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BLOOD ON THE TRACKS Season 4: The Brian Wilson Story

BLOOD ON THE TRACKS Season 4: The Brian Wilson Story


BLOOD ON THE TRACKS Season 4: The Brian Wilson Story

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Length:
43 episodes
Language:
English
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Podcast

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In 1966, Brian Wilson planned to follow up the Beach Boys' groundbreaking album Pet Sounds with an even bigger musical statement. He was writing a teenage symphony to God. That album, Smile, was never finished. Instead, Brian slowly unraveled, as the pressure to make something profound weighed heavy on him. He worried that he wasn’t good enough. He worried that he was a failure in the eyes of the record company, his band, his peers, and his own father. He thought his house was bugged. He thought the music he was making conjured some strange voodoo that had a disastrous impact on the real world. He became paranoid. He self-medicated with amphetamines, hash, and LSD. He held meetings in his swimming pool. He imagined people who weren’t there. And eventually, in 1967, he went off the proverbial deep end. Did the real Brian Wilson ever resurface? Part true crime, part historical fiction, part spoken word lo-fi beat noir brought to you by Jake Brennan, and featuring the fictionalized voice Brian Wilson, BLOOD ON THE TRACKS sounds like nothing you’ve heard before. Because you can’t push the needle into the red without leaving a little blood on the tracks.
Language:
English
Format:
Podcast

Episodes1 - 10 of 43 episodes

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Brian Wilson Is Smiling Again (The Brian Wilson Story, Chapter 10)

Sometimes you can find redemption, but you have to find it for yourself. No one is goin...

36 minutes
Oct 10, 2022

Brian Wilson Is Free (The Brian Wilson Story, Chapter 9)

Brian’s lost masterpiece, Smile, continues to lurk in the background. It’s there when B...

33 minutes
Oct 03, 2022

Brian Wilson Is…Back? (The Brian Wilson Story, Chapter 8)

The Beach Boys stage an intervention to get Brian the help he needs just as he reaches ...

35 minutes
Sep 26, 2022

Brian Wilson Is Sailing On (The Brian Wilson Story, Chapter 7)

Brian continues to lose control. And not just of his band and the music he makes. He lo...

31 minutes
Sep 19, 2022

Brian Wilson Isn’t Himself (The Brian Wilson Story, Chapter 6)

After months of frustration, the Beach Boys abandon Smile to work on new music. But for...

36 minutes
Sep 12, 2022

Brian Wilson Is…a Son (The Brian Wilson Story Chapter 5)

Brian’s troubled relationship with his controlling and abusive father comes into focus....

32 minutes
Sep 05, 2022

Brian Wilson Is Trapped (The Brian Wilson Story, Chapter 3)

The pressure builds in Brian's mind as he continues to work on Smile with the Beach Boy...

33 minutes
Aug 22, 2022

Brian Wilson Is Burning Up (The Brian Wilson Story, Chapter 1)

Things are pretty calm around here at the moment, but sometimes they get a little shaky...

32 minutes
Aug 15, 2022

Brian Wilson Is Seeing Vibrations (The Brian Wilson Story, Chapter 2)

Before the Beach Boys began to work on Smile, Brian Wilson was already expanding his mi...

31 minutes
Aug 15, 2022

Presenting Blood on The Tracks - The Brian Wilson Story

In 1966, Brian Wilson planned to follow up the Beach Boys' groundbreaking album Pet Sou...

2 minutes
Aug 08, 2022