Records Revisited

Gaps in our schedule means...we do what we want. Instead of our usual format, I just wanted to hang out with some of my besties talking about some of our recent concerts. We were joined by Michael Citro (Michael's Record Collection), Jeff Frame (Jeff Makes Jokes) and Dave Montgomery (little brother). We talk about Wayne's First Wilco, trying to sell people on seeing bands live with us (and the anx...

Drew Kennedy (remember him from our Ben Folds episode a few years ago?) returns to talk about his latest record and Guy Clark's "Dublin Blues." Plenty of other discussion including Harley t-shirts, self-titled albums (even when it's your ninth album), Marathon songwriting, decor based on Hobby Lobby, panic attacks, Baby Ruth candy bars, 30 year or 40 years - who's counting, black diamond strings,...

Harley Flanagan has been kicking out punk music since he was in grade school. Literally. Cro-Mags, Harley's band, has been a big part of the NYC punk scene since the 80s and Harley has been making the rounds lately promoting his documentary called "Harley Flanagan: Wired for Chaos." Probably should have known by the documentary title that this episode would be anything but our typical format. Plen...

The "Wanted! The Outlaws" compilation from 1976 was a huge launching pad (or relaunching pad) for Waylon and Willie. And, it did for country what The Sex Pistols or Ramones did for punk music. Sterling Drake joins us to talk about this game changing compilation and his new album “The Shape I’m In.”  Plenty of other discussion including short sleeved pearl snaps, Bro Country vs. Real Country (and s...

There's only one band I've seen more live in concert than Carbon Leaf. It's a FUN time (one y'all should experience). Jesse Humphrey and Jon Markel from the band join us to discuss the self-titled debut from Rage Against the Machine (and, no, Carbon Leaf does NOT sound like Rage). Plenty of other discussion including counterfeit Carbon Leaf t-shirts, Freebird, Fenway, "you have to play the new son...

Canadian musician Braden Lam joins us to discuss his new album "The Cloudmaker's Cry" and the 2016 smash album "Cleopatra" from The Lumineers. Plenty of other discussion including family reunion shirts, Ben trying to learn French, the weird and wacky music charts in April 2016, handclaps, Daddy's sock drawer, and a nearly perfect Side A. Check out Braden at: https://bradenlam.com/ Check out The Lu...

Rambler Kane (and my friend Mark Cooper) discuss John Craigie's live album "Capricorn in Retrograde...Just Kidding...Live in Portland" from 2016. Plenty of other discussion including Rambler's own live album (which y'all need to check out...it's fantastic), being vulnerable, Craigie or a Braves game, Florida, Portlandia, Dire Straits, Wayne's podcaster phase (also known as get drunk on Wednesday p...

Wayne, Michael Citro and I are starting our pregaming early for a concert in May. Rick Springfield, John Waite, Wang Chung, and John Cafferty are all on one bill. Is there another album from any of those artists that we should do another pregaming episode about? We're not so sure after listening to this album again. At least Side A is awesome. Check out Rick Springfield at: https://rickspringfield...

Repeat Revisitors (and Patreon Revisitors) Dan Beck and Dave Greenberg are joined by our buddy Jon Lamoreaux to discuss the all time punk classic from the Sex Pistols. Plenty of other discussion including "f all y'all," Johnny's other band Public Image Ltd., the Rolling Stone "bible" issue, Taylor Swift needs to write some protest songs, caring less, and who the hell is Frank Carter? Anyone going...

Anyone remember the Mayflies USA? I got a promo copy of "Summertown" in 1998 and I fell in love with the album. They went on a massive hiatus but got together to record their latest album "Kickless Kids" set for release in May 2025. When I got a press release about this, I immediately asked if they could come on the show to talk about their career, the new album, and albums (and some songs) import...

Man, this was fun. I've been on a Drive-By Truckers kick since the holidays since I decided to do a full discography listen as a way of pregaming for seeing the band for the first time in early February. That show was pure awesomeness. This was one of our Patreon Revisitor shows with Kevin Peters picking the album. We asked Stephen Deusner, author of Where the Devil Don't Stay: Traveling the South...

Do you know The Weakerthans? We barely did. But we absolutely loved this record. Big kudos to our guest Caleb Caudle for picking this one. We also discuss his new record "Sweet Critters" and his collaborations with John Paul White and Alison Russell, sad people, The Opry, playing for small rooms, skipping the choruses, cats who try to motivate, the Elks Lodge, hockey pucks, The Paramount, and beep...

The guys are joined by cka FLAX (Sean Flax) to discuss Chris Whitley and his 1998 album “Dirt Floor.”  Plenty of other discussion including FLAX’s new album “the birth of fantasy,” memes, documentaries, the act of killing, ball peen hammers and a lack of a claw, loco girls, dying way young and Wayne getting called out by the guest might be my favorite moment on an episode in a while.   Check out c...

When you only have two to three days to prepare for an episode due to a guest reschedule, who do you turn to? Of course our Patreon Revisitors bail us out once again – this time it’s repeat revisitor Scotty Kummer from Ten Junk Miles and I’ve Got That On Vinyl to talk about “Women and Children First” from the legendary Van Halen. Plenty of other discussion on this one including the Minnesota Twins...

Musician Daryl Hance joins us to discuss the fourth album from the Police “Ghost in the Machine.”  Plenty of discussion about MTV, speaking French, Sandra Bullock and “Demolition Man,” alpha males & omega males, and more.   Dissecting any Police record is a lot of fun and doing it with Daryl was a blast. Y'all go check out his last album "Devil's Milhopper." It's one part 70s rock (ala Black S...

While Wayne is away, I get to discuss some Lucero with Patreon Revisitor Seth Gill, Repeat Revisitor Jason Earle (of the Marinade Podcast) and first timer musician Matt Woods. Man...we have a blast on this episode. Jason's theory of breaking down Ben Nichols tunes into different categories turns into a super fun exercise. I'm not gonna spoil the fun of what the categories are called. Check out Luc...

Maybe the name Jerry Hey doesn't ring any bells for you. But, you've been listening to songs that Jerry has played his trumpet on or has arranged for probably your entire life. He became one of Quincy Jones' main studio guys. He arranged strings on "Billie Jean," played on Brothers Johnson and Earth Wind & Fire and George Benson albums, that's him on Dolly's "9 to 5," and he's been on a ton of...

The guys are joined by Marc Wasserman who wrote the book “Soul Salvation: A Gen X Love Letter to The English Beat” to discuss (of course) “Special Beat Service” from The English Beat. Plenty of other discussion including Two Tone, FYC and General Public, John Hughes, American TV’s influence for one song, accordion, and what in the world is “Ackee 1 2 3?” Check out Marc at: https://www.instagram.co...

Jon Lamoreaux of the Hustle Podcast joins us to dissect “Rio” from Duran Duran.  It’s a travesty that it took us this long to discuss this classic album from the early days of MTV! Maybe we should just add Jon as a permanent co-host? Recorded while I was on the road for work in Newport News, VA. Anyone been there? Oh yeah…and LISTENER SCORES! Check out Duran Duran at:  https://duranduran.com/   Ch...

Roger Street Friedman joins us to discuss his new record “Long Shadows” and the classic “Tea for the Tillerman” from Cat Stevens.  Plenty of other discussion including the New York Mets, Larry Campbell, Sugarland Texas and the sad history of sugar labor, story songwriting, Ted Lasso, advice from our dads (and vice versa) and is “Sad Lisa” the basis of Lisa Simpson?  Check out Roger Street Friedman...

It’s time for our annual “Most Listened to Songs” episode and, once again, Jason Earle of the Marinade Podcast joins us with his 12 favorite songs. 36 total most listened songs.  No song repeats but we have a few artist repeats. Plenty of other discussion including Wayne discovers Spotify Auto Play, we need support groups for Jason (for pop music disdain) and Wayne (for instrumentals disdain), lov...

The guys from the band Brother Elsey join us (all 4 of them) to talk about their upcoming debut record, albums from 2017 (including "White Noise" that I consider my 2nd favorite album of that year), Phoebe Bridgers, basements in L.A., The Doors, Setlist.fm stats, Spanaway & Centralia Washington, and how do we get Noah to listen to this episode and have him answer some of our questions and....A...

The band gets back together. Shawn Brown & Kasey Anderson join us once again to nerd out about some tunes and this time it's NOT a Seattle related band. We discuss "Hard Candy" from Counting Crows. And Dan Fogelberg. But mostly Counting Crows. And hopefully we can pull off a Kasey and Shawn concert in Florida in February. Who wants to join us for that? Check out Kasey at: https://www.kaseyande...

The guys are joined by the artist known as mejia (pronounced may-uh) to discuss “Think Tank” from Blur. Plenty of other discussion including Sonic Youth, Paul McCartney, eels, leaving Goldsmith, Peter Gabriel, Gorillaz, The Clash, Dune, civility and hope.   Check out mejia at: https://www.instagram.com/meija.mp3   Check Blur at: https://www.blur.co.uk/   Check out other episodes at RecordsRevisite...

Big kudos to Jon for always being on the bench so to speak. You know what happens when we have a Jon episode...yep...guest reschedule. We did this one on two days notice and we didn't skip a beat as it's an album we've been listening to for 40 years. We have an unanimous top song! What?!? Any guesses what song? And, you're welcome that I didn't include a sound clip for "The Theme from Mantrap." Ch...