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Just Remember This

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Bob Dylan: What the Songs Mean

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The Dylanologists: Adventures in the Land of Bob

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Five Leaves Left

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Together Through Life: A Personal Journey with the Music of Bob Dylan

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It's The Truth: Making The Only Ones

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Mike Oldfield - A Life Dedicated To Music

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Exit Music: The Radiohead Story

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Beatles Hamburg A Tour Guide To Beatles Sites in Hamburg

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Tougher Than the Rest: 100 Best Bruce Springsteen Songs

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Roger Waters: The Man Behind the Wall

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Dylan on Dylan: Interviews and Encounters

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The Bob Dylan Albums: Second Edition

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The Beatles: Here, There and Everywhere

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Music Theory For Dummies

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Guitar For Dummies

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

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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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Big Keyboard and Piano Chord Book: 500+ Keyboard and Piano Chords in a Unique Visual Format

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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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Episode 97: “Song to Woody” by Bob Dylan: Episode ninety-seven of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at Song To Woody by Bob Dylan, and at the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early sixties. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript

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E129: Deborah Frost on heavy metal + Blue Öyster Cult + Grace Jones + Foals: In this episode we welcome heavy metal expert Deborah Frost, Zooming in from her native New York City, and invite her to talk about her career as a writer and musician. Deborah reminisces about the all-girl "female Dolls" Flaming Youth, in which she drummed in the early '70s, and then explains how she came to write her first pieces for Circus in 1977. She talks about her love of hard rock and heavy metal, and about contributing to Rolling Stone and the Village Voice — including her acclaimed 1985 Voice piece 'White Noise: How Heavy Metal Rules', with its unflattering descriptions of the drug-and-groupie-addled Mötley Crüe. From the Crüe we segue into another great "umlaut" metal band, one beloved of Deborah's co-hosts Barney, Martin & Jasper. Yep, we're talking about Blue Öyster Cult, to whose drummer Albert Bouchard our guest was once married. After Barney & Martin attempt to do justice to what made the Cul

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Ep. 26 - Loren Gold: Loren Gold has been the keyboardist and backup vocalist for The Who since 2012 (Roger Daltrey since 2009) and the band Chicago since 2021. Other artists he has toured with include Kenny Loggins, Don Felder, Natalie Maines, Mandy Moore, Rita Wilson, a...

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Episode 80 | "Billy Joel: Every Album, Every Song"/Lisa Torem: ‘In the beginning,’ Billy Joel entertained Long Island locals, with The Hassles and Attila, prior to forging a solo career in 1971. One year later, the singer-songwriter-pianist captivated college students when “Captain Jack” dominated the...

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Episode 014: Fourteen Miles Below (Diggin' Up the Daisies Vol. 02)

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E139: Billy James on Bob Dylan + Columbia Records + Laurel Canyon: In this episode we welcome the legendary Billy James, all the way from the Bay Area, and tap him for his memories of working with Bob Dylan, the Doors and more. We start with Dylan and the interview the young Minnesotan gave to Billy in October 1961 in the latter's capacity as a Columbia Records publicist. Billy reminisces about his early interactions with the kid born Zimmerman; we hear a snatch of that 1961 audio, plus two clips from Eric Von Schmidt talking to Larry Jaffee about his friendship with Bob in that same period. In passing, we mention two great Dylan pieces by the week's featured scribe Greil Marcus, author of a new Bob "biography in seven songs" entitled Folk Music. From the early Bob years we switch coasts to California, where Billy worked in Columbia's Hollywood office and fell in with the Byrds between arranging press conferences for Patti Page, Percy Faith and his beloved Tony Bennett (pictured in the

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Episode 29: Terry Teachout / The Band: Scot and Jeff talk to Terry Teachout about The Band.

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Ep. 101 - KINKY FRIEDMAN ("Sold American"): Kinky Friedman reveals who he believes deserves credit for starting country music's outlaw movement; what Waylon Jennings said when he saw Kinky walking down the street with his laundry; how he ended up receiving the Male Chauvinist Pig of the Year Award from the National Organization for Women; the way Nelson Mandela embraced one of his songs; the advice Willie Nelson gave him that changed his life; the reason he writes about Jesus so much; and why he says you've got to be miserable to write great songs.

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034: Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds (1978): ULLA!!! Discord & Rhyme tackles an art-rock/disco musical based on the 1898 H.G. Wells novel The War of the Worlds and which John posits as the most ‘70s album ever made. Featuring an unforgettable spoken word performance by Richard Burton, as well as...

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Ep. 41 - Daniel Donato: Daniel Donato is one of the best guitar players in today’s music scene. He’s 27 years old and his musical style has been said to blend the best of Nashville honky-tonks with an improvisational spirit rooted in the ethos of the Grateful Dead. Daniel t...

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John Harris: Music and political journalist John Harris joins us just before Bob Dylan’s 80th birthday to celebrate the man with “the wink and the nod and the little impish skip” as well as the man who gives us “the solace of emptiness”. Mr Harris is not afraid to go against the grain: “”Love And Theft” is as good as Highway 61 or Blood On The Tracks”. As for John Wesley Harding, he happily quotes a friend who told him, “we wanted a big meal and he gave us a salad. It’s good for you - but a bit chewy.” The highlight of the episode might be John’s invitation - via pal Cerys Matthews - to meet Dylan backstage after his concert at the O2: “my internal monologue was going crazy. Brain fog was settling in. I was running out of breath.” (we won’t spoil the ending here). From making a Dylan-inspired harmonica rack out of a coat hanger at age 10 to reviewing the entire 1966 Live Recordings box set for MOJO magazine years later (“I’m still recovering”), John has heard every permutation of Bob o

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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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Bob Dylan's America (w/ Will Epstein): Matt and Sam are joined by songwriter and composer Will Epstein to talk about Bob Dylan's recent book, "The Philosophy of Modern Song."

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117: Phil Ochs In Concert (1966): Phil Ochs, perhaps more than anybody else in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk scene, believed that he could end the Vietnam War and change the world through his music. He offered deeply critical insight both of mainstream society and of the folk scene...

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Carole King - Tapestry: Bill and Brian have finally reached the end of Massive November, and we close it out with the classic Tapestry (1971, Ode) by legendary songwriter Carol King. Having written many hits for artists like the Shirelles, the Monkees, and Aretha Franklin...

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Ep. 31 - Laurie Kaye: Laurie Kaye is a former newscaster at RKO Networks. She was part of a team that interviewed John Lennon and Yoko Ono in their Dakota apartment on December 8th, 1980 - just hours before John was assassinated. She’s interviewed nearly all big names in ...

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Episode 128: “Mr. Tambourine Man” by the Byrds: Episode one hundred and twenty-eight of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at Mr. Tambourine Man by the Byrds, and the start of LA folk-rock. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the epi

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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

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E66: Remembering Charlie Gillett + Johnnie Allan audio: In this week's episode, RBP's self-styled "power trio" pay tribute to the late Charlie Gillett, without whose seminal 1970 book The Sound Of The City Rock's Backpages probably wouldn't exist. It is a decade since we lost Charlie – one of the first RBP writers to come on board, back in 2000 – so we wanted to do justice to the enduring influence of The Sound, as well as to his wonderful "Honky Tonk" radio show, his Oval Records label and his passionate championing of African and other "world" music genres. Two clips from Bill Brewster's 1999 audio interview with Charlie prompt reflection and reminiscence from Mark & Barney, as does a Record Mirror piece in which Charlie describes the infamous 1970 press junket that took 134 UK rock journalists to New York to watch the little-known Brinsley Schwarz play Bill Graham's Fillmore East. From there, we segue neatly into a clip from Cliff White's 1978 audio interview with Cajun "swamp-pop"

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Ep. 51 - Ella Ballentine: In this episode of "Here, There, and Everywhere," Jack Lawless sits down with the incredibly talented actress, Ella Ballentine, for an enlightening conversation about the enduring influence of The Beatles. Acting for over 10 years, Ella has been the ...

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Ep. 36 - Jude Southerland Kessler (John Lennon Expert): Jude Southerland Kessler is a John Lennon expert and the author of a 9 volume series of the life of John Lennon. Jude has spent her entire life researching and writing the myth-busting John Lennon biographical series, beginning her research in 1986. ...

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Richard Williams: Journalist Richard Williams joins us to talk Dylan and to surf “the waves of his career”, from Freewheelin’ (“one revelation after another”) to Murder Most Foul (“I was astonished by it. The level of detail. It’s like a John Coltrane quartet.”). Richard reminds us of “one of the great things I learned from Dylan: if you don’t understand something, that doesn’t invalidate it”. Our discussion includes generally unloved albums like Knocked Out Loaded (“Brownsville Girl contains the best single line of phrasing in Dylan’s entire canon”) and Down In The Groove (“we all lose our way a bit but the last three tracks are really very good”). Since writing his 1991 Bob Dylan book, A Man Called Alias, Richard has remained a true believer. “His phrasing has always been astonishing. Like that list of flowers he recites on Theme Time Radio Hour. He reads a seed catalogue and makes it sound like Visions of Johanna”. Prepare for the concise and clear musings of one of the best Bob bra

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Episode 16: “Crazy Man Crazy” by Bill Haley and the Comets: Welcome to episode sixteen of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs. Today were looking at Crazy Man Crazy by Bill Haley and the Comets. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Resou

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Episode 4 | "Levon: From Down in the Delta to the Birth of The Band and Beyond"/Sandra B. Tooze: This week the late great Levon Helm of The Band would have turned 81. He was born May 26th, 1940 in Elaine Arkansas. He sadly passed away in April of 2012. This is an interview I did for my last podcast DISCovery. It’s with author Sandra B. Tooze, who...

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Ep. 27 - John Illsley: John Illsley is the bass guitarist of the band Dire Straits. He has received multiple BRIT and Grammy Awards, and a Heritage Award. As one of the founding band members, with guitarist brothers Mark and David Knopfler, and drummer Pick Withers, Illsle...

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Episode 49: “Love is Strange” by Mickey and Sylvia: Welcome to episode forty-eight of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs. This one looks at Love is Strange by Mickey and Sylvia, and how a reluctant bluesman who wrote books on jazz guitar, and a failed child star who would later become the mothe

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E155: Robyn Hitchcock on the Soft Boys + David Blue + Mick Farren: We invite the inimitable Robyn Hitchcock to reminisce about his heroically nonconformist career

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E128: Robert Greenfield on the Rolling Stones + Jerry Jeff Walker: In this episode we welcome the great Robert Greenfield, beamed in from his home in Carmel, California, and ask him about his early '70s adventures with the Rolling Stones that inspired the seminal book S.T.P.. Robert recounts his journey from Fusion and Boston After Dark, via Rolling Stone's London bureau, to his stellar career as an author and biographer — including his celebrated books about Bill Graham, Jerry Garcia and Augustus "Owsley" Stanley III. He describes how he showed up at Keith Richards' Villa Nellcote in August 1971, during the recording of the now-50-year-old Exile On Main St.. After this we hear about the defining 1972 pieces he wrote for Rolling Stone about that album's final overdub/mixing stages in L.A., and about the start of the "Stones Touring Party" trek through North America. We also hear a 1997 audio clip of Keef looking back on Exile and its gradual rise to acclaim as the group's greatest albu

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Beatles & Outlaws: Ken Mansfield Comes Down From The Roof: Ken Mansfield has been "in the room" for several major cultural watershed moments. After a meteoric rise through the ranks at Capitol Records in the 1960s, where he worked with artists like Lou Rawls, The Band, and The Beach Boys, Ken was personally chos...

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Ep. 44 - Bill Wurtz: In this episode of the "Here, There, and Everywhere" podcast, host Jack Lawless is joined by the multi-talented musician, songwriter, video producer, and internet personality, Bill Wurtz. Together, they discuss Bill's music, his inspirations, and how...