Best Hallgren Podcasts (2025)

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Episode 171: December Holiday Songs 58:04

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Episode 171: December Holiday SongsDecember 18, 2024There are many holidays in the month of December and you might hear of some that you didn’t know about on today’s Tales Vinyl Tells. I do love the old rockin’ Christmas tunes (Ronettes, Beach Boys and the like) as well as those from Tull, Greg Lake and Dan Fogelberg. Sit back and relax, have a cup…

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Episode 203: The Stylus Is In The Groove And We're Spinning In Circles 58:18

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Episode 203: The Stylus Is In The Groove And We're Spinning In Circles December 15, 2025A list had accumulated of tunes for a Tales Vinyl Tells program and it finally came time to reveal that list. It was……just the right time. So, there’s Renbourn, Winchester, Lake, The ‘Tramp, even Michael Stanley with a cooker, backed by some pros, like Joe Walsh…

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Episode 134: Bonnie's Story 57:56

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Episode 134: Bonnie's StoryDecember 3, 2025In a conversation with my friend Bonnie, she said how hearing a certain tune brought back memories of a time long ago. Who she was hanging out with, what music he was listening to (and the B-52s Rock Lobster was driving her crazy). He played it over and over, saturating his beloved partner. But she smiled …

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Episode 154: Supermoon Music And More 58:00

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Episode 154: Supermoon Music And MoreNovember 25, 2025Heres Another Tales Vinyl Tells, sharing the The vinyl albums from the 60s & 70s, those LPs carried the new wave of The British Invasion while America was already experiencing its own invasion from Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, Mamas and Papas, CSN&Y, Bob Dylan, The Doors, …

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Episode 108: Good Stuff Growing Up Around The Ocean 57:59

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Episode 108: Good Stuff Growing Up Around The Ocean October 24, 2025Some of the songs of summer are right here and they are not what you might expect. Tales Vinyl Tells is in our 4th year of bringing some of those great album tracks of the 60s & 70s to you and thrown into the mix are some others that just need to be added to the recipe for a eargas…

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Episode 149: Quite The British Lineup And Sure, There Are The Temptations And Delaney W Bonnie... 57:58

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Episode 149: Quite The British Lineup And Sure, There Are The Temptations And Delaney W Bonnie...October 11, 2025 July 9, 2024 This is Tales Vinyl Tells, continuing to play a lot of the music from the first 37 episodes. There’s lot of great stuff here today. Like Blue Jays, Buddy Guy, The Strawberry Hill Boys. Who? Just listen. Best heard with head…

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Episode 201: There Was A Time...... 58:00

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Episode 201: There Was A Time......October 10, 2025Wakajawaka and hello to all of you. This is Tales Vinyl Tells, our extraterrestrial exploration into that great rock of the 60s & 70s that was recorded on vinyl albums and rocked at 33-1/3 revolutions per minute. Today’s LP Cuts come from Santana, the Stones, Savoy Brown, Jason Isbell and lots more…

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Episode 99: Fun In The Rock Albums Of The 60s & 70s 57:58

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Episode 99: Fun In The Rock Albums Of The 60s & 70sOctober 2, 2025From ARS and their historic background to the JimJam of Nights in White Satan, this is another fun hour of the great music that came off of the vinyls on the ‘60s & ‘70s.And thanks for listening today. My email is [email protected]. If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells whe…

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Episode 200: I Am An AntiFascist Creator! Definition Below. 1:03:27

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Episode 200: I Am An AntiFascist Creator! Definition Below.September 23, 2025A fore note: Today Tuesday 9/23/25, I will be guest co-host on my friend Steve Haggard’s radio show, The Haggard & Haggard Radio Hour, at 4 PM CDT on RadioFreeNashville.org. We’ll chat a bit about music and especially my choices for today, two from a very inspiring artist,…

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Episode 199: Fall Faves, Salute To Mark Volman 1:04:56

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Episode 199: Fall Faves, Salute To Mark VolmanSeptember 19, 2025Here’s another Tales Vinyl Tells for ya. High, hello and welcome back to more of that great album rock of the 60s & 70s along with (sometimes) tunes on either sides of those decades. It’s almost fall here in middle Tennessee and Nashville. Summer is winding down and it’s been one hot m…

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Episode 85: Macon And Capricorn Records, Tommy Talton Salute And Who'll Stop The Rain JimJam 59:30

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Episode 85: Macon And Capricorn Records, Tommy Talton Salute And Who'll Stop The Rain JimJamSeptember 14, 2025Today’s show is a replay from February 2024, bringing some of the great album rock of the 60s and 70s right to your ears and to your mind. I'm a child of the 60s and I just love this music. It brings me back to sense excitement. The smells,…

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Episode 198: Salute To Peter Green, This Is Military Madness 57:56

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Episode 198: Salute To Peter Green, This Is Military MadnessSeptember 7, 2025Welcome back to another Tales Vinyl Tells. I hope you’re well and feeling great today. In the next hour you’ll hear some of those great album cuts from the 60s & 70s. Some are live updates like one from Joe Bonamassa and a 461 Ocean Blvd tune. Ry’s live. So is Mick Fleetwo…

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Episode 126: Chris Hillman Salute! He's Been A Major Player In Rock And Country/Rock 59:24

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Episode 126: Chris Hillman Salute! He's Been A Major Player In Rock And Country/RockAugust 29, 2025At the turntables today with some of that great album rock from the 60s & 70s. Those sweet vinyls can still sound as good today as they did 50+ years ago. Pardon the ashes and candlewax. But there aren't any greasy fingerprints because we hold them by…

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Episode 8: Have You Ever Seen The Firefall In Yosemite Or Been In The Hall Of The Mountain King? 59:44

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Episode 8: Have You Ever Seen The Firefall In Yosemite Or Been In The Hall Of The Mountain King?August 25, 2025This is a replay of a very early show that ran on RadioFreeNashville in 2023, though it was about the 45th or so overall. And I say hello to you and wonder how you’re doing in this crazy time? I’m taking care, staying well and being nice. …

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Episode 197: Celebration 5. What Has This/We Become? 1:05:47

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Episode 197: Celebration 5. What Has This/We Become?August 14, 2025Hello and a big hi to you and you and you and you hope you’re doing very well today. It’s another Tales Vinyl Tells! Today we’ve got some interesting music, ha ha, a lot of it from the 60s and 70s, and some of it is brand new music. From people who were making music in the 60s and 7…

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Episode 150: Finding The Good Stuff Of Growing Up Near The Ocean 57:24

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Episode 150: Finding The Good Stuff Of Growing Up Near The OceanAugust 8, 2025What are the good memories of your childhood? What music soothed you or really turned you on? For me, the ocean was 10 minutes away by car. 20 on bike. The aroma of the salt sea is evident hours away. It was soothing to see the calm flat blue, like glass. It was also exci…

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Episode 196: Celebration Of Life 4. Did We Miss Something? 1:01:27

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Episode 196: Celebration Of Life 4. Did We Miss Something?July 31, 2025Hi again and welcome to another Tales Vinyl Tells. This hour is all about the music of the 60s & 70s, with occasional reaches north or south of those decades, but hopefully it’s all good. Thanks for tuning in. If you’re a boomer, you know what I’m playing here. If you’re not so …

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Episode 195: Celebration Of Life In The Present. It Is A Gift, After All. 1:02:22

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Episode 195: Celebration Of Life In The Present. It Is A Gift, After All.July 22, 2025Hi again and welcome to another Tales Vinyl Tells. This is an ear-pleasing excursion into the great music from the albums of the 60s & 70s. Sometimes outside those decades too. and we’re celebrating life more these days with some tunes that might describe my ways …

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Episode 194: Celebration Of This Life, Part 2. What Songs Describe Your Life? 57:35

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Episode 194: Celebration Of This Life, Part 2. What Songs Describe Your Life?July 15, 2025Hi again and welcome to another Tales Vinyl Tells. This is a plunge into the great music from the albums of the 60s & 70s. As suggested by my wonderful partner, Sparky, The vinyl ventures today celebrate life in the here and now and they are a part of my Celeb…

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Episode 97: Gershwin Prize Winner 57:38

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Episode 97: Gershwin Prize WinnerJuly 6, 2025And the Gershwin Prize goes to …….The aging process on humans is real. What we do and dont do may play a big part in how that process affects us or not. The vinyl LPs of that era and the new ones being purchased today will last a lot longer than the color in our hair or our smooth and youthful skin. All …

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Episode 105: Happy Independence Day! It's The 4th Of July TVT! 58:18

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Episode 105: Happy Independence Day! It's The 4th Of July TVT!July 1, 2025Here’s a salute to America with Yes, Steppenwolf, Karla Bonoff, Linda Ronstadt with one of Bonoff’s tunes and an encouragement to be registered to vote and to be aware of ballot issues everytime the polls are open. Vote with your head and heart. I also encourage you to even c…

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Episode 193: NEW! Salute And Thanks To Brian Wilson And Sly Stone 1:07:59

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Episode 193: NEW! Salute And Thanks To Brian Wilson And Sly StoneJune 26, 2025I have been working on a new series of these shows for a little while now and I’ll tell you about that in a few minutes. And it will affect everyone of us in our lifetime. Don’t be scared, don’t fret, there’s lots of great album cuts from the 60s and 70s in the next hour …

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Episode 147: Juneteenth Special 58:00

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Episode 147: Juneteenth SpecialJune 17, 2025Here it is again. My annual salute to the celebration of the end of slavery on June 19, 1865 when Union General Gordon Granger read federal orders in Galveston, Texas that all previously enslaved people in Texas were free even though the emancipation proclamation had formally freed them almost 2-1/2 years…

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Episode 162: Saluting Kristofferson, Lesh, Sergio, John David 1:00:39

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June 5, 2025The hourglass is filling with sand. I’ve been working on this one over the past couple weeks and got the word that Phil Lesh passed, I knew that I needed to finish up and get the salutes ready. These four had unique lives and affected millions around the world, like many of the artists from the 60s & 70s did. This hour is a major tease.…

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Episode 118: Indian Summer, RIP Rudolph, Petty/Campbell Now And Then, Health Workers Salute 1:00:02

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Didn’t get no notice from Spot-to-fy since last time I posted. Maybe they were just being sensitive and not getting any attention. Whatever. We’ll see what happens this week and see if I can care any less.This time we salute all health care workers and providers, including those on what some call “the fringes”, complementary medicine, like osteopat…

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Tales Vinyl Tells Music Podcast Episode 192! New and improved! Lots of LPs to hear. So little time. 1:02:15

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Episode 192! New and improved! Lots of LPs to hear. So little time.Hello and welcome to another Tales Vinyl Tells. Our trek into the great album rock of the 1960s and 70s is what we focus on here. The albums that came out during that time carried at least one maybe two really great numbers and my mission is to dig some of those hidden gems out and …

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Episode 191! A New Dive Into The Great Album Rock Of The 60s & 70s 1:05:53

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Episode 191! A New Dive Into The Great Album Rock Of The 60s & 70sMay 20, 2025Welcome back to the 60s and 70s….music, that is. It’s Tales Vinyl Tells! Today we jump into the time machine and re-visit 1966, Woodstock and what’s that smell? There’s Something in the air. I’ve got a cut from Ummagumma, even Deep Purple. My name’s Brian Hallgren and thi…

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Episode 190: What Should I Name This One? 1:09:37

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Episode 190: What Should I Name This One?May 13, 2025I hope I caught you at a good time. After all, this is a program about the great album cuts of the 60s and 70s. This is Tales Vinyl Tells and I am Brian Hallgren. Today we continue to feature a lot of the songs from the year 1969, in particular. These cuts may not be what you expect to hear from …

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Episode 189: One Of The Main Musical Topics Of The 60s: Protest! 1:03:15

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Episode 189: One Of The Main Musical Topics Of The 60s: Protest!May 6, 2025One nonviolent way to show one’s displeasure/disgust/disagreement is to protest. In a letter to the editor, written in a blog, by contacting your lawmakers, taking it to the streets and there are many other ways. Pete Seeger was known for his songs protesting mistreatment of…

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Episode 184: Some Of The Goodies From 1969 1:04:04

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Episode 184: Some Of The Goodies From 1969May 1, 2025Hello and welcome! It’s another Tales Vinyl Tells, an excursion into the great album cuts of our vinyl records of the 60s & 70s. Today we’re tuned into some of the 1969 releases that rocked and changed the consciousness of the world. Tommy, the Who’s Rock Opera came out in 69. So did the Stones’ …

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This is Episode 188: Come Along With Me And Let's Dig Some LPs! 58:01

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It's another Tales Vinyl Tells! You've heard a lot of these before and they are so much fun to hear again! This is Episode 188: Come Along With Me And Let's Dig Some LPs! April 22, 2025 We loved sitting around after work in the late 60s and early 70s and checking out the new LPs that were flooding the market and heard on great radio stations like M…

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Episode 187: A Few Years Ago, Bob Dylan Sold An Estimated $300 Million Worth Of His Work 1:00:17

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Episode 187: A Few Years Ago, Bob Dylan Sold An Estimated $300 Million Worth Of His WorkApril 15, 2025He signed with Columbia in 1961 and the deal included around 600 pieces. More details in this episode, which includes Dylan himself and lots of great copies of his songs. The Byrds really favored Dylan’s works and recorded around 18 of his songs. T…

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TALES VINYL TELLS PODCAST Episode 186: It Was A New Year, 2023! Salute To Christine McVie And More 57:59

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TALES VINYL TELLS PODCAST Episode 186: It Was A New Year, 2023! Salute To Christine McVie And More April 8, 2025 Looks like we made it to a new year. I was beginning to wonder. Last year had some good, some sad but the best thing is that is ended. I had a Covid Christmas, lost a couple really good people, like my 30 year old niece, my 62 year old f…

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Episode 185: Jerry Lee W/E Street Band, Leeds Music, Blue Jays, Fogelberg 59:02

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Episode 185: Jerry Lee W/E Street Band, Leeds Music, Blue Jays, FogelbergMarch 31, 2025Going back to the first airing of episode 30 on RadioFreeNashville.org and November 2022, we’ll play Jerry Lee Lewis and Springsteen’s Band at the opening of the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, which, looking at recent inductees, should be remarqueed Hall of Music (Pop…

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Episode 183: Remembering Marianne Faithfull, Jesse Colin Young And Roy Ayers, Jr. + More 1:02:12

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Episode 183: Remembering Marianne Faithfull, Jesse Colin Young And Roy Ayers, Jr. + MoreMarch 25, 2025Welcome back to this hour that we call Tales Vinyl Tells. It’s your chance to hear some of the great album rock from the 60s and 70s mostly. We’ve been doing these programs since late 2019 and have covered lots a ground. You know and I know that we…

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Episode 182: The Final Vinyl! Another Of The 29 LPs That Sold More Than 15 Million Units! 58:42

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Episode 182: The Final Vinyl! Another Of The 29 LPs That Sold More Than 15 Million Units!March 18, 2025I hope you're having a good day. I'm going to play the final vinyl of the 29 albums of all time that sold more than 15 million copies and this one is not the biggest selling LP, but stayed on the charts for 1,716 weeks! That's the equivalent of 33…

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Episode 181: More Of The Best Selling LPs, Alanis! 57:55

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Episode 181: More Of The Best Selling LPs, Alanis!March 11, 2025It’s another adventure into that great album rock of the 1960s and 1970s. In fact we are continuing to wind down the 29 best selling albums of all time that sold more than 15 million copies as of July 22, 2022 and listed by insider.com. We’re down to number two and there’s more great m…

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Episode 180! Here In Gator Landing, Fla There's No Time To Lose! 58:24

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Episode 180! Here In Gator Landing, Fla There's No Time To Lose!March 4, 2025Today’s hour is a visit to the radio program of November 2022 on RadioFreeNashville.org and is a salute to the spirit of Nicolette Larson and her work as a successful solo artist and her work with The Doobies, Neil Young and many of the artists that Ted Templeman produced.…

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Episode 179: Judy, Bobby, Petty, Koopy, Bluesy, Rocky And More, For Fun 1:06:47

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Episode 179: Judy, Bobby, Petty, Koopy, Bluesy, Rocky And More, For FunFebruary 25, 2025This is Tales Vinyl Tells. And it’s another hour of some of the best rock tunes from albums of the 60s and 70s with some delicacies tossed in, just because. I’m saying hello from south florida, in Sandy Beach actually. Today, we’re going to salute a few great ar…

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Episode 178: Looking Way Back To 2020. About Animals. 1:00:00

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Episode 178: Looking Way Back To 2020. About Animals.February 19, 2025In August 2022, RadioFreeNashville.org ran Tales Vinyl Tells in its adapted version for on air and on time, not to run over the given hour. A musical program about Dogs, Cows, Animals and Doves, in general. All here. Have you ever seen the funny image of a cat on a leash? Here. M…

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Episode 177: Love Is All You Need 58:12

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Episode 177: Love Is All You NeedFebruary 12, 2025We are still in our southern studio and we want to revisit a previous episode, in particular, from DATE and episode 17. We’re getting into the season of love and Cupid and doing exceptional things for our sweeties. Yes I’m talking about Valentine’s Day. So this is the Valentines edition of Tales Vin…

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Episode 176: TVT Salutes Next Door Artists Mike Pinera And Garth Hudson 57:59

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Episode 176: TVT Salutes Next Door Artists Mike Pinera And Garth HudsonFebruary 3, 2025Hey and Hello! Welcome in for more of those Tales Vinyl Tells. This is our weekly immersion into some great music that appeared on vinyls, especially during the 60s and 70s. A lot of those albums are still playable today and are played and appreciated all over th…

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Episode 175: Way Down Low, Playing The Bass. Leland Sklar Live Tribute 57:21

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Episode 175: Way Down Low, Playing The Bass. Leland Sklar Live TributeJanuary 29, 2025Here we go with another Tales Vinyl Tells! It’s our plunge into some of that great album rock especially from the 60s and 70s. The vinyl albums are classic, they’re vintage, and today the upsurge in album sales is really wonderful to see and read about. A lot of a…

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Episode 174: Tom Petty And Heartbreakers And Fleetwood Mac On PCOC Day 4! 57:59

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Episode 174: Tom Petty And Heartbreakers And Fleetwood Mac On PCOC Day 4!January 21, 2025Last week, it was Day 4 of the PCOC, which featured Johnny Winter And with Ric Derringer and the McCoys and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with Stevie Nicks. The radio version is only 58 minutes. Episode 173 podcast has the entire 1:40 concert, which includes …

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Episode 173: PCOC Day 4 With Johnny Winter And, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers and Fleetwood Mac! 1:41:39

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Episode 173: PCOC Day 4 With Johnny Winter And, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers and Fleetwood Mac!January 7, 2025The Post Covid Outdoor Concert series was put together at a time in 2021 and 2022 when the badly mismanaged virus was eating people alive. We didn’t have a clue as to when or how it would end and whether I’d survive if I got it or my lov…

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Episode 170: Post Covid Outdoor Concert Series, Part 2 Today! 1:03:40

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Episode 170: Post Covid Outdoor Concert Series, Part 2 Today!December 24, 2024Welcome back to another Tales Vinyl Tells. We’re playin’ and diggin’ that great album rock of the 60s & 70s and today we are Replaying ep 34 from May 2021. It’s The Post Covid Outdoor Concert series day 2. it’s PCOC, we sometimes call it the Peacock and we call it The New…

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Episode 171: December Holiday Songs 1:00:01

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Episode 171: December Holiday SongsDecember 18, 2024There are many holidays in the month of December and you might hear of some that you didn’t know about on today’s Tales Vinyl Tells. I do love the old rockin’ Christmas tunes (Ronettes, Beach Boys and the like) as well as those from Tull, Greg Lake and Dan Fogelberg. Sit back and relax, have a cup…

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Episode 169: PCOC, The Peacock, Is Back!! Day 1, Pt 1 The New Days Festival! 1:01:38

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Episode 169: PCOC, The Peacock, Is Back!! Day 1, Pts 1 & 2 The New Days Festival!December 12, 2024Welcome back to another Tales Vinyl Tells. First off, I’ll tell you that this episode is so long because it’s so good with the acts in concert, there are 2 parts. Both parts are below and/or are available wherever you listen to Tales Vinyl Tells. We’re…

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Episode 169: PCOC, The Peacock, Is Back!! Day 1, Pt 2 The New Days Festival! 19:32

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Episode 169: PCOC, The Peacock, Is Back!! Day 1, Pts 1 & 2 The New Days Festival!December 12, 2024Welcome back to another Tales Vinyl Tells. First off, I’ll tell you that this episode is so long because it’s so good with the acts in concert, there are 2 parts. Both parts are below and/or are available wherever you listen to Tales Vinyl Tells. We’re…

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Episode 168: Last Month Of 2024 And The Rock Keeps Rollin' 58:00

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Episode 168: Last Month Of 2024 And The Rock Keeps Rollin'December 3, 2024This is some of the music that surrounded so many of us boomers during the 60s & 70s. We worked by it, played by it, soared with it, boogied to it and attached some memories to it that may well last a lifetime. For some of us, this music was something we were listening to ful…