Legacy Podcasts

Preservation Hall Jazz Band 4

Preservation Hall Jazz Band – That’s It! 2CD Legacy Edition – in stores now from Legacy Recordings

Preservation Hall Jazz Band 3

Preservation Hall Jazz Band – That’s It! 2CD Legacy Edition – in stores now from Legacy Recordings

Preservation Hall Jazz Band 2

Preservation Hall Jazz Band – That’s It! 2CD Legacy Edition – in stores now from Legacy Recordings

Bob Dylan Podcast – Episode 1

  Patti Smith hosts music and conversation about Bob Dylan. His friends, early influences and collaborators discuss their close relationships with Dylan, the stories behind his greatest songs and other memorable moments of his career. Journalists and biographers add critical insights and provide historical contexts. A few of today’s singer-songwriters also detail how Dylan’s art […]

Roy Orbison – Mystery Girl 4

Roy Orbison – Mystery Girl 3

Studio Rio Podcast 4

Studio Rio Podcast 3

Roy Orbison – Mystery Girl 2

Studio Rio Podcast 2

Roy Orbison – Mystery Girl 1

Studio Rio – Podcast 1

First of four podcasts behind the making of Studio Rio Presents the Brazilian Connection.

Sly and the Family Stone – Higher 1

Eight part series Sly and the Family Stone series kicks off with members first had accounts of how they joined the band

Willie Nelson – To All the Girls 3

Emmylou Harris and The Secret Sisters talk about their work with Willie Nelson on To All the Girls...

Willie Nelson – To All the Girls 2

Part 2 of the Willie Nelson To All the Girls podcast features Carrie Underwood and Norah Jones.

Willie Nelson – To All the Girls 1

The brand-new Willie Nelson album in stores Oct 15, To All the Girls, features female duet partners on each track. Many of them join us for this four-part series about how the album was made. Dolly Parton is featured in part 1.

HARRY NILSSON 1

Harry Nilsson story from Mark Hudson after Q104.3 in NYC played the world-premiere of Nilsson's "Blackbird" cover from the RCA Albums Collection box set.

Preservation Hall Jazz Band 1

Legacy Podcasts celebrates the release of the new Preservation Hall Jazz Band release, That's It!, with a brand-new four part series. Go behind the scenes of their first-ever album of all original songs, including the current radio hits "Dear Lord," "Rattlin' Bones" and more. Includes interviews with band members and co-producer Jim James of My Morning Jacket.

Ben Folds Five on Tour 2013

Ben Folds Five - new live album, summer 2013 tour and World Cafe session

Mad Season 4

Our Mad Season episodes conclude with Mike and Barrett remembering their other late bandmember, bassist John Baker Saunders. He and McCready met at rehab, but sadly overdosed in 1999. They then finish the piece by detailing how Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees) came to add his signature howl to "Locomotive" and two other unfinished instrumentals for the new release.

Rodriguez – Searching for Sugar Man 4

The Searching for Sugar Man podcast series concludes with Rodriguez own comments about his triumphant South African concert tour. Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom add their memories of how people still didn't believe he was really alive, even after they bought tickets.

Mad Season 3

Mad Season's classic riff from "I Don't Know Anything" kicks off episode 3, setting the dark tone that leads into Barrett Martin's discussion of Layne Staley's demons.

Mad Season 2

Mike McCready and Barrett Martin look back on they eventually named the band "Mad Season," and the Moore Theater (Seattle) show, It was previously immortalized in video form, and its audio is now available on the Above deluxe reissue.

Rodriguez – Searching for Sugar Man 3

Episode 3 features more from Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, on how they prepared a mid-90s CD release of the 2nd Rodriguez album, Coming from Reality. Which was surprisingly easier to do than tracking down any information on the artist, himself.

Rodriguez – Searching for Sugar Man 2

The "Searching for Sugar Man" series continues with backstory on how conditions in South Africa were ripe for a socially conscious artist like Rodriguez to appeal to the country's liberal whites - especially the musicians.

Mad Season 1

The four part Mad Season podcast hosted by Matt Pinfield tells the story of this Seattle supergroup and their one album, Above. Mike McCready (Pearl Jam), Barrett Martin (Streaming Trees) and the late Layne Staley (Alice in Chains) describe how McCready's rehab stint with late bassist Jon Baker Saunders inspired this acclaimed side project.

Rodriguez – Searching for Sugar Man 1

The "Searching for Sugar Man" series explores the amazing story of Detroit singer/songwriter Rodriguez, as featured in the Oscar-Winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man. Includes clips from the film and tracks from the soundtrack.

Art Garfunkel – The Singer 4

The final Art Garfunkel The Singer podcast includes a clip of a brand-new song, “Long Way Home” and a tribute to his son written for a children’s record. Art Garfunkel: The Singer in stores now from Legacy Recordings      

Art Garfunkel – The Singer 3

Episode 3 begins as Art looks back on how he, Paul Simon and James Taylor approached their recording of “What a Wonderful World.”  Art concludes with his unique ruminations about the on-stage experience. Art Garfunkel: The Singer in stores now from Legacy Recordings      

Art Garfunkel – The Singer 2

The Art Garfunkel The Singer podcast continues with Art’s feelings about the last Simon & Garfunkel tour, leading into a clip of “Cathy’s Song” recorded on that tour.  He also provides some background to his best-selling solo album, Breakaway. Art Garfunkel: The Singer in stores now from Legacy Recordings      

Art Garfunkel – The Singer 1

Four part Art Garfunkel podcast series features "the singer" looking back on his favorite moments as a solo artist, with Paul Simon and other harmony partners. The host is David Dye (World Cafe).

Paul Simon – Graceland 4

Simon counters criticism that Graceland songs weren't political enough.

Paul Simon – Graceland 3

Ladysmith Black Mambazo joins Simon and others in the NYC sessions that created "Homeless" and "Diamonds of the Soles of Her Shoes."

Heart Strange Euphoria 4

Working with John Paul Jones, the inspirations behind "Sand" and a brand new song, "Fanatic," coming for real in Fall 2012.

Paul Simon – Graceland 2

Paul Simon describes how jams recorded at the South African sessions developed into the final tracks.

Heart Strange Euphoria 3

The Wilson sisters look back on their musical education at home, Ann discusses the development of their voice, and the formation of the band that became Heart.

Heart Strange Euphoria 2

Ann and Nancy Wilson discuss what it was like to be women in a rock band among men, and how those experiences found their way into song lyrics.

Paul Simon – Graceland 1

Paul Simon looks back on the 25th anniversary of Graceland

Heart Strange Euphoria 1

New four part Heart podcast series features Ann and Nancy Wilson looking back on their career as they celebrate the release of their Strange Euphoria box set.

Janis Joplin Pearl 4

Final Janis Joplin Pearl podcast shows differences in her public and private lives.

Janis Joplin Pearl 3

Third Janis Joplin Pearl podcast shows how Janis grew as an artist in these studio sessions.

Janis Joplin Pearl 2

Part two of the four-part Janis Joplin Pearl podcast series.

Janis Joplin Pearl 1

Part One of the four-part Janis Joplin Pearl podcast series.

Ben Folds Podcast 10

The series concludes with the story of "Army," featuring its live performance from a 2008 one-off Ben Folds Five reunion show

Ben Folds Podcast 9

"From Above" is one of Ben's collaborations with the author Nick Hornby

Ben Folds Podcast 8

"There's Always Someone Cooler Than You" is one of those sort-of rarities that is actually quite well known.

Ben Folds Podcast 7

"Rocking the Suburbs" as Ben's thesis on how much of pop culture comes from the burbs, not the cities.

Ben Folds Podcast 6

The interesting tale of "Landed" - the smash hit that never was and the big-budget Paul Buckmaster string arrangement.

Ben Folds Podcast 5

Ben remembers how the subtleties of "Brick," his biggest hit with Ben Folds Five, were inspired by watching Neil Young perform when they opened for him on tour.

Wynton Marsalis – Swinging into the 21st part 4

Legacy Podcasts celebrates Wynton Marsalis' 50th birthday by launching the "Swinging into the 21st" series - looking back on the variety of themes present in the series of 10 albums he recorded for Columbia and Sony Classical 1999-2000.