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
The President's Daughter Recorded A Child Ballad
An interview with author Dave Thompson about An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music
50 min
2
Sir Walter Scott, Pepys, and Charles Dickens: T...
Hosts Nate Wilcox and Dave Thompson continue their mini-series discussing Dave's book An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music
49 min
3
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
4
Brian Jones' Bitter End
The end of our series on Brian Jones and The Rolling Stones
40 min
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
New Brian Jones documentary reveals some truths...
A discussion of Nick Broomfield's film "The Stones and Brian Jones"
42 min
9
Brian Jones was Anita Pallenberg's entre into t...
A discussion of the Catching Fire documentary
47 min
10
We're Back: Bill Wyman was The Quiet Rolling Stone
A discussion of The Quiet One documentary
41 min
11
Farewell episode
This is it
47 min
12
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
13
Mamas and the Papa John Phillips' old evil spirit
A discussion of John Phillips' autobiography "Papa John"
46 min
14
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
15
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
16
Rock 'n' Roll's first and worst nightmare
A discussion with Ed Ward about rock 'n' roll in 1959
79 min
17
Brian Jones came to a bad end after the Rolling...
The final installment of our Brian Jones & the Rollling Stones series
64 min
18
Hardcore punk was a nightmare for 80s corporate...
An interview with Steven Blush author of "American Hardcore"
69 min
19
The awful enigma of Brian Jones and the Rolling...
A discussion of the rise and fall of Brian Jones
49 min
20
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
21
Why was Brian Jones so wrong for the Rolling St...
A Q&A with host Nate Wilcox
57 min
22
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
23
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
24
The Grateful Dead were the pied pipers of psych...
An interview with Jesse Jarnow author of "Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America."
66 min
25
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