Tales Vinyl Tells-”stories record albums convey”

June 5, 2025 The hourglass is filling with sand. I’ve been working on this one over the past couple weeks and got the word that Phil Lesh passed, I knew that I needed to finish up and get the salutes ready. These four had unique lives and affected millions around the world, like many of the artists from the 60s & 70s did. This hour is a major tease. Do you have a story or memory of any of thes...

  Didn’t get no notice from Spot-to-fy since last time I posted. Maybe they were just being sensitive and not getting any attention. Whatever. We’ll see what happens this week and see if I can care any less. This time we salute all health care workers and providers, including those on what some call “the fringes”, complementary medicine, like osteopathy, acupuncture, homeopathy, massage, reflexolo...

Episode 192! New and improved! Lots of LPs to hear. So little time. Hello and welcome to another Tales Vinyl Tells. Our trek into the great album rock of the 1960s and 70s is what we focus on here. The albums that came out during that time carried at least one maybe two really great numbers and my mission is to dig some of those hidden gems out and share them with you. I’m Brian Hallgren and these...

Episode 191! A New Dive Into The Great Album Rock Of The 60s & 70s May 20, 2025 Welcome back to the 60s and 70s….music, that is.  It’s Tales Vinyl Tells!  Today we jump into the time machine and re-visit 1966, Woodstock and what’s that smell?  There’s Something in the air.  I’ve got a cut from Ummagumma, even Deep Purple.  My name’s Brian Hallgren and this is my trip, Tales Vinyl Tells, since...

Episode 190: What Should I Name This One? May 13, 2025 I hope I caught you at a good time. After all, this is a program about the great album cuts of the 60s and 70s. This is Tales Vinyl Tells and I am Brian Hallgren. Today we continue to feature a lot of the songs from the year 1969, in particular. These cuts may not be what you expect to hear from the album and we’ll hear from the Kinks, The Mot...

Episode 189: One Of The Main Musical Topics Of The 60s: Protest! May 6, 2025 One nonviolent way to show one’s displeasure/disgust/disagreement is to protest. In a letter to the editor, written in a blog, by contacting your lawmakers, taking it to the streets and there are many other ways. Pete Seeger was known for his songs protesting mistreatment of workers and war itself, and over time there has...

Episode 184: Some Of The Goodies From 1969 May 1, 2025 Hello and welcome!  It’s another Tales Vinyl Tells, an excursion into the great album cuts of our vinyl records of the 60s & 70s.  Today we’re tuned into some of the 1969 releases that rocked and changed the consciousness of the world. Tommy, the Who’s Rock Opera came out in 69. So did the Stones’ Let It Bleed, Santana’s first,  The Stooge...

It's another Tales Vinyl Tells! You've heard a lot of these before and they are so much fun to hear again! This is Episode 188: Come Along With Me And Let's Dig Some LPs! April 22, 2025 We loved sitting around after work in the late 60s and early 70s and checking out the new LPs that were flooding the market and heard on great radio stations like Mother-WMUM, KSAN, WSHE. The album cuts ranged from...

Episode 187: A Few Years Ago, Bob Dylan Sold An Estimated $300 Million Worth Of His Work April 15, 2025 He signed with Columbia in 1961 and the deal included around 600 pieces. More details in this episode, which includes Dylan himself and lots of great copies of his songs. The Byrds really favored Dylan’s works and recorded around 18 of his songs. The Turtles did one. It’s here on the original ep...

TALES VINYL TELLS PODCAST Episode 186: It Was A New Year, 2023! Salute To Christine McVie And More April 8, 2025 Looks like we made it to a new year. I was beginning to wonder. Last year had some good, some sad but the best thing is that is ended. I had a Covid Christmas, lost a couple really good people, like my 30 year old niece, my 62 year old friend, had a melanoma on my head and it was just a...

Episode 185: Jerry Lee W/E Street Band, Leeds Music, Blue Jays, Fogelberg March 31, 2025 Going back to the first airing of episode 30 on RadioFreeNashville.org and November 2022, we’ll play Jerry Lee Lewis and Springsteen’s Band at the opening of the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, which, looking at recent inductees, should be remarqueed Hall of Music (Pop). Live at Leeds was regarded by some as one of...

Episode 183: Remembering Marianne Faithfull, Jesse Colin Young And Roy Ayers, Jr. + More March 25, 2025 Welcome back to this hour that we call Tales Vinyl Tells.  It’s your chance to hear some of the great album rock from the 60s and 70s mostly.  We’ve been doing these programs since late 2019 and have covered lots a ground.  You know and I know that we’ve just scratched the surface of recorded ro...

Episode 182: The Final Vinyl! Another Of The 29 LPs That Sold More Than 15 Million Units! March 18, 2025 I hope you're having a good day. I'm going to play the final vinyl of the 29 albums of all time that sold more than 15 million copies and this one is not the biggest selling LP, but stayed on the charts for 1,716 weeks! That's the equivalent of 33 years! Also, one in 14 Americans own or have ow...

Episode 181: More Of The Best Selling LPs, Alanis! March 11, 2025 It’s another adventure into that great album rock of the 1960s and 1970s. In fact we are continuing to wind down the 29 best selling albums of all time that sold more than 15 million copies as of July 22, 2022 and listed by insider.com. We’re down to number two and there’s more great music ahead today from the 60s and 70s and beyond...

Episode 180! Here In Gator Landing, Fla There's No Time To Lose! March 4, 2025 Today’s hour is a visit to the radio program of November 2022 on RadioFreeNashville.org and is a salute to the spirit of Nicolette Larson and her work as a successful solo artist and her work with The Doobies, Neil Young and many of the artists that Ted Templeman produced. I’m here for a short while longer near the Atla...

Episode 179: Judy, Bobby, Petty, Koopy, Bluesy, Rocky And More, For Fun February 25, 2025 This is Tales Vinyl Tells.  And it’s another hour of some of the best rock tunes from albums of the 60s and 70s with some delicacies tossed in, just because. I’m saying hello from south florida, in Sandy Beach actually.  Today, we’re going to salute a few great artists who were in their late 20s in the late 6...

Episode 178: Looking Way Back To 2020. About Animals. February 19, 2025 In August 2022, RadioFreeNashville.org ran Tales Vinyl Tells in its adapted version for on air and on time, not to run over the given hour. A musical program about Dogs, Cows, Animals and Doves, in general. All here. Have you ever seen the funny image of a cat on a leash? Here. Maybe the southern sun is cooking my brain. Here...

Episode 177: Love Is All You Need February 12, 2025 We are still in our southern studio and we want to revisit a previous episode, in particular, from DATE and episode 17. We’re getting into the season of love and Cupid and doing exceptional things for our sweeties. Yes I’m talking about Valentine’s Day. So this is the Valentines edition of Tales Vinyl Tells. I’m Brian Hallgren and I’m glad you ar...

Episode 176: TVT Salutes Next Door Artists Mike Pinera And Garth Hudson February 3, 2025 Hey and Hello!  Welcome in for more of those Tales Vinyl Tells.  This is our weekly immersion into some great music that appeared on vinyls, especially during the 60s and 70s.  A lot of those albums are still playable today and are played and appreciated all over the world.  With a good cleaning of the disc su...

Episode 175: Way Down Low, Playing The Bass. Leland Sklar Live Tribute January 29, 2025 Here we go with another Tales Vinyl Tells! It’s our plunge into some of that great album rock especially from the 60s and 70s. The vinyl albums are classic, they’re vintage, and today the upsurge in album sales is really wonderful to see and read about. A lot of artists today are putting out LPs and record pres...

Episode 174: Tom Petty And Heartbreakers And Fleetwood Mac On PCOC Day 4! January 21, 2025 Last week, it was Day 4 of the PCOC, which featured Johnny Winter And with Ric Derringer and the McCoys and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with Stevie Nicks. The radio version is only 58 minutes. Episode 173 podcast has the entire 1:40 concert, which includes the entire concert and the Fleetwood Mac set. Th...

Episode 173: PCOC Day 4 With Johnny Winter And, Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers and Fleetwood Mac! January 7, 2025 The Post Covid Outdoor Concert series was put together at a time in 2021 and 2022 when the badly mismanaged virus was eating people alive. We didn’t have a clue as to when or how it would end and whether I’d survive if I got it or my love or my children or grand child or family got it...

Episode 170: Post Covid Outdoor Concert Series, Part 2 Today! December 24, 2024 Welcome back to another Tales Vinyl Tells.  We’re playin’ and diggin’ that great album rock of the 60s & 70s and today we are Replaying ep 34 from May 2021.  It’s The Post Covid Outdoor Concert series day 2.  it’s PCOC, we sometimes call it the Peacock and we call it The New Days Festival! It’s Steve Day at the Pea...

Episode 171: December Holiday Songs December 18, 2024 There are many holidays in the month of December and you might hear of some that you didn’t know about on today’s Tales Vinyl Tells. I do love the old rockin’ Christmas tunes (Ronettes, Beach Boys and the like) as well as those from Tull, Greg Lake and Dan Fogelberg. Sit back and relax, have a cup of cheer and a good holiday month. You know, if...

Episode 169: PCOC, The Peacock, Is Back!! Day 1, Pts 1 & 2 The New Days Festival! December 12, 2024 Welcome back to another Tales Vinyl Tells.  First off, I’ll tell you that this episode is so long because it’s so good with the acts in concert, there are 2 parts. Both parts are below and/or are available wherever you listen to Tales Vinyl Tells. We’re playin’ and diggin’ that great album rock...