The Next Track, Episode #201

Episode #198 - Casey Rae on William S. Burroughs and Rock and Roll

The Next Track #170 - Miles Davis' Landmark Album Kind of Blue

Ashley Kuhn was our guest this week, the author of Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece. We don't discuss jazz often enough and this was a great chat.

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The Next Track, Episode #102 - Silence

Well, without silence, all the noises in the world would run together...right? Or, at least the tracks of an album or playlist would. But what about silence as a "thing" to be appreciated as the space between musical events? That's what we talk about in this week's episode.

You can listen to the episode at The Next Track website here or subscribe from this page to make sure you get all future episodes. As usual, there's a link to an Apple Music playlist of our "next track" picks.

The Next Track, Episode #101 - Radio Paradise

I was only just mentioning Radio Paradise in our episode on Radio a few weeks ago and that I've been a frequent listener for years. Well, in this week's episode we were happy to welcome Bill Goldsmith, the co-founder and and co-operator (along with his wife, Rebecca) of this venerable internet radio station.

You can listen to the episode at The Next Track website here or subscribe from this page to make sure you get all future episodes. As usual, there's a link to an Apple Music playlist of our "next track" picks.

The Next Track, Episode #100 - How We Listen to Music Today

For our 100th episode, Kirk and I reflect on how the way we listen to music has changed over the nearly two years we've been producing the podcast. I think that if you had told me back when we started that I'd be reasonably content with streaming, I'd have thought you were crazy.

You can listen to the episode at The Next Track website here or subscribe from this page to make sure you get all future episodes. As usual, there's a link to an Apple Music playlist of our "next track" picks.

The Next Track, Episode #98 - 1981

1981 was an interesting year for music and that's the topic for this week's episode of The Next Track podcast.

You can listen to the episode at The Next Track website here or subscribe from this page to make sure you get all future episodes. The show notes include a link to an Apple Music playlist we prepared of some of the artrists and albums we mention during the show

BTW: In 1981, WRIU-FM was the college station where I worked. I was immortalized at the time in comic form by Patty Andrews (who did indeed DJ as Tania Hearts) in her "Radio Waves" strip (guarantee: all dialog overheard verbatim):
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The Next Track, Episode #97: Jerry Ewing, Prog and "Wonderous Stories"

Kirk and I have a chat with Jerry Ewing, the founder and current editor of the UK magazine Prog about his new book "Wonderous Stories: A Journey Through the Landscape of Progressive Rock". The book's fun to browse with plenty of photos and album art and covers the history of Progressive Rock from the classic bands at its beginning right through to its contemporary incarnations of New Prog and Progressive Metal.

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The Next Track, Episode #95: Movies about Music Part 3 - Concert Movies

The latest episode of The Next Track podcast concludes our three-part look at films about music with a chat about some of our favorite (and not so favorite) concert movies. They just don't seem to make 'em like they used to, if they make 'em at all.

Early in the 'cast, I talked about going to see a lot of these movies at The Palace Concert Theater in Providence, RI when they held 99¢ movie nights. It has since been converted into the very very nice Providence Performing Arts Center (PPAC).

Here's a shot of the older incarnation's marquee, which I believe was probably taken in 1972:

Courtesy of rirocks.net.

An aside observation: The J Geils Band—who, of course, hail from neighboring Boston—were incredibly popular around this time so it's no wonder The Eagles were second bill.

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