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An audio documentary of 1970s music and history. This podcast examines the intersection of a wide variety of musical genres, including pop, rock, country, country-pop, disco, punk, and soul...
The 1970s gave us some of the most memorable songs ever recorded and some artists who, for one reason or another, only broke through once. I...
Imagine a train carrying the precious cargo that includes Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, The Band, and many more of our legendary performe...
"Baby, if you ever wondered, wondered whatever became of me, I'm living on the air in Cincinnati, Cincinnati WKRP." In this episode, WKRP in...
Television. The Ramones. Patti Smith. The Talking Heads. Blondie. These bands and more used the iconic club, CBGB, as their proving ground,...
Americans watched a lot of television in the 70s and talk shows were among the most popular shows to watch. Talk shows were the true interse...
The heartland is an American region, but heartland rock is not regional. In fact, it can be argued that it is more of a culture than a sub-g...
An audio documentary of 1970s music and history. This podcast examines the intersection of a wide variety of musical genres, including pop,...
How did heavy metal change from the 70s to the 80s? This episode examines the birth of "hair metal" and how, for a short but LOUD period of...
The roots of country music are black and white. So, why do most people think of country as a white person's genre? This episode considers an...
It isn't easy to write an original Christmas song that stands the test of the time, but artists of the 70s gave us several, such as "Feliz N...
Rock critics may have hated it but millions of music fans loved so-called "soft rock." This episode examines possible theories for this genr...
Southern rock from bands such as the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd was not just loved by Americans from the South. Southern rock has br...
How and why did artists such as John Denver and Olivia Newton-John upset the country music establishment in the 1970s? Country radio has cre...
Disco and the 70s had a love-hate relationship. This episode examines who hated disco and why, as well as why it thrived in the underground...
In just over a two-year span as the 1970s marched on toward the 1980s, John Travolta starred in three cultural touchstone movies: "Saturday...
In 1974, a local Austin PBS station aired the first episode of "Austin City Limits" and, with that, took the first step to showing the entir...
The year 1974 shoulder much of the blame for the so-called worst music of not only the 1970s, but the worst of all time. Is this true? While...
Did you watch television in the 70s? If so, it was highly likely that you watched something that was created or produced by Dick Clark. The...
What could possibly happen to make a music festival be tagged as "3 Days of Sodom and Gomorrah?" How about toilets on fire? Drugs being sold...
In the 1970s, it was not easy for Canadians to produce and distribute music that would be widely received by American or Canadian audiences....
There is no single type of novelty song, although they all have something that distinguishes them. Sometimes it is the topic and sometimes i...
On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on unarmed protestors at Kent State University in Ohio. Four students were killed and ni...
What IS an opera, anyway? It is a dramatic story told with music rather than acting. The songs tell us the story. The 1970s was not only a g...
Is it possible that the combination of the live music and the community that was created at The Troubadour in Los Angeles can ever be replic...
After Olivia Newton-John died, her broad reach was evident. Tributes poured in from all corners of the entertainment world. Even at the musi...
If anyone could make following the Billboard Top 40 a friendly competitive sport, it was Casey Kasem. His national radio countdown show, Ame...
Southern rock from bands such as the Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd was not just loved by Americans from the South. Southern rock had br...
Mainstream hip hop burst onto the scene with "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang in 1979, but hip hop's roots go deeper than that into...
Rock and roll was a man's world in the 1970s. Would that have been any different if Janis Joplin had not died just as the 70s were beginning...
Suffice to say that America's spirit in 1976 was a bit...mixed. The first half of the 70s carried the weight of war, social discord, and ass...
"The Rumble in the Jungle" featured heavyweight boxing legends, Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, but they were not the only legends who gath...
Jazz is America's music. It is America's sole original form of art, yet it had declined in popularity by the 1970s to the point that some mu...
Tom Wolfe said the 70s was witness to the Third Great Awakening, as many Americans turned to religion on their quest for self-enlightenment...
There is no single sound that defines the 70s but there is no doubt that Philly Soul, or the Sound of Philadelphia, is an essential element....
Who knew that Barry Manilow wanted "Could it Be Magic" to be a "musical orgasm?" That song was part of the wide menu of 70s pop, which has b...
The relationship between music and sports in the 70s was multidimensional. There were songs about individual athletes, there were songs that...
Gram Parsons called country rock Cosmic American Music; it was a little of this and a little of that, combined into a musical stew that toda...
Songwriters of the 70s took on Richard Nixon the best way they knew how: with their music. Blaming music for drug use, the Kent State shooti...
Did music help push the sexual revolution in the 1970s or was the music reflecting the changes in how society viewed sexuality? Music has al...
Bubblegum music was as beloved by its fans as it was maligned by critics. The 70s saw bubblegum of the 60s, such as "Sugar Sugar" by The Arc...
Reggae may not have ever found a significant radio audience in America in the 70s, but its influence on pop and rock music is undeniable. Th...
Movie soundtracks got better in the 70s as the creation of soundtracks became more intentional. Rather than simply compiling songs for an al...
The heyday of the TV variety show was, without a doubt, the 70s. It seemed as if every entertainer either had their own show or was on someo...
T. Rex, Alice Cooper, David Bowie, and Roxy Music were at the heart of 70s glam rock. This episode examines how glam stretched the boundarie...
The Chicano Movement of the 60s and 70s and the growth of the Hispanic population in the U.S. influenced popular culture. Music was no excep...
Heavy metal was outright despised by many rock critics but was much loved by its fans. There is no question that heavy metal is noted for it...
Why did more women sell country music and get more radio airtime in the 70s than today? Artists such as Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, and even...
The shift away from nonviolent civil disobedience to the Black Power Movement in the fight for African American civil rights was reflected i...
The voting age was lowered from 21 to 18 with the 26th Amendment in 1971. Young voters were courted by the music industry, either as attempt...
Few people were neutral about progressive rock in the 70s. Bands such as Emerson Lake and Palmer, Yes, and Pink Floyd pushed the debate over...