The Church Studio Presents Miss O'Dell: Abbey Road to Tulsa Time

What's it like to grow up in the shadow of a rock and roll legend...and then spend your life protecting her legacy? This week, Chris sits down with Michael Joplin , younger brother of the incomparable Janis Joplin . Michael was still in high school when Janis died at 27, learning of her passing from a classmate before his own family could tell him. In this warm, funny, and surprisingly intimate co...

Chris O'Dell reunites with her longtime friend Gary Stromberg, the co-founder of Gibson and Stromberg PR and the man behind some of the biggest names in music history, including The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Ray Charles, Muhammad Ali, and Barbara Streisand. Gary shares the story of landing the Stones account after a surreal one-on-one with Mick Jagger at the Marion Davies estate, the...

Beatles historian and author Ken Womack joins Chris O'Dell for a deep dive into the life of Mal Evans, the gentle giant who served as The Beatles' road manager, confidant, and unofficial archivist from 1963 until the band's final days. Ken shares the full story behind his book Living the Beatles Legend , including how Mal's long-lost diaries were recovered from a New York basement 12 years after h...

Tom Scott has played saxophone on records by George Harrison, Joni Mitchell, Pink Floyd, Steely Dan, Whitney Houston, Frank Sinatra, Paul McCartney, and dozens more . 15 Grammy nominations and counting. But ask him how he ended up as one of George Harrison's closest friends, and the answer starts with a UCLA summer class on Indian music and a tabla teacher named Harihar Rao. Chris O'Dell sits down...

Henry Diltz, famous rock photographer and archivist, bought a $20 secondhand camera on a whim in Michigan. What followed was a 60-year photographic career that captured Woodstock, Monterey Pop, Laurel Canyon, and nearly every defining album cover of rock's greatest era. In this conversation with Chris O'Dell at The Church Studio in Tulsa, Henry tells the full story — from watching The Beatles on E...

Chris O’Dell welcomes her longtime friend Leslie Cavendish , the legendary hairdresser who worked closely with The Beatles during one of the most creative periods of their career. Leslie shares unforgettable stories about cutting Paul McCartney’s hair at Cavendish Avenue, meeting John Lennon , working with George Harrison and Ringo Starr , and experiencing Apple, Savile Row, and the Magical Myster...

Author and Buffalo Tom frontman Bill Janovitz joins Chris O'Dell to talk about his New York Times bestselling biography of Leon Russell: the master of space and time, and one of the most influential yet underappreciated figures in rock history. Chris knew Leon in his early-'70s prime; Bill spent years researching the full story. Together they get into the rock star Leon willed himself to become, h...

Chris O'Dell's first guest is her longtime friend Pattie Boyd: muse, model, and one of the few people who was truly inside the world of The Beatles and beyond. Over the course of this conversation, the two friends move through decades of shared memory: meeting at an Apple boutique fashion show while Yoko sat in silence, discovering Friar Park and bringing it to life room by room, three Krishna fam...

Listen as Miss Odell tells stories about events we've all heard about from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones.