Best Marcus Funk Podcasts (2025)

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𝐁.𝐁. 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠: 𝟏𝟎𝟎𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐝𝐚𝐲 4-hour celebration of the King of the Blues 4:01:24

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Artist Title Album Notes Label - B.B. King Everyday I Have the Blues w/the Count Basie Orchestra B.B. King Wails - B.B. King 100th Birthday Crown Records - Ace (Compiled by John Broven) - B.B. King Caldonia In London - B.B King 100th Birthday ABC-MCA - B.B. King Get You Next to Me w/Arthur Adams Here & There: The Uncollected B.B. King - B.B King 10…

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Ghoul Logs & Tubi Movies Everywhere 41:27

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October is upon us. Ring in the most wonderful time of the year with the triumphant return of the Ghoul Log and the found footage flick House on Eden on Shudder, the OG Dracula and The Wrath of Becky on Netflix, and Barbarian and Blade on Hulu. Then, buckle up as Tubi drops an unfathomable cryptid catalogue all at once - gems like Vampire Bats with…

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E212: Greil Marcus on Mystery Train + Sex Pistols + Jamie Reid 1:09:59

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In this episode, we ask one of the greatest music writers of the rock and roll era to talk about Mystery Train as he celebrates its 50th anniversary with a brand-new edition of his classic book. Talking to us from Oakland, 6,000 miles away in his native Northern California, Greil Marcus looks back on the pivotal moments that led to his starting wor…

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SOB 510 Features: Pat Metheny, Isaac Hayes, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Barbara Morrison, Rodney Jones, Gene Harris & "Popa" John DeFrancesco 4:06:28

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SOB 510 Features: Pat Metheny, Isaac Hayes, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Barbara Morrison, Rodney Jones, Gene Harris & "Popa" John DeFrancesco Artist Song Album Label Notes - Bernard Herrmann & Rod Serling + Rod Serling Opening Monologue - Season One w/Bernard Herrmann's "Dream Theme" 40th Anniversary Twilight Zone - 1st Season - 1959 Silva Treasury - 4CD's 2…

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Scary Suburbs & Hammer Time 25:31

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Why do slashers love babysitters? Is your rideshare driver trying to kill you? Who was the most interesting man in the world and why was it Peter Cushing? Dropping this week, we've got suburban nightmares with Night of the Reaper on Shudder and 616 Wilford Lane on Tubi, the final season of Alice in Borderland on Netflix and a petrifying review of t…

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SOB 509 Features: Luther Allison, Pat Metheny, David Crosby, Steve Marcus, Gene Dinwiddie, Phillip Wilson & Grateful Dead archivist Dick Latvala who initiated & selected 36 live Dead concerts that were ... 4:09:44

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Artist Song Album Label Notes - Bernard Herrmann Twilight Zone - End Title - Dream Theme 40th Anniversary Twilight Zone - 1st Season - 1959 Silva Treasury - 4CD's 2022 SOB Twilight Zone Theme - Pat Metheny Have You Heard by Metheny w/Lyle Mays, Steve Rodby, Paul Wertico, Pedro Aznar + Letter From Home - 1989 Geffen Pat Metheny - 71 - Pat Metheny As…

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Horror Theology & Twilight Remixes 26:32

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Faith and horror share common ground. Folk horror has long held religion as an incantation against things that go bump in the night, but sexist cults and bad religion haunt plenty of scary movies. This week, we've got all of the above with Hagazussa, Candy Land, Medusa, Heretic, Gwen and The Ones You Didn't Burn. We've got the not-so-spicy Canadian…

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This Episode Goes 2 11: A Spinal Tap special with Alexis Petridis 33:56

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For this special "bonus" episode of the Rock's Backpages podcast — fittingly number 211 (geddit?) — we're joined once again by The Guardian's Alexis Petridis for a discussion of timeless rock mockumentary This is Spinal Tap and its breathlessly-awaited sequel Spinal Tap II: The End Continues... With reference to A Fine Line Between Stupid and Cleve…

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E210: Alexis Petridis on Acid House + The Guardian + CMAT + KISS 1:13:51

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For this episode we're joined by the immensely respected Alexis Petridis, The Guardian's principal pop critic since September 2001. Our guest tells us about his childhood in Yorkshire, his teenage years in Buckinghamshire and his initiation into the Acid House scene while at Cambridge University. Work experience at MixMag in the mid-'90s led to his…

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SOB 508 Features: Luther Allison, Chrissie Hynde, Kenny Burrell, Charles Brown, Otis Redding, Brook Benton, Kevin Mahogany, Vince Guaraldi, Gene Harris, Stuart Wade & Barbara Bain 4:07:03

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Artist Song Album Label Notes - Bernard Herrmann Twilight Zone - End Title - Dream Theme 40th Anniversary Twilight Zone - 1st Season - 1959 Silva Treasury - 4CD's 2022 SOB Twilight Zone Theme - Lalo Schifrin Mission Impossible Theme by Lalo Schifrin (1966-1973) TV Classic Tunes - 25th Anniversay Edition - 2 CD's Breakable Records Barbara Bain - 94 …

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Tony Todd, Nick Cage & Lying Beaches 27:19

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You've seen shark flicks, serial killer movies and scary bottle episodes. Why not combine them? This week, we've got "Dangerous Animals" and The Last Drive In on Shudder, the somber vampires in "Bleeding" have wandered from Screambox over to Tubi, and Nick Cage shares the screen with cosmic horror, Tommy Chong and real life alpacas in "Color Out of…

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SOB 507 Features: Garcia, Michael Bloomfield, Isaac Hayes, Jimmy Witherspoon, Kevin Mahogany, Gene Harris, Plas Johnson & Barbara Eden 4:07:05

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Artist Song Album Label Notes - Wales, Saunders w/Garcia & Roberts Wales & Saunders w/Garcia + Twilight Zone Theme w/Howard Roberts guitar TV Classic Tunes - 25th Anniversary Edition - 2CD's Breakable Records + SOB Twilight Zone Theme - I Dream of Jeannie (1965-1970) I Dream of Jeannie by Buddy Kaye & Hugo Montenegro TV Classic Tunes - 25th Anniver…

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Last Call for Summer Chills 26:46

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The last deep cuts of the summer are here - we've got Hell of a Summer on Hulu, The Twin on Shudder and the latest installment of Wednesday on Netflix. As spooky season nears, we've got new Asian horror and a ton of resurrected titles hitting streaming, including Jennifer's Body, 28 Weeks Later, Crawl, Donnie Darko, Popeye the Slayer Man and a Bruc…

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E209: David Nathan on Dionne Warwick + the Bee Gees + Michael Lydon R.I.P. 1:19:27

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In this episode we invite David Nathan to look back on his illustrious 60 years as "the British Ambassador of Soul". Our guest commences by recalling his gateway into Black American music: the covers of Shirelles and Miracles classics included on the first two Beatles albums. He furthermore describes the thrill of seeing Motown star Mary Wells supp…

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SOB 506 Features: Jerry Garcia, Luther Allison, Clarence Spady, Roy Rogers, John Cipollina, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Gene Harris, Lee Morgan, Bobbie Gentry & Alfred Hitchcock 4:01:19

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Artist Song Album Label Notes - Wales, Saunders w/Garcia & Roberts Wales & Saunders w/Garcia + Twilight Zone Theme w/Howard Roberts guitar TV Classic Tunes - 25th Anniversary Edition - 2CD's Breakable Records + SOB Twilight Zone Theme - Alfred Hitchcock Funeral March of a Marionette by Gounrod Hitchcock shows ran from 1955-1965 TV Classic Tunes - 2…

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Gruesome Gators & Terence Stamp 23:04

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There are gator flicks and there are gator flicks. The Bayou on Tubi is probably the former, but at least you've got a ton of choices. Also, somber vampire horror hits Hulu, a bunch of old classics drop on Tubi and the recently departed Terence Stamp gets a salute for Last Night in Soho and his many years of inspired villiany.…

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SOB 505 Features: Jerry Garcia, Keith Moon, Sugarcane Harris, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Al Di Meola & B.D. Lenz 4:09:09

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Artist Song Album Label Notes - Kinks Low Budget - 1979 & 45 RPM Single Arista Records 2023 Gasoline & Oil ID - The Who This Song Is Over by Pete Townshend w/The 4 Original members of The Who + Nicky Hopkins Who's Next - 1971 - This Song is Over Farewell Tour MCA Keith Moon - 78 - The Who Getting' In Tune by Townshend w/The 4 Orignal members of The…

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E208: Byron Coley on Beefheart + Lydia Lunch + Terry Reid R.I.P. 1:23:36

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For this episode we're joined online from northwest Massachusetts by the legendary Byron Coley, champion of all things weird and non-mainstream. After describing his somewhat peripatetic childhood, our guest explains – very amusingly – why as a teenager he hated the Beatles and what led him eventually to the more subversive sounds of the Mothers of…

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SOB 504 Features: Jerry Garcia, Sugarcane Harris & Johnny Almond + Remembering Michael Lydon 4:10:06

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Artist Song Album Label Notes - Wales, Saunders w/Garcia & Roberts Wales & Saunders w/Garcia + Twilight Zone Theme w/Howard Roberts guitar TV Classic Tunes - 25th Anniversary Edition - 2CD's Breakable Records + SOB Twilight Zone Theme - Jerry Garcia Love Scene (solo guitar) by Jerry Garcia Zabriskie Point (Soundtrack) Carlo Ponti & Michelangelo Ant…

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Killer Clowns & Noire Aliens 16:02

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Should you be scared of clowns? Can Timothy Oliphant stop a chestburster? Is Julian Richings in everything? This week, get ready for Clown in a Cornfield on Shudder, Alien Earth on Hulu, noire almost-horror on Netflix and a very Tubi movie about mysterious sins. Plus, a quick review of Vicious Fun. Fun fact: I'm recording this episode in a pillow f…

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SOB 197 is now Rakman Robs VRR 37 - Featuring: Brian Auger, Phil Upchurch, Grant Green, Alan Gorrie, Lee Morgan, Tiny Grimes, Earl Van Dyke & a fond farewell to Art Neville 4:08:00

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Artist Song Album Label Notes Rod Serling Twilight Zone/Sounds of Blue TV Classic Tunes - 25th Anniversary Edition - 2CD's Breakable Records + Theme The Meters Cissy Strut - 1969 Funkify Your Life - 2 CD's Warner Bros. - Rhino CD Reissue Art Neville R.I.P @ 81 The Meters People Say - 1974 Funkify Your Life - 2 CD's Warner Bros. - Rhino CD Reissue A…

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Scaly Killers, Demonic Toys & Uncle Fester 23:50

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It is almost Wednesday, my dudes - season two, volume one of Netflix's Addams Family adaptation debuts this week, plus Joe Bob and crocodiles - maybe? - on Shudder and The Monkey hits Hulu. If you've ever wanted to punish your friends with a no-budget movie about demonic pickleball, Tubi has you covered, and I review Monster Island and Predator: Ki…

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E207: Val Mabbs on Record Mirror + Jimi Hendrix + Walker Bros. + Ozzy R.I.P. 1:24:32

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For this episode we're joined by the excellent Val Mabbs, who talks to us about writing for Record Mirror in the late '60s and early '70s. We start with our guest's early life as a mod in Hertfordshire – and her memories of seeing the Who/the High Numbers in 1964/5. Val then explains how she got her foot in the door at the Mirror and recalls collea…

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SOB 503 Features: Santana, Johnnie Johnson, Russell Dashiell, Grant Green, Tiny Grimes, Bobby Watley & a fond farewell to Chuck Mangione 4:04:38

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Artist Song Album Label Notes - Bernard Herrmann & Rod Serling + Rod Serling Opening Monologue - Season One w/Bernard Herrmann's "Dream Theme" 40th Anniversary Twilight Zone - 1st Season - 1959 Silva Treasury - 4CD's 2024 Twilight Zone Theme _ Chuck Mangione Land of Make Believe by Chuck Mangione w/Esther Satterfield Vocal & Gerry Niewood Sax Land …

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Black Lagoons, Killer Singers & Unhinged Slashers 19:32

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What if the creature from the black lagoon lived on a deserted island? What if a teenage pop star was a murder machine? This week, we've got Monster Island hitting Shudder, the Witch Part One and Part Two hitting Screambox and a whole host of campy horrors hitting Tubi, plus I give a quick review of The World of Killing People AKA Night of the Kill…

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SOB 502 Features: Derek Trucks, Bernard Purdie, Doc Pomus, Deodato, Monty Alexander, Nelson Riddle, Shelly Manne, Dave Grusin & Marcus Miller 4:04:51

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Artist Song Album Label Notes - Bernard Herrmann & Rod Serling + Rod Serling Opening Monologue - Season One w/Bernard Herrmann's "Dream Theme" 40th Anniversary Twilight Zone - 1st Season - 1959 Silva Treasury - 4CD's 2024 Twilight Zone Theme - Johnny Adams I Underestimated You by Doc Pomus w/Dr. John, Duke Robillard, Red Tyler, J. Vidacovich + John…

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"Serious" Werewolves & Vintage Sci-Fi 22:45

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When does a werewolf movie become serious? Should you ever eat thumb tacks? This week, the esteemed ghosts of Alfred Hitchcock, HG Wells and Rod Serling join us to unpack apartment horror on Netflix, video cassette terrors on Tubi and wacky South By hybrids on Shudder, plus Dog Soldiers and The Vast of Night. Special shout out to synthwave guru Kev…

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E206: John Niven on rock fiction + Bobby "Blue" Bland + Lou Reed audio 1:13:27

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In this episode we welcome novelist and screenwriter John Niven to "RBP Towers" to ask him about his career and his acclaimed novels. We start with the Wishing Stones, the post-C86 combo for whom John played guitar in the late '80s, and progress swiftly to the subject of his caustic 2008 classic Kill Your Friends — the UK's drug-riddled music indus…

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SOB 501 Features: Derek Trucks, George Clinton, Chuck Rainey, Phil Upchurch & Jim Gordon 4:04:44

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Artist Song Album Label Notes - Kinks Gallon of Gas - ID Low Budget - 1979 & 45 RPM Single Arista Records 2023 Gasoline & Oil ID - Tobin Mueller Dueling on Tobacco Road by John D. Loudermilk Fragments - Deluxe Edition - 2CD's TobinMueller.com/fragments Recent release - Ed Palermo Big Band Tobacco Road by John D. Loudermilk w/Robben Ford I've Got th…

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First Blood: Introduction to the Killer Queue 9:26

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Do you like scary movies? Are you frightened by the length of your Netflix queue? Good news - I've got you covered. Every week, I'll preview new and resurrected horror movies dropping on Tubi, Shudder, Netflix, Hulu and more, plus reviews of my favorites. This time around, I outline the show and share three of my top four on Letterboxd, plus a litt…

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SOB 500 Features: Derek Trucks, Luther Kent, Leo Nocentelli & Paul Bollenback 4:07:28

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Artist Song Album Label Notes - Wales, Saunders w/Garcia & Roberts Wales & Saunders w/Garcia + Twilight Zone Theme w/Howard Roberts guitar TV Classic Tunes - 25th Anniversary Edition - 2CD's Breakable Records + SOB Twilight Zone Theme - The Derek Trucks Band Soul Serenade by King Curtis Ousley & L. Dixon - Rasta Man Chant by Bob Marley Soul Serenad…

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SOB 499 Features: Taj Mahal, Steve Winwood, Grant Green, Charles Earland, Dave Grusin & a fond farewell to Lalo Schifrin 4:10:38

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Artist Song Album Label Notes - Bernard Herrmann & Rod Serling + Rod Serling Opening Monologue - Season One w/Bernard Herrmann's "Dream Theme" 40th Anniversary Twilight Zone - 1st Season - 1959 Silva Treasury - 4CD's 2024 Twilight Zone Theme - George Benson Down Here On the Ground by Lalo Schifrin & Gale Garnett - bonus track w/ Jorge Dalto Breezin…

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E205: Tony Cummings on soul music + The Sound of Philadelphia 1:22:54

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In this episode we welcome the great soul scribe Tony Cummings to Hammersmith to discuss the subject of his classic 1975 book The Sound of Philadelphia. Tony travelled all the way down from his adopted Stoke-on-Trent to answer our questions about his earliest musical passions in his native Plymouth and the launch of his pioneering '60s fanzines Sou…

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SOB 498 Features: Levon Helm, Steve Winwood, Taj Mahal, Eric Burdon, Bill Kreutzmann, remembering the closing of the Fillmore East & 1 more for Drew Zingg 4:02:57

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Artist Song Album Label Notes - The Crusaders Scratch (live) by Wayne Henderson Scratch - 1974 Blue Thumb Records - MCA CD Reissue Alternate SOB ID - Donald Fagen Madison Time by Ray Bryant & Ed Morrison w/Jeff Young & the Youngsters & Drew Zingg The NY Rock & Soul Revue - At the Beacon - 1991 Giant Records Drew Zingg - R.I.P. at 68 - Ben Sidran Pi…

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S2| EP 07: Carisse "Cici" Pacheco 22:30

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SOB 497 Features: Fond Farewells for Brian Wilson, Sylvester Stewart & Drew Zingg - Part 2 4:02:26

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Artist Song Album Label Notes - Larry Coryell-Eddie Harris/Les McCann Higher Consciousness - Compared to What Barefoot Boy - 1971 & Swiss Movement - 1969 Flying Dutchman & Atlantic Records Latest SOB ID - The Beach Boys Surf's Up by Brian Wilson & Van Dyke Parks w/Brian, Carl & Dennis Wilson, Al Jardine + Surf's Up - 1971 Capitol - Brother Brian Wi…

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E204: Chris Bohn in Europe + Sly Stone & Brian Wilson R.I.P. 1:37:40

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For this episode we're joined in our Hammersmith lair by the highly respected Chris Bohn, known better these days by his alias Biba Kopf (cue a nod to Berlin Alexanderplatz author Alfred Döblin...) The veteran NME contributor and sometime editor-in-chief of The Wire talks about his long career as a Europhile connoisseur of extreme and out-there mus…

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S2| EP 06: LaRay Garner 13:17

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S2| EP 05: Marcus Lira 20:31

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SOB 496 Features: Billy Cobham, Bill Kreutzmann, Charles Earland, Gene Ammons, Shirley Horn, Redd Holt & a fond farewell to Drew Zingg 4:02:25

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- Wales, Saunders w/Garcia & Howard Roberts Wales & Saunders w/Garcia + Twilight Zone Theme w/Howard Roberts guitar TV Classic Tunes - 25th Anniversary Edition - 2CD's Breakable Records + SOB Twilight Zone Theme - Boz Scaggs Loan Me a Dime by Fenton Robinson, M. Middlebrook & J. Anderson w/Drew Zingg Greatest Hits Live - 2004 - 2CD's Gray Cat Drew …

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S2| EP 04: Anaja Campbell 13:20

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S2| EP 03: Aasa J Mills 13:20

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E203: Jonathan Gould on Talking Heads + Otis Redding + Richard Manuel 1:34:40

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For this episode we're joined – all the way from Brooklyn – by acclaimed author and sometime drummer Jonathan Gould. The native New Yorker recalls his early musical epiphanies, his introduction to the drums and his studying under famed jazz drummer Alan Dawson in mid-'70s Boston. He also reminisces about his years in Woodstock, N.Y., and his associ…

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NEW - SOB 197 is now Rakman Robs: VRR36 - Features: Santana, Brian Auger, Phil Upchurch, Grant Green, Alan Gorrie, Earl Van Dyke, Tiny Grimes & a fond farewell to Art Neville 4:08:00

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Artist Song Album Label Notes Rod Serling Twilight Zone/Sounds of Blue TV Classic Tunes - 25th Anniversary Edition - 2CD's Breakable Records + Theme The Meters Cissy Strut - 1969 Funkify Your Life - 2 CD's Warner Bros. - Rhino CD Reissue Art Neville R.I.P @ 81 The Meters People Say - 1974 Funkify Your Life - 2 CD's Warner Bros. - Rhino CD Reissue A…

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S2| EP 02: Greta Sugai 23:07

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S2| EP 01: Janeeva Pettway 21:29

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SOB 495 Features: Miles Davis, Billy Cobham, Jeff Golub, Charles Earland & Ron Levy 4:04:03

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Artist Song Album Label Notes - Bernard Herrmann Twilight Zone - End Title - Dream Theme 40th Anniversary Twilight Zone - 1st Season - 1959 Silva Treasury - 4CD's 2022 SOB Twilight Zone Theme - Miles Davis In a Silent Way by Joe Zawinul - It's About That Time by Miles - In a Silent Way In a Silent Way - 1969 Columbia Miles Davis - 99 - Miles Davis …

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E202: Paul Gambaccini on the radio + Rolling Stone + Beyoncé audio 1:05:08

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In this episode we welcome the great Paul Gambaccini into RBP's world and ask him about his 50+ years as one of Britain's best-loved broadcasters. "The Great Gambo" tells us about his early radio days at Dartmouth College's WDCR station and explains how he slipped his foot in the door at Rolling Stone in 1970. He then recounts his first meeting wit…

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SOB 494 Features: Dave Mason, Jimmy Thackery, Chuck Leavell, Miles Davis, Jeff Golub, Sista Monica Parker, Bobbi Humphrey, Gerry Rafferty, Jimmy Ponder, Cal Collins, Mongo Santamaria, Tito Puente & Bobby ... 4:06:02

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Artist Song Album Label Notes - The Crusaders Scratch (live) by Wayne Henderson Scratch - 1974 Blue Thumb Records - MCA CD Reissue Alternate SOB ID - Bobby Enriquez Pink Panther Theme by Henry Mancini w/Ray Brown & Al Foster The Wildman Returns - 1990 Evidence Music Bobby Enriquez - 82 - Jimmy Ponder All Blues by Miles Davis w/Houston Person, Benny…

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S1| EP 10: Megan Grabu 22:59

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