Soft Shoulder Podcast

Weeeeeee'rrrrre back-ack-ack-ack, so LET US DO OUR SHOW FOR CHRRRIISTSAKES! We're talkin' bout Long Island's own ivory ticklin', Kiss stealin', street boxin' sweet heart, Billy Joel. From his Rough and tumble New York upbringing, time in an adorable gang, his 2 peice organ and drum based heavy metal band Attila all the way to the River of Dreams. But not to worry we also delve in to the work ethic...

Spring has sprung and we're talking about the Free Design . A little known wholesome, smooth and cute family band from late sixties/ early 70's New York City. If you've never heard of the Free Design, this is a perfect chance to come find out a little, you won't regret it, we promise. As usual, we are definitely always on track and for sure haven't introduced a new segment called "The super tangen...

Season 2 Episode 2 and we're talking CHER! There's so much we can say about this wonderful woman who has had hits in SIX decades. From her time working with her partner Sonny at Phil Spectre's studio, both chart topping and Television dominating in the 70's, Academy awards, Grammy's, infomercials, mail order goth gear catelogue's to a duet with Beavis and Butthead, Cher has done SO MUCH! So Snap o...

Season Two! Welcome back everyone! We have a real hum-dinger for you to open it up, we're talking about STEELY DAN! Stacey and Alex go through these 2 loveable scamps history, stories and discography including: hurting Mark Knopfler's feelings, the Purdie shuffle, an award winning drum machine named Wendel, Gene Ween's Billy Joel cover band, Hulkamaniacs and a lot more. It's good to be back! Songs...

We're sitting down this week for the penultimate artist feature of Soft Shoulder season 1, Robert Palmer! From his early Island sound inspirations, the insane amount of cover material, his tin pan alley style to the powers station. Robert Palmer is a strange and pretty reserved musical chameleon  with an equally weird body of work that is really all over the map. 

Hey Soft Soldiers! Stacey and Alex are all the way back with an all new episode almost kind of about your favourite Alan Parsons produced 70's weirdo's, Ambrosia! Come learn about a band we "Kind of thought were different, but they're ok, i guess", sperm whale vomit, our opinions on Zappa, side profiled old men named Arthur and our brand new fan favourite segment "recipes with Stacey" If ther...

Episode 9, Kenny Loggins, let's gooooooo! We are returning to Pooh corner this week to talk about multi-level marketing, birth energy, gang fights with a gang's accountant and raking in that sweet sweet soundtrack & Xmas Money. So what did our boy K-Log get up to after Loggins and Messina ? Turns out a whole bunch of high strangeness. Check it out and don't forget to rate and review, it r...

Wow, this one went way off the rails and we're pretty sure it's our longest episode yet. Speaking of pretty, let's talk about this accidental best selling duo of the 1970s, Kenny Loggins and Jim Messina. From Danny's song all the way to a pretty brutal cover of Bobby Darin's "Splish Splash" these 2 cuties really run the gamut of strange folky island blues soft rock. Come learn about how this even...

What a week! Porcaro's and Lukathers and Fergusons oh my! We're talking Toto and all of their wacky shenanagins. From their beginnings as Rural Still Life, then Still life, amazing session work to a Louisiana wild man starting his own Toto in the 80's. Also on this episode, Stacey has a confession and trust us, it's HUGE .

Safe and easy middle of the road rock with a penchant to kind of sound like everyone else, that's America! Stacey and Alex sit down to talk about all sorts of stuff and kind of stay on track, find out the reason David Bowie kept a jar of pee in his fridge, who Hal Blaine is, Stacey's song about cats toe beans and other super America related things.  ENJOY!

So, what can't we say about Stevie Winwood ? He's been in bands since the age of 8 and really never stopped making music since. From The Spencer Davis group to Steve's solo career and as much in between as we could cram. We also find on this episode, our true feelings for Eric Clapton as well as the important question, what happened to Muff? Full disclosure, the audio is a little off on this one....

Stacey introduces all of you (and Alex) to the Queen of the whistle register and overall beautiful human Minnie Riperton. What an absolute treat to be able to discuss her short, but so amazing career through music. There's a lot of surprises in this one. Our Minnie Riperton spotify playlist can be found HERE.

Hey everyone, guess what? WE LOVE Daryl Hall and John Oates! We sit down and talk gang fights, century home restoration, stock car racing and we do it all in typical Philly Fashion. Also we debut our first game "Who's at Daryl's House"  This weeks spotify playlist is a BANGER! Find it HERE .

Trigger Warning: This episode contains descriptions of gun violence. Guess what? We don't really like Chicago that much, but sometimes we do, we guess. We're sorry but also not sorry. Our Chicago playlist can be found on Spotify here

For this inaugural episode Stacy and Alex sit down and light up a doob. We explore the 3 era's of our favourite soft rockin' sometimes leather daddies. Don't forget to check out our episode playlist on Spotify. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7JlGbAyZZFOitLRUFoSJMe?si=U1vd1lu2R_G-Od8P2wKqTg

Full episodes coming soon. Want a hint for episode 1 ? Just listen to the music.