I'd Buy That For A Dollar

On our season one finale, co-host Peter summons a forgotten pop star of the late '80s—Jody Watley. We examine her legacy from fashion to voguing to 'featuring' to just catchy songs. The boys wax nostalgic about the past year as the podcast turns one.    If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke a...

We take a break from soul and jazz LPs with this choice selection from folksinger extraordinaire Richie Havens. Co-host Jeremy leads the discussion.    If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks!

Co-host Sean aims to reclaim the legacy of songwriter and style icon Isaac Hayes while throwing more enemies on our naughty list. Look beyond the image into the revolutionary sounds of this history-changing artist.  If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review...

Co-host Peter takes us into the world of organ jazz and shows us how this oft-neglected instrument can truly bop, especially under the fingers of the legendary Johnny "Hammond" Smith. If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us....

We go live again with one of jazz's forgotten heroes and his cast of fusion legends behind the iron curtain.  Check out the music so dangerous it shut down the Tallinn Jazz Festival for 23 years. If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more peop...

Guest host Taylor Rowley brings the angelic voice of Minnie front and center as we discuss Perfect Angel—an album with a ubiquitous hit, legendary producer, and world-class backing band that is somehow slipping through the cracks.   If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends?...

Co-host Peter leads the way as we venture into the sounds of Jerry "The Ice Man" Butler's backing band. This 1972 soul jazz offering—the only entry in their catalog—is cool as ice.   If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. T...

Co-host Jeremy brings this moment captured in jazz history that brought together not two, but three, giants of jazz for an impromptu performance.   If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks! 

Guest host Trevor Coleman returns to support co-host Sean's audacious claim that Earth, Wind & Fire is the greatest band of all time. Will they convince you?   If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks! 

Co-host Peter rewinds us back to a transition moment where Diana steps away from disco and into a somehow higher plane of mega-pop stardom.   If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks! 

Jeremy brings the first live record featuring blues/folk trailblazer Josh White. This record finds him towards the end of a long and hard road but with family to get him through.   If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Tha...

Sean ends the 'Brothers bands' debate with the final Chambers Brothers album. We dig up the unforgiving story of the extremely talented group that created the era defining jam, "Time Has Come Today." If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more...

Jeremy "I Don't Like Musicals" Ruggles brings his second album of showtunes from an artist most have heard of yet very few know. We scratch the surface of one of the wildest rides in music history.   If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more...

Multimedia artist Nicholas Naioti joins our regular co-hosts for this episode about British singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading. We focus on Armatrading's eponymous third album from 1976 and somehow end up on a Jimmy Buffett tangent along the way.  If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and ha...

Musician Trevor Coleman joins us to discuss this 1985 bargain bin treasure from the one and only Stevie Wonder. While we praise this Michigan legend, we submit why this undervalued album should be held in as high esteem as Wonder's best-known work.    If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke an...

Co-host Jeremy brings into focus this breezy spring dream of an album. Roberta's stunning voice and overflowing talent have been forgotten to the dollar bins of history and are ripe to bloom again.    If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more...

The crew excavates this ambitious and bizarre experimental rock offering from Boston-born musician Andy Pratt. As we listen, we try to place where this unique record falls in the rock canon as well as how it registers for us personally.   If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no fri...

Guest Host Ryan Werner joins us to peel into the layers of Doobie Bros. history. Reshaped by Steely Dan alumni Michael McDonald and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, the Doobs are in top pop form on this 1978 LP.   If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps mor...

This week we take a hard right (left? inward?) turn towards new-age music pioneer Steven Halpern. We mellow out in these strange times and also go down the rabbit hole of Steven's DIY distribution and tightrope walk between science and pseudoscience.   If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke a...

IBTFAD finally goes full country with Nashville legend and "First Lady of Country Music" Tammy Wynette. We inspect her inspection of the human condition and discuss why the generation following her is wrong in their wholesale dismissal of this classic.  If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke...

Co-Host Sean snags up some stripped down dance grooves from his favorite year in funk—1982. The gang "gets loose" with this oft-overlooked jam machine.    If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us, thanks! 

The crew gushes over this hard left turn by outlaw country pioneer Willie Nelson.  We rewind into the history that led the rebellious Willie into an album of old pop standards.  If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us, thanks...

Peter brings us Fairport Convention folkie Ian Matthews' breakaway solo album. We delve into how this proper English lad got the bug for California rays and American twang. If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content, or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us, thanks! 

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Co-host Sean takes us into the world of boogie funk and unveils the newest album to date that we've featured on the pod: Midnight Star's certified bopper, Headlines, only 34 years old—wow!  If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content, or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps m...

On the last of our episodes recorded in Chicago, guest host Shannon Gross takes us for an enthusiastic spin through Cyndi Lauper's 1983 megahit LP, She's So Unusual. We explore how this unconventional voice and icon for punk fashion was able to infiltrate the pop charts during the decade of extremes. If you like us, please support us at  patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast  to get exclusive content, or t...