The 27 Club

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At The Crossroads

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Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson

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Bill to Jazz

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Legends of Rock & Roll: Bob Dylan

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Legends of Country Music: Johnny Cash

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LIFE Gone Too Soon: The 27 Club - Rock Icons Who Died Too Soon

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Haunted Mississippi Delta and Beyond

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The Bleecker Street Tapes

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Portrait of a Phantom: The Story of Robert Johnson's Lost Photograph

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Popology: The Music of the Era in the Lives of Four Icons of the 1960s

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Paul Robeson: A Watched Man

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Bing and Billie and Frank and Ella and Judy and Barbra

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Louisville Jug Music: From Earl McDonald to the National Jubilee

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New York City Blues: Postwar Portraits from Harlem to the Village and Beyond

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Encyclopedia of the Blues, 2nd Edition

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Prince: Chaos, Disorder and Revolution

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LIFE Remembering Kurt Cobain: 20 Years Later

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The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 2: 1964–1977: The Beatles, the Stones, and the Rise of Classic Rock

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The Real Ambassadors: Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation

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St. Louis Jazz: A History

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Legends of Rock & Roll: Chuck Berry

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LIFE Bob Dylan: Forever Young

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Inside Llewyn Davis: The Screenplay

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The Life of Lou Reed: Notes from the Velvet Underground

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Fast, Furious, Tommywood

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Thinking About Tomorrow: Excerpts from the life of Keith West

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Bing Crosby: A Complete Life from Beginning to the End

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Ain't Got No Cigarettes: Memories of Music Legend Roger Miller

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That's Got 'Em!: The Life and Music of Wilbur C. Sweatman

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George Lewis: A Jazzman from New Orleans

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Music Theory 101: From keys and scales to rhythm and melody, an essential primer on the basics of music theory

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Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album

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The Everything Essential Music Theory Book: A Guide to the Fundamentals of Reading, Writing, and Understanding Music

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Me: Elton John Official Autobiography

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Music Theory For Dummies

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A Strange Loop

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Learn Jazz Piano: book 1

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The Easyway to Play Piano: A Beginner's Best Piano Primer

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The Only Guitar Book You'll Ever Need: From Tuning Your Instrument and Learning Chords to Reading Music and Writing Songs, Everything You Need to Play like the Best

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The Circle of Fifths: Visual Tools for Musicians, #1

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More Myself: A Journey

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Hal Leonard Pocket Music Theory (Music Instruction): A Comprehensive and Convenient Source for All Musicians

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Compton Street Legend: Notorious Keffe D’s Street-Level Accounts of Tupac and Biggie Murders, Death Row Origins, Suge Knight, Puffy Combs, and Crooked Cops

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Weird Scenes Inside The Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & The Dark Heart Of The Hippie Dream

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Learn Guitar A Beginner's Course

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Bowie: An Illustrated Life

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Songwriting: Essential Guide to Lyric Form and Structure: Tools and Techniques for Writing Better Lyrics

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The Dirt: Confessions of the World's Most Notorious Rock Band

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Learn Your Fretboard: The Essential Memorization Guide for Guitar (Book + Online Bonus)

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The Everything Songwriting Book: All You Need to Create and Market Hit Songs

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88 Piano Classics for Beginners

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Singing For Dummies

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Pat Pattison's Songwriting: Essential Guide to Rhyming: A Step-by-Step Guide to Better Rhyming for Poets and Lyricists

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Guitar For Dummies

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Open Book

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Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums, Drums, Drums

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How To Practice Piano Effectively: 50+ Proven And Practical Tips

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The Meaning of Mariah Carey

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Music Theory For Beginners

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Step By Step Mixing: How to Create Great Mixes Using Only 5 Plug-ins

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Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson: This episode Rock N Roll Librarian Shelley Sorenson and Rock N Roll Archaeologist Christian Swain go down the big muddy river and deep into the delta to discuss Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow’s new book ‘Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson’.  This time, while on our Mississippi adventure, we will play many of the few Robert Johnson recordings and couple that with samples from famous acolytes throughout the rock n roll era to show just how influential this guy was to the latter music. Robert Johnson’s recordings, made in 1936 and 1937, have profoundly influenced generations of singers, guitarists, and songwriters. Yet until now, his short life—he was murdered at the age of 27—has been poorly documented. Gayle Dean Wardlow has been interviewing people who knew Johnson since the early 1960s, and he was the person who discovered Johnson’s death certificate in 1967. Bruce Conforth began his study of Johnson’s life

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Linton Kwesi Johnson: Sue Lawley's castaway is dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson

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Linton Kwesi Johnson: Sue Lawley's castaway is dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson

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E158: Charles Shaar Murray on the NME + John Lee Hooker + Robbie Robertson: We welcome NME legend Charles Shaar Murray to reminisce about his career

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65. Rory Block

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Urban legends

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E121: Peter Guralnick on Blues + Southern Soul + Jerry Wexler: In this episode we invite the great Peter Guralnick — Zooming in from his native Massachusetts — to discuss his "adventures in music and writing"… to quote the subtitle of his wonderful 2020 collection Looking to Get Lost. Peter takes his hosts back to his discovery of Delta blues giants Skip James and Robert Johnson in the early '60s — and to the first pieces he wrote for Paul Williams' Crawdaddy! in 1966. He explains his approach to the masterful profiles he collected in Feel Like Going Home and Lost Highway, and the friendships with Charlie Rich and Bobby "Blue" Bland that resulted from them. Conversation leads from Howlin' Wolf to Solomon Burke and southern soul, and from there to the use of Val Wilmer's remarkable photos in Peter's books. Talk of Memphis and Muscle Shoals prompts Mark to introduce the first of three clips from Barney's 1985 audio interview with Atlantic Records legend Jerry Wexler. Peter reminisces abo

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

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Episode 73 | "Loudmouth: A Novel"/Robert Duncan

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John Barnes: Broadcaster Huey Morgan on his latest musical adventure and mudlark Lisa Woollett.

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Linton Kwesi Johnson: Reggae poet Linton Kwesi Johnson reveals his cultural influences.

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Lenny Kravitz

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The Life & Spirit of Sam Kinison - Featuring A Rare Interview With Bill Kinison: Formerly a preacher, Sam Kinison became one of the the loudest and rudest comedians of the 20th century. For some, his name conjures up images of a hard-partyin

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Dickie Landry - Composer, Musician, Photographer, Artist: Dickie Landry - Composer, Musician, Photographer, Artist

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E122: David Dalton on The Beach Boys + The Beatles + Charles Manson: In this episode we welcome the legendary — and highly amusing — David Dalton to join us all the way from his rural retreat in upstate New York. We start by comparing our shocked reactions to Vladimir Putin's horrific invasion of Ukraine before asking David how he moved to America from England in 1961. He tells us about his mid-'60s adventures as a photographer of British Invasion acts like the Animals — with assistance from a pre-Beatle Linda McCartney — and then about his mid-stream switch to profiles of James Brown and Janis Joplin for Jann Wenner's nascent Rolling Stone. We revisit the award-winning 1970 Stone piece David co-wrote about Charles Manson and the Family, hearing along the way about Manson's connections with the Beach Boys. This leads almost seamlessly into clips from the late Andy Gill's 1988 audio interview with Dr. Eugene Landy, the shrink who "saved" Brian Wilson only to abuse his professional trust

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126: Art Davis Retrospective: Double bassist Time Wolfe interviews Jim Miller about Art Davis.

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Episode 36 | "Everybody Had an Ocean: Music and Mayhem in 1960s Los Angeles"/William McKeen: Los Angeles in the 1960s gave the world some of the greatest music in rock 'n' roll history: "California Dreamin'" by the Mamas and the Papas, "Mr. Tambourine Man" by the Byrds, and "Good Vibrations" by the Beach Boys, a song that magnificently...

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

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Track02 - Jenny Boyd: Kris sits down with author, model, muse & Beatle employee Jenny Boyd.

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The Kofi Burbridge Interview

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69. Austin Leonard Jones: Austin Leonard Jones is a singing storyteller, spinning narratives based in fact and fiction with...

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E131: Robert Gordon on Memphis + Stax + ZZ Top + Robert Johnson: In this episode we welcome the very engaging Robert Gordon "all the way from" his hometown of Memphis and ask him to talk about the music of his city from Sun and Stax to Alex Chilton and Big Star. Robert tells us about his childhood, along with the blues epiphany that was watching Furry Lewis support the Rolling Stones on the Memphis leg of their 1975 U.S. tour. Moving on to Stax, we look back at a great 1988 interview Robert did with the Memphis Horns' Andrew Love and Wayne Jackson — and then forward to the Wattstax festival, staged in L.A. 50 years ago this summer. Clips from the week's new audio interview — Tony Scherman asking Billy Gibbons about Robert Johnson — afford us the perfect excuse not just to discuss ZZ Top and their imminent new album but to revisit our guest's exhaustive 1991 essay on the "plundering" of Delta blues legend Johnson's estate. Mark talks us through a selection of newly-added library piec

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E64: The Meters + Joanna Newsom + Buzzy Linhart audio interview: In this week's episode, RBP's original "house band" pays homage to New Orleans funkmeisters the Meters, enjoys Frances Morgan's 2004 interview with the 22-year-old Joanna Newsom, and listens to the late Buzzy Linhart telling Steve Roeser about Lenny Bruce's 1964 bust at New York's Café au Go Go. Road-weary veterans Mark & Barney saddle up with hip young gunslinger Jasper to explore the Meters' close involvement with Crescent City maestro Allen Toussaint – and the unique grooves of funk classics like 'Cissy Strut' and 'Just Kissed My Baby'. They also savour the prose of Frances Morgan's Newsom profile for Plan B and her meditation on the first four albums by Can. A clip from Roeser's 2008 audio interview with Linhart reveals the cult Greenwich Villager's disdain for Café au Go Go owner Howard Solomon. Unfortunately, an almost equal amount of disdain is meted out to Buzzy's music by Mark & Jasper. Mark then zips through new

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Rock N Roll Librarian: Petty: The Biography: On October 7th, 2017 Tom Petty joined the rock n roll orchestra on the other side. He was 67 years young. For rockers around the world, like Prince a few months earlier, it was a shock coupled with immense sadness. Forever on we will not have Tom around with his Heartbreakers disposing easy wisdom in song or slyly telling off adversaries with Southern charm or that kick ass band that hummed like a stock car racer. It was a hard one to take. Join the Rock N Roll Librarian Shelley Sorenson and the Rock N Roll Archaeologist Christian Swain as they discuss Warren Zanes’ 2015 biography of the Gainesville born singer songwriter born in 1950 who found rock n roll as the only answer to his passions. No one other than Warren Zanes, rocker and writer and friend, could author a book about Tom Petty that is as honest and evocative of Petty's music and the remarkable rock and roll history he and his band helped to write. Born in Gainesville, Florida, wit

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George Harrison - Pt. 2 (feat. Rob Sheffield, Elliot Roberts, and Jack Lawless): Welcome to the "Here, There, and Everywhere" podcast round-table discussion about George Harrison's post-Beatles life and music. Due to a nearly 2.5 hour conversation length, we had to break this amazing discussion into three parts.   In part two, Ro...

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

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Denny Freeman, Bob Dylan, Vietnam, Stevie Ray Vaughan: Most Emotional Interview I’ve Done: On this Denny Freeman interview: Denny was around for the revolution of 1960s music and culture and explains, in no uncertain terms, how 1965 and 1968 were completely culturally different. And how the fallout from this presented some very upsetting...

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E126: Robert Duncan & Jaan Uhelszki on Lester Bangs + Creem + Suicide: In this episode we mark the 40th anniversary of the death of arguably the greatest — and certainly the most "almost famous" — writer in the history of music journalism. Two of Lester Bangs's closest Creem colleagues (both wonderful writers in their own right) join us from California to reminisce about the man and his work. Jaan Uhelszki, who started in the Creem office the same day as Lester, gets the ball rolling by putting Detroit's "anti-Rolling Stone" in context. Robert Duncan, who arrived two years later in 1974, adds his recollections of "America's only rock'n'roll magazine" [sic] before paying tribute to Lester. Respect, laughter and sadness ensue as Robert & Jaan discuss their friend's gonzoid genius, his exasperating foibles and the addiction that killed him at 33, six years after Robert persuaded him to move to New York. Seminal New York duo Suicide — beloved of Bangs — are the subjects of the week's new a

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E79: Loyd Grossman, Rock Critic + Brian May audio + (Dixie) Chicks: In this episode we are joined by self-professed "failed musician" and pasta-sauce mogul Loyd Grossman, OBE, to wax nostalgic about the most important years of his illustrious career: those he spent as a contributor to Fusion, Rolling Stone and other American music papers. Loyd reminisces very amusingly about seminal late '60s shows at the Boston tea party, before explaining how he moved to London and reinvented himself as a British national treasure on TV and in every kitchen in the country. He also recounts how he came to play guitar, three times a year, with Jethro Tull.  After a digression on the sad passing of Fairport Convention's original singer Judy Dyble, Loyd joins his hosts in hearing clips from a 1982 audio interview with Queen's Brian May in which that poodle-headed plank-spanker describes, among other things , working with David Bowie on the classic 'Under Pressure'. Barney drags Loyd into a discussion of