The Record Player
Shuffling music has its rewards, but there's still nothing like listening to a good old-fashioned album, start to finish — and that's what The Record Player is all about. With every episode, we'll dig into the music of and story behind a single LP, with co-hosts Jeff Giles and Matt Wardlaw ("1991: The Year AOR Ate Itself") and special guests acting as your guides.
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Send us a text The great John Sebastian celebrates his 81st birthday today as we"re posting this. We had the good fortune to have a lengthy conversation with John this past fall to discuss John B. Sebastian, his 1970 debut as a solo artist. It"s an album which is certainly underrated and if your ears have never had the
Send us a text In picking her favorite album, author K.L. Doty let us know up front that she couldn"t settle on just one -- something which we"re all familiar with as music fans, right? So we talk about a lot of different music. But in regards to Disintegration by the Cure, specifically, she shared a thought that will
Send us a text You might know Brian Wecht as Ninja Brian. Or maybe you know him as Trey Magnifique. Perhaps, you just know him as Brian and that"s fine too. Matt and Jeff were just thrilled to have him on the podcast to talk about Al Jarreau"s mighty fine Breakin" Away album. But there were conditions. First, an improm
Send us a text Rob Baker of The Tragically Hip joins Matt to discuss the 35th anniversary of the band"s 1989 debut, Up to Here, which is being celebrated with a lavish box set featuring a wealth of previously unreleased content. The box set is available today digitally and will be released in a variety of physical form
Send us a text Professor Louis Moore joins Matt and Jeff to discuss his essential new book, The Great Black Hope: Doug Williams, Vince Evans and the Making of the Black Quarterback. Our engaging discussion with Lou took us deep into the history of Black quarterbacks and athletes in general in the NFL and he talks about
Send us a text This is almost a "lost episode" of sorts. To pull the curtain back a bit, we recorded this episode back in July and then promptly got busy with a bunch of other things. So if you hear a mention or two that sound a bit dated, there ya go. What remains is a fun discussion that we had regarding Robert Wyatt