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Let It Roll

555 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 88 ratings

"Let it Roll" is a podcast about the history of popular music from the 19th Century to the 21st. Proud part of Pantheon - the podcast network for music lovers.

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Episodes

Farewell episode

January 29, 2024 18:00 - 50 minutes

Nate steps back from the show with a farewell Q&A with Steph. CHECK OUT THE LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you can afford it please consider becoming a paid subscriber to support the show. Thanks! Have a question or a suggestion for a topic or person for Nate t...

Nine Inch Nails channeled the nightmare into music

January 25, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour

We're recasting Nate's 2021 interview with Adam Steiner author of "Into The Never: Nine Inch Nails And The Creation Of The Downward Spiral" Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you can afford it please consider becomin...

Mamas and the Papa John Phillips' old evil spirit

January 22, 2024 18:00 - 50 minutes

Nate holds a seance and summons the old evil spirit of Papa John Phillips. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you can afford it please consider becoming a paid subscriber to support the show. Thanks! Have a question...

Gram Parsons lived a nightmare on purpose

January 18, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour

We're re-casting Nate's 2021 interview with David N Meyer author of "Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music" Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you can afford it please consid...

Nirvana's biographer looks back at Kurt Cobain and his band after 30 years

January 15, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour

Host Nate Wilcox welcomes back Michael Azerrad to discuss the new edition of his classic Nirvana biography "The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana." Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you can afford it p...

Rock 'n' Roll's first and worst nightmare

January 11, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour

One more installment from the nightmares series, we're recasting Nate's 2018 conversation with Ed Ward about 1959, the year rock 'n' roll nearly died. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you can afford it please consider becoming a paid subscriber t...

Brian Jones came to a bad end after the Rolling Stones fired him

January 08, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour

We're concluding the nightmares series with a Q&A session where Steph asks Nate more questions about Brian Jones and the Rolling Stones. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you can afford it please consider becoming a paid subscriber to support the ...

Hardcore punk was a nightmare for 80s corporate America

January 04, 2024 18:00 - 1 hour

We're recasting Nate's 2020 interview with Steven Blush author of "American Hardcore." Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you can afford it please consider becoming a paid subscriber to support the show. Thanks! ...

The awful enigma of Brian Jones and the Rolling Stones

January 01, 2024 18:00 - 52 minutes

We're continuing the nightmares series with a Q&A session where Steph asks Nate questions about Brian Jones and the Rolling Stones. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you can afford it please consider becoming a paid subscriber to support the show....

Jim Morrison lived out the rock 'n' roll nightmare with The Doors

December 22, 2023 14:49 - 1 hour

As part of our Let It Roll Nightmares series this week we're recasting Nate's 2019 discussion with Christain Swain and Shelley Sorenson of the classic biography of Doors lead vocalist Jim Morrison "No One Here Gets Out Alive" by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get mu...

Why was Brian Jones so wrong for the Rolling Stones?

December 18, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour

As part of our Let It Roll Nightmares series this week Steph asks Nate some questions about Brian Jones and the Rolling Stones. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you can afford it please consider becoming a paid subscriber to support the show. Tha...

Little Willie John's dreams turned to nightmares

December 14, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour

As part of our Let It Roll Nightmares series we're re-casting Nate's 2019 interview with Susan Whitall author of  Fever: Little Willie John: A Fast Life, Mysterious Death, and the Birth of Soul." Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every...

Mick Jagger on Brian Jones and forming the Rolling Stones

December 11, 2023 18:00 - 52 minutes

As part of our Let It Roll telepathy series, Nate is discussing Mick Jagger's interview with Jann Wenner in the 1990s.. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you can afford it please consider becoming a paid subscrib...

The Grateful Dead were the pied pipers of psychedelics

December 07, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour

As part of our Let It Roll Nightmares series we're re-casting Nate's 2019 interview with Jesse Jarnow author of "Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America." The interview focuses on the Grateful Dead's outsize role in bringing psychedelics to a mass American audience. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and g...

In the end the Rolling Stones chewed up and spat out Andrew Loog Oldham

December 04, 2023 18:16 - 53 minutes

Host Nate Wilcox concludes our telepathic interview series with original Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham to discuss his memoir "2Stoned." In this episode we cover the dramatic collapse of Oldham's relationship with Mick Jagger, the entrance of Alan Klein and the death of Brian Jones. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the em...

Grandmaster Flash brought turntablism to Hip-Hop

November 30, 2023 21:17 - 1 hour

Host Nate Wilcox welcomes back Brooks Long to discuss David Ritz' co-authored memoir of Grandmaster Flash "My Life, My Beats." Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you can afford it please consider becoming a paid s...

Andrew Loog Oldham broke The Rolling Stones in the USA

November 27, 2023 19:56 - 1 hour

We're continuing our telepathic interview series with a follow up with original Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham to discuss his memoir "2Stoned." Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you can afford it pleas...

Phil Spector's rise and fall was a rock 'n' roll nightmare

November 20, 2023 18:00 - 2 hours

We're continuing our Nightmares series with a re-casting of Nate's 2019 interview with Mick Brown author of "Tearing Down the Wall of Sound: The Rise and Fall of Phil Spector." Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if y...

Andrew Loog Oldham made The Rolling Stones the band Britain loved to hate

November 16, 2023 18:11 - 58 minutes

We couldn't book Andrew Loog Oldham to discuss his book "Stoned: A Memoir of London in the 1960s" so Nate's doing the interview with telepathy. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you can afford it please consider...

Why Altamont went so wrong for the Rolling Stones and everyone else

November 13, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour

We're recasting Nate's 2022 interview with Joel Selvin author of "Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day" in which he details who was at most fault for the disastrous rock festival and how it broke the spirits of three bands involved: The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead and the Jefferson Airplane. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, gen...

Marianne Faithfull got too close to the fire with the Rolling Stones

November 09, 2023 18:00 - 49 minutes

Nate concludes his telepathic interview with Marianne Faithfull or her co-author David Dalton to discuss their book "Faithfull: An Autobiography" with a discussion of her time as part of the Rolling Stones intimate circle. This episode deals with Anita Pallenberg leaving Brian Jones for Keith Richards, the infamous bust at Redlands and ensuing trials and publicity nightmare, the death of Brian Jones, and the filming of Performance where Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg's on-set and on-screen ...

The Rolling Stones' journey to Altamont

November 06, 2023 18:00 - 56 minutes

We're recasting Nate's 2019 conversation with the great Stanley Booth who witnessed Brian Jones' 1968 trial and toured with the surviving Rolling Stones in 1969 and was on stage at Altamont and lived to tell the tale. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) ...

Marianne Faithfull abandoned her pop career to be Mick Jagger's muse

November 02, 2023 17:00 - 56 minutes

Nate wasn't able to book Marianne Faithfull or her co-author David Dalton to discuss their book ""Faithfull: An Autobiography" so he dialed them in telepathically for this discussion. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. A...

Brian Jones got everything he asked for when he formed the Rolling Stones

October 30, 2023 17:00 - 55 minutes

As part of our "Let It Roll: Nightmares" mini-series we're recasting host Nate Wilcox's 2018 interview with Paul Trynka, biographer of the ultimate rock 'n' roll nightmare: Brian Jones, founder of the Rolling Stones. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) t...

Living with the Rolling Stones in 1963

October 26, 2023 17:36 - 56 minutes

Nate wasn't able to book James Phelge to discuss his book "Nankering With the Rolling Stones" so he dialed him in telepathically for this discussion. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you can afford it please co...

Jerry Lee Lewis bounced back at the Star Club

October 23, 2023 17:00 - 52 minutes

We're recasting Nate's 2019 interview with  Joe Bonomo about his book "Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found." Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you can afford it please consider becoming a paid subscriber to support ...

Vernon Dalhart: The forgotten first superstar of country music

October 19, 2023 18:44 - 41 minutes

Host Nate Wilcox summons the spirit of the late Jack Palmer to discuss his biography of Vernon Dalhart, the first star of country music. Unfortunately this book is out of print but I recommend inter-library loan if you must read it. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of ev...

Let Motown Roll 9: Rick James was the last great Motown star

October 16, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour

We continue our Let Motown Roll mini-series with a recast of Nate and Brooks Long's 2022 discussion of "Glow: The Autobiography of Rick James" (co-written by David Ritz). Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you ca...

Genre, instruments, the meta-history of 20th century music: Reader's Mailbag

October 12, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour

Host Nate Wilcox answers questions from Let It Roll readers. Topics include "What do you think is the most important era of music over the last 100 years?", What is your personal favorite era and why? and many more. Buy the book that started the whole series and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from N...

Let Motown Roll 8: Smokey Robinson fulfilled Berry Gordy's vision

October 09, 2023 17:00 - 57 minutes

We continue our Let Motown Roll mini-series with a recast of Nate and Brooks Long's 2022 discussion of the autobiography "Smokey Robinson: Inside My Life" (co-written by David Ritz). Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Al...

The 90s Austin underground scene that produced Spoon, The Cherubs and many more

October 05, 2023 18:54 - 1 hour

Today Nate welcomes Greg Beets to discuss his book “A Curious Mix of People: The Underground Scene of '90s Austin” this is a special episode for Nate as he was a participant in the scene as a fanzine writer, club booker and band member. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as we...

Let Motown Roll 7: The epic tragedy of Marvin Gaye

October 02, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour

We continue our Let Motown Roll mini-series with a recast of Nate and Brook Long's 2021 discussion of David Ritz's classic biography "Divided Soul: The Life Of Marvin Gaye." Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you...

Eugene S. Robinson's journey from disco and no wave to hardcore and finally post-hardcore

September 28, 2023 17:00 - 59 minutes

Host Nate Wilcox welcomes Eugene S. Robinson to discuss his new memoir "A Walk Across Dirty Water and Straight Into Murderer's Row" which covers his live during the period he went from dancing at Studio 54, playing saxophone in a New York no wave band to leading NorCal hardcore band Whipping Boy and that band's evolution into a post-hardcore noise rock band that would ultimately become Oxbow. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ epi...

Let Motown Roll 6: Holland Dozier Holland perfected the Motown approach

September 25, 2023 17:00 - 59 minutes

We continue our Let Motown Roll mini-series with a recast of Nate's 2021 interview with Dave Thompson, the co-author of "Come and Get These Memories: The Story of Holland-Dozier-Holland." Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episod...

Lou Reed's Transformer came out in a big way

September 21, 2023 17:00 - 58 minutes

This week host Nate Wilcox welcomes Simon Doonan to discuss his book "Transformer: A Story of Glitter, Glam Rock, and Loving Lou Reed" and what it was like to be young, gay and glam in London in 1972 and how much Lou Reed's work meant in the context of its time. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get mu...

Let Motown Roll 5: The Funk Brothers rocked in the shadows of Motown

September 18, 2023 17:00 - 54 minutes

We continue our Let Motown Roll mini-series with a recast of Nate's 2021 interview with Dr Licks aka Allan Slutsky author of "Standing in the Shadows of Motown: The Life and Music of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson" which expanded into the movie of the same name that focused on the Funk Brothers as a whole. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please si...

Seance Roll 3: Questioning Ed Ward's History of Rock N Roll

September 14, 2023 17:00 - 30 minutes

As part of our Let It Roll Seance series, Nate is invoking the spirit of series co-founder Ed Ward for a discussion of his History of Rock n Roll part one and two. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you can affor...

Let Motown Roll 4: The women of Motown

September 11, 2023 20:03 - 1 hour

As part of our Motown Roll series we're re-presenting Nate's 2020 conversation with An interview with Susan Whitall, author of "Women of Motown: An Oral History" Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you can afford ...

Seance Roll 2: The agony of mid-20th century classical music

September 07, 2023 17:00 - 47 minutes

Host Nate Wilcox continues our Let It Roll seance series with a discussion of the late Henry Pleasants' 1955 book "The Agony of Modern Music." Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you can afford it please consider ...

Let Motown Roll 3: The man who sold Motown's records

September 04, 2023 17:00 - 50 minutes

As part of our Motown Roll series we're re-presenting Nate's 2019 conversation with Adam White, co-author with the late Barney Ales of "Motown: The Sound of Young America." The book is the definitive account of the business of Motown Records as told by the man who was Berry Gordon's business right-hand. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up...

Seance Roll 1: The Beatles messed with listeners' heads and ultimately paid the price

August 31, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour

Host Nate Wilcox communes with the spirit of the late Ian MacDonald in a solo discussion of MacDonald's seminal "Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties." Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if y...

Let Motown Roll 2: Berry Gordy's mastery at Motown

August 28, 2023 17:00 - 56 minutes

In this encore presentation host Nate Wilcox welcomes Andrew Flory to discuss his book "I Hear a Symphony: Motown and Crossover R&B." Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you can afford it please consider becoming ...

The Butthole Surfers, Big Boys, Dicks and Scratch Acid led Texas' crazed punk scene

August 24, 2023 17:00 - 59 minutes

Host Nate Wilcox welcomes Pat Blashill to discuss his book "Texas Is the Reason: The Mavericks of Lone Star Punk." Pat was part of the Austin, Texas punk scene that lured Nate to Austin and the two compare notes on their musical hometown. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as ...

Let Motown Roll 1: Florence Ballard formed the Supremes and paid the ultimate price

August 21, 2023 17:00 - 58 minutes

Hosts Nate Wilcox welcomes Peter Benjaminson to discuss his book "The Lost Supreme: The Life of Dreamgirl Florence Ballard." Peter opens up about Florence Ballard, her lead role in forming the Supremes, how she lost out to Diana Ross in the fight to be the lead vocalist, got pushed out of the group at the height of their fame and died young and broke in Detroit. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini...

The KLF triggered the cosmic when they burned £1 million pounds

August 17, 2023 17:00 - 57 minutes

Hosts Nate Wilcox welcomes back Brooks Long to discuss David Ritz' oral history "The Brothers: An Autobiography" co-written with the Neville Brothers. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you can afford it please c...

The Neville Brothers took New Orleans R&B to a whole new audience

August 14, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour

Hosts Nate Wilcox welcomes back Brooks Long to discuss David Ritz' oral history "The Brothers: An Autobiography" co-written with the Neville Brothers. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you can afford it please c...

Peter Asher scored in the British Invasion and ruled in the Singer-Songwriter Era

August 10, 2023 17:00 - 58 minutes

Hosts Nate Wilcox welcomes David Jacks to discuss his book "Peter Asher: A Life In Music." Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get music essays from Nate as well as (eventually) transcriptions of every episode. Also if you can afford it please consider becoming a paid subscriber to support the show. Than...

Latin Roll 3: The most popular American musician of the 19th century connected Cuba and New Orleans

August 07, 2023 17:00 - 1 hour

Hosts Nate Wilcox welcomes back Ned Sublette to continue the discussion about his book "Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo." This episode looks at Louis Moreau Gottschalk, the most popular and important 19th Century American composer who connected New Orleans to Havana. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email ...

Beethoven freed music from the tyranny of patronage

August 03, 2023 17:00 - 55 minutes

Hosts Nate Wilcox welcomes Norman Lebrecht author of "Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in One Hundred Pieces." Nate asks Norman about Beethoven's innovative business practices, his conflicts with royalty, his opposition to the sexual mores of imperial Vienna and more. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign up for the email list on the site and get m...

Latin Roll 2: Clave and the contradance in the colonial Caribbean

July 31, 2023 17:00 - 58 minutes

Hosts Nate Wilcox welcomes back Ned Sublette to continue the discussion about his book "Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo." This episode looks at the musical developments in the colonial Caribbean as the Spanish, French and English found their culture influenced by the African diaspora. Buy the book and support the show. CHECK OUT THE NEW LET IT ROLL WEB SITE -- We've got all 350+ episodes listed, organized by mini-series, genre, era, co-host, guest and more. Please sign...

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