Category: 3-MusicSometimeTalk

This week Danny and Tyler are joined by comedian Chris Charpentier (@chrischarpie, Jimmy Kimmel Live, High Plains Comedy Festival) to discuss the haunting prairie songs of Colter Wall. Specifically, we dig into the eerie murder ballad "Kate McCannon," and talk about how he uses musical dynamics to match his excellent storytelling. Plus much more!

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New to Colter Wall but short on time? Here's some recs from Chris and the boys:

• Plain to see Plainsman
• The Manitoba Man
• The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie
• Thirteen Silver Dollars
• Codeine Dream
• Motorcycle
• Saskatchewan in 1881
• Roadrunner (with Vincent Neil Emerson)
• Bob Fudge

Follow the link below to keep up with which songs are being added to our Ultimate Country Playlist on Spotify, now including "Kate McCannon"!
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Madonna is the best-selling female recording artist of all time. She has twelve albums that have gone multi-platinum. She’s won seven Grammys, and has had fifty songs reach number 1 on the Billboard Dance chart. That’s more number 1s than anyone in any category, ever. In this episode, she talks about one of those number 1s: “Hung Up,” from her 2005 album Confessions on a Dance Floor. The song and that album were co-produced by Stuart Price, an electronic musician, producer, and DJ from the UK. “Hung Up” began in part because Madonna was working on a film with director Luc Besson (whose films include The Fifth Element and Taken). But the song also grew out of Stuart’s DJ sets.

Madonna has a new career-spanning album out, called Finally Enough Love: 50 Number Ones, and in honor of its release, Madonna and Stuart Price told me the story of how their collaboration and partnership led to one of Madonna’s biggest hits.

For more, visit songexploder.net/madonna.

We start season four of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs with an extra-long look at “San Francisco” by Scott McKenzie, and at the Monterey Pop Festival, and the careers of the Mamas and the Papas and P.F. Sloan.  Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode.

Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on “Up, Up, and Away” by the 5th Dimension.

Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/

Errata: An incorrect version of the file was previously uploaded, with the wrong section edited in at approximately 57 minutes. This was fixed about three hours after uploading, but some streaming services may have cached the wrong file.

Also I say that John Phillips wrote “No, No, No, No”. I got this from an interview with McKenzie, but he must have been misremembering — the song is a cover version of “La Poupee Qui Fait Non” by Michel Polnareff, with English-language lyrics by Geoff Stephens

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Did you know that Olivia Newton-John had a successful career in country music before she was a movie star and pop icon? On today's episode we pay tribute to the original country-to-pop superstar, Olivia Newton-John, who passed away earlier this month. Danny and Tyler discuss her surprise success in country music, the controversy it caused, and more!

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Here's some other recommended ONJ songs (mostly country ones, too!)

• Xanadu (feat. ELO)
• If You Love Me, Let Me Know
• Water Under the Bridge
• Free the People
• Country Girl
• The River's Too Wide
• Love Song
• Just A Little Too Much

Follow the link below to keep up with which songs are being added to our Ultimate Country Playlist on Spotify, now including "Let Me Be There"
https://tinyurl.com/takethispodplaylist
And now on TIDAL!
https://t.co/MHEvOz2DOA

For everything else click HERE!

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This week the boys are joined by Kenny DeForest (@kennydeforest, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Late Late Show) to talk about the gruff yet poetic songs of Tyler Childers. Specifically, we focus on "All Your'n," one of his catchiest tunes (and with a very psychedelic video). We also talk Childers' incredible ability to capture struggle, debauchery, and love through his poetic lyrics, and how he made a protest album with almost no words sung.

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Wanna hear more Tyler Childers but don't know where to start? Try these songs, recommended by Kenny, Danny, and Tyler:

• Nose on the Grindstone
• Whitehouse Road
• Feathered Indians
• Lady May
• Country Squire
• House Fire
• Purgatory
• I Swear (To God)
• Ever Lovin’ Hand
• Long Violent History

Follow the link below to keep up with which songs are being added to our Ultimate Country Playlist on Spotify, now including "All Your'n"
https://tinyurl.com/takethispodplaylist
And now on TIDAL!
https://t.co/MHEvOz2DOA

For everything else click HERE!

See the full video of Tyler Childers' explanation of his album Long Violent History here.

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Transcript

This is the official announcement that episode one hundred and fifty-one will be up in precisely one week. I’ve just finished recording it, and am now in the process of recording episodes one hundred and fifty-two through one hundred and fifty-four while Tilt edits one hundred and fifty-one. For those of you who are Patreon backers, the Patreon-only Q&A is up now.

This will be the start of season four, which is going to work slightly differently from previous seasons, because of the time off I gave myself. I now have a better idea of how much work I can do in parallel, and I’ve come to the conclusion that the most sustainable release pattern is going to be two weeks on, one week off, so you’ll be getting four episodes every six weeks. I will still release Patreon bonuses on the weeks I don’t release a mainline episode.

The episodes are going to be written and recorded in batches of four, and the general plan is going to be that every batch of four will have a long episode — a ninety-minute or two-hour one — a short half-hour episode, and two other episodes which will probably be about an hour but can vary depending on time constraints. In this batch, episode 151 is going to be the long one, episode 154 the shortest, and the two in the middle will be middling length.

So, join us back here in a week, for the ghost of James Dean, a prediction of the future, and the start of the summer of love.

Kae Tempest is a songwriter, rapper, an award-winning poet, and best-selling novelist. They’ve been nominated for the UK’s Mercury Prize and Brit Award. Their most recent album is The Line is a Curve, which came out earlier this year. It was executive produced by legendary producer Rick Rubin. Kae made the album alongside their longtime collaborator, producer Dan Carey. I talked to Kae and Dan talk about the song "Move." You’ll hear the first demo they made, which sounds almost nothing like the final version. In this episode, they talk about how the track evolved over several sessions, months apart. Kae’s own life changed a lot during that period. They came out as trans and non-binary in 2020, and this song, in part, helps tell the story of what they were going through.

https://songexploder.net/kae-tempest

On this week's episode, Danny and Tyler share one of Emmylou Harris' signature tunes, "Feelin' Single - Seein' Double." The boys also discuss on Harris' evolution from Greenwich Village folkster to country music living legend, her impressive catalog of collaborators, and which country supergroups we've been leading up to featuring on future episodes!

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New to Emmylou Harris? We've got a very abridged list of recommendations for you! 

• Amarillo
• Ooh Las Vegas
• Two More Bottles of Wine
• One of these Days
• If I Could Only Win Your Love
• Born to Run (preferably live!)

Follow the link below to keep up with which songs are being added to our Ultimate Country Playlist on Spotify, now including "Feelin' Single - Seein' Double"
https://tinyurl.com/takethispodplaylist
And now on TIDAL!
https://t.co/MHEvOz2DOA

For everything else click HERE!

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