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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Nate Wilcox

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Francis Child Collected Ballads and Kicked Off a Craze 13.01.2025 50:00

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 49:05

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 41:07

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 40:19

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...