Ranked #1
Episode 34: Red Headed Stranger (Willie Nelson, 1975)
Episode 34: Red Headed Stranger (Willie Nelson, 1975)
Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter “I guess I was trying to figure out how a man could do something as cr... Read more
24 Aug 2016
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7mins
Ranked #2
Episode 12: Takin' My Time (Bonnie Raitt, 1973)
Episode 12: Takin' My Time (Bonnie Raitt, 1973)
Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter It's true, Bonnie Raitt has written and recorded her own songs, but he... Read more
11 Aug 2016
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3mins
Ranked #3
Episode 39: Plexure (John Oswald, 1993)
Episode 39: Plexure (John Oswald, 1993)
Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter There's a great video of Dolly Parton performing her song "Do I Ever C... Read more
5 Oct 2016
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8mins
Ranked #4
Episode 8: There's No Place Like America Today (Curtis Mayfield, 1975)
Episode 8: There's No Place Like America Today (Curtis Mayfield, 1975)
Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter Curtis Mayfield's 1975 album, There’s No Place Like America Today, ope... Read more
3 Aug 2016
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3mins
Ranked #5
Episode 4: Sail Away (Randy Newman, 1972)
Episode 4: Sail Away (Randy Newman, 1972)
Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter In the early 1970s, James Taylor introduced his song “Steamroller Blue... Read more
28 Jul 2016
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10mins
Ranked #6
Episode 32: Odessey and Oracle (The Zombies, 1968)
Episode 32: Odessey and Oracle (The Zombies, 1968)
Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter Abbey Road Studios—the summer of 1967. The Beatles had, just about a m... Read more
18 Aug 2016
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5mins
Ranked #7
Episode 7: Bright Sunny South (Sam Amidon, 2013)
Episode 7: Bright Sunny South (Sam Amidon, 2013)
Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter There’s something about the directness of Irish folk songs that appeal... Read more
3 Aug 2016
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3mins
Ranked #8
Episode 9: Love is Overtaking Me (Arthur Russell, 2008)
Episode 9: Love is Overtaking Me (Arthur Russell, 2008)
Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter In May of this year, The New York Public Library for the Performing Ar... Read more
3 Aug 2016
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6mins
Ranked #9
Episode 37: Masterpiece (Big Thief, 2016)
Episode 37: Masterpiece (Big Thief, 2016)
Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter Years ago I saw an old episode of the 1983 BBC television series calle... Read more
22 Sep 2016
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8mins
Ranked #10
Episode 31: Frank Fairfield (Frank Fairfield, 2009)
Episode 31: Frank Fairfield (Frank Fairfield, 2009)
Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter It was June 2015, and Frank Fairfield was calling it quits. At long la... Read more
18 Aug 2016
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6mins
Ranked #11
Episode 5: Emergency Ward! (Nina Simone, 1972)
Episode 5: Emergency Ward! (Nina Simone, 1972)
Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter It’s 1971 at the Fort Dix army base. The impassioned crowd has grown i... Read more
28 Jul 2016
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5mins
Ranked #12
Episode 28: DADO v. The Universe (Shape King, 2016)
Episode 28: DADO v. The Universe (Shape King, 2016)
Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter After a brief and goofy introductory nose-trumpet fanfare, DADO v. The... Read more
18 Aug 2016
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6mins
Ranked #13
Episode 11 (a very special accidental reprise of Ep. 2!): Face Value (Phil Collins, 1981)
Episode 11 (a very special accidental reprise of Ep. 2!): Face Value (Phil Collins, 1981)
Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter Face Value, Phil Collins’ 1981 debut solo album, opens, improbably, wi... Read more
11 Aug 2016
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5mins
Ranked #14
Episode 30: Olesi: Fragments of an Earth (Georgia Anne Muldrow, 2006)
Episode 30: Olesi: Fragments of an Earth (Georgia Anne Muldrow, 2006)
Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter In a 2013 lecture–interview for Red Bull Music Academy, Roots drummer ... Read more
18 Aug 2016
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6mins
Ranked #15
Episode 14: Career Moves (Loudon Wainwright III, 1993)
Episode 14: Career Moves (Loudon Wainwright III, 1993)
Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter “My songs are written to be performed, mostly,” explains Loudon Wainwr... Read more
11 Aug 2016
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6mins
Ranked #16
Episode 6: At Newport (Reverend Gary Davis, 1967)
Episode 6: At Newport (Reverend Gary Davis, 1967)
Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter The 1965 Newport Folk Festival was the site of Bob Dylan’s fabled perf... Read more
3 Aug 2016
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3mins
Ranked #17
Episode 3: Apple O' (Deerhoof, 2003)
Episode 3: Apple O' (Deerhoof, 2003)
Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter Viewed casually, the musical and lyrical content of Deerhoof’s 2003 re... Read more
28 Jul 2016
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6mins
Ranked #18
Episode 13: The Way Out (The Books, 2010)
Episode 13: The Way Out (The Books, 2010)
Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter Where we perceive a chain of events, Walter Benjamin’s Angel of Histor... Read more
11 Aug 2016
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4mins
Ranked #19
Episode 29: New Orleans Piano Wizard: Live! (James Booker, 1987)
Episode 29: New Orleans Piano Wizard: Live! (James Booker, 1987)
Subscribe via iTunes, PlayerFM, Facebook, Twitter In the 2013 documentary Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Bo... Read more
18 Aug 2016
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6mins
Ranked #20
Episode 36: ¡Olé Tormé!: Mel Tormé Goes South of the Border with Billy May (Mel Tormé, 1959)