#158 - Peter Cooper on Jim Lauderdale ‘Pretty Close to the Truth’ and why we need Americana music

Jeremy Dylan April 4, 2018

#RoadToAmericanaFest

Journalist and singer-songwriter Peter Cooper of the Country Music Hall of Fame joins me to talk about Jim Lauderdale’s classic ‘Pretty Close to the Truth’ album and how the changes in country music in the 90s created the need for the Americana music genre, the migration of people like Jim and his friend and collaborator Buddy Miller from California to Nashville, and how Jim helped Peter propose to his wife.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the film Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins.

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#157 - Will Colvin (Hedge Fund) on Katy Perry ‘One of the Boys’

Jeremy Dylan April 4, 2018

Hedge Fund’s Will Colvin and I dissect Katy Perry’s (sort of) debut album ‘One of the Boys’ and look at how it encompasses feminism, the different types of androgyny represented by Katy here and on 'Teenage Dream’, how it defines the 2008 pop era, why it’s her most personal album, the beauty of specificity in songwriting and Will’s fiancee Katie Green joins us to talk about how the record solidified their relationship early on.

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#156 - Julia Jacklin on Fiona Apple ‘Extraordinary Machine’

Jeremy Dylan April 4, 2018

“It’s just a never-ending cycle of doubting yourself” - Julia Jacklin

Why is it so hard to write about falling out of love? What do yo do with your hands on stage when you’re not playing an instrument? Why do some of the best songs come together at the last possible moment?

Ahead of the release of her debut album ‘Don’t Let the Kids Win’, singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin joins me to talk about Fiona Apple’s 2005 album of slyly confronting emotional specificity ‘Extraordinary Machine’, that first awakened Julia’s musical identity as a teenager.

We explore the bizarre true story behind the album - how Apple thought she’d never return again, before her producer’s traumatic experience working on Punch Drunk Love forced her back into songwriting mode on a multi-year odyssey involving multiple producers, versions of the albums and mysterious leaks, to arrive at the album we know and love.

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#155 - Japanese Wallpaper on Tame Impala ‘Currents’

Jeremy Dylan April 4, 2018

Teenage wunderkind songwriter, producer and artist Japanese Wallpaper and I dig into Tame Imapala’s Currents, Kevin Parker’s introspective disco gem which just turned one year old.

How did Parker construct songs that were equal parts emotionally devastating and danceable banger? What are the key influences that make up the Tame Impala sound? How do you know when to stop when you can control all aspects of your music to the nth degree? What does it sound like when you cut Rihanna’s cover of Tame’s “New Person Same Old Mistakes” together with the original? and what does ‘Currents’ have in common with Carly Slay Jepsen’s ‘Emotion’ LP?

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#154 - Montaigne on her ‘Glorious Heights’ inspirations

Jeremy Dylan April 4, 2018

“From an early age I wanted to impress people” - Montaigne

What do you get when you add up the influence of Talking Heads, Arcade Fire and St Vincent & David Byrne? Montaigne’s epic debut album ‘Glorious Heights’. The singer-songwriter also known as Jess Cerro opens up about the process of creating her new record and the albums that inspired it.

Why does she eschew writing about sex for a more Sherlockian look at the world? Why is she determined to never be cute? What story is she trying to tell with the album? Why is Willow Smith her backup David Byrne? Plus, Jess walks me through writing her singles ‘Because I Love You’ and ‘In the Dark’.

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#153 - Alex Lahey on The Killers ‘Hot Fuss’

Jeremy Dylan April 4, 2018

One of Australia’s most exciting new singer-songwriters talks about the music that defined her generation.

Alex Lahey creates beautiful guitar driven indie rock, wrapping power chords and infectious melodies around tales of romantic frustration that are just as compelling on the Splendour in the Grass Main Stage as they are blaring out of headphones during a resentful walk in the rain.

On the eve of the release of her excellent ‘B Grade University’ EP, she joins me to talk about The Killers 'Hot Fuss’, why she loved the album but never fell in love with the band, learning to separate what you like from what’s good, the cultural cachet of LimeWire, how the OC soundtrack shaped the next decade of music, why Missy Higgins was her biggest influence as an early songwriter and when she wrote the first song she’s still proud of.

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#152 - Jack Moffitt (The Preatures) on Led Zeppelin ‘Physical Graffiti’

Jeremy Dylan April 4, 2018

Guitarist, songwriter and producer Jack Moffitt of The Preatures is as thoughtful and studious off-stage as his playing is raucous and incendiary onstage. We talk Led Zeppelin’s towering double-album ‘Physical Graffiti’, how it developed out of the band’s epic tour of the USA, its epic self-indulgence (and why that’s not a bad thing), why it represents all aspects of Led Zep and how making the album almost caused bassist John Paul Jones to quit.

We also delve into the evolution of the Preatures since the release of their debut EP back in 2012 and the making of the Preatures debut album ‘Blue Planet Eyes’ - what it’s like to be in a guitar band in an era where guitars aren’t cool, his problems with guitar solos, the psychological toll of marathon touring, the pressure of trying to record an album in a few days in between massive festivals in the US and why Jack sees self-destruction as the band’s ultimate future.

Plus, why short songs are the best, but so is Tame Impala’s ‘Let It Happen’.

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#151 - Mike Bloom on Jimi Hendrix Experience ‘Bold As Love’

Jeremy Dylan April 4, 2018

A guitarist, producer and songwriter of supreme taste and feel, Mike Bloom has been called upon by everyone from Rilo Kiley to Julian Casablancas to Jenny Lewis to lend his talents as a sideman, while crafting his own music with Prince-esque self-reliance.

We argue for Jimi Hendrix’s “Axis Bold As Love” as the guitar god’s greatest album and explore the side of Hendrix a lot of casual rock fans don’t know, whether his legacy is misleading, the bizarre and culturally controversial album cover, and how the changing ways that people learn to play guitar might be stunting innovation.

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#150 - Hey Geronimo on Dan Kelly & the Alpha Males ‘Drowning in the Fountain of Youth’

Jeremy Dylan April 4, 2018

Dan Kelly’s ‘Drowning in the Fountain of Youth’ is an influential modern Aussie classic and Pete from Hey Geronimo is here to prove it!

Frontman of Brisbane power-pop rockers Hey Geronimo (whose debut album Crashing into the Sun is out now!) Pete Kilroy joins me to make the case for Dan Kelly and the Alpha Males weird, laconic and infections LP on the tenth anniversary of its release.

How does Dan write songs about subjects no one else would think to touch, like using Grand Theft Auto to get over a breakup? How does he compromise his commercial prospects to make his music more interesting? What is the unprintable anthemic chorus of the album’s best known song ‘Drunk on Election Night’? How has his music influenced artists like Courtney Barnett? What bloody genre is this album in anyway?

PLUS Pete makes a point about art and commerce that I think is total bullshit and we fight about it.

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#149 - Mickey Raphael on Willie Nelson ‘Teatro’

Jeremy Dylan April 4, 2018

Harmonica legend and Willie Nelson’s musical right hand for over 40 years, Mickey Raphael reveals the inside story of one of Willie’s best albums, 1998’s Teatro.

Why was the album recorded in an abandoned Mexican movie theatre? How did producer Daniel Lanois (U2, Bob Dylan) create the studio atmosphere? What was Emmylou Harris’s contribution to the album? What illegal substances did visitors to the studio supply them with (not the ones you think)? Which celebrities dropped by to witness the recordings? How does Mickey think the album’s upcoming 20th anniversary should be celebrated?

PLUS, Mickey shares his memories of Willie’s most underrated albums, the amazing reggae record ‘Countryman’ and talks about finding his own groove amongst Willie’s idiosyncratic singing and the rock-steady backing band.

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#148 - Jack Ladder on Suicide ‘Suicide’

Jeremy Dylan April 4, 2018

Baritone-voiced new wave romantic singer-songwriter Jack Ladder on the classic 1977 debut from one of punk’s most unsettling bands ‘Suicide’, their bizarre electronic version of classic rock'n'roll tropes, the comic-book inspired history of the band and their influence on Bruce Springsteen’s noirish ‘Nebraska’ record.

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#147 - Rusty Anderson on Frank Zappa ‘Hot Rats'

Jeremy Dylan April 4, 2018

Rusty Anderson has played guitar on more hit records than I’ve had cold scotches, with everyone from The Bangles to Ricky Martin. He’s probably best known for his over a dozen years as the lead guitarist on the road and in the studio for Sir Paul McCartney, since the Driving Rain album. He’s somehow found the time to have an impressive solo career and form several bands, with his current outfit Rusty Anderson Afternoon recently dropping their great new album ‘RAA’.

Rusty and I talk about Frank Zappa’s 'Hot Rats’ - why is it the Zappa album even non-Zappa fans love? What is Captain Beefheart’s memorable cameo? How was the album at the forefront of musical innovation in the studio? Where does the music cross into jazz territory?

Plus, Rusty talks about a missed connection with Mick Ronson, outlasting the Beatles, finding ways to innovate in rock'n'roll almost 50 years after Zappa and how Paul McCartney embarrassed him in front of one of his guitar idols - Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi.

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#146 - Kenny Aronoff on The Beatles

Jeremy Dylan April 4, 2018

Legendary session god drummer Kenny Aronoff welcomes me to his LA studio for a inspirational chat about childhood dreams coming true. How he went from a child discovering rock’n’roll with the Beatles on Ed Sullivan to playing with Ringo Starr 50 years later on a TV special celebrating that very same Ed Sullivan appearance.

How did John Mellencamp help him become a more Ringo-esque drummer? What does Kenny see as the drummer’s true purpose in a recording session? What story did Paul McCartney tell him about the Beatles first trip to NYC? What’s it like to play Beatles songs in front of and alongside Beatles? What’s the difference between playing ‘Something’ with Joe Walsh and ‘Hey Bulldog’ with Dave Grohl? How did the Beatles use a “less is more” approach to create dynamics in their music.

Plus, great stories of moments in the studio with the Rolling Stones, Iggy Pop, John Hiatt, Don Was and more.

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#145 - Bob Evans on The Streets ‘A Grand Don’t Come For Free’

Jeremy Dylan April 3, 2018

Today’s guest is ARIA-winning singer/songwriter Bob Evans aka Jebediah frontman Kevin Mitchell, who also hosts the great new podcast ‘Good Evans It’s A Bobcast’.

Today we talk about the 2004 British ‘rap opera’ ‘A Grand Don’t Come For Free’ by the Streets (aka Mike Skinner). We talk about the folk bent of the albums lyrics, the way Skinner uses the ordinary details in the lyric for comedic and affecting purposes, the narrative drive of the album’s concept, the parallels between the situations in the album and Kevin’s own life and later songs and speculates about a way of performing the album himself.

Plus, Kevin recalls touring on Big Day Out with Skinner at the height of his fame and considers whether or not he would ever kill off Bob Evans.

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#144 - Chris Hewitt (Empire) on R.E.M. ‘New Adventures in Hi Fi'

Jeremy Dylan April 3, 2018

Today I’m joined by a journalist of such lethal cunning… Chris Hewitt - news editor for film journal Empire Magazine and host of their massively popular podcast - joins me to talk about an overlooked classic in the catalogue of Georgian alt-rockers REM - 1996′s ‘New Adventures in Hi-Fi’.

How does the near death of drummer Bill Berry hang over the atmosphere of the album? How did Michael Stipe’s vocal style evolve from Murmur to this album and beyond? Why does Chris think Ringo Starr is the worst drummer in rock history? What was the REM’s controversial original name? How did the band end up outlasting some of the acts it influenced? and most importantly - which members of the Avengers cast will play REM in the movie that tells the story of their reunion to take down President Donald Trump?

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#143 - Dr Warren Zanes on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ‘Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’

Jeremy Dylan April 3, 2018

Singer/songwriter, journalist and author of the definitive ‘Petty: The Biography’, Dr Warren Zanes, joins me to celebrate the 1976 self-titled debut of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

How did the band find their sound and identity while making the album? Why were the limitations of vinyl LPs creatively helpful? Did writing the book change Warren’s perspective on Petty’s music? What doubts did people have about Petty’s voice? What is the secret of keyboardist Benmont Tench’s genius? How do the Heartbreakers look back on the album today?

Plus we talk about Petty’s pre-Heartbreakers band Mudrcrutch, and speculate about why he’s currently reviving it, and Warren’s own personal history with the album.

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#142 - Mark Kermode on the Comsat Angels ‘Sleep No More’

Jeremy Dylan April 3, 2018

The Good Doctor Mark Kermode - double bassist in the Dodge Brothers, film critic in the Observer, Sony award winning broadcaster on the BBC, one half of Wittertainment, instigator of my directing career - joins me for the tale of his favourite band the Comsat Angels, and their 1981 masterpiece ‘Sleep No More’.

Why are the Comsat Angles 'the band Joy Division could have been’? Can you get from Comsat bassist Kevin Bacon to actor Kevin Bacon in less than six degrees? Which scheme (worthy of Mark’s cinematic idol Danny Ocean) did Mark employ to meet the band? What do the Comsats have in common with Mark’s idol Elvis Presley? What was the experience of introducing the band at their reunion show in 2009? And how does Mark manage to link this album to his obsession with the Exorcist?

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#141 - Van Dyke Parks on Randy Newman ‘Randy Newman’

Jeremy Dylan April 3, 2018

Legendary songwriter, singer, producer and arranger Van Dyke Parks is famed for a unique genre-bending catalogue and collaborations with everyone from Brian Wilson to Silverchair to Skrillex. On this episode, he tells the story of one of his favorite albums - which he also happens to have co-produced: Randy Newman’s self-titled 1968 debut.

Van Dyke tells tales of the insulting liner notes that forced them to reprint the album cover, how Newman collaborated with his film composer uncle Alfred on the record, how the album went against the grain of the counterculture in pop music and Randy’s crippling lack of confidence in his own singing.

Plus, Van Dyke reveals his own proudest contribution to the album as a producer, why he doesn’t listen to pop music and the crucial advice he gave publisher Jann Wenner when he started Rolling Stone Magazine.

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#140 - Imogen Clark on Ryan Adams ‘Heartbreaker’

Jeremy Dylan April 3, 2018

Aussie Americana singer/songwriter Imogen Clark drops into the studio to talk about one of her biggest inspirations, Ryan Adams’ solo debut album ‘Heartbreaker’.

We talk about how important the 2000 release was in the development of the Americana genre, the low self-esteem anthem ‘Come Pick Me Up’, how Adams uses softness and quiet dynamics to capture attention, the impact the record has had on Imogen as a songwriter and how she tried to capture the feel of the album’s production on her own new record.

Plus, Imogen closes the episode with a beautiful acoustic rendition of the Heartbreaker track ‘Oh My Sweet Carolina’.

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#139 - Jesse Thorn on Sly and the Family Stone ‘Fresh!'

Jeremy Dylan April 3, 2018

My guest today is podcast mogul Jesse Thorn, host of ‘Bullseye’ and ‘Jordan Jesse Go’, the impresario of the Maximum Fun network and the best dressed man in podcasting, with his own lines of scarves and pocket squares.

I visit his LA studio to talk about his favorite album, Sly and the Family Stones’s underrated 1973 classic ‘Fresh’. We talk about how his parents divorce and interpersonal animosity shaped his music taste, how being an only child made him identify with Sly’s approach to making the album, the atypically conciliatory breakup song ‘If You Want Me To Stay’, why and how Sly drove the rest of his bandmates away in the leadup to making this album, the influence Sly has had on everyone from Digable Planets to D’Angelo and Sly’s semi-reclusive later years.

Plus, an orgy story.

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MY FAVORITE ALBUM PODCAST

#158 - Peter Cooper on Jim Lauderdale ‘Pretty Close to the Truth’ and why we need Americana music

#157 - Will Colvin (Hedge Fund) on Katy Perry ‘One of the Boys’

#156 - Julia Jacklin on Fiona Apple ‘Extraordinary Machine’

#155 - Japanese Wallpaper on Tame Impala ‘Currents’

#154 - Montaigne on her ‘Glorious Heights’ inspirations

#153 - Alex Lahey on The Killers ‘Hot Fuss’

#152 - Jack Moffitt (The Preatures) on Led Zeppelin ‘Physical Graffiti’

#151 - Mike Bloom on Jimi Hendrix Experience ‘Bold As Love’

#150 - Hey Geronimo on Dan Kelly & the Alpha Males ‘Drowning in the Fountain of Youth’

#149 - Mickey Raphael on Willie Nelson ‘Teatro’

#148 - Jack Ladder on Suicide ‘Suicide’

#147 - Rusty Anderson on Frank Zappa ‘Hot Rats'

#146 - Kenny Aronoff on The Beatles

#145 - Bob Evans on The Streets ‘A Grand Don’t Come For Free’

#144 - Chris Hewitt (Empire) on R.E.M. ‘New Adventures in Hi Fi'

#143 - Dr Warren Zanes on Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers ‘Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’

#142 - Mark Kermode on the Comsat Angels ‘Sleep No More’

#141 - Van Dyke Parks on Randy Newman ‘Randy Newman’

#140 - Imogen Clark on Ryan Adams ‘Heartbreaker’

#139 - Jesse Thorn on Sly and the Family Stone ‘Fresh!'

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