My Favorite Album with Jeremy Dylan

Melbourne singer/songwriter on Lou Reed's classic solo record 'Transformer', produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson.

Self-described ‘life-long advocate of simplicity’ and Canadian Americana singer/songwriter Whitney Rose joins me at a Mexican restaurant in Nashville to talk about 80s country icon Keith Whitley ’s posthumously released Greatest Hits album. Whitney reveals how her childhood love for Whitney helped foster her love for country music, why some of his songs make more emotional than logical sense, her...

ABC TV's Danny Yau joins me as gust co-host as we count down our 5 favorite albums of 2015, with commentary from friends of the show Jason Isbell, Tim Rogers, Will Hoge, Dan Kelly, Shane Nicholson and Tame Impala's Julien Barbagallo. My Favorite Album is a podcast unpacking the great works of pop music. Each episode features a different songwriter or musician discussing their favorite album of all...

For Christmas Eve, I dive into the melodramatic and perverse world of Phil Spector, and his seminal Christmas pop record ‘A Christmas Gift For You’, with my friend and sometimes producer Jaime Lewis and a large batch of eggnog. Why did the album bomb on first release? Which 60s pop legend considers it the greatest album of all time? How does Spector’s sincere love of syrupy Christmas music track w...

For the first ever My Favorite Album Christmas special, I delve into the origins of the Christmas pop songs we all know today with musicologist and Sydney Morning Herald music journo Tim Byron - how did we go from religious music to songs about cold weather? Why were all the best Christmas songs written by Jewish guys? And why is an album of Christmas standards by a Canadian outselling ever album...

Californian Americana singer/songwriter Sam Outlaw explains the roots of his passion for country music - Emmylou Harris's classic 1975 country debut 'Pieces of the Sky'. We talk about how the album introduced Sam to a litany of classic country songwriters, the Hot Band that Emmylou assembled to record the album, why she and Sam both used non-country players for their debut albums and how Emmylou i...

On the heels of my conversation with Jason Isbell, I'm revisiting one of my favorite episodes from the archives - acclaimed filmmaker and former music exec Brian Koppelman talking about how and why he fell in love with Jason's album 'Southeastern'. What insights did Brian glean from his own chats with Isbell? What is is like to discover one of your favorite albums in your late 40s? How does this a...

One of today’s most renowned and skilful Americana singer-songwriters, Jason Isbell , talks about the classic record that helped inspire the genre - The Rolling Stones 1971 LP ‘Sticky Fingers’. We talk about how growing up around Muscle Shoals Alabama got Jason into the record as a child, how the album shows the Stones maturing as a band as they entered the 70s, why the self-destructive lyrics of...

After two years of podcasting, we finally get to one of rock's most iconic bands, Led Zeppelin. Aussie guitar god and Melbourne rock institution Ash Naylor, frontman of Even, joins me at his local football grounds to talk about Zep's album 'Houses of the Holy'.  How does the record mark the transition between the first and second parts of the band's career? What Keith Richards quote applies to the...

Burke Reid was the Canadian guitarist for dormant Aussie rock band Gerling. He's also the producer behind many great records, including the recipient of 98,000 awards this year, Courtney Barnett's "Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Think". We talk about how Sonic Youth turned him on as a 12 year old, meeting the band as a pimply teenager at an Aussie festival, how their album 'Dirty' bal...

Erudite multi-hyphenate songwriter, musician, bandleader and producer Lance Ferguson (The Bamboos, Lanu) opens up on his deep emotional connection with the most inconic album in jazz history - Miles Davis 'Kind of Blue'. Lance reveals how the album is tied into the complex relationship with his father, how the songs from the record have woven into key moments of his life and how he tried to carry...

Lindsay McDougall aka The Doctor, Frenzal Rhomb guitarist and broadcaster, on Welsh punk rockers Future of the Left's debut album 'Curses!' (2007), why he loves hate and cynicism, and his ongoing feud with the Adelaide Tourism Commission.  My Favorite Album is a podcast unpacking the great works of pop music. Each episode features a different songwriter or musician discussing their favorite album...

The French drummer for West Australian rocker Tame Impala, Julien Barbagallo is also a singer/songwriter who creates his own form of what he calls 'manicured pop' music. We talk about how April March's 1999 album turned him from a Britpop fan into an appreciator of French creativity, how to appreciate music when you can't understand the music, his love for intricate production and arrangements, wh...

Badass white witch of Australian roots music, Melody Pool , wears the influence of Joni Mitchell 's "Blue" album like a badge of honour. In a frank and generous conversation, Melody talks about how discovering Joni from an unexpected source helped revolutionise her songwriting, the influence of depression on 'Blue', Joni's European travels, sustaining emotional connections with your own music and...

The thunderous heart of Australia's greatest rock'n'roll band You Am I, drummer Rusty Hopkinson, dons his professor's cap and guides us through a potted history of garage rock and early psychedelia through the seminal Lenny Kaye compiled box set 'Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era' (1972). We talk about whether or not you need drugs to appreciate psychedelic rock, the ongoi...

Emmy winning writer/director Jeff Greenstein (Desperate Housewives, Friends, Will & Grace) returns to the show for a deep dive about one of rock's most iconic bands, The Who, and their strange 1966 LP 'A Quick One'. We talk about how the album was a transition from the band's R&B beginnings to their concept album period, the influence of the Who's unconventional managers Lambert & Stamp, why every...

Americana super-producer Dave Cobb (Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Chris Isaak, Corb Lund, Chris Stapleton) talks about the innovation and inspiration of The Beatles 'Revolver', the greatest album of all time. Why was listening to the Beatles Dave's way of rebelling? How did the closing track 'Tomorrow Never Knows' influence 90s British music? How did Dave first turn from band member to producer?...

Punk rocker (World War IX), The Daily Show producer and cartoonist Justin Melkmann joins me to discuss NYC legend Lou Reed and his 1975 album 'Coney Island Baby'. We talk about how the album is one of Reed's most sincere works, why Justin passed up the chance to meet Reed, the musical link from Reed to punk, the Lou Reed Brady Bunch connection, and how drawing a cartoon of Lou changed Justin's lif...

Grammy winning singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves talks her love iconic iconoclast John Prine and his self-titled debut album. Kacey talks about performing with Prine, playing him the song she wrote about him, how his approach to lyric writing inspired her own songs, why she put her Grammy in a Prine exhibit in the Country Music Hall of Fame, and wonders why people keep thinking her and Prine's son...

For the special 100th episode extravaganza of 'My Favorite Album', I go from Sydney to Nashville to Melbourne, speaking to artists, journalists, producers and label execs to find out the answer to a question dear to my heart - 'Does the album have a future'? We hear from  Kacey Musgraves on why she plans to keep making albums, Neil Finn on why he might not, Davey Lane on why he's making singles so...

Canada's finest exponent of both kinds of music, punk rocker turned idiosyncratic Americana singer-songwriter Corb Lund, joins me in an Irish pub to talk his favorite album, the Western classic 'Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs' by Marty Robbins. Corb talks about how he discovered the album as a child, the balance between reverence of the past and subversive innovation in roots music, how Marty...

Lead guitarist and songwriter for Australian rock band Bad Dreems, Alex Cameron, joins me to talk about the classic debut album from Manchester post-punk icons Joy Divison 'Unknown Pleasures', the relationship between mental illness and creativity, why depression is often romanticised by music fans, depersonalisation and how he tries to carry the ethos of Joy Division through his own music. My Fav...

Australia’s Mr Rock’n’Roll Davey Lane , lead guitarist for You Am I and singer/songwriter, returns for the third time to the podcast for our most epic Beatles chat yet. Armed with a bottle of Lagavulin, an acoustic guitar and the original multi-track recordings, we delve into the Fab Four’s final masterpiece ‘Abbey Road’. How does the album function as the band’s final mission statement? How did H...

5-time ARIA nominated singer-songwriter and guitarist Dan Kelly writes laconic, distinctly Australian music with a cheeky vibe, but his favorite album is the coke-fuelled paranoid hard funk classic 'There's A Riot Goin On' by Sly and the Family Stone. My Favorite Album is a podcast unpacking the great works of pop music. Each episode features a different songwriter or musician discussing their fav...

Award winning Aussie bluesman Ash Gruwnald talks about the wild and wonderful world of Tom Waits and his grotesequely beautiful album 'Mule Variations'. My Favorite Album is a podcast unpacking the great works of pop music. Each episode features a different songwriter or musician discussing their favorite album of all time - their history with it, the making of the album, individual songs and the...