Let It Roll

"Let it Roll" is a podcast about the history of popular music from the 19th Century to the 21st. Proud part of Pantheon - the podcast network for music lovers.

Music History
Music Commentary
Music Interviews
1
Let It Folk: The Ancient Repertoire the Genre B...
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Dave Thompson kick off a mini-series discussing Dave's book An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music
41 min
2
Brian Jones' Bitter End
The end of our series on Brian Jones and The Rolling Stones
40 min
3
The Cops Killed Brian Jones, Not Mick & Keith
The fourth part of Nate's discussion of Nick Broomfield's film "The Stones and Brian Jones"
40 min
4
Brian Jones and Anita Pallenberg dazzled the po...
The third part of Nate's discussion of Nick Broomfield's film "The Stones and Brian Jones"
41 min
5
Brian Jones had no songwriting partner in The R...
The second part of Nate's discussion of Nick Broomfield's film "The Stones and Brian Jones"
45 min
6
New Brian Jones documentary reveals some truths...
A discussion of Nick Broomfield's film "The Stones and Brian Jones"
42 min
7
Brian Jones was Anita Pallenberg's entre into t...
A discussion of the Catching Fire documentary
47 min
8
We're Back: Bill Wyman was The Quiet Rolling Stone
A discussion of The Quiet One documentary
41 min
9
Farewell episode
This is it
47 min
10
Nine Inch Nails channeled the nightmare into music
An interview with Adam Steiner author of "Into The Never: Nine Inch Nails And The Creation Of The Downward Spiral"
59 min
11
Mamas and the Papa John Phillips' old evil spirit
A discussion of John Phillips' autobiography "Papa John"
46 min
12
Gram Parsons lived a nightmare on purpose
An interview with David N Meyer author of "Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music"
60 min
13
Nirvana's biographer looks back at Kurt Cobain ...
An interview with Michael Azerrad discussing the new expanded edition of his classic Nirvana biography "The Amplified Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana"
66 min
14
Rock 'n' Roll's first and worst nightmare
A discussion with Ed Ward about rock 'n' roll in 1959
79 min
15
Brian Jones came to a bad end after the Rolling...
The final installment of our Brian Jones & the Rollling Stones series
64 min
16
Hardcore punk was a nightmare for 80s corporate...
An interview with Steven Blush author of "American Hardcore"
69 min
17
The awful enigma of Brian Jones and the Rolling...
A discussion of the rise and fall of Brian Jones
49 min
18
Jim Morrison lived out the rock 'n' roll nightm...
A discussion of "No One Here Gets Out Alive" by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman
62 min
19
Why was Brian Jones so wrong for the Rolling St...
A Q&A with host Nate Wilcox
57 min
20
Little Willie John's dreams turned to nightmares
An interview with Susan Whitall, author of " Fever: Little Willie John: A Fast Life, Mysterious Death, and the Birth of Soul"
64 min
21
Mick Jagger on Brian Jones and forming the Roll...
A discussion of Mick Jagger's 1990s interview with Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner
49 min
22
The Grateful Dead were the pied pipers of psych...
An interview with Jesse Jarnow author of "Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America."
66 min
23
In the end the Rolling Stones chewed up and spa...
A conclusion of host Nate Wilcox's discussion of Andrew Loog Oldham's second memoir "2Stoned"
50 min
24
Grandmaster Flash brought turntablism to Hip-Hop
A discussion of the autobiography of Grandmaster Flash co-written with David Ritz
61 min
25
Andrew Loog Oldham broke The Rolling Stones in ...
A discussion of Andrew Loog Oldham's memoir "2Stoned"
56 min