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Let It Roll EXTRA

Nate Wilcox

Nate Wilcox's "Let it Roll" is a podcast about the history of popular music from the 19th Century to the 21st. letitrollpodcast.substack.com

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240 episodes

  1. Bob Wills & Western Swing: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 5.3 41:34
  2. Mambo hit New York hard in the 1930s, 40s and 50s: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 5.2 45:34
  3. Milton Brown Mentored Bob Wills and Invented Western Swing: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 5.1 39:28
  4. Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra and the Swing Era: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.12 24:51
  5. Robert Johnson Revised: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.11 39:17
  6. Robert Johnson: Escaping the Delta: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.10 38:15
  7. Devil at the Confluence: The Pre-War Blues of St. Louis: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.9 48:15
  8. Chick Webb's Big Beat Style of Swing Led Directly to Rock 'n' Roll: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.8 40:32
  9. Swing King Chick Webb Brought Ella Fitzgerald to the World: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.7 49:03
  10. Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Big Joe Turner: How Kansas City Vice Birthed Kansas City Jazz: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.6 43:16
  11. Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger, Josh White & Jean Ritchie and the first Folk Revival: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.5 47:38
  12. Rhythm & Blues from Bessie Smith to Louis Jordan: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.4 52:56
  13. The Songs Jazz is Built On: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.3 36:16
  14. Record Men From Thomas Edison to John Hammond & Chris Blackwell: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.2 47:24
  15. Bing Crosby's Swing Brought Him Superstardom: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.1 41:28
  16. The Pop Jazz Age From the ODJB to Bing Crosby: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.12 35:05
  17. Thomas A. Dorsey Went From 'It's Tight Like That' to 'Precious Lord': Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.11 43:34
  18. Ralph Peer Brought Blues, Jazz, Country, and Latin Music to Record: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.10 38:22
  19. The Beginnings of Country Music According to Ken Burns: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.9 47:00
  20. Ed Ward on The Bristol Explosion: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.8 32:30
  21. The Carter Family popularized the Child Ballads and Burl Ives built a new tradition: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.7 49:38
  22. Paul Whiteman Was the King of Jazz in 1925, to Music Critics: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.6 57:27
  23. Vernon Dalhart: The forgotten first superstar of country music: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.5 28:17
  24. Ed Ward on Rock Pre-History the 1920s & 30s: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.4 40:12
  25. The Holy Trinity of Texas Gospel and a Devilish Businessman: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.3 48:27
  26. The Grateful Dead were the pied pipers of psychedelics 49:47
  27. Seance Roll 2: The agony of mid-20th century classical music 30:16
  28. House of the Rising Sun Before Bob Dylan And After The Animals: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.2 37:15
  29. The Velvet Underground Brought the Avant-Garde to Rock and Presaged Punk 42:21
  30. The Band That Broke Czechoslovakian Communism: Plastic People of the Universe 40:14
  31. Yoko Ono Brought Classical and Avant-Garde Techniques to Rock 42:07
  32. From Louis Armstrong to the White Stripes, 'St James Infirmary' Connects Folk Traditions to Jazz and Rock: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.1 40:22
  33. Pop Had An Entirely Different Meaning Before 1955: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 2.12 32:50
  34. Hardcore Punk Ignored Corporate America 54:36
  35. The Weavers: Folk Music vs the Blacklist 37:34
  36. The Kinks' Class-Consciousness Made Them Wary of the Promises of Swinging London 42:04
  37. Irving Berlin Defined American Music: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 2.11 35:18
  38. Pioneering Gospel Composers: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 2.10 40:45
  39. Ted Gioia on The Birth of Jazz in New Orleans: Let It Roll From the Beginning...2.9 36:33
  40. The First Recording Stars: Enrico Caruso, Bert Williams and Al Jolson: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 2.8 56:22
  41. Dolly Parton Had A Vision Of Superstardom Beyond Nashville: Interview with Alanna Nash, Let It Roll Season 9, Episode 9 53:26
  42. Edison's Phonograph vs. the Gramophone: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 2.7 44:59
  43. Beginning the Jazz Age: Vaudeville, WC Handy's Blues and Louis Armstrong's Signifying: Let It Roll From the Beginning...2.6 38:28
  44. The Vaudeville Roots of Country Music: Let It Roll From the Beginning...2.5 45:03
  45. Jubilee Singers and Barbershop Quartets Continued the Evolution of African-American Music: Let It Roll From the Beginning...2.4 38:46
  46. How 19th Century American Music Got Hot: Let It Roll From the Beginning...2.3 42:37
  47. American Music Developed in the 19th Century NYC Underworld: Let It Roll From the Beginning...2.2 42:13
  48. My Old Kentucky Home's Century of Myth: Let It Roll From the Beginning...Season 2.1 39:51
  49. Francis Child Collected Ballads and Kicked Off a Craze: Let It Roll From the Beginning 1.12 39:28
  50. The most popular American Musician of the 1800s Connected Cuba & New Orleans: Let It Roll From the Beginning...to the End 1.11 32:59