Radio and PodcastRadio and PodcastLive Radio & Podcasts
Rock N Roll Librarian cover
Music

Rock N Roll Librarian

Pantheon

The Rock N Roll Librarian: Our Monthly Rock N Roll Book Club, co-hosted by Shelley Sorenson and Christian Swain. Shelley picks a book, usually a Rock N Roll biography, she reads it and I pur...

Episodes

20 of 34 episodes

The Metallica Report: Trailer

The Metallica Report is coming! Keep up with all things Metallica by going straight to the source for your news. This weekly report is hoste...

2:23Jul 24, 2023

Searching for Jimmy Page

Shelley and Christian discuss this brooding coming-of-age mystery about 18-year-old Luna's search for her biological father, which leads her...

96:59Nov 4, 2021

Shout, Sister, Shout! - The Untold Story of Rock-and-Roll Trailblazer Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Praise the Lord! Shelley and Christian discuss the “Godmother of Rock and Roll”, whose obscure tale is told in the book Shout, Sister, Shout...

107:27Mar 12, 2021

So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley

In this episode of the Rock n Roll Librarian Shelley and Christian discuss the book So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley (2...

105:21Dec 28, 2020

All I Ever Wanted: A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir by Kathy Valentine

In this episode of the Rock n Roll librarian, Shelley and Christian chat about Go-Go’s bassist Kathy Valentine’s story of what it took to fi...

125:27Aug 30, 2020

Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story

On this episode of the Rock n Roll Librarian, Shelley tells Christian all about the book RAGE TO SURVIVE: THE ETTA JAMES STORY. One of the g...

105:14May 28, 2020

No One Here Gets Out Alive: The Biography of Jim Morrison

In this episode of the Rock n Roll Librarian, Shelley and Christian discuss the life of Jim Morrison (The Doors), as told in the ground-brea...

100:36Mar 24, 2020

Time is Tight: My Life, Note By Note by Booker T. Jones

On this episode Rock n Roll Librarian Shelley Sorenson and Rock n Roll Archaeologist Christian Swain explore a musician vital to the Stax Re...

97:13Feb 15, 2020

Face It: A Memoir by Debbie Harry

Happy Holidays Diggers! Open up this present early! Shelley and Christian break down the new autobiography of one of the most beautiful punk...

99:16Dec 5, 2019

Up Jumped the Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson

This episode Rock N Roll Librarian Shelley Sorenson and Rock N Roll Archaeologist Christian Swain go down the big muddy river and deep into...

87:53Oct 17, 2019

Cruel to Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe

Join the Rock N Roll Librarian Shelley Sorenson and the Rock N Roll Archaeologist Christian Swain as they discuss the definitive biography o...

107:56Aug 13, 2019

Bruce Dickinson: What Does This Button Do? - An Autobiography

Shelley and Christian have a great time getting into the memoir from Bruce Dickinson, the larger-than-life, multifaceted lead vocalist of Ir...

102:46Jun 11, 2019

Aretha: The Queen of Soul - A Life in Photographs

Shelley and Christian dig deep into friend of the show Meredith Ochs' latest book, Aretha: The Queen of Soul - A Life in Photographs. Since...

88:04Apr 17, 2019

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

Shelley and Christian dive into Bruce's autobiography, 'Born to Run'. In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Supe...

127:06Feb 15, 2019

Rock N Roll Librarian: Petty: The Biography

On October 7th, 2017 Tom Petty joined the rock n roll orchestra on the other side. He was 67 years young. For rockers around the world, like...

107:28Nov 22, 2018

Rock N Roll Librarian: Paul Simon: The Life

For more than fifty years, Paul Simon has spoken to us in songs about alienation, doubt, resilience, and empathy in ways that have establish...

91:46Aug 20, 2018

Rock N Roll Librarian: Hit So Hard

This episode the Rock N Roll Librarian Shelley Sorensen and C Swain review ‘Hit So Hard’ by original drummer for the 90’s grunge band, Hole....

82:23Jun 18, 2018

Rock N Roll Librarian: Reckless Daughter - A Portrait of Joni Mitchell

This episode Shelley and Christian review “Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell” by Professor David Yaffe. Consider this a compani...

78:36Apr 3, 2018

Rock N Roll Librarian: From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars

This week Shelley and Christian review 'From Cradle to Stage: Stories from the Mothers Who Rocked and Raised Rock Stars' by Virginia Hanlon...

65:41Dec 9, 2017

Rock N Roll Librarian: Infinite Tuesday: An Autobiographical Riff by Mike Nesmith

One of the four Monkees was actually a futurist. Did you know that he helped birth MTV? Did you know he put together one of the first countr...

63:09Sep 8, 2017