Season 2 Prologue: The Sound of Young America

S01, Episode 01: Mode For Don: In an interview with Don Was, president of Blue Note, we talk about his history with the label, how he ended up working there, how he used to ride a bus just to hold Blue Note records as a teenager and why you should listen to more jazz. by VMP Anthology

29 min listen

Season 2 Prologue: The Sound of Young America: On this prologue episode, we talk with Susan Whitall, the author of the book The Women of Motown and the author of the liner notes for our box set. Susan is also a longtime Detroit resident and was a writer and editor for Creem magazine and the... by VMP Anthology

29 min listen

Prologue: Getting on the Bus: In this prologue episode, your hosts and VMP staffers Amileah Sutliff and Andrew Winistorfer discuss their personal histories with the Dead, and what made them reticent to dive into their catalog before now. Then they talk through how the rest of this... by VMP Anthology

45 min listen

S4 E1: Soulsville U.S.A: In this intro episode about our Stax box set, The Story of Stax Records, we talk to Robert Gordon and Booker T. Jones about the label's history. by VMP Anthology

37 min listen

S5E4: Garage to Kalindula: The Zambian mining towns of Kitwe and Ndola offered an eclectic music scene in the 1970s from freewheeling derivative garage on the one hand to groups that channelled traditional ceremonial sounds through the matrix of rock on the other. Our final... by VMP Anthology

43 min listen

S02, Episode 3: The Sounds They Are A-Changin’: In this episode, we finish our talk with Susan Whitall, as we talk about how Tata Vega’s genre-less funk might have prevented her from being a star, but might have made her album sound timeless, and we talk about Teena Marie, who once threatened to... by VMP Anthology

38 min listen

S01, Episode 02: Bop Calling: In this episode, we talk to Blue Note president Don Was about how the loose, free-flowing culture at Blue Note let Horace Silver cut his first solo record when another performer backed out, and how Dexter Gordon made up for lost time following a... by VMP Anthology

22 min listen

S3E3: Harmonic Terrain: In this episode, we journey through landscapes both external and internal, exploring texture, timbre and tone. Bay Area guitarist and sound designer Christopher Willits walks us through the love and technology at the backbone of his work, and his... by VMP Anthology

42 min listen

S01, Episode 03: Wayne's World: In this episode, we talk about an organist on the Lou Donaldson album being the best bass player Don Was, president of Blue Note, has ever heard, even though he plays the organ, and how Wayne Shorter is a single-person history of jazz. We also discuss... by VMP Anthology

20 min listen

S01, Episode 04: The Shape Of Jazz To Come: In this final episode of this season of VMP Anthology, we talk to Don Was about how the vibraphone has gone from a central piece of jazz big band to a semi-novelty and back again, the tumultuous middle years of Blue Note, and how signing young artists... by VMP Anthology

31 min listen

S4E5: What I Don't Know Won't Hurt Me: When we left our last episode, Stax was putting out many, many albums in 1969 to make an “instant catalog” and try to dig themselves out of the disasters of 1967 and 1968. In this final set of records, we have two albums from 1972, which, as... by VMP Anthology

53 min listen

S4E6: Starting All Over Again: You’ve already opened your box by now, and now you’re probably wondering what you’re doing here. Well, Stax closed in 1975, as we established on the last episode, but the road to Stax as it is today: A label and a thriving museum and music... by VMP Anthology

50 min listen

S3E2: From Ann Arbor to the World: Cheese, cartoons and jazz are some of the topics covered as we unfurl further chapters in the Ghostly International history. We delve into the characters of the first Ghostly Swim compilation, and talk more about the label reaching out from the... by VMP Anthology

38 min listen

S3E1: Of Art & Artifice: Season 3 Premiere. Upon the 20th anniversary of Ghostly International, Ghostly founder Sam Valenti IV and artists Dabrye, Todd Osborne and Will Calcutt recount the label’s origin story in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and explain Ghostly’s spiritual... by VMP Anthology

49 min listen

S3E4: The Deep End: In the fourth and final episode of this season of VMP Anthology, we dive deep into the aesthetics and curatorial ideas behind the final two albums in the Ghostly VMP Anthology box set: Ghostly Swim 2 and Thousands of Eyes in the Dark. Sam Valenti IV... by VMP Anthology

29 min listen

S02, Episode 2: Go MoWest, Young Woman: We talk with Susan Whitall about the fourth and fifth albums in our Motown boxset, Tammi Terrell’s Irresistible and Syreeta’s Syreeta. In this episode, we talk about the sad tragedy of Tammi Terrell, and dispel rumors around her death. We also... by VMP Anthology

23 min listen

S5E3: I Can See It Coming: In a country of extraordinary and innovative electric guitar talents, Victor Kunda Kasoma of the Oscillations is among Zambia’s finest. In this episode, Victor candidly shares the story of his disability from polio, the challenges and hard work that... by VMP Anthology

50 min listen

S5E2: The Pioneers: An episode of Zamrock firsts. Producer Billie David Nyati, who helped run Zambia Music Parlour under the direction of Edward Khuzwayo, recounts the excitement of being Zambia’s first independent record label, kick-starting the country’s recording... by VMP Anthology

62 min listen

S4E4: The Soul Explosion: When we last left you, Stax was left reeling when Otis Redding and the Bar-Kays died in that tragic December 1967 plane crash. The next two albums in your box set came out in the immediate aftermath of the crash, during a 1968 and 1969 that eventually... by VMP Anthology

33 min listen

S5E1: Ask Me About Nice Artists In Zambia: Amanaz released their sole album Africa in 1975. In this episode, vocalist Keith Kabwe and lead guitarist Isaac Mpofu provide the backstory with some surprising insights into the genesis of one of Zamrock’s most sought after and critically acclaimed... by VMP Anthology

43 min listen

S02, Episode 1: Taking a Chance: We talk with Susan Whitall, the writer of the Liner Notes for our box set, about the first three albums in the box. Which, you know by now are Mary Wells’ Bye Bye Baby--I Don’t Want to Take a Chance, Martha and the Vandellas’ Heat Wave, and The... by VMP Anthology

39 min listen

S4E2: Hold On, Stax Is Coming: In this episode, we get to business, since time is tight, and discuss the first two LPs in your VMP Anthology box set: Booker T and the M.G.’s Soul Dressing, and Sam & Dave’s Hold on I’m Coming. We introduced you to Booker T and the M.G.’s... by VMP Anthology

39 min listen

Bonus Episode: A Brief History of Nugs.Net: In this bonus episode to this season of VMP Anthology, Andrew talks with the founder of Nugs.Net about his history as a Dead Head, and how his website full of incredible live shows came to be. This is a useful episode if you're wondering how to... by VMP Anthology

24 min listen

Epilogue: What Do You Want Me To Do, To Do For You?: In the final episode of this season of VMP Anthology, Amileah and Andrew catch up on their journey through the Dead, months after they started their attempt to board the bus. Do they come away as Dead Heads? What do they think of the Dead now? Do they... by VMP Anthology

39 min listen

Episode 4: Without A Net: In this final episode covering records in your box, Andrew covers the final two episodes in your box, Reckoning and Without a Net, two albums recording during the 1980s at very different points on the Dead's arc. He talks about the albums with David... by VMP Anthology

47 min listen

S4E3: Just One More Day: When we last left you, Stax was just starting it’s climb from a regional soul label to one of the most iconic record labels of all time, thanks in part to a distribution deal with Atlantic Records. The boom thanks to artists like Sam & Dave and... by VMP Anthology

43 min listen

S7 E3: Eye of the Hurricane: In this episode, we cover the second set of records in your box, Head Hunters and Live Under the Sky. These albums celebrate Herbie’s landmark move into funk, and his team up with other jazz legends for the supergroup V.S.O.P. In the first... by VMP Anthology

17 min listen

Bonus Episode: Andrew’s Guide to Tie-Dying Your Own Clothes: In this bonus episode to this season of VMP Anthology, your co-host Andrew shares some tips for tie-dying your own clothes, since he spent much of his time researching and learning about the Dead giving his wardrobe a DIY makeover. by VMP Anthology

12 min listen

S9E4: If They Only Knew: In this fourth episode of the new season of the VMP Anthology podcast, we discuss the third set of albums in your VMP Anthology: The Story of Metal Blade box set: King Diamond's Voodoo and The Black Dahlia Murder's Miasma. In this... by VMP Anthology

37 min listen

S8 E2: An Evening With The Tribe: On this episode, An Evening With the Tribe, we’ll cover the first two albums in your box, Phil Ranelin and Wendell Harrison’s A Message from the Tribe and Wendell’s own An Evening With the Devil. by VMP Anthology

22 min listen

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Season 2 Prologue: The Sound of Young America

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