The Birth of Jazz in New Orleans: Buddy Bolden & Jellyroll Morton and Others Combined Brass Bands with Ragtime and Blues

Nicky Hopkins' Piano Graced Classic Rock by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks and many more: Host Nate Wilcox discusses the amazing career of England's top session pianist with author Julian Dawson. Have a question or a suggestion for a topic or person for Nate to interview? Email letitrollpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter. Follow us on Facebook. Let It Roll is proud to be part of Pantheon Podcasts. by Let It Roll

61 min listen

Black Flag Pioneered Hardcore Punk: Host Nate Wilcox welcomes Black Flag biographer Stevie Chick to discuss the band's emergence from the suburbs of Los Angeles and the vicious resistance they faced every step of the way. Let It Roll is proud to be part of Pantheon Podcasts. Have a question or a suggestion for a topic or person for Nate to interview? Email letitrollpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter. Follow us on Facebook. by Let It Roll

57 min listen

American Music Developed in the 19th Century NYC Underworld: An interview with Dale Cockrell, author of "Everybody's Doin' It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917." by Let It Roll

63 min listen

Genres: Pop vs Rock vs R&B vs Hip-Hop vs Dance vs Country vs Punk: An interview with Kelefa Sanneh, author of "Major Labels: A History of Popular Music in Seven Genres." by Let It Roll

63 min listen

the Band That Broke Czechoslovakian Communism: Plastic People of the Universe: An interview with Joe Yanosik, author of "A Consumer Guide to The Plastic People of the Universe." by Let It Roll

57 min listen

John Entwistle's Bass Anchored The Who and His Rockstar Lifestyle Dragged Him Down: An interview with Paul Rees, author of, "The Ox: The Authorized Biography of The Who's John Entwistle." by Let It Roll

63 min listen

New Orleans Music from Fats Domino thru the Meters to No Limit and Cash Money: An interview with Ned Sublette author of "The Year Before the Flood: A Story of New Orleans." by Let It Roll

67 min listen

Pop Had An Entirely Different Meaning Before 1955: An interview with Bob Stanley, author of "Let's Do It: The Birth of Pop Music: A History." by Let It Roll

49 min listen

Guns N’ Roses Reigned Over the Late 80's and Fell Hard in the 1990s: Host Nate Wilcox asks Art about the band that seemed like America's Rolling Stones for a few years in the late 1980s but slid into bloat and hubris in the 1990s. Have a question or a suggestion for a topic or person for Nate to interview? Email letitrollpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter. Follow us on Facebook. Let It Roll is proud to be part of Pantheon Podcasts. by Let It Roll

61 min listen

Aerosmith, KISS, Cheap Trick & Starz Carved Out a Space for Weird Rock in the 1970s: Host Nate Wilcox talks to Doug about how "four flamboyant bands that reveled in revved-up anthems and flaunted a novel theatricality" got major-label backing to try something a little different than the serious denim & leather stuff that dominated the early 70s. Let It Roll is proud to be part of Pantheon Podcasts. Have a question or a suggestion for a topic or person for Nate to interview? Email letitrollpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter. Follow us on Facebook. by Let It Roll

60 min listen

DJ Screw Slowed Hip-Hop Down and Built a Home Grown Empire in Houston: An interview with Lance Scott Walker, author of "DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution." by Let It Roll

63 min listen

Mambo hit New York hard in the 1930s, 40s and 50s: An interview with Tony Fletcher author of "All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music from the Streets of New York 1927–77" by Let It Roll

65 min listen

Future, Young Thug, Migos and Vybz Kartel Have Used Autotune to Create a Vibrant Vocal Psychedelia: An interview with Kit Mackintosh author of "Neon Screams: How Drill, Trap and Bashment Made Music New Again." by Let It Roll

59 min listen

HolyRoll 1: In America African Culture Survived as The Spiritual: Hosts Nate Wilcox and Garrett Cash kick off a new mini-series with some talk about spirituals and Gospel's roots in African music. Have a question or a suggestion for a topic or person for Nate to interview? Email letitrollpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter. Follow us on Facebook. Let It Roll is proud to be part of Pantheon Podcasts. by Let It Roll

68 min listen

Protobilly: The Vaudeville Roots of Country Music: An interview with Henry Sapoznik, one of the compilers of "Protobilly: The Minstrel & Tin Pan Alley DNA of Country Music." by Let It Roll

66 min listen

Trap Music Took Atlanta's Rap Scene Global but Never Escaped Reality: An interview with A.R. Shaw, author of "Trap History: Atlanta Culture and the Global Impact of Trap Music." by Let It Roll

65 min listen

The History of American Pop Music Writing Tells a Story: An interview with Eric Weisbard author of , Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music." by Let It Roll

55 min listen

Michael Jackson, Madonna and Prince Topped a Banner Year for Pop in 1984: An interview with Michaelangelo Matos, author of "Can't Slow Down: How 1984 Became Pop's Blockbuster Year." by Let It Roll

60 min listen

The Cool: A 20th Century Phenomenon: Host Nate Wilcox talks with Ted Gioia about the birth of "the cool" in the jazz scene of the 1920s and 30s, its explosion into the mass consciousness in the 1950s, its reign through the rock era and its eventual death at the turn of the millennium, drowned in commercial hype. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. by Let It Roll

54 min listen

How Jazz and Rock and Roll Came to Be Seen As Completely Separate Genres: Host Nate Wilcox asks Matt about the role of music magazines such as Downbeat and Rolling Stone in the creation of a strict separation between the genres of jazz and rock which were so closely related that in 1955 Duke Ellington called rock & roll “the most raucous form of jazz, beyond a doubt.” Let It Roll is proud to be part of Pantheon Podcasts. Have a question or a suggestion for a topic or person for Nate to interview? Email letitrollpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter. Follow us on Facebook. by Let It Roll

63 min listen

Danger Mouse's Gray Album United Jay-Z and The Beatles and Brought Down the Wrath of the Industry: An interview with Charles Fairchild author of "Danger Mouse's The Grey Album" in the 33 1/3 book series. by Let It Roll

66 min listen

Eddie Floyd Epitomized the Stax Records Approach to Soul: An interview with Tony Fletcher, co-author of Eddie Floyd's autobiography "Knock! Knock! Knock! On Wood: My Life in Soul." by Let It Roll

68 min listen

The Songs Jazz is Built On: Jazz historian Ted Gioia and host Nate Wilcox discuss the songs that make up the jazz repertoire, how that differs from the Great American Songbook and jazz musicians stopped interpreting newer pop songs in the 1960s for the most part. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. by Let It Roll

61 min listen

Latin Roll 3: The most popular American musician of the 19th century connected Cuba and New Orleans: An interview with Ned Sublette author of "Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo" by Let It Roll

63 min listen

Willie Nelson: Nashville's Not Enough: This episode is the second part of Nate Wilcox and Joe Nick Patoski's exploration of Willie Nelson's musical career as detailed in Patoski's book, "Willie Nelson: An Epic Life". by Let It Roll

67 min listen

The Butthole Surfers, Big Boys, Dicks and Scratch Acid led Texas' crazed punk scene: An interview with photographer and author Pat Blashill about his book "Texas Is the Reason: The Mavericks of Lone Star Punk." by Let It Roll

60 min listen

Smokey Robinson Was Berry Gordy's Right-Hand Man at Motown: A discussion of Smokey Robinson's autobiography "Smokey: Inside My Life" co-written with David Ritz. by Let It Roll

60 min listen

Grunge Bands Like Nirvana Drew All Eyes to the Seattle Music Scene: Nate and Justin discuss the masterful telling of what happened when Seattle's happy little underground scene became an international pop culture sensation, attracting thousands of wannabes and hundreds of reporters to the city. Have a question or a suggestion for a topic or person for Nate to interview? Email letitrollpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter. Follow us on Facebook. Part of Pantheon Podcasts by Let It Roll

64 min listen

HolyRoll 2: Jubilee Singers and Barbershop Quartets Continued the Evolution of African-American Music: Hosts Nate Wilcox & Garrett Cash continue their discussion of the evolution of American Gospel music with a look at the evolution of Afro-American music in the late 19th Century. Have a question or a suggestion for a topic or person for Nate to interview? Email letitrollpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter. Follow us on Facebook. Let It Roll is proud to be part of Pantheon Podcasts. by Let It Roll

60 min listen

How Willie Nelson, Doug Sahm, Stevie Ray Vaughan, SXSW and ACL Fest Turned Austin into the ATX: Host Nate Wilcox welcomes back author Joe Nick Patoski to tell us how musicians like Doug Sahm, Willie Nelson, Stevie Ray Vaughan and the Butthole Surfers kicked off the transformation that turned a sleepy college town into ATX, the home of Austin City Limits and South by Southwest. Let It Roll is proud to be part of Pantheon Podcasts. by Let It Roll

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The Birth of Jazz in New Orleans: Buddy Bolden & Jellyroll Morton and Others Combined Brass Bands with Ragtime and Blues

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