Nate Wilcox

Let It Roll EXTRA

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Nate Wilcox's "Let it Roll" is a podcast about the history of popular music from the 19th Century to the 21st. letitrollpodcast.substack.com

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Author

Nate Wilcox

Category

Music

Latest episode

Oct 23, 2026

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Episodes

Technoroll 1: The History of DJ-Based Music - Reggae, Disco, Hip-Hop, House, Techno, EDM and Beyond 03.03.2025

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness are joined by producer Stephie Haynes to introduce the series and our main source book “ Last Night A DJ Saved My Life - The History of the Disc Jockey ” by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton. This is the first of three series of dance music history that Ryan Harkness and...

Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and Tom Rush led the pre-Dylan American Folk Boom 24.02.2025

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com 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 . (Note ordering the book using that link will help support the show via Amazon’s affiliate program). This episode discusses the Child Ballads about Ro...

Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger, Josh White & Jean Ritchie and the first Folk Revival 10.02.2025

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com 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 -- buy the book to support the show. This episode covers the collision of the Child Ballads with the leaders of the first American popular Folk Revival...

The Carter Family popularized the Child Ballads and Burl Ives built a new tradition 27.01.2025

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com This episode covers the emergence of the commercial recording industry into the story of the Child Ballads with producers like Ralph Peer, performers like The Carter Family, and “songweriters” like A.P. Carter all transforming the ballads for a new popular audience. Dave Thompson and Nate Wilcox also discus...

Francis Child Collected Ballads and Kicked Off a Craze 13.01.2025

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com This episode covers James Francis Child himself, how he came to collect British ballads and how they were published. We also discuss the recording career of Woodrow Wilson’s First Lady who was the second person to commercially record a Child Ballad, and the discovery of Child Ballads in the American South.

Sir Walter Scott, Pepys, and Charles Dickens: The Literary Roots of The Ballad Tradition 30.12.2024

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com 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

Let It Folk: The Ancient Repertoire the Genre Built On 16.12.2024

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Host Nate Wilcox welcomes Dave Thopson to kick off a new mini-series on his book “ An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music .” The song lyrics collected by Francis J. Child in the 19th Century have contributed mightily to the repertoire of the people we often call “folk singers...

Brian Jones Reached A Bitter End 02.12.2024

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com In this episode, I discuss Nick Broomfield’s documentary The Stones and Brian Jones and in the full episode (for paying subscribers) I discuss Rolling Stone: The Life & Death of Brian Jones directed by Danny Garcia and the book Who Killed Christoper Robin: The Final Truth by Terry Rawlings with Paul Spindle...

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