prevailing wind of Disraeli Gears, Forever Changes and Magical Mystery Tour. … “I'd rather be dead than wet my bed”. … the invention of the “blockbuster album”. … she's only human: what Judy Collins thought when she met Leonard Cohen. … Crowded House, John Fogerty, Ry Cooder, Ian Broudie, Patti Smith … when did having your kids in your band become almost compulsory? … producer Richard Perry's journey from Beefheart to the “surrealistic vaudeville” of Tiny Tim to the pure genius of ‘You're So Vain'. Plus a rare moment - something David Hepworth doesn't know! - and birthday guest Sandra Austin.Tickets for Word In Your Ear live here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bowie-in-london-and-hollywood-tickets-1118845138929?aff=oddtdtcreator Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Among the walnut shells, wrapping paper, dried tangerine peel and broken toys beneath the Christmas Tree Of News we found a few unopened presents, among them … … Marine Homicide Unit solving murders in Scottish waters or former rock star dumping toxic waste? A crime drama Stackwaddy special. … Roy Bittan, Duke Ellington: how musical “professors” date back to ragtime. …'Suzanne' and the other three songs Leonard Cohen gave away. … Mary Martin, unsung connector and catalyst of folk-rock. … how the spare, monochrome simplicity of John Wesley Harding flew against the prevailing wind of Disraeli Gears, Forever Changes and Magical Mystery Tour. … “I'd rather be dead than wet my bed”. … the invention of the “blockbuster album”. … she's only human: what Judy Collins thought when she met Leonard Cohen. … Crowded House, John Fogerty, Ry Cooder, Ian Broudie, Patti Smith … when did having your kids in your band become almost compulsory? … producer Richard Perry's journey from Beefheart to the “surrealistic vaudeville” of Tiny Tim to the pure genius of ‘You're So Vain'. Plus a rare moment - something David Hepworth doesn't know! - and birthday guest Sandra Austin.Tickets for Word In Your Ear live here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bowie-in-london-and-hollywood-tickets-1118845138929?aff=oddtdtcreator Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Among the walnut shells, wrapping paper, dried tangerine peel and broken toys beneath the Christmas Tree Of News we found a few unopened presents, among them … … Marine Homicide Unit solving murders in Scottish waters or former rock star dumping toxic waste? A crime drama Stackwaddy special. … Roy Bittan, Duke Ellington: how musical “professors” date back to ragtime. …'Suzanne' and the other three songs Leonard Cohen gave away. … Mary Martin, unsung connector and catalyst of folk-rock. … how the spare, monochrome simplicity of John Wesley Harding flew against the prevailing wind of Disraeli Gears, Forever Changes and Magical Mystery Tour. … “I'd rather be dead than wet my bed”. … the invention of the “blockbuster album”. … she's only human: what Judy Collins thought when she met Leonard Cohen. … Crowded House, John Fogerty, Ry Cooder, Ian Broudie, Patti Smith … when did having your kids in your band become almost compulsory? … producer Richard Perry's journey from Beefheart to the “surrealistic vaudeville” of Tiny Tim to the pure genius of ‘You're So Vain'. Plus a rare moment - something David Hepworth doesn't know! - and birthday guest Sandra Austin.Tickets for Word In Your Ear live here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bowie-in-london-and-hollywood-tickets-1118845138929?aff=oddtdtcreator Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What happens when a legendary artist turns his final days into one of the most celebrated albums of all time? In this gripping oral history of Warren Zevon's Grammy-winning swan song, The Wind, we unravel the stories behind the music, the heartbreak, and the triumph. Featuring exclusive insights from Jorge Calderón, Warren's lifelong collaborator and The Wind co-producer, and Noah Scot-Snyder, the album's co-producer, engineer and mixer, this episode takes you behind the curtain of Zevon's bittersweet journey. Hear how Zevon defied the odds, transforming a terminal diagnosis into a creative explosion and how close the album came from not being completed. From emotional songwriting and recording sessions to unforgettable moments like Bruce Springsteen breaking an amplifier during his blistering guitar session. Discover how Ry Cooder, Don Henley, Joe Walsh, Jim Keltner, Emmylou Harris, and more rallied to honor Warren's legacy, creating an album that transcended time, grief, and circumstance. Jorge and Noah recount Warren's humor and vulnerability, like the night he decided to record "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" in Billy Bob Thornton's basement or Zevon's insistence on crafting "Keep Me In Your Heart," even when the pain felt insurmountable. You'll hear about the magic of “Rest of the Night,” a rowdy anthem with Tom Petty and Mike Campbell born from Zevon's last moments of levity, and the emotional toll the process took on those closest to him. This episode isn't just about music—it's about life, legacy, and the stories that make great art unforgettable. If you love music history, legendary collaborations, or just a raw, unfiltered look at the human spirit, this is a must-listen. Thank you very much to Bob Emrich and Tom Hatfield for their assistance recording this episode.

Laura Prince et Maxime Delpierre #SessionLive Africolor 2024. À l'occasion de la 35ème édition du festival nomade francilien Africolor (15 novembre-24 décembre), nous invitons Sébastien Lagrave, Laura Prince, Agata Johnson et Maxime Delpierre #SessionLive. L'édito de Sébastien Lagrave : En 2024, Africolor fête ses 35 ans et si le monde de 1989 a disparu, il faut encore et toujours marteler les esprits et les balafons, pincer les rêves et les cordes, frotter les cordes et les mains, pour rappeler aux âmes congelées dans la peur, que l'Afrique est partout et que c'est une bonne nouvelle. La part d'africanités de chacun, nous l'accueillons joyeusement cette année avec la présence des créolités caribéennes : Les frères Cippe, grande famille de tambouyés de Guyane, rencontrent François Ladrezeau (Akiyo) et Samy Thiébault, tandis que Maxime Delpierre, fou de zouk, présente Mini-Jazz-Ouragan cependant que L'Afrique en-chante Kassav' revisite le répertoire mythique avec des instruments africains. L'Afrique est aussi au Nord, quand s'élève la spiritualité rock tunisienne de Nidhal Yahyaoui (Tunisie), quand les chants de transe de Lemma (Algérie) se mêlent au piano-marteau cubain d'Omar Sosa ou quand Mazalda invite la chorale berbère de Bagnolet. Aussi disséminée dans l'océan Indien, elle imprègne la création de Siti Amina (Zanzibar) et Siân Pottok ou encore les mélodies suaves de la révélation Marco Klarck. Mais avant tout, l'Afrique est ici chez elle comme quand Senny Camara rencontre Sequenza 9.3 ou quand la Litanie des Cimes invite Mah Damba. Toutes les Afriques d'Africolor dessinent de nouveaux « nouveaux mondes », où les ailleurs sont ici, les géographies façonnées selon de nouveaux plis, où les points cardinaux se rejoignent en un centre créatif, éruptif, radicalement joyeux et décidé à imprimer ici l'Afrique partout. Laura Prince (concert 22 novembre Maison de la Musique de Nanterre)Assister à un concert de Laura Prince, c'est un peu comme regarder le monde avec un filtre de douceur et d'authenticité. La révélation jazz de ces dernières années revient avec un nouveau projet en hommage à la terre de ses ancêtres, le Togo. Ce retour aux sources la conduit sur les rives de son village familial, au cœur des traditions d'Afrique de l'Ouest, là où les cérémonies vaudou, le tintement rituel des cloches et les chants d'initiés lui inspirent un album à la mémoire de son peuple. Entourée de ses musiciens, Laura Prince chante avec son âme et livre un set aux sonorités métissées, cousu d'improvisations jazzy et pulsé par les percussions traditionnelles. Un voyage introspectif sur ses rives-racines, où l'on navigue volontiers, enveloppé par le velours de sa voix.Auteure, compositrice, interprète, Laura Prince défend une musique épurée qui parle de la mixité de ses racines, de son enfance. Fille du Togo et de la France, elle est bercée depuis toujours par la salsa cubaine de Celia Kruz, l'afrobeat de Fela Kuti et le makossa de Manu Dibango, mais aussi Piaf, Barbara, Brel et Aznavour. Vers 13 ans, elle apprend à lire la musique et s'accompagne au piano. Elle compose et joue ses premiers morceaux. En 2021, elle sort un premier album, Peace of mine. « Révélation Jazz » d'après Jazz Magazine la même année, elle se produit aujourd'hui dans les grands festivals de jazz en France : Marciac, Jazz à Sète, Jazz à Vienne, ainsi qu'en Europe et en Afrique. Maxime Delpierre et le Mini-Jaz Ouragan (concert 23 novembre à Rosny-Sous-Bois) Jazz Pop Caribbéen  Créer un groupe de zouk ? C'est un vieux rêve pour le compositeur et guitariste nantais Maxime Delpierre, bercé par le kompa, le dub et la musique afro-cubaine. De Haïti à la Martinique en passant par la Jamaïque, les sonorités caribéennes l'accompagnent depuis de nombreuses années. Sous l'influence des orchestres haïtiens des années 60 appelés « Mini-Jazz », Maxime Delpierre poursuit son voyage en empruntant un son de guitare à la surf music des orchestres américains et en mélangeant les rythmes du bèlè, de la rumba et du kompa pour créer un jazz-pop teinté de soul. Toujours partant pour étirer le temps en laissant la part belle à l'improvisation et à la transe, Maxime Delpierre et sa team de rêve sont la promesse d'une soirée où « zouker » rime avec évidence.Maxime Delpierre est un compositeur, réalisateur et guitariste français né à Nantes en mai 1975. Après une carrière en tant que guitariste au sein de nombreuses formations de jazz et aussi réalisateur sur certains projets. Il a fait partie du trio Limousine aux côtés de Laurent Bardainne et David Aknin, imprégné des musiques des films de Jim Jarmusch, Win Wenders ou Sergio Leone, mais aussi Neil Young et Ry Cooder. C'est avec son ami d'enfance Thomas de Pourquery (artiste pluridisciplinaire) qu'il crée le groupe VKNG, dont le premier EP est sorti en avril 2015 sur le label Naïve. En 2020, il sort Naõned, un album portant le nom de sa ville de cœur (Nantes en breton), qui condense tout l'imaginaire sonore du guitariste convoité par la crème de la scène hexagonale : Jeanne Added, Rachid Taha, Louis Sclavis, Joakim. Titres joués au grand studio- Évigné Laura Prince Live RFI- Carnaval Maxime Delpierre Live RFI. + Sélection de Sébastien Lagrave :- Siti and the Band - Fulu Miziki Kolektiv- Nidhal Yahyaoui - Mah Damba Africolor site. Laura PrinceSite - YouTube - Facebook - Instagram. Maxime DelpierreInstagram.

Laura Prince et Maxime Delpierre #SessionLive Africolor 2024. À l'occasion de la 35ème édition du festival nomade francilien Africolor (15 novembre-24 décembre), nous invitons Sébastien Lagrave, Laura Prince, Agata Johnson et Maxime Delpierre #SessionLive. L'édito de Sébastien Lagrave : En 2024, Africolor fête ses 35 ans et si le monde de 1989 a disparu, il faut encore et toujours marteler les esprits et les balafons, pincer les rêves et les cordes, frotter les cordes et les mains, pour rappeler aux âmes congelées dans la peur, que l'Afrique est partout et que c'est une bonne nouvelle. La part d'africanités de chacun, nous l'accueillons joyeusement cette année avec la présence des créolités caribéennes : Les frères Cippe, grande famille de tambouyés de Guyane, rencontrent François Ladrezeau (Akiyo) et Samy Thiébault, tandis que Maxime Delpierre, fou de zouk, présente Mini-Jazz-Ouragan cependant que L'Afrique en-chante Kassav' revisite le répertoire mythique avec des instruments africains. L'Afrique est aussi au Nord, quand s'élève la spiritualité rock tunisienne de Nidhal Yahyaoui (Tunisie), quand les chants de transe de Lemma (Algérie) se mêlent au piano-marteau cubain d'Omar Sosa ou quand Mazalda invite la chorale berbère de Bagnolet. Aussi disséminée dans l'océan Indien, elle imprègne la création de Siti Amina (Zanzibar) et Siân Pottok ou encore les mélodies suaves de la révélation Marco Klarck. Mais avant tout, l'Afrique est ici chez elle comme quand Senny Camara rencontre Sequenza 9.3 ou quand la Litanie des Cimes invite Mah Damba. Toutes les Afriques d'Africolor dessinent de nouveaux « nouveaux mondes », où les ailleurs sont ici, les géographies façonnées selon de nouveaux plis, où les points cardinaux se rejoignent en un centre créatif, éruptif, radicalement joyeux et décidé à imprimer ici l'Afrique partout. Laura Prince (concert 22 novembre Maison de la Musique de Nanterre)Assister à un concert de Laura Prince, c'est un peu comme regarder le monde avec un filtre de douceur et d'authenticité. La révélation jazz de ces dernières années revient avec un nouveau projet en hommage à la terre de ses ancêtres, le Togo. Ce retour aux sources la conduit sur les rives de son village familial, au cœur des traditions d'Afrique de l'Ouest, là où les cérémonies vaudou, le tintement rituel des cloches et les chants d'initiés lui inspirent un album à la mémoire de son peuple. Entourée de ses musiciens, Laura Prince chante avec son âme et livre un set aux sonorités métissées, cousu d'improvisations jazzy et pulsé par les percussions traditionnelles. Un voyage introspectif sur ses rives-racines, où l'on navigue volontiers, enveloppé par le velours de sa voix.Auteure, compositrice, interprète, Laura Prince défend une musique épurée qui parle de la mixité de ses racines, de son enfance. Fille du Togo et de la France, elle est bercée depuis toujours par la salsa cubaine de Celia Kruz, l'afrobeat de Fela Kuti et le makossa de Manu Dibango, mais aussi Piaf, Barbara, Brel et Aznavour. Vers 13 ans, elle apprend à lire la musique et s'accompagne au piano. Elle compose et joue ses premiers morceaux. En 2021, elle sort un premier album, Peace of mine. « Révélation Jazz » d'après Jazz Magazine la même année, elle se produit aujourd'hui dans les grands festivals de jazz en France : Marciac, Jazz à Sète, Jazz à Vienne, ainsi qu'en Europe et en Afrique. Maxime Delpierre et le Mini-Jaz Ouragan (concert 23 novembre à Rosny-Sous-Bois) Jazz Pop Caribbéen  Créer un groupe de zouk ? C'est un vieux rêve pour le compositeur et guitariste nantais Maxime Delpierre, bercé par le kompa, le dub et la musique afro-cubaine. De Haïti à la Martinique en passant par la Jamaïque, les sonorités caribéennes l'accompagnent depuis de nombreuses années. Sous l'influence des orchestres haïtiens des années 60 appelés « Mini-Jazz », Maxime Delpierre poursuit son voyage en empruntant un son de guitare à la surf music des orchestres américains et en mélangeant les rythmes du bèlè, de la rumba et du kompa pour créer un jazz-pop teinté de soul. Toujours partant pour étirer le temps en laissant la part belle à l'improvisation et à la transe, Maxime Delpierre et sa team de rêve sont la promesse d'une soirée où « zouker » rime avec évidence.Maxime Delpierre est un compositeur, réalisateur et guitariste français né à Nantes en mai 1975. Après une carrière en tant que guitariste au sein de nombreuses formations de jazz et aussi réalisateur sur certains projets. Il a fait partie du trio Limousine aux côtés de Laurent Bardainne et David Aknin, imprégné des musiques des films de Jim Jarmusch, Win Wenders ou Sergio Leone, mais aussi Neil Young et Ry Cooder. C'est avec son ami d'enfance Thomas de Pourquery (artiste pluridisciplinaire) qu'il crée le groupe VKNG, dont le premier EP est sorti en avril 2015 sur le label Naïve. En 2020, il sort Naõned, un album portant le nom de sa ville de cœur (Nantes en breton), qui condense tout l'imaginaire sonore du guitariste convoité par la crème de la scène hexagonale : Jeanne Added, Rachid Taha, Louis Sclavis, Joakim. Titres joués au grand studio- Évigné Laura Prince Live RFI- Carnaval Maxime Delpierre Live RFI. + Sélection de Sébastien Lagrave :- Siti and the Band - Fulu Miziki Kolektiv- Nidhal Yahyaoui - Mah Damba Africolor site. Laura PrinceSite - YouTube - Facebook - Instagram. Maxime DelpierreInstagram.

Interview with Arlen Roth 2024 Arlen Roth is a true guitar legend; part of the list of who he's recorded and toured with contains folks like Simon & Garfunkel (together and individually), John Prine, Phoebe Snow, Bob Dylan, Bee Gees, Don McLean, Levon Helm, Ry Cooder, Duane Eddy, Danny Gatton, Janis Ian, Dusty Springfield, John Sebastian, Johnny Winter and countless more. He also appeared with Ramblin' Jack Elliot and Patti Smith in the Martin Scorcese Rolling Thunder film, created the guitar parts and was consultant and teacher to Ralph Macchio for the legendary blues film, Crossroads. In 2016, he wrote and performed an acoustic guitar piece with Daveed Diggs and Leslie Odom, Jr. of Hamilton for ESPN. Arlen was voted in the Top 100 most Influential guitarists of all time by Vintage Guitar Magazine and top 50 all-time acoustic guitarists by Gibson.com. Now, on Arlen Roth's 20th solo album and his fifth all-acoustic offering, he's bringing rootsy acoustic music to new heights on Playing Out the String, set for release September 27 and distributed by MVD. The new album was recorded, mixed and mastered by Alex Salzman, who also contributes keyboards to the mix.  Arlen's previous album, Super Soul Session, with bass legend Jerry Jemmott, sat atop the Blues and Soul charts for 22 straight weeks, and was in the Top 5 for 55 straight weeks this past year. Arlen has also been at the forefront of guitar and music education, with 10 best-selling books, and he was the first-ever to offer video instruction with the giants of the music industry through his “Hot Licks” company, which he started in 1979, and has had millions of students worldwide. His column for Guitar Player magazine was voted #1 by the largest margin of readers from 1982 to 1992, and was also turned into a best-selling book, Hot Guitar. On Playing Out the String,  this all-acoustic, mostly solo album is very personal to Arlen and is really like getting an up-close "at home" concert in your living room. On it, he paints with broad strokes across several genres of music he loves. From "Old Timey" Norman Blake material to country blues from Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee and Tampa Red; he even makes you feel at home with Nilsson's "Everybody's Talkin'" and gives his 12-string guitar a workout on the archetypical, "Walk Right In." https://www.arlenroth.com  

Ok, WE'RE BACK! Sorry about the delay.We (like everybody else in this country with a pulse) are having a lot of feelings (of course, Pearce is especially worked up). Join us we reconnect- Growing Up Naked style- with another pithy sit down that includes (among other things) THE ELECTION!, roach clips, broken teeth, Mo moving back to NYC, THE ELECTION!, Sandusky, Ohio, giant spiders and punching praying mantises, THE ELECTION!, a tribute to Phil Lesh, and much much more, including... THE ELECTION!!!DON'T FORGET TO VOTE!Growing Up Naked theme composed, arranged and performed by Isaac DellMusic:Cold Cold Feeling, written and performed by Ry Cooder and Joachim Cooder  (from the album Election Special)He's Gone, lyrics by Robert Hunter, music by the Grateful Dead (Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Keith Godchaux, Donna Jean Godchaux and Bill Kreutzmann)   live in Veneta, OR, 8/27/72 (from the album/soundtrack Long Strange Trip:      The Untold Story of the Grateful Dead)Brown Eyed Women, lyrics by Robert Hunter, music by the Grateful Dead (Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, Keith Godchaux, Donna Jean Godchaux and Bill Kreutzmann)   live in Copenhagen (from the album Europe '72)Bread Line Blues, written by Bernard Slim Smith, performed by Jorma Kaukonen,  Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Byron House and Bela Fleck   (from the album Blue Country Heart)   

Er brachte den Sound Malis in die Welt, wird als Nationalheld und einer der größten Gitarristen aller Zeiten gefeiert. In der Musik sah Touré seine Berufung jedoch nie. Von Thomas Mau.

135 - Elgin Park (Michael Andrews) the Greyboy Allstars In episode 135 of “Have Guitar Will Travel”, presented by Vintage Guitar Magazine, host James Patrick Regan speaks with Elgin Park (aka Michael Andrews) guitarist with the Greyboy Allstars, he's also a producer, television and film score composer. In their conversation Elgin covers what the Greyboy Allstars music is and describes a couple new releases in the works. Elgin tells us about the formation of the Greyboy Allstars as a band behind DJ Greyboy and his beginnings as a guitarist. Elgin describes his first guitars a Harmony Rocket and his local music store Freedom Music in downtown San Diego where he bought a ‘58 sunburst Fender Music Master and then a Gibson SG jr and describes his amp a Fender Harvard tweed that his sister's boyfriend left at the family's home. Elgin also describes his current guitars that he uses with the Greyboy Allstars, a mid 60's Gibson ES 175 that he got from a show guitarist in Las Vegas and an early 50's Guild T 100. Elgin takes us through the rest of his guitars in his studio and some special amps including Carol Kaye's bass amp he bought from her and an amp he got from Ry Cooder. Elgin (Michael Andrews) then tells us about his scoring work which began in earnest with the TV show Freaks and Geeks, and his work with Judd Apatow including “Bridesmaids” and quite a few documentaries including “20 Feet from Stardom”. Elgin also highlights a guitar he bought from the want ads of Vintage Guitar Magazine in the 1990's sight unseen from Florida. . You can find all you want about Elgin at the Greyboy Allstars website: greyboyallstars.com . Please subscribe, like, comment, share and review this podcast! . #VintageGuitarMagazine #ElginPark #theGreyboyAllstars #JuddApatow #ExoticGuitars #FreeksandGeeks #guitar #Guitar #Bridesmaids #20feetfromstardom #GuitarHero #theDeadlies #haveguitarwilltravelpodcast #HGWT . . Please like, comment, and share this podcast! Download Link

Episode 161: Pt 5 Of The 7 Continent World Tour October 20, 2024 Our World Tour winds down today with a visit to Antarctica and a tune about the Lost Continent. We'll also catch Ry Cooder, Bonnie Raitt, Alan Parsons, the Beatles and many more. “Share”, “like”, add a comment and start a discussion if you please. Feel free to join in on the conversation. This originally was Episode 27, released January 20, 2021, Inauguration Day. It's the final leg of the World Tour that started in 2020. When I listened back to the archived show, it sounded like it could be better, so I fixed it. Hope you like. If you'd like to support this program financially and help me continue to bring this great music to the airwaves and www, learn more at Patron.podbean.com/talesvinyltellssupport. Thank you so much! Listen to all episodes of Tales Vinyl Tells all the way back to December 2019 on your favorite podcast app and of course, our flagship, StudioMillsWellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells.

In this episode we tell the story of Little Village, a band that existed for a short time in 1991-92. It consisted of Ry Cooder, John Hiatt, Jim Keltner and Nick Lowe, who had played together on Hiatt's album Bring The Family a few years earlier. Together they made another great album, but one that sounded different for a number of reasons. It wasn't a real hit, but it wasn't a disappointment either, just another ingenious effort from four very special musicians. We also take a quick look at Cooder and David Lindley's 1990 tour.This podcast frequently uses small snippets of musical recordings in podcast episodes for educational, review, and commentary purposes. In all cases, without exception, we believe this is protected by fair use in the U.S., fair dealing in the U.K. and EEA, and similar exceptions in the copyright laws of other nations. No more of the original than necessary is used, and excerpts are edited into long-form narratives, making the use transformative in nature.Written, produced and edited by Frank SchnelleTheme and background music by Chris HaugenAdditional background music The Mini VandalsVoices produced with text-to-speech AIFollow us on Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok and YouTubeThe Ry Cooder Story WebsiteSupport us on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Adam Traum is an interpreter of traditional roots music and draws on those styles in his songwriting as well as the covers he chooses. He cross-pollinates Americana genres, blending folk, blues, bluegrass, rockabilly and country-blues music with an occasional jazz chord. When Traum performs he brings a warmth to the stage and puts on a well-polished show, whether he is playing as a solo artist at an intimate house concert or for a festival crowd backed by his potent band. Adam's influences include Ry Cooder, Taj Mahal, John Hiatt, Steve Earle, Mississippi John Hurt and Rev. Gary Davis, to name a few. Traum gigs and teaches throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and nationally. He has instructional guitar, ukulele and mandolin lessons on Homespun Music Instruction. In this podcast Adam talks about the loss of his father, Musician and innovator Happy Traum, find out more about Adam Here: https://www.homespun.com https://www.adamtraumguitar.com

A biker gang kidnapps an ex-soldier's rock star girlfriend, and he gets revenge through the power of Jim Steinman power ballads and giant hammers in a very silly "Rock 'n' Roll Fable" from the guy who gave us The Warriors. Starring Michael Pare, Diane Lane, Willem Dafoe, Rick Moranis, and Amy Madigan. Written by Walter Hill and Larry Gross. Directed by Walter Hill. Music by Jim Steinman, Ry Cooder, and others.

What I did on my hols'... This is a song about Moshiach - the Messiah. "Maybe – today's the day he's going to come. Crazy? I'm used to people making fun. But everyday I'll wait for him And no delay, my faith will dim. I just know - I think it's gonna work out fine. "Take me a mile above the setting sun! I'll wait there till all is seen and said and done. But one day soon the clouds will clear, And all the world, His voice will hear, I just know, I think it's gonna work out fine. "I think it's gonna work out fine. I think it's gonna work out fine." The tune was originally written by McCoy and McKinney. Ry Cooder's version introduced the guitar riff. In 1972, Rabbi Yaakov Asher Sinclair opened SARM Studios the first 24-track recording studio in Europe where Queen mixed “Bohemian Rhapsody”. His music publishing company, Druidcrest Music published the music for The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1973) and as a record producer, he co-produced the quadruple-platinum debut album by American band “Foreigner” (1976). American Top ten singles from this album included, “Feels Like The First Time”, “Cold as Ice” and “Long, Long Way from Home”. Other production work included “The Enid – In the Region of the Summer Stars”, “The Curves”, and “Nutz” as well as singles based on The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy with Douglas Adams and Richard O'Brien. Other artists who used SARM included: ABC, Alison Moyet, Art of Noise, Brian May, The Buggles, The Clash, Dina Carroll, Dollar, Flintlock, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Grace Jones, It Bites, Malcolm McLaren, Nik Kershaw, Propaganda, Rush, Rik Mayall, Stephen Duffy, and Yes. In 1987, he settled in Jerusalem to immerse himself in the study of Torah. His two Torah books The Color of Heaven, on the weekly Torah portion, and Seasons of the Moon met with great critical acclaim. Seasons of the Moon, a unique fine-art black-and-white photography book combining poetry and Torah essays, has now sold out and is much sought as a collector's item fetching up to $250 for a mint copy. He is much in demand as an inspirational speaker both in Israel, Great Britain and the United States. He was Plenary Keynote Speaker at the Agudas Yisrael Convention, and Keynote Speaker at Project Inspire in 2018. Rabbi Sinclair lectures in Talmud and Jewish Philosophy at Ohr Somayach/Tannenbaum College of Judaic studies in Jerusalem and is a senior staff writer of the Torah internet publications Ohrnet and Torah Weekly. His articles have been published in The Jewish Observer, American Jewish Spirit, AJOP Newsletter, Zurich's Die Jüdische Zeitung, South African Jewish Report and many others. Rabbi Sinclair was born in London, and lives with his family in Jerusalem. He was educated at St. Anthony's Preparatory School in Hampstead, Clifton College, and Bristol University. A Project Of Ohr.Edu Questions? Comments? We'd Love To Hear From You At: Podcasts@Ohr.Edu https://podcasts.ohr.edu/

A new summer series bringing you the best of Irish Radio Arts during the Olympics. Sean talks to Jared Harris about his father Richard, John Carter Cash and Rosanne Cash reminisce about their father Johnny's musical legacy and Musician Joachim Cooder, son of Ry Cooder.

In 1973 Ry Cooder played at Windham College. The concert was one of many arranged by Putney Folk. This is the story of two of the main forces behind Putney Folk and how their careers led to many accolades, including an Oscar...

Welcome to the premiere "Song Dive" bonus episode: a way to hear the story behind a song that has made (or will soon make) our collective mixtapes & playlists! On this "Song Dive" episode, I am joined by Guy Fletcher of Dire Straits, and we're talking about the story behind Mark Knopfler's Guitar Heroes' “Going Home (Theme From Local Hero),” which Guy produced. This new 10-minute rendition was recorded in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America, and features over 60 musical legends on the track.  We also take some time to discuss tracks from Dire Straits' catalog including: Money For Nothing, Walk Of Life, Heavy Fuel & The Bug; working with “Weird Al” Yankovic on his Dire Straits' parody “Money For Nothing / Beverly Hillbillies;” recording the soundtrack for The Princess Bride; the experience of mixing Dire Straits' "Live At The Rainbow, London UK, 12/1979" album from the original tapes; Guy's accreditation as a Dolby ATMOS engineer and how that factored into the new Going Home mix; bringing ATMOS to households via the Airsound Spatial speaker technology; and so much more!  The full list of artists who appear on “Going Home (Theme From Local Hero)” are (in alphabetical order): Joan Armatrading, Jeff Beck, Richard Bennett, Joe Bonamassa, Joe Brown, James Burton, Jonathan Cain, Paul Carrack, Eric Clapton, Ry Cooder, Jim Cox, Steve Cropper, Sheryl Crow, Danny Cummings, Roger Daltrey, Duane Eddy, Sam Fender, Guy Fletcher, Peter Frampton, Audley Freed, Vince Gill, David Gilmour, Buddy Guy, Keiji Haino, Tony Iommi, Joan Jett, John Jorgenson, Mark Knopfler, Sonny Landreth, Albert Lee, Greg Leisz, Alex Lifeson, Steve Lukather, Phil Manzanera, Dave Mason, Hank Marvin, Brian May, Robbie McIntosh, John McLaughlin, Tom Morello, Rick Nielsen, Orianthi, Brad Paisley, Nile Rodgers, Mike Rutherford, Joe Satriani, John Sebastian, Connor Selby, Slash, Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr and Zak Starkey, Sting, Andy Taylor, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, Ian Thomas, Pete Townshend, Keith Urban, Steve Vai, Waddy Wachtel, Joe Louis Walker, Joe Walsh, Ronnie Wood, Glenn Worf, & Zucchero. A minimum of 50% of the proceeds from the single are being donated to Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America. To purchase the 12" vinyl, CD or digital edition of the single, please visit: https://www.markknopflersguitarheroes.com/ Be sure to visit MyWeeklyMixtape.com to hear all of the songs we discussed in this episode, and join the My Weekly Mixtape Discord Server via the link on the main menu! FOR MORE ON MY WEEKLY MIXTAPE Website: http://www.myweeklymixtape.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/myweeklymixtape Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/myweeklymixtape Twitter: https://twitter.com/myweeklymixtape Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/myweeklymixtape TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@myweeklymixtape Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pacific St Blues & AmericanaPlaylist June 16, 2024Contact usFun show this week! Once again this week, 'What's the Common Thread' in the fifth segment, we celebrate Father's Day by playing a song by the Father and then a song by the daughter or son. 1. Ruthie Foster / Rainbow 2. Marcus King / Soul It Screams3. Hector Anchondo / Black Magic Woman4. Toronzo Cannon / Message to My Daughter5. Lee Roy Parnell / Daddies and Daughters6. Robert Johnson / Sweet Home Chicago7. Robert Lockwood Jr. / Love in Vain 8. Muddy Waters / I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man 9. Mud Morganfield / Praise Him 10. John Lee Hooker w/ Ry Cooder & Nick Lowe / This is Hip 11. Zakiya Hooker / In the Mood 12. Johnny Cash / Cat's in the Cradle 13. Roseanna Cash / Seven Year Ache 14. Carlene Carter / Bring Love 15. Marty Stuart / Hey Porter 16. Rodney Crowell / I Walk the Line, Again17. Johnny Cash / One 18. Booker T & the MG's / I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For19. Karen Souza / New Year's Day 20. Soweto Gospel Choir / Pride (In the Name Love)

Salty Dog's TRIO Podcast, May 2024 Everything comes in threes! Bad luck and good lovin! Get onto the TRIO show and try yer luck tone hounds. Great cuts from John Williams, Rick Estrin, Uncle Lucius, Left Lane Cruiser, Hurray For The Riff Raff, Tony Joe White, Dirty Three, Jed Rowe, Ry Cooder, The Commoners, Opelousas, Kerri Simpson Interview, Tanner Usrey, Zevon Lee, Little Feat, Matt Andersen, Jack Craw, Steve Earle, Fools, Chip Taylor. ARTIST / TRACK / ALBUM ** Australia 1. ** John Williams Band / Jesus Just Left Chicago / 470 Northern Highway Blues 2. Rick Estrin N The Nightcats / I Finally Hit The Bottom / The Hits Keep Coming 3. Uncle Lucius / Pocket Full of Misery / And You Are Me 4. Left Lane Cruiser / Motown Mash / Motown Mash 5. Hurray For The Riff Riff / Rican Beach / The Navigator 6. Tony Joe White / Cool Town Woman / Closer To The Truth 7. ** Dirty Three / Rising Below / Toward The Low Sun 8. ** Jed Rowe / Tailem Bend / A Foreign Country 9. Ry Cooder / Dark End Of The Street / Boomer's Story 10. The Commoners / Too Soon To Know You / Too Soon To Know You 11. ** Opelousas / Train To Brunswick / Opelousafried 12. ** Opelousas w. Kerri Simpson / Salty Interview / Kerri Simpson 13. ** Opelousas / Third Jinx Blues (Live) / Opelousafried 14. ** Opelousas / Washboard Shorty / Opelousafried 15. Tanner Usrey / Echo In The Holler / Crossing Lines 16. ** Zevon Lee / Sweet Cup / Yesterday 17. Little Feat / Be One Now / Down on The Farm 18. Matt Andersen w. Amy Helm / Something To Lose / Halfway Home By Morning 19. Jack Craw / This Little Thing / Harmonica Masters of New Zealand 20. Steve Earle / The Galway Girl / The Complete Warner Years 21. ** Fools / Hurt My Head / Can't Wait Any Longer 22. Chip Taylor / Do Somethin' Good / Behind The Sky

Welcome to the premiere "Song Dive" bonus episode: a way to hear the story behind a song that has made (or will soon make) our collective mixtapes & playlists! On this "Song Dive" episode, I am joined by Guy Fletcher of Dire Straits, and we're talking about the story behind Mark Knopfler's Guitar Heroes' “Going Home (Theme From Local Hero),” which Guy produced. This new 10-minute rendition was recorded in aid of Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America, and features over 60 musical legends on the track.  We also take some time to discuss tracks from Dire Straits' catalog including: Money For Nothing, Walk Of Life, Heavy Fuel & The Bug; working with “Weird Al” Yankovic on his Dire Straits' parody “Money For Nothing / Beverly Hillbillies;” recording the soundtrack for The Princess Bride; the experience of mixing Dire Straits' "Live At The Rainbow, London UK, 12/1979" album from the original tapes; Guy's accreditation as a Dolby ATMOS engineer and how that factored into the new Going Home mix; bringing ATMOS to households via the Airsound Spatial speaker technology; and so much more!  The full list of artists who appear on “Going Home (Theme From Local Hero)” are (in alphabetical order): Joan Armatrading, Jeff Beck, Richard Bennett, Joe Bonamassa, Joe Brown, James Burton, Jonathan Cain, Paul Carrack, Eric Clapton, Ry Cooder, Jim Cox, Steve Cropper, Sheryl Crow, Danny Cummings, Roger Daltrey, Duane Eddy, Sam Fender, Guy Fletcher, Peter Frampton, Audley Freed, Vince Gill, David Gilmour, Buddy Guy, Keiji Haino, Tony Iommi, Joan Jett, John Jorgenson, Mark Knopfler, Sonny Landreth, Albert Lee, Greg Leisz, Alex Lifeson, Steve Lukather, Phil Manzanera, Dave Mason, Hank Marvin, Brian May, Robbie McIntosh, John McLaughlin, Tom Morello, Rick Nielsen, Orianthi, Brad Paisley, Nile Rodgers, Mike Rutherford, Joe Satriani, John Sebastian, Connor Selby, Slash, Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr and Zak Starkey, Sting, Andy Taylor, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, Ian Thomas, Pete Townshend, Keith Urban, Steve Vai, Waddy Wachtel, Joe Louis Walker, Joe Walsh, Ronnie Wood, Glenn Worf, & Zucchero. A minimum of 50% of the proceeds from the single are being donated to Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America. To purchase the 12" vinyl, CD or digital edition of the single, please visit: https://www.markknopflersguitarheroes.com/ Be sure to visit MyWeeklyMixtape.com to hear all of the songs we discussed in this episode, and join the My Weekly Mixtape Discord Server to join in the musical discussions: https://discord.gg/hhDQAnXasm FOR MORE ON MY WEEKLY MIXTAPE Website: http://www.myweeklymixtape.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/myweeklymixtape Discord: https://discord.gg/hhDQAnXasm Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/myweeklymixtape Twitter: https://twitter.com/myweeklymixtape Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/myweeklymixtape TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@myweeklymixtape Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

[originally published on Patreon Aug 19, 2021] We're talking Sopranos, mafia bust-out schemes, private equity, animal rights, the Vestey family and business, trusts, Tyson Foods, the Great Chickenization, CAFOs, environmental damage, USSR grain deals, the great farm bustout of the 1980s, the Volcker Shock, the Posse Comitatus psyop, central planning, the Iowa Farm Bureau, agricultural company mergers, some novel anti-Dengist talking points, and how it's all about monopoly capital. You don't need to be talked into it. Get in here and check it out. Song: Taxes on the Farmer Feed Us All by Ry Cooder

Six-time Grammy-winning multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer John Leventhal joins us this week to talk about 'Rumble Strip,' his long-awaited debut solo album! John tells us why, after five decades in the music business, he decided to make a solo album. We chat about his writing process, the home studio he and partner Rosanne Cash have in NYC, the gear that he used on the album, his favorite microphones, and his go-to acoustic tuning (CGDGBE). Also discussed are the influence of Ry Cooder on his playing, the magic found in old Gibson flattops (and '60s Guilds), and why John tries to ignore industry trends when he's working as a producer. Finally, we talk about a very special feature in the Fretboard Journal's 54th issue on a Martin that belonged to John's father-in-law, Johnny Cash. 'Rumble Strip' can be streamed now in all the usual places or visit  https://www.rumblestriprecords.net/ Subscribe to the Fretboard Journal print edition and reserve your copy of Fretboard Journal 54: https://shop.fretboardjournal.com/products/fretboard-journal-annual-subscription Register for our 2024 Fretboard Summit in Chicago (Aug 23-25): https://fretboardsummit.org/ This week's show is sponsored by: StewMac: https://stewmac.sjv.io/R5jvRR (Affiliate link) Mike & Mike's Guitar Bar: https://mmguitarbar.com Izotope: https://www.izotope.com (Use the code FRET10 to save 10%) Stringjoy Strings: https://stringjoy.com (Use the code FRETBOARD to save 10% off your first order) Peghead Nation: https://www.pegheadnation.com (Get your first month free or $20 off any annual subscription with the promo code FRETBOARD at checkout). Love the podcast and want to support it? We have a new Patreon page just for Fretboard Journal fans and loaded with bonus content. https://www.patreon.com/Fretboard_Journal  

What happens when a top-flight director (Walter Hill - 48 Hours, The Driver) decides to to spearhead a new original story blending various genres including gritty crime drama, rock musical, and star-crossed love story....also setting it within an unrecognizable urban setting and time period?  Well the result is one of the more bizarre financial flops of the 1980's which no one at the time truly knew what to make of....not critics, not audiences, not even much of the cast! :) This "Rock and Roll Fable" tells the story of the mysterious drifter Tom Cody (Michael Pare) and the young lady he loves Ellen Aim played by a very young (at the time) Diane Lane.  Ellen leads a fierce rock band known as The Attackers and she herself has been targeted by the villainous Raven played by an also very young (and menacing) Willem Dafoe.  This now cult classic is about to turn 40....let's revisit  it and hopefully we can get Nowhere Fast! ;)   Host & Editor: Geoff GershonProducer: Marlene Gershon https://livingforthecinema.com/Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Living-for-the-Cinema-Podcast-101167838847578Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/livingforthecinema/Letterboxd:https://letterboxd.com/Living4Cinema/

For those who haven't heard the announcement I just posted , songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the second part of a multi-episode look at the Byrds in 1966-69 and the birth of country rock. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a half-hour bonus episode, on "With a Little Help From My Friends" by Joe Cocker. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Resources No Mixcloud at this time as there are too many Byrds songs in the first chunk, but I will try to put together a multi-part Mixcloud when all the episodes for this song are up. My main source for the Byrds is Timeless Flight Revisited by Johnny Rogan, I also used Chris Hillman's autobiography, the 331/3 books on The Notorious Byrd Brothers and The Gilded Palace of Sin, I used Barney Hoskyns' Hotel California and John Einarson's Desperadoes as general background on Californian country-rock, Calling Me Hone, Gram Parsons and the Roots of Country Rock by Bob Kealing for information on Parsons, and Requiem For The Timeless Vol 2 by Johnny Rogan for information about the post-Byrds careers of many members. Information on Gary Usher comes from The California Sound by Stephen McParland. And this three-CD set is a reasonable way of getting most of the Byrds' important recordings. The International Submarine Band's only album can be bought from Bandcamp. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Before we begin, a brief warning – this episode contains brief mentions of suicide, alcoholism, abortion, and heroin addiction, and a brief excerpt of chanting of a Nazi slogan. If you find those subjects upsetting, you may want to read the transcript rather than listen. As we heard in the last part, in October 1967 Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman fired David Crosby from the Byrds. It was only many years later, in a conversation with the group's ex-manager Jim Dickson, that Crosby realised that they didn't actually have a legal right to fire him -- the Byrds had no partnership agreement, and according to Dickson given that the original group had been Crosby, McGuinn, and Gene Clark, it would have been possible for Crosby and McGuinn to fire Hillman, but not for McGuinn and Hillman to fire Crosby. But Crosby was unaware of this at the time, and accepted a pay-off, with which he bought a boat and sailed to Florida, where saw a Canadian singer-songwriter performing live: [Excerpt: Joni Mitchell, "Both Sides Now (live Ann Arbor, MI, 27/10/67)"] We'll find out what happened when David Crosby brought Joni Mitchell back to California in a future story... With Crosby gone, the group had a major problem. They were known for two things -- their jangly twelve-string guitar and their soaring harmonies. They still had the twelve-string, even in their new slimmed-down trio format, but they only had two of their four vocalists -- and while McGuinn had sung lead on most of their hits, the sound of the Byrds' harmony had been defined by Crosby on the high harmonies and Gene Clark's baritone. There was an obvious solution available, of course, and they took it. Gene Clark had quit the Byrds in large part because of his conflicts with David Crosby, and had remained friendly with the others. Clark's solo album had featured Chris Hillman and Michael Clarke, and had been produced by Gary Usher who was now producing the Byrds' records, and it had been a flop and he was at a loose end. After recording the Gene Clark with the Gosdin Brothers album, Clark had started work with Curt Boettcher, a singer-songwriter-producer who had produced hits for Tommy Roe and the Association, and who was currently working with Gary Usher. Boettcher produced two tracks for Clark, but they went unreleased: [Excerpt: Gene Clark, "Only Colombe"] That had been intended as the start of sessions for an album, but Clark had been dropped by Columbia rather than getting to record a second album. He had put together a touring band with guitarist Clarence White, bass player John York, and session drummer "Fast" Eddie Hoh, but hadn't played many gigs, and while he'd been demoing songs for a possible second solo album he didn't have a record deal to use them on. Chisa Records, a label co-owned by Larry Spector, Peter Fonda, and Hugh Masekela, had put out some promo copies of one track, "Yesterday, Am I Right", but hadn't released it properly: [Excerpt: Gene Clark, "Yesterday, Am I Right"] Clark, like the Byrds, had left Dickson and Tickner's management organisation and signed with Larry Spector, and Spector was wanting to make the most of his artists -- and things were very different for the Byrds now. Clark had had three main problems with being in the Byrds -- ego clashes with David Crosby, the stresses of being a pop star with a screaming teenage fanbase, and his fear of flying. Clark had really wanted to have the same kind of role in the Byrds that Brian Wilson had with the Beach Boys -- appear on the records, write songs, do TV appearances, maybe play local club gigs, but not go on tour playing to screaming fans. But now David Crosby was out of the group and there were no screaming fans any more -- the Byrds weren't having the kind of pop hits they'd had a few years earlier and were now playing to the hippie audience. Clark promised that with everything else being different, he could cope with the idea of flying -- if necessary he'd just take tranquilisers or get so drunk he passed out. So Gene Clark rejoined the Byrds. According to some sources he sang on their next single, "Goin' Back," though I don't hear his voice in the mix: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Goin' Back"] According to McGuinn, Clark was also an uncredited co-writer on one song on the album they were recording, "Get to You". But before sessions had gone very far, the group went on tour. They appeared on the Smothers Brothers TV show, miming their new single and "Mr. Spaceman", and Clark seemed in good spirits, but on the tour of the Midwest that followed, according to their road manager of the time, Clark was terrified, singing flat and playing badly, and his guitar and vocal mic were left out of the mix. And then it came time to get on a plane, and Clark's old fears came back, and he refused to fly from Minneapolis to New York with the rest of the group, instead getting a train back to LA. And that was the end of Clark's second stint in the Byrds. For the moment, the Byrds decided they were going to continue as a trio on stage and a duo in the studio -- though Michael Clarke did make an occasional return to the sessions as they progressed. But of course, McGuinn and Hillman couldn't record an album entirely by themselves. They did have several tracks in a semi-completed state still featuring Crosby, but they needed people to fill his vocal and instrumental roles on the remaining tracks. For the vocals, Usher brought in his friend and collaborator Curt Boettcher, with whom he was also working at the time in a band called Sagittarius: [Excerpt: Sagittarius, "Another Time"] Boettcher was a skilled harmony vocalist -- according to Usher, he was one of the few vocal arrangers that Brian Wilson looked up to, and Jerry Yester had said of the Modern Folk Quartet that “the only vocals that competed with us back then was Curt Boettcher's group” -- and he was more than capable of filling Crosby's vocal gap, but there was never any real camaraderie between him and the Byrds. He particularly disliked McGuinn, who he said "was just such a poker face. He never let you know where you stood. There was never any lightness," and he said of the sessions as a whole "I was really thrilled to be working with The Byrds, and, at the same time, I was glad when it was all over. There was just no fun, and they were such weird guys to work with. They really freaked me out!" Someone else who Usher brought in, who seems to have made a better impression, was Red Rhodes: [Excerpt: Red Rhodes, "Red's Ride"] Rhodes was a pedal steel player, and one of the few people to make a career on the instrument outside pure country music, which is the genre with which the instrument is usually identified. Rhodes was a country player, but he was the country pedal steel player of choice for musicians from the pop and folk-rock worlds. He worked with Usher and Boettcher on albums by Sagittarius and the Millennium, and played on records by Cass Elliot, Carole King, the Beach Boys, and the Carpenters, among many others -- though he would be best known for his longstanding association with Michael Nesmith of the Monkees, playing on most of Nesmith's recordings from 1968 through 1992. Someone else who was associated with the Monkees was Moog player Paul Beaver, who we talked about in the episode on "Hey Jude", and who had recently played on the Monkees' Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones, Ltd album: [Excerpt: The Monkees, "Star Collector"] And the fourth person brought in to help the group out was someone who was already familiar to them. Clarence White was, like Red Rhodes, from the country world -- he'd started out in a bluegrass group called the Kentucky Colonels: [Excerpt: The Kentucky Colonels, "Clinch Mountain Backstep"] But White had gone electric and formed one of the first country-rock bands, a group named Nashville West, as well as becoming a popular session player. He had already played on a couple of tracks on Younger Than Yesterday, as well as playing with Hillman and Michael Clarke on Gene Clark's album with the Gosdin Brothers and being part of Clark's touring band with John York and "Fast" Eddie Hoh. The album that the group put together with these session players was a triumph of sequencing and production. Usher had recently been keen on the idea of crossfading tracks into each other, as the Beatles had on Sgt Pepper, and had done the same on the two Chad and Jeremy albums he produced. By clever crossfading and mixing, Usher managed to create something that had the feel of being a continuous piece, despite being the product of several very different creative minds, with Usher's pop sensibility and arrangement ideas being the glue that held everything together. McGuinn was interested in sonic experimentation. He, more than any of the others, seems to have been the one who was most pushing for them to use the Moog, and he continued his interest in science fiction, with a song, "Space Odyssey", inspired by the Arthur C. Clarke short story "The Sentinel", which was also the inspiration for the then-forthcoming film 2001: A Space Odyssey: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Space Odyssey"] Then there was Chris Hillman, who was coming up with country material like "Old John Robertson": [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Old John Robertson"] And finally there was David Crosby. Even though he'd been fired from the group, both McGuinn and Hillman didn't see any problem with using the songs he had already contributed. Three of the album's eleven songs are compositions that are primarily by Crosby, though they're all co-credited to either Hillman or both Hillman and McGuinn. Two of those songs are largely unchanged from Crosby's original vision, just finished off by the rest of the group after his departure, but one song is rather different: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Draft Morning"] "Draft Morning" was a song that was important to Crosby, and was about his -- and the group's -- feelings about the draft and the ongoing Vietnam War. It was a song that had meant a lot to him, and he'd been part of the recording for the backing track. But when it came to doing the final vocals, McGuinn and Hillman had a problem -- they couldn't remember all the words to the song, and obviously there was no way they were going to get Crosby to give them the original lyrics. So they rewrote it, coming up with new lyrics where they couldn't remember the originals: [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Draft Morning"] But there was one other contribution to the track that was very distinctively the work of Usher. Gary Usher had a predilection at this point for putting musique concrete sections in otherwise straightforward pop songs. He'd done it with "Fakin' It" by Simon and Garfunkel, on which he did uncredited production work, and did it so often that it became something of a signature of records on Columbia in 1967 and 68, even being copied by his friend Jim Guercio on "Susan" by the Buckinghams. Usher had done this, in particular, on the first two singles by Sagittarius, his project with Curt Boettcher. In particular, the second Sagittarius single, "Hotel Indiscreet", had had a very jarring section (and a warning here, this contains some brief chanting of a Nazi slogan): [Excerpt: Sagittarius, "Hotel Indiscreet"] That was the work of a comedy group that Usher had discovered and signed to Columbia. The Firesign Theatre were so named because, like Usher, they were all interested in astrology, and they were all "fire signs".  Usher was working on their first album, Waiting For The Electrician or Someone Like Him, at the same time as he was working on the Byrds album: [Excerpt: The Firesign Theatre, "W.C. Fields Forever"] And he decided to bring in the Firesigns to contribute to "Draft Morning": [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Draft Morning"] Crosby was, understandably, apoplectic when he heard the released version of "Draft Morning". As far as Hillman and McGuinn were concerned, it was always a Byrds song, and just because Crosby had left the band didn't mean they couldn't use material he'd written for the Byrds. Crosby took a different view, saying later "It was one of the sleaziest things they ever did. I had an entire song finished. They just casually rewrote it and decided to take half the credit. How's that? Without even asking me. I had a finished song, entirely mine. I left. They did the song anyway. They rewrote it and put it in their names. And mine was better. They just took it because they didn't have enough songs." What didn't help was that the publicity around the album, titled The Notorious Byrd Brothers minimised Crosby's contributions. Crosby is on five of the eleven tracks -- as he said later, "I'm all over that album, they just didn't give me credit. I played, I sang, I wrote, I even played bass on one track, and they tried to make out that I wasn't even on it, that they could be that good without me." But the album, like earlier Byrds albums, didn't have credits saying who played what, and the cover only featured McGuinn, Hillman, and Michael Clarke in the photo -- along with a horse, which Crosby took as another insult, as representing him. Though as McGuinn said, "If we had intended to do that, we would have turned the horse around". Even though Michael Clarke was featured on the cover, and even owned the horse that took Crosby's place, by the time the album came out he too had been fired. Unlike Crosby, he went quietly and didn't even ask for any money. According to McGuinn, he was increasingly uninterested in being in the band -- suffering from depression, and missing the teenage girls who had been the group's fans a year or two earlier. He gladly stopped being a Byrd, and went off to work in a hotel instead. In his place came Hillman's cousin, Kevin Kelley, fresh out of a band called the Rising Sons: [Excerpt: The Rising Sons, "Take a Giant Step"] We've mentioned the Rising Sons briefly in some previous episodes, but they were one of the earliest LA folk-rock bands, and had been tipped to go on to greater things -- and indeed, many of them did, though not as part of the Rising Sons. Jesse Lee Kincaid, the least well-known of the band, only went on to release a couple of singles and never had much success, but his songs were picked up by other acts -- his "Baby You Come Rollin' 'Cross My Mind" was a minor hit for the Peppermint Trolley Company: [Excerpt: The Peppermint Trolley Company, "Baby You Come Rollin' 'Cross My Mind"] And Harry Nilsson recorded Kincaid's "She Sang Hymns Out of Tune": [Excerpt: Harry Nilsson, "She Sang Hymns Out of Tune"] But Kincaid was the least successful of the band members, and most of the other members are going to come up in future episodes of the podcast -- bass player Gary Marker played for a while with Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band, lead singer Taj Mahal is one of the most respected blues singers of the last sixty years, original drummer Ed Cassidy went on to form the progressive rock band Spirit, and lead guitarist Ry Cooder went on to become one of the most important guitarists in rock music. Kelley had been the last to join the Rising Sons, replacing Cassidy but he was in the band by the time they released their one single, a version of Rev. Gary Davis' "Candy Man" produced by Terry Melcher, with Kincaid on lead vocals: [Excerpt: The Rising Sons, "Candy Man"] That hadn't been a success, and the group's attempt at a follow-up, the Goffin and King song "Take a Giant Step", which we heard earlier, was blocked from release by Columbia as being too druggy -- though there were no complaints when the Monkees released their version as the B-side to "Last Train to Clarksville". The Rising Sons, despite being hugely popular as a live act, fell apart without ever releasing a second single. According to Marker, Mahal realised that he would be better off as a solo artist, but also Columbia didn't know how to market a white group with a Black lead vocalist (leading to Kincaid singing lead on their one released single, and producer Terry Melcher trying to get Mahal to sing more like a white singer on "Take a Giant Step"), and some in the band thought that Terry Melcher was deliberately trying to sink their career because they refused to sign to his publishing company. After the band split up, Marker and Kelley had formed a band called Fusion, which Byrds biographer Johnny Rogan describes as being a jazz-fusion band, presumably because of their name. Listening to the one album the group recorded, it is in fact more blues-rock, very like the music Marker made with the Rising Sons and Captain Beefheart. But Kelley's not on that album, because before it was recorded he was approached by his cousin Chris Hillman and asked to join the Byrds. At the time, Fusion were doing so badly that Kelley had to work a day job in a clothes shop, so he was eager to join a band with a string of hits who were just about to conclude a lucrative renegotiation of their record contract -- a renegotiation which may have played a part in McGuinn and Hillman firing Crosby and Clarke, as they were now the only members on the new contracts. The choice of Kelley made a lot of sense. He was mostly just chosen because he was someone they knew and they needed a drummer in a hurry -- they needed someone new to promote The Notorious Byrd Brothers and didn't have time to go through a laborious process of audtioning, and so just choosing Hillman's cousin made sense, but Kelley also had a very strong, high voice, and so he could fill in the harmony parts that Crosby had sung, stopping the new power-trio version of the band from being *too* thin-sounding in comparison to the five-man band they'd been not that much earlier. The Notorious Byrd Brothers was not a commercial success -- it didn't even make the top forty in the US, though it did in the UK -- to the presumed chagrin of Columbia, who'd just paid a substantial amount of money for this band who were getting less successful by the day. But it was, though, a gigantic critical success, and is generally regarded as the group's creative pinnacle. Robert Christgau, for example, talked about how LA rather than San Francisco was where the truly interesting music was coming from, and gave guarded praise to Captain Beefheart, Van Dyke Parks, and the Fifth Dimension (the vocal group, not the Byrds album) but talked about three albums as being truly great -- the Beach Boys' Wild Honey, Love's Forever Changes, and The Notorious Byrd Brothers. (He also, incidentally, talked about how the two songs that Crosby's new discovery Joni Mitchell had contributed to a Judy Collins album were much better than most folk music, and how he could hardly wait for her first album to come out). And that, more or less, was the critical consensus about The Notorious Byrd Brothers -- that it was, in Christgau's words "simply the best album the Byrds have ever recorded" and that "Gone are the weak--usually folky--tracks that have always flawed their work." McGuinn, though, thought that the album wasn't yet what he wanted. He had become particularly excited by the potentials of the Moog synthesiser -- an instrument that Gary Usher also loved -- during the recording of the album, and had spent a lot of time experimenting with it, coming up with tracks like the then-unreleased "Moog Raga": [Excerpt: The Byrds, "Moog Raga"] And McGuinn had a concept for the next Byrds album -- a concept he was very excited about. It was going to be nothing less than a grand sweeping history of American popular music. It was going to be a double album -- the new contract said that they should deliver two albums a year to Columbia, so a double album made sense -- and it would start with Appalachian folk music, go through country, jazz, and R&B, through the folk-rock music the Byrds had previously been known for, and into Moog experimentation. But to do this, the Byrds needed a keyboard player. Not only would a keyboard player help them fill out their thin onstage sound, if they got a jazz keyboardist, then they could cover the jazz material in McGuinn's concept album idea as well. So they went out and looked for a jazz piano player, and happily Larry Spector was managing one. Or at least, Larry Spector was managing someone who *said* he was a jazz pianist. But Gram Parsons said he was a lot of things... [Excerpt: Gram Parsons, "Brass Buttons (1965 version)"] Gram Parsons was someone who had come from a background of unimaginable privilege. His maternal grandfather was the owner of a Florida citrus fruit and real-estate empire so big that his mansion was right in the centre of what was then Florida's biggest theme park -- built on land he owned. As a teenager, Parsons had had a whole wing of his parents' house to himself, and had had servants to look after his every need, and as an adult he had a trust fund that paid him a hundred thousand dollars a year -- which in 1968 dollars would be equivalent to a little under nine hundred thousand in today's money. Two events in his childhood had profoundly shaped the life of young Gram. The first was in February 1956, when he went to see a new singer who he'd heard on the radio, and who according to the local newspaper had just recorded a new song called "Heartburn Motel".  Parsons had tried to persuade his friends that this new singer was about to become a big star -- one of his friends had said "I'll wait til he becomes famous!" As it turned out, the day Parsons and the couple of friends he did manage to persuade to go with him saw Elvis Presley was also the day that "Heartbreak Hotel" entered the Billboard charts at number sixty-eight. But even at this point, Elvis was an obvious star and the headliner of the show. Young Gram was enthralled -- but in retrospect he was more impressed by the other acts he saw on the bill. That was an all-star line-up of country musicians, including Mother Maybelle and the Carter Sisters, and especially the Louvin Brothers, arguably the greatest country music vocal duo of all time: [Excerpt: The Louvin Brothers, "The Christian Life"] Young Gram remained mostly a fan of rockabilly music rather than country, and would remain so for another decade or so, but a seed had been planted. The other event, much more tragic, was the death of his father. Both Parsons' parents were functioning alcoholics, and both by all accounts were unfaithful to each other, and their marriage was starting to break down. Gram's father was also, by many accounts, dealing with what we would now call post-traumatic stress disorder from his time serving in the second world war. On December the twenty-third 1958, Gram's father died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Everyone involved seems sure it was suicide, but it was officially recorded as natural causes because of the family's wealth and prominence in the local community. Gram's Christmas present from his parents that year was a reel-to-reel tape recorder, and according to some stories I've read his father had left a last message on a tape in the recorder, but by the time the authorities got to hear it, it had been erased apart from the phrase "I love you, Gram." After that Gram's mother's drinking got even worse, but in most ways his life still seemed charmed, and the descriptions of him as a teenager are about what you'd expect from someone who was troubled, with a predisposition to addiction, but who was also unbelievably wealthy, good-looking, charming, and talented. And the talent was definitely there. One thing everyone is agreed on is that from a very young age Gram Parsons took his music seriously and was determined to make a career as a musician. Keith Richards later said of him "Of the musicians I know personally (although Otis Redding, who I didn't know, fits this too), the two who had an attitude towards music that was the same as mine were Gram Parsons and John Lennon. And that was: whatever bag the business wants to put you in is immaterial; that's just a selling point, a tool that makes it easier. You're going to get chowed into this pocket or that pocket because it makes it easier for them to make charts up and figure out who's selling. But Gram and John were really pure musicians. All they liked was music, and then they got thrown into the game." That's not the impression many other people have of Parsons, who is almost uniformly described as an incessant self-promoter, and who from his teens onwards would regularly plant fake stories about himself in the local press, usually some variant of him having been signed to RCA records. Most people seem to think that image was more important to him than anything. In his teens, he started playing in a series of garage bands around Florida and Georgia, the two states in which he was brought up. One of his early bands was largely created by poaching the rhythm section who were then playing with Kent Lavoie, who later became famous as Lobo and had hits like "Me and You and a Dog Named Boo". Lavoie apparently held a grudge -- decades later he would still say that Parsons couldn't sing or play or write. Another musician on the scene with whom Parsons associated was Bobby Braddock, who would later go on to co-write songs like "D-I-V-O-R-C-E" for Tammy Wynette, and the song "He Stopped Loving Her Today", often considered the greatest country song ever written, for George Jones: [Excerpt: George Jones, "He Stopped Loving Her Today"] Jones would soon become one of Parsons' musical idols, but at this time he was still more interested in being Elvis or Little Richard. We're lucky enough to have a 1962 live recording of one of his garage bands, the Legends -- the band that featured the bass player and drummer he'd poached from Lobo. They made an appearance on a local TV show and a friend with a tape recorder recorded it off the TV and decades later posted it online. Of the four songs in that performance, two are R&B covers -- Little Richard's "Rip It Up" and Ray Charles' "What'd I Say?", and a third is the old Western Swing classic "Guitar Boogie Shuffle". But the interesting thing about the version of "Rip it Up" is that it's sung in an Everly Brothers style harmony, and the fourth song is a recording of the Everlys' "Let It Be Me". The Everlys were, of course, hugely influenced by the Louvin Brothers, who had so impressed young Gram six years earlier, and in this performance you can hear for the first time the hints of the style that Parsons would make his own a few years later: [Excerpt: Gram Parsons and the Legends, "Let it Be Me"] Incidentally, the other guitarist in the Legends, Jim Stafford, also went on to a successful musical career, having a top five hit in the seventies with "Spiders & Snakes": [Excerpt: Jim Stafford, "Spiders & Snakes"] Soon after that TV performance though, like many musicians of his generation, Parsons decided to give up on rock and roll, and instead to join a folk group. The group he joined, The Shilos, were a trio who were particularly influenced by the Journeymen, John Phillips' folk group before he formed the Mamas and the Papas, which we talked about in the episode on "San Francisco". At various times the group expanded with the addition of some female singers, trying to capture something of the sound of the New Chrisy Minstrels. In 1964, with the band members still in school, the Shilos decided to make a trip to Greenwich Village and see if they could make the big time as folk-music stars. They met up with John Phillips, and Parsons stayed with John and Michelle Phillips in their home in New York -- this was around the time the two of them were writing "California Dreamin'". Phillips got the Shilos an audition with Albert Grossman, who seemed eager to sign them until he realised they were still schoolchildren just on a break. The group were, though, impressive enough that he was interested, and we have some recordings of them from a year later which show that they were surprisingly good for a bunch of teenagers: [Excerpt: The Shilos, "The Bells of Rhymney"] Other than Phillips, the other major connection that Parsons made in New York was the folk singer Fred Neil, who we've talked about occasionally before. Neil was one of the great songwriters of the Greenwich Village scene, and many of his songs became successful for others -- his "Dolphins" was recorded by Tim Buckley, most famously his "Everybody's Talkin'" was a hit for Harry Nilsson, and he wrote "Another Side of This Life" which became something of a standard -- it was recorded by the Animals and the Lovin' Spoonful, and Jefferson Airplane, as well as recording the song, included it in their regular setlists, including at Monterey: [Excerpt: Jefferson Airplane, "The Other Side of This Life (live at Monterey)"] According to at least one biographer, though, Neil had another, more pernicious, influence on Parsons -- he may well have been the one who introduced Parsons to heroin, though several of Parsons' friends from the time said he wasn't yet using hard drugs. By spring 1965, Parsons was starting to rethink his commitment to folk music, particularly after "Mr. Tambourine Man" became a hit. He talked with the other members about their need to embrace the changes in music that Dylan and the Byrds were bringing about, but at the same time he was still interested enough in acoustic music that when he was given the job of arranging the music for his high school graduation, the group he booked were the Dillards. That graduation day was another day that would change Parsons' life -- as it was the day his mother died, of alcohol-induced liver failure. Parsons was meant to go on to Harvard, but first he went back to Greenwich Village for the summer, where he hung out with Fred Neil and Dave Van Ronk (and started using heroin regularly). He went to see the Beatles at Shea Stadium, and he was neighbours with Stephen Stills and Richie Furay -- the three of them talked about forming a band together before Stills moved West. And on a brief trip back home to Florida between Greenwich Village and Harvard, Parsons spoke with his old friend Jim Stafford, who made a suggestion to him -- instead of trying to do folk music, which was clearly falling out of fashion, why not try to do *country* music but with long hair like the Beatles? He could be a country Beatle. It would be an interesting gimmick. Parsons was only at Harvard for one semester before flunking out, but it was there that he was fully reintroduced to country music, and in particular to three artists who would influence him more than any others. He'd already been vaguely aware of Buck Owens, whose "Act Naturally" had recently been covered by the Beatles: [Excerpt: Buck Owens, "Act Naturally"] But it was at Harvard that he gained a deeper appreciation of Owens. Owens was the biggest star of what had become known as the Bakersfield Sound, a style of country music that emphasised a stripped-down electric band lineup with Telecaster guitars, a heavy drumbeat, and a clean sound. It came from the same honky-tonk and Western Swing roots as the rockabilly music that Parsons had grown up on, and it appealed to him instinctively.  In particular, Parsons was fascinated by the fact that Owens' latest album had a cover version of a Drifters song on it -- and then he got even more interested when Ray Charles put out his third album of country songs and included a version of Owens' "Together Again": [Excerpt: Ray Charles, "Together Again"] This suggested to Parsons that country music and the R&B he'd been playing previously might not quite be so far apart as he'd thought. At Harvard, Parsons was also introduced to the work of another Bakersfield musician, who like Owens was produced by Ken Nelson, who also produced the Louvin Brothers' records, and who we heard about in previous episodes as he produced Gene Vincent and Wanda Jackson. Merle Haggard had only had one big hit at the time, "(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers": [Excerpt: Merle Haggard, "(My Friends are Gonna Be) Strangers"] But he was about to start a huge run of country hits that would see every single he released for the next twelve years make the country top ten, most of them making number one. Haggard would be one of the biggest stars in country music, but he was also to be arguably the country musician with the biggest influence on rock music since Johnny Cash, and his songs would soon start to be covered by everyone from the Grateful Dead to the Everly Brothers to the Beach Boys. And the third artist that Parsons was introduced to was someone who, in most popular narratives of country music, is set up in opposition to Haggard and Owens, because they were representatives of the Bakersfield Sound while he was the epitome of the Nashville Sound to which the Bakersfield Sound is placed in opposition, George Jones. But of course anyone with ears will notice huge similarities in the vocal styles of Jones, Haggard, and Owens: [Excerpt: George Jones, "The Race is On"] Owens, Haggard, and Jones are all somewhat outside the scope of this series, but are seriously important musicians in country music. I would urge anyone who's interested in them to check out Tyler Mahan Coe's podcast Cocaine and Rhinestones, season one of which has episodes on Haggard and Owens, as well as on the Louvin Brothers who I also mentioned earlier, and season two of which is entirely devoted to Jones. When he dropped out of Harvard after one semester, Parsons was still mostly under the thrall of the Greenwich Village folkies -- there's a recording of him made over Christmas 1965 that includes his version of "Another Side of This Life": [Excerpt: Gram Parsons, "Another Side of This Life"] But he was encouraged to go further in the country direction by John Nuese (and I hope that's the correct pronunciation – I haven't been able to find any recordings mentioning his name), who had introduced him to this music and who also played guitar. Parsons, Neuse, bass player Ian Dunlop and drummer Mickey Gauvin formed a band that was originally called Gram Parsons and the Like. They soon changed their name though, inspired by an Our Gang short in which the gang became a band: [Excerpt: Our Gang, "Mike Fright"] Shortening the name slightly, they became the International Submarine Band. Parsons rented them a house in New York, and they got a contract with Goldstar Records, and released a couple of singles. The first of them, "The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming" was a cover of the theme to a comedy film that came out around that time, and is not especially interesting: [Excerpt: The International Submarine Band, "The Russians are Coming, The Russians are Coming"] The second single is more interesting. "Sum Up Broke" is a song by Parsons and Neuse, and shows a lot of influence from the Byrds: [Excerpt: The international Submarine Band, "Sum Up Broke"] While in New York with the International Submarine Band, Parsons made another friend in the music business. Barry Tashian was the lead singer of a band called the Remains, who had put out a couple of singles: [Excerpt: The Remains, "Why Do I Cry?"] The Remains are now best known for having been on the bill on the Beatles' last ever tour, including playing as support on their last ever show at Candlestick Park, but they split up before their first album came out. After spending most of 1966 in New York, Parsons decided that he needed to move the International Submarine Band out to LA. There were two reasons for this. The first was his friend Brandon DeWilde, an actor who had been a child star in the fifties -- it's him at the end of Shane -- who was thinking of pursuing a musical career. DeWilde was still making TV appearances, but he was also a singer -- John Nuese said that DeWilde sang harmony with Parsons better than anyone except Emmylou Harris -- and he had recorded some demos with the International Submarine Band backing him, like this version of Buck Owens' "Together Again": [Excerpt: Brandon DeWilde, "Together Again"] DeWilde had told Parsons he could get the group some work in films. DeWilde made good on that promise to an extent -- he got the group a cameo in The Trip, a film we've talked about in several other episodes, which was being directed by Roger Corman, the director who worked a lot with David Crosby's father, and was coming out from American International Pictures, the company that put out the beach party films -- but while the group were filmed performing one of their own songs, in the final film their music was overdubbed by the Electric Flag. The Trip starred Peter Fonda, another member of the circle of people around David Crosby, and another son of privilege, who at this point was better known for being Henry Fonda's son than for his own film appearances. Like DeWilde, Fonda wanted to become a pop star, and he had been impressed by Parsons, and asked if he could record Parsons' song "November Nights". Parsons agreed, and the result was released on Chisa Records, the label we talked about earlier that had put out promos of Gene Clark, in a performance produced by Hugh Masekela: [Excerpt: Peter Fonda, "November Nights"] The other reason the group moved West though was that Parsons had fallen in love with David Crosby's girlfriend, Nancy Ross, who soon became pregnant with his daughter -- much to Parsons' disappointment, she refused to have an abortion. Parsons bought the International Submarine Band a house in LA to rehearse in, and moved in separately with Nancy. The group started playing all the hottest clubs around LA, supporting bands like Love and the Peanut Butter Conspiracy, but they weren't sounding great, partly because Parsons was more interested in hanging round with celebrities than rehearsing -- the rest of the band had to work for a living, and so took their live performances more seriously than he did, while he was spending time catching up with his old folk friends like John Phillips and Fred Neil, as well as getting deeper into drugs and, like seemingly every musician in 1967, Scientology, though he only dabbled in the latter. The group were also, though, starting to split along musical lines. Dunlop and Gauvin wanted to play R&B and garage rock, while Parsons and Nuese wanted to play country music. And there was a third issue -- which record label should they go with? There were two labels interested in them, neither of them particularly appealing. The offer that Dunlop in particular wanted to go with was from, of all people, Jay Ward Records: [Excerpt: A Salute to Moosylvania] Jay Ward was the producer and writer of Rocky & Bullwinkle, Peabody & Sherman, Dudley Do-Right and other cartoons, and had set up a record company, which as far as I've been able to tell had only released one record, and that five years earlier (we just heard a snippet of it). But in the mid-sixties several cartoon companies were getting into the record business -- we'll hear more about that when we get to song 186 -- and Ward's company apparently wanted to sign the International Submarine Band, and were basically offering to throw money at them. Parsons, on the other hand, wanted to go with Lee Hazlewood International. This was a new label set up by someone we've only talked about in passing, but who was very influential on the LA music scene, Lee Hazlewood. Hazlewood had got his start producing country hits like Sanford Clark's "The Fool": [Excerpt: Sanford Clark, "The Fool"] He'd then moved on to collaborating with Lester Sill, producing a series of hits for Duane Eddy, whose unique guitar sound Hazlewood helped come up with: [Excerpt: Duane Eddy, "Rebel Rouser"] After splitting off from Sill, who had gone off to work with Phil Spector, who had been learning some production techniques from Hazlewood, Hazlewood had gone to work for Reprise records, where he had a career in a rather odd niche, producing hit records for the children of Rat Pack stars. He'd produced Dino, Desi, and Billy, who consisted of future Beach Boys sideman Billy Hinsche plus Desi Arnaz Jr and Dean Martin Jr: [Excerpt: Dino, Desi, and Billy, "I'm a Fool"] He'd also produced Dean Martin's daughter Deana: [Excerpt: Deana Martin, "Baby I See You"] and rather more successfully he'd written and produced a series of hits for Nancy Sinatra, starting with "These Boots are Made for Walkin'": [Excerpt: Nancy Sinatra, "These Boots are Made for Walkin'"] Hazlewood had also moved into singing himself. He'd released a few tracks on his own, but his career as a performer hadn't really kicked into gear until he'd started writing duets for Nancy Sinatra. She apparently fell in love with his demos and insisted on having him sing them with her in the studio, and so the two made a series of collaborations like the magnificently bizarre "Some Velvet Morning": [Excerpt: Lee Hazlewood and Nancy Sinatra, "Some Velvet Morning"] Hazlewood is now considered something of a cult artist, thanks largely to a string of magnificent orchestral country-pop solo albums he recorded, but at this point he was one of the hottest people in the music industry. He wasn't offering to produce the International Submarine Band himself -- that was going to be his partner, Suzi Jane Hokom -- but Parsons thought it was better to sign for less money to a label that was run by someone with a decade-long string of massive hit records than for more money to a label that had put out one record about a cartoon moose. So the group split up. Dunlop and Gauvin went off to form another band, with Barry Tashian -- and legend has it that one of the first times Gram Parsons visited the Byrds in the studio, he mentioned the name of that band, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and that was the inspiration for the Byrds titling their album The Notorious Byrd Brothers. Parsons and Nuese, on the other hand, formed a new lineup of The International Submarine Band, with bass player Chris Ethridge, drummer John Corneal, who Parsons had first played with in The Legends, and guitarist Bob Buchanan, a former member of the New Christy Minstrels who Parsons had been performing with as a duo after they'd met through Fred Neil. The International Submarine Band recorded an album, Safe At Home, which is now often called the first country-rock album -- though as we've said so often, there's no first anything. That album was a mixture of cover versions of songs by people like Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard: [Excerpt: The International Submarine Band, "I Must Be Somebody Else You've Known"] And Parsons originals, like "Do You Know How It Feels To Be Lonesome?", which he cowrote with Barry Goldberg of the Electric Flag: [Excerpt: The International Submarine Band, "Do You Know How It Feels To Be Lonesome?"] But the recording didn't go smoothly. In particular, Corneal realised he'd been hoodwinked. Parsons had told him, when persuading him to move West, that he'd be able to sing on the record and that some of his songs would be used. But while the record was credited to The International Submarine Band, everyone involved agrees that it was actually a Gram Parsons solo album by any other name -- he was in charge, he wouldn't let other members' songs on the record, and he didn't let Corneal sing as he'd promised. And then, before the album could be released, he was off. The Byrds wanted a jazz keyboard player, and Parsons could fake being one long enough to get the gig. The Byrds had got rid of one rich kid with a giant ego who wanted to take control of everything and thought his undeniable talent excused his attempts at dominating the group, and replaced him with another one -- who also happened to be signed to another record label. We'll see how well that worked out for them in two weeks' time.