Swing King Chick Webb Brought Ella Fitzgerald to the World: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.7
Host Nate Wilcox talks with Jeff Kaufman, director, writer and producer of the documentary film “The Savoy King: Chick Webb and the Music Th...
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"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.
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How Kansas City Vice Birthed Kansas City Jazz: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.6
Host Nate Wilcox talks with Chuck Haddix, co-author with Frank Driggs of “Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop - A History,” in a convers...
Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger, Josh White & Jean Ritchie and the first Folk Revival: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.5
Host Nate Wilcox talks with Dave Thompson, author of “An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music,” in a conversa...
Rhythm & Blues from Bessie Smith to Louis Jordan: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.4
Host Nate Wilcox and the late Ed Ward, author of “The History of Rock & Roll, Volume One: 1920-1963,” close Season 3 of Let It Roll From the...
Ted Gioia Talks the Songs Jazz is Built On: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.3
Host Nate Wilcox is joined again by Ted Gioia, author of “The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire,” in a conversation first recorded i...
Record Men From Thomas Edison to John Hammond & Chris Blackwell: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.2
Gareth Murphy set out to write an obituary for the record man. A French label boss had told him over lunch that the record producer was a dy...
Bing Crosby's Swing Brought Him Superstardom: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 4.1
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The Jazz Age of Pop From the ODJB to Bing Crosby: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.12
Host Nate Wilcox is joined again by Peter Doggett, author of “Electric Shock: From the Gramophone to the iPhone - 125 Years of Pop Music,” i...
Thomas A. Dorsey Went From 'It's Tight Like That' to 'Precious Lord': Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.11
The same man wrote “It’s Tight Like That” and “Take My Hand, Precious Lord.” As Georgia Tom, Thomas A. Dorsey cut it with Tampa Red in 1928...
Ralph Peer Brought Blues, Jazz, Country, and Latin Music to Record: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.10
Before OKeh would bet on records made by Black artists for Black buyers, somebody had to go and find out whether that market existed. The co...
The Beginnings of Country Music According to Ken Burns: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.9
Host Nate Wilcox is joined by James Porter - Chicago writer, DJ and musician - to open CountryRoll, their run through Ken Burns’s “Country M...
Ed Ward on The Bristol Explosion: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.8
Host Nate Wilcox is joined by Ed Ward, his original co-host and the author of “The History of Rock & Roll, Volume 1: 1920-1963,” for a conve...
The Carter Family popularized the Child Ballads and Burl Ives built a new tradition: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.7
Host Nate Wilcox is joined again by Dave Thompson, author of “An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock,” for the nex...
Paul Whiteman Was the King of Jazz in 1925, to Music Critics: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.6
In this episode, host Nate Wilcox welcomes Elijah Wald to discuss his controversial but informative book "How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'N'...
Vernon Dalhart: The forgotten first superstar of country music: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.5
Host Nate Wilcox tells this one alone, as a Let It Roll seance - the guest is the late Jack Palmer, author of “Vernon Dalhart: First Star of...
Ed Ward on Rock Pre-History the 1920s & 30s: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.4
Host Nate Wilcox and the late Ed Ward, the rock historian of NPR’s Fresh Air kicked off their discussions of Ed’s History of Rock and Roll,...
The Holy Trinity of Texas Gospel and a Devilish Businessman: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.3
Host Nate Wilcox asks Michael Corcoran to share the stories of Texas gospel greats Arizona Dranes, Blind Willie Johnson and Washington Phil...
House of the Rising Sun Before Bob Dylan And After The Animals: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.2
Host Nate Wilcox and Ted Anthony, author of “Chasing the Rising Sun: The Journey of an American Song”, work through what a “version” even is...
From Louis Armstrong to the White Stripes, 'St James Infirmary' Connects Folk Traditions to Jazz and Rock: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 3.1
Season 3 of Let It Roll: From the Beginning… opens with host Nate Wilcox talking to Robert W. Harwood about “I Went Down to St. James Infirm...
Pop Had An Entirely Different Meaning Before 1955: Let It Roll From the Beginning... 2.12
Host Nate Wilcox welcomes Bob Stanley to discuss “Let’s Do It: The Birth of Pop Music, A History” - the prequel to his own earlier book, “Ye...