Records & Rockstars

256: Rock's Swan Songs Part 3 Mar 14, 2025

The conclusion of Jeff's celebration of Swan Songs, this time featuring three final cuts in the career of Pink Floyd (with and without former frontmen Roger Waters and Syd Barrett), Roxy Music, Queen, Nirvana, Chris Cornell (with a Johnny Cash angle), The Band, Tom Petty, Warren Zevon, John Lennon, and David Bowie.

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255: Rock's Swan Song's Part 2 Mar 06, 2025

The 2nd of three parts this time – a celebration of the artistry in studio mostly, and the most iconic of final public performances, we’re calling Swan Songs, with stories and music to go with from a Jacksonville kid, two of rock’s most incendiary drummers, plus a bit about the logo that inspired this min-series, and the rockstar frontman whose swan song would finish, with a nod to Robin Williams.

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254: Rock's Swan Songs Part 1 Feb 27, 2025

Whether it’s a death of an artist, or the end of a band, there has to be one last recording and one final public performance, in every artist’s career. And so this time, a good look at some of Rock’s Swan Songs, from the summer of love through the early seventies.

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253: Beginners Guide to Steve Earle and 10 Years of Terraplane Feb 13, 2025

Because there's so much more to Steve Earle than Copperhead Road, Jeff brings you select cuts from his stellar career of songwriting and performing, including from his acclaimed 2015 album Terraplane, plus a perfect in-concert Steve Earle story, and more.

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252: A Tribute to Garth Hudson and THE BAND Feb 06, 2025

It finally happened. The last Last Waltz, as it were. The last Canadian among four Canadian musical legends who with their American drummer, became known the world over, with Bob Dylan. And even before that, with another American who'd make Canada his home – Ronnie Hawkins. January 21st 2025, Garth Hudson passed, and so this episode pays tribute to he and the whole band, with select songs pre and post Last Waltz, and a moment from Jeff's final conversation with Robbie, about the early days.

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251: Under the Covers Revisited Jan 24, 2025

Jeff takes you back through the years with select songs you'll know best in the hands of artists who typically didn't do them first and didn't write them, in an episode that takes you under the covers, with earlier versions of songs made famous by CCR, Nazareth, Rod Stewart, Janis Joplin, Grand Funk, Soft Cell, Rolling Stones, George Harrison, Joan Jett, Johnny Cash, REM, Blondie, and more.

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250: Gone in 2024 Part 2 Dec 31, 2024

To close 2024, one more tribute and the conclusion to Jeff's look at music legends we lost this year, and one very influential radio broadcaster too. Comes with thanks to you for listening to Records & Rockstars. Spread the word about this music history and story-telling podcast, and all the best to you.

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249: Gone in 2024 Part 1 Dec 28, 2024

It's a bittersweet time, paying tribute to rockstars we've lost in the last 12 months and this is the first of two parts celebrating their artistry and contributions to music.

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248: Classic Albums of 1974 Part 4 Dec 20, 2024

Here's the final of the recurring four-parter looking back in celebration of the Classic Albums of 1974 with swan song records from King Crimson and Genesis, Mick Taylor's final with The Stones, the album that saved Supertramp, The Who, Tull, YES, Kraftwerk, and more.

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247: Strange Sounds Part 3 - Phasors on Stun Dec 12, 2024

While last time the effect in the spotlight was the talk box, this time it's an equally cool effect and rather strange sound from the studio that makes the music and/or the vocal, sound like jets overhead! Call it phase-shifting or stereo flanging, nothing but that this time in a trippy episode titled after the classic song "Phasors on Stun" by the classic Canadian band known as FM.

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246: Strange Sounds Part 2 - Talk Box Rock Dec 06, 2024

The 2nd of a 3-parter, this time an episode featuring the finest examples of the magical effect in which mouth and guitar meet to produce an unmistakable sound on some big ones from the 70s, 80s, and nineties.

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245: Strange Sounds from Studio and Stage Part 1 Nov 29, 2024

The first of a 3-parter that begins with a wizard, a true star, and HIS first big song, plus a game called sounds of the studio, in an episode that also features bagpipes, slide whistle, home-made kazoo, and a dog fronting a band that plays to no one. The strange continues with didgeridoo, sugar packets, and more.

Plus a call to you for theme ideas.

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244: Night and Day Part 2 - Good Day Sunshine Nov 25, 2024

This time to follow our choice night songs, an episode featuring select songs about the day in your life, and the day trips, the beautiful days, and perfect days, starring everyone from Beatles to Beatle influencer Buddy Holly, and Beatle soundalikes Badfinger, and a surprise even to JW, one day in the middle of the 1990s, Sheryl Crow did a duet with Johnny Cash about the kind of day Bob Marley had long ago sung about.

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243: Night and Day Part 1 - Night Songs Nov 15, 2024

After 800 weekly radio show episodes it seems like high time we do a 2 parter on day and night songs. Here comes part 1 and it features Bob Seger recounting how in Toronto, he laid down a song he believed in despite his management wanting him to do three other songs, and it became a career maker!

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242: The Name of the Song is the Name of the Band Nov 07, 2024

Can you think of any bands that share their names with songs? Here comes nineteen now.

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241: The Billys of Rock Nov 01, 2024

Not only the Billys of ROCK, because we've adopted the adage, "untethered by genre or era", happily colouring outside the lines this time again, with Williams turned Billys and with Billies too, from rock and jazz and blues and more, and a few Billy Joes to boot.

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240: Led Zeppelin Mando-Music Oct 24, 2024

There's something about the sound of the instrument, smallish in size, that adds something special to select rock songs. It's Italian. It has strings. It's part of the lute family of stringed instruments with long necks and and rounded bodies. Most often played with a pick, it typically has four courses or sets of 2 strings, tuned in unison and making it an 8 string instrument, and when you put two strings close together like this, you get more volume, just like with a 12 string guitar has that shimmer of strings vibrating against one another. Mandolin after the Italian mandolino, and it's in the spotlight this time in nothing but the songs of Led Zeppelin.

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239: Don't Bore Us Get to the Chorus! Oct 10, 2024

Songs that start not with the verse but with the chorus, with lots of Beatle angles, plus Bowie, Blur, and a funky interlude or two.

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238: Bands of Brothers and Bands of Sisters Part 2 Oct 03, 2024

Jeff packs another ton of bands from the 1950s to now, into the 2nd of two parts celebrating bands with brothers and bands with sisters. This time, brother and sister bands from the letters I through V. Q: recognize the brothers in the photo? The cradle will rock is right! That and more right here.

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237: Bands of Brothers and Bands of Sisters Part 1 Sep 27, 2024

Jeff packs a ton of bands from the 1950s to now, into the first of two parts celebrating bands with brothers and bands with sisters. This time, brother and sister bands from the letters A through H. Q: recognize the brothers in the photo? Think Macon Georgia, The Fillmore East, and some of the finest southern blues rock ever made. That and more right here.

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236: Classic Albums of 1974 Part 3 Summer Releases Sep 19, 2024

Taking you back to another time, another place, if you're up for the downstroke, with a rock 'n' roll doctor, and a trip to 461 Ocean Blvd, where we're sneakin' Sally through the Alley, but Sally can't dance, but we can ride the tiger. Hints as to the array of classic albums we're pullin' out this time, from July/Aug/Sept 1974.

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235: Performances: Steve Marriner Jul 18, 2024

Another special session in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests, and a condensed versions of the original sessions, with song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time not only a musician's musician, but a total people's choice player. Ottawa raised, Toronto based, Steve Marriner has been a blues harmonica player since the age of 11, and was just 13 and playing clubs, and only 14 when he won the Ottawa Blues Harp Blow-Off! In short, he's a monster player, but not just blues harp, but also guitar, bass, organ, and and he's a helluva singer and songwriter, and record producer/mixer too. We get into that a bit, in this performance focused cut of Steve's original album special session with Jeff, celebrating the release of his 2021 album Hope Dies Last. Steve delivers 3 live performances and talks about his evolving tastes and growth through listening and learning. Enjoy this 29 minute version of the original session.

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234: Performances: Joan Smith and Tom Juhas Jul 10, 2024

Another special session in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests, and a condensed version of the original episode, with song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, from Toronto, powerful performances and conversation with the principle members of Joan Smith & The Jane Does, Joan Smith and Tom Juhas, including a scorching cover of In the Pines (Where Did You Sleep Last Night). Runs: 24 minutes.

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233: Performances: Nickola Magnolia Jul 04, 2024

Another special session in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests, and a condensed version of the original episode, with song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, From Port Hope, Ontario, not simply a recording artist, but an outstanding tattoo artist too, Nickola Magnolia comes with her guitar, and delivers two live renditions of original songs, including one she'd never publicly shared before, plus the one about just how much she “loves country music more than she ever loved ______”, and Jeff gets inside her unique story that comes with so much of her unique wit and charm and talent. Runs 24 minutes.

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232: Madison Galloway by Madison Galloway Jun 28, 2024

The return (after 4 years) of the wise beyond her years 2023 "Southern Rock Artist of the Year" at the Josie Music Awards in Nashville. Thing is, she is southern, but Southern Ontario, and in this one on one convo with Jeff, we learn a bit more about her unique guitar buying strategy, (two heads are better than one, apparently), we learn of word of her reach farther and wider still as evidenced on Joe Bonamassa's “Cutting Edge Blues” playlist, plus a Records & Rockstars first revelation about her soon coming first tour in the UK. Guitar and slide in hand, we let a bit of the demon loose, as Madison Galloway performs two songs and Jeff happily plays you two additional songs direct from Madison's second long player (LP), simply called Madison Galloway, available far and wide as of June 27 2024! Get it on record and cd, plus there's merch and more at madisongalloway.com note: Madison's first appearance on Records & Rockstars is available as episode 55 (March 6 2020 for the Moon and Mercury album).

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231: Run The Plank Interview and Performance Jun 20, 2024

A heaping helping of country punk/alt folk complete with stand-up bass, banjo, acoustic guitar, and drums, Run the Plank (formerly Murky Waters) makes a stop at Wild Woods Blue Studio on the eastern leg of their Thrasberta Tour, as these wandering spirits from Calgary with roots in Ontario, perform three songs live in Jeff's attic, and tell tales about being a working band, road-testing songs, making the best of break-ups, and co-writing music. Runs 44 minutes.

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230: Classic Albums of 1974 Part 2 Jun 16, 2024

We're back into into the recurring four-parter featuring long-players out April, May and June of '74, and this "Second Helping" gives you a diverse playlist that'll take you to the Bridge of Sighs, with Diamond Dogs, in an Endless Summer of Good Vibrations, with solid weirdo bands from Budgie to Sparks, and a bit of my conversation with Paul Rodgers on the formation of the band who were the first to come with an album on Led Zeppelin's Swan Song label.

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229: Performances: Bernadette Connors Jun 16, 2024

Another special session in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests chatting with Jeff and delivering song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, fresh from an evening gig on the shore of Georgian Bay, Bernadette Connors delivers two outstanding original song performances, pulled from the 46 minute original session of episode #148, including “Georgina” (and where that is), and “All the Way to Nashville”, plus what it was like growing up in a music store, the value of curiosity, and more.

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228: 1994 The Year in Rock Jun 07, 2024

Compared to MOST years since the seventies, 1994 gave us so much more than most -- a year of some of the finest albums in rock, and one of the most impacting years in music. This is the podcast version of Jeff's weekly music radio show, charting around the world and enjoyed by music fans who love to hear what made artists tick, plus the stories behind the songs. This episode features an excerpt from Jeff's conversation with Jeff Buckley's mother, about her working with Chris Cornell to preserve the legacy of Buckley's music, plus we're hitting on all the heavy records of '94 from Grace to Superunknown, Vitalogy,The Division Bell, Wildflowers, Definitely Maybe, and so much more.

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227: Performances: Glenn Milchem Jun 06, 2024

Another special session in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests chatting with Jeff and delivering song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, lotsa laughs and talent too, pulled from the 56 minute session of episode #163, wherein the update features highlights from one of the finest and most diverse rock drummers around, showing his other side as a singer/songwriter and how that feels versus drumming, as Glenn Milchem performs two of his own songs, and tells of his feelings around stepping out from behind the kit to sing, of his tenure with Blue Rodeo and of their induction to Canada's Music Hall of Fame, and of giving life advice to his kids in the words to one of the two songs he does here. We also find out that we share in our love of what we're happy to call the finest live band around, and they're Canadian too. Here comes 38 minutes of pure music talk and performance, from Glenn Milchem.

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226: Performances: Justin Rutledge May 30, 2024

One of the most intimate and moving performances yet, it's another special episode in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests chatting with Jeff and delivering song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, pulled from the full 90 minute album premiere special (Episode 182 May 2023), we “head for the hills” with an excerpt from it, featuring an outstanding acoustic performance of a stand-out cut from “Something Easy”, Justin Rutledge's tenth record. His story finds Rutledge having negotiated major life changes as he overcome numerous obstacles on his path to better ways forward. And his growth as a recording artist, engineer and producer has been immense, too. His 10th album “Something Easy” is a profound work, and you get a taste of it performed live right here.

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225: Performances: Eamon McGrath May 23, 2024

It's another special episode in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests chatting with Jeff and delivering song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, pulled from the original Feb 2022 full 51 minute episode #123, from Toronto, it's the incomparable Eamon McGrath, sharing songs from the accliamed album “Bells of Hope”, and more. Eamon, on his Martin guitar, gives you two exceptional renditions of original songs, and tells of playing in a band backing Daniel Johnston (RIP), and covering his poignant and everlasting “True Love Will Find You in the End”, which is also included! Episode run time: 29 minutes.

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224: Performances - Dani Strong May 16, 2024

Here's the fourth in a recurring series we call “Performances”, featuring past guests, and how it works is we go back to those sessions, and pull out a bit of the introduction, along with the artists song set-ups and stories, followed by the live performances they delivered at Wild Woods Blue, this time featuring multi-award-winning artist and songwriter Dani Strong, who brings her guitar and her smile and her stories to Wild Woods Blue Studio. Her songs have landed in television and movies, and on record, and here with her Martin guitar in hand, she performs two gems: “Slow Down”, and “Loved” and her voice and playing are PERFECT. Plus, as Dani Strong is both a teacher and manager of other artists, for anyone thinking of creating and releasing music, hear Dani's Dos and Don'ts. Runs 32 minutes. (For more, hear the full episode #191, runs 88 minutes).

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223: My Special Guests: Angus Young of AC/DC May 09, 2024

I remember this day vividly. November 1997, when I was still recording artist interviews to quarter inch tape, and using a razor blade to move stuff around and add in the perfect songs, to get the special ready for radio. In walked Angus Young. He wasn't alone. In fact, he was dwarfed by the presence of two people, sitting on either side of him, across the recording console. Their presence seemed to fade from my view as Angus and I got into his memories of the great Bon Scott, to whom AC/DC was paying tribute with the then forthcoming box set Bonfire, titled, in a way, by the former front man himself. Angus tells that story, and so many more about his and Bon's bond, and their rise together on the long way to the top.

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222: My Special Guests: Carlos Santana May 02, 2024

Somehow, I had never been to Las Vegas. Then along came the opportunity to talk to Carlos Santana, September 3, 2010,when I got to the Hard Rock Hotel with guitar in hand—a black Gibson SG, knowing that the SG was the model of guitar Carlos had long ago played, and it’s truly one of the classic models (also associated with Angus Young of AC/DC and Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath). Carlos happily autographed it for use in an auction event I would later stage to benefit music therapy services in Canada. I thanked Carlos for coming and congratulated him on the imminent release of Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time, featuring guest performances by everyone from Joe Cocker to Chris Cornell, Scott Weiland and more. This is that.

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221: Performances - Eric Schenkman Apr 25, 2024

Is that a pocket full of kryptonite or are you just happy to see me? This time, the third in a recurring series we call “Performances”, and what a performer he is! A guitarist whose talents and hits would land him on the cover of Rolling Stone (Jan 1993), and on stages all over North America to this day. Joining Jeff Woods in-studio, solo, for a chat and impassioned acoustic performances, it's Spin Doctors guitarist Eric Schenkman. We're going back to a select session from March 2019 at Wild Woods Blue Studio, from which we've pulled out set-ups and stories, preceding three killer performances including two spirited originals: Who Shot John, and Agent Orange Blues (guess who that's about!?), and one classic cover: Statesboro Blues, in a loving nod to the Allman Brothers and the Blind Willie McTell song of 1928. Runtime: 3 minutes. (For more, the original episode #33 runs 66 minutes)

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220: Performances - Delyn Grey Apr 18, 2024

Here's another in a recurring series of special episodes, Records & Rockstars Performances, taking you back to select sessions, as we pull out songs and set ups and stories to go with, as delivered at Wild Woods Blue, this time starringJeff's special guest, from Toronto and playing left-handed, it's Delyn Grey with two stellar performances of original songs. Runtime: 17 minutes. (For more, the original episode #192 runs 39 minutes)

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219: Rolling Stones & Jeff Beck Apr 11, 2024

From Jeff's personal archives, it's all things Rolling Stones, with one-on-one conversations with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in Toronto (1998), talking about the Stones in concert (including playing Russia for the first time), Ronnie Wood in New York (2010) talking about art and music, playing guitar and playing bass, and Jeff Beck (Toronto 2010), with the story about how he "auditioned", so to speak, for the Stones before they ended up acquiring Ronnie.

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218: Gregory Childs and Heart Lung Apr 04, 2024

Not one but two tall drinks of water, as Gregory Childs and his wife bring along crack guitarist Jonathan Billings and band, to Wild Woods Blue to play a couple new songs, and one long ago made famous by Waylon and Willie, plus Greg opens up to Jeff about the who, what, when, where, why and how of his need to write and sing and play. Sometimes a school-teacher's doubt is just the thing a kid needs to fire up his soul and sing his heart out!

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217: Jeff Buckley's Mother and Jimi Hendrix's Sister Apr 04, 2024

With fans like David Bowie and Bob Dylan and Robert Plant, and close friends that included Chris Cornell, Jeff Buckley was an artists revered the world over for his unique talent. In the 1990’s Jeff got signed to Columbia Records, and made an album called GRACE, that can only be called essential. And then suddenly without warning in May 1997 Jeff Buckley was gone. At the time of his death, he had been working on a batch of new songs that, with a little help from his friends and Jeff’s mother, saw the light of day about a year after his passing. That’s when I had the good fortune to speak to Mary Guibert, about her son and his music and the final day of his life. And, the family affair continues, with my conversation with Jimi Hendrix's sister, Janie, about the life and times of the greatest rock guitarist in history.

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216: My Special Guests Page & Plant Mar 28, 2024

My Special Guests mini-series, this time featuring Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Excerpts from one of my favourite chats with Robert, from 2002, and bits of 2 conversations from 2015 with Jimmy Page, about all things Led Zeppelin.

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215: Performances - Miss Emily Mar 21, 2024

This is a first in a recurring series of special episodes featuring past guests, and how it works is we go back to those original sessions, and pull out a bit of Jeff's introduction, along with the artists song set ups and stories, followed by the live performances they delivered at Wild Woods Blue. Hence the name "Performances", and this time starring Miss Emily. Runtime: 13 minutes. (for more, the original episode 172 runs 66 minutes)

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214: Under the Overwhelming Influence of The Beatles Mar 14, 2024

So many reasons to do this show for you. Including the fact that of the thousands of concerts and shows I've seen none were more engaging visually and sonically, than Beatles Love - starring Cirque de Soleil. That and that fact that within the 384 pages of my first book, Radio, Records and Rockstars, there are 398 mentions of Beatles. Not simply by me, but by the vast majority of artists featured in the conversations in the book, who themselves had fallen, and many hard, under the influence of The Beatles.

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213: Nelson Sobral and Kunle Mar 07, 2024

He's a winning combination of Jujutsu black-belt and soul singing prowess, with an affinity for Black Crowes, Keith Richards, and Tina Turner, and he brings a new single plus a another original and plays both plus a classic cover, inside of a 57 minute special, as Nelson Sobral from Toronto, with the ever-worldly percussionist Kunle, join Jeff at Wild Woods Blue Studio for conversation and performance.

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212: Classic Albums of 1974 Part 1 Mar 07, 2024

1974 the year in rock is in the spotlight this time, for the first of a four part recurring theme, this time featuring nothing but albums out in the first 3 months of '74. Everyone from a Toronto trio, to the mutual admiration club that included Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Lightfoot, plus what a future Whitesnake singer was doing, the first #1 from the Doobie Bros, and a wise warning from a famous Frank.

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211: Stories of Perseverance Feb 22, 2024

Where would the bands we love have gotten were it not for their determination and tenacity -- their persistence and their perseverance? For that matter, where would any of us be. But they're the rockstars who made the records we love, so they get an episode. There's a million stories of perseverance. Here's a handful in a theme we'll come back to when the wind blows just right.

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210: Supergroup Traveling Wilburys Feb 15, 2024

This is the story of rock's ultimate supergroup which happened by way of a happy accident. Warner Bros. Records’ International Department had asked that George Harrison come up with a B-side for “This Is Love,” a single from his Cloud Nine album. What happened next, was all of this.

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209: Rock 'N' Reggae / Regatta de Blanc Feb 01, 2024

The Police "plundered it mercilessly", as Stewart Copeland put it best, the music Bob Marley would call “a joyful sound to make the world go ‘round”. And when Bob left Jamaica for London, to make records with Chris Blackwell, everyone who was anyone was taking notice and suddenly under the influence, particularly in the so-called New Wave era. And so let's dig in to some of the best examples of bands who combined rock 'n' reggae, and not just in the second half of the seventies with Dire Straits and Mick and Keith, and 10cc, but back to the early seventies when a certain Simon delivered pure Caribbean groove, and Clapton shot the sheriff, and more.

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208: Tribute to Rockstars Gone in 2023 Part 3 Jan 01, 2024

A companion to the previous 2 episodes, here comes the 3rd of 3 parts paying tribute to music icons gone in 2023.

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207: Tribute to Rockstars Gone in 2023 Part 2 Dec 28, 2023

The 2nd of Jeff's 3 part tribute to the artists and industry legends gone in 2023.

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206: Tribute to Rockstars Gone in 2023 Part 1 Dec 21, 2023

If you're like us, it really hits/hurts when another of the artists you grew up listening to, passes. It helps to take a minute to acknowledge and celebrate their contributions, as Jeff brings you the first of 3 parts paying tribute to the artists and industry legends gone in 2023.

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205: Classic Albums of 1973 Part 4 Dec 14, 2023

Here comes the conclusion of a four part recurring theme, featuring the Classic albums of 1973! A selection of the best albums in rock, from Oct/Nov/Dec '73.

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204: Killer Closing Cuts Part 2 Dec 08, 2023

Every album ever made has both first and final cuts. Here's the second of a 2 parter about the latter - select killer closing cuts and stories to go with, plus guess who Robert Plant looked to for advice, when Jimmy Page invited him to become the singer for Led Zeppelin? It was another British rock star, who tells us that story.

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203: Killer Closing Cuts Nov 30, 2023

Sequencing as it's known, was and still is for many, and important part of the record making process.

The mood and the tempo of the different songs, has an affect on the listener. So sequencing becomes an opportunity to enhance the experience.

Sequencing defines the relationship between each song. An obvious way to begin is to lead with your best foot. As they say, you only get one chance to make a first impression. And then you can build from there. And build anticipation. Or tension. And the album becomes a journey. Which to many is one of the things that about collecting and enjoying albums that really matters. You can group together songs that will sustain a vibe. You can dramatically change the vibe, again, by changing the mood or the tempo. And every album be it a single or a double or for that matter a triple, has a final cut. Here comes some killer closers now.

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202: Nickola Magnolia Interview and Performance Nov 23, 2023

Isn't it ironic, that an entire genre of music, was born out of a band 80% comprised of Canadians, as four men named Danko, Hudson, Manuel, and Robertson, and their Arkansas born drummer Levon Helm, unwittingly gave rise to so-called “Americana”.

And they, like our guest this time, had in their songs, themes like change, hope, heartbreak, and belonging.

She's also fan of Townes Van Zant. Hearing him, she was hooked.

From Port Hope, Ontario, Nickola Magnolia comes with her guitar, and she's ready to share music nobody has ever heard before, alongside some from her Jimmy Bowskill produced debut album of 2022 “Broken Lonesome”. Plus we'll spin her fall 2023 single “Hit and Run”, and dig into her unique story.

Her presence is notable. Her wit and candor the very same. This is a great session with which you can get to know this wonderful talent, singer/songwriter/performer who is also a tattoo artist! Not shockingly, I've already booked a session to have her art on my body.

Now let's get some Nickola Magnolia in our eardrums!

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201: Drop Top Alibi Interview and Performance Nov 16, 2023

If you dig rock music, like the kind that came knocking in the early nineties from Seattle, then you'll dig Drop Top Alibi. They blew away the room at the Horseshoe in Toronto where Jeff was compelled to invite them here, to tell their story and perform live, including something never before shared on radio or a podcast, plus we'll go directly to the “Anyways” EP, recorded mostly on vintage gear. Sounds perfect next to Alice in Chains or Soundgarden. With Brandon Gregory – lead vocals & gtr, Dylan Wykes – lead gtr & vocals, Russ Shipman – bass & vocals, and Jeff Cox – drums & vocals. 2 songs from the studio and 2 songs performed live at Jeff Woods' Wild Woods Blue Studio.

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200: Rockstars on the Wagon Nov 16, 2023

From time to time, many among us give thought to our relationship to booze. For some, drinking alcohol poses no drama. For others, it's a problem. Some deal. Some don't. Some will. Others won't. We've lost a lot of musicians to the bottle, and we've been fortunate to see some kick the habit, and stick around a little longer. Here comes a half hour of stories and music from rockstars on the wagon, with related conversation around sobriety that Jeff has had with Ronnie Wood, and Jeff Beck, plus an insightful reflection from Elliot Mintz, on his friend John Lennon, and the story of the Hollywood Vampires.

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199: Songs That Recall Years Part 2 Nov 02, 2023

Now the second in a 2-parter full of songs recalling years, and featuring a bit of conversation about the the tunes in question, from Jeff's sit-downs with Bob Seger, and Walter Becker and Donald Fagen of Steely Dan. Seger recalls recording his first massive hit in Toronto, and Becker and Fagen review some of their own songs, which is hilarious too. Plus Bowie, McCartney, Pink Floyd, Pumpkins, and Sheryl Crow and more.

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198: Songs Recalling Years Part 1 Oct 26, 2023

Spanning 1812 through 2525, and beyond, here comes the first of a 2-parter full of songs recalling years, from The Stones to the Stooges, plus The Band, and the band people believed to The Beatles, and lots more.

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197: Classic Live Albums Part 1 Oct 19, 2023

The first episode in a four part recurring theme, this time featuring lots of special stuff, like Jack Black talking about the greatest rock band EVER, plus Jimmy Page on Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, Angus Young on Bon Scott, Mick Jagger on the Rolling Stones playing Russia for the first time, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson talk "train-wrecks", and live music to go with it all.

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196: Classic Albums of 1973 Part 3 Oct 05, 2023

The recurring theme is back, as we celebrate the majesty of the classic albums of 1973. This time, memories and music from albums out the 3rd quarter of that year. From ZZ, to Mott, to 10cc, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, and some of the finest sounds of the south.

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195: Hotel/Motel Music Sep 28, 2023

A bit of a twisted start to a 25 minute escape into music and stories about people and places, hotels and motels, as we check into the Astor, Hotel Happiness, The Amsterdam Hilton, and what Don Henley says Hotel Cali is really about. Plus, two songs that inspired Records & Rockstars sister podcast, The Blue Hotel, The Memory Motel, and to wrap we'll take a ride in a Deathcab, and pop a psychedelic pill.

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194: Songs Not Sung by the Lead Singer Part 2 Sep 21, 2023

More in part 2, the conclusion of our look at songs that gave someone else a shot at the lead vocal, including the other rare lead vocals alongside Hendrix, Freddie Mercury, plus Oasis, April Wine, and more.

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193: Songs Not Sung by the Lead Singer Part 1 Sep 14, 2023

So many rock bands have a lead singer who carries most of the weight at the microphone. Think Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Doors, The Who. AC/DC, and U2. But even Roger Daltrey, and Bono stepped away a couple times to give someone else a chance. This is that, with a breakdown of lead vocals by Beatles, Pink Floyd's "ringer", Keef, and more.

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192: Introducing Delyn Grey Sep 14, 2023

These songs! And her voice! And these live performances, as passion abounds. Our friend Bif Naked says of our guest this time, “She's is the first artist about whom I felt so strongly. Her talent, words, and music move me like a hurricane”. Jeff's special guest this time is Toronto's Delyn Grey who brings out her left handed guitar and nails two performances of original songs, alongside two more of Delyn's songs from the studio, amid conversation about her career so far which is promising and exciting, with an October 2023 5 song EP release and live shows scheduled.

If there was a rack of records or CD's that if you like this one, you might like that one,

artists like PJ Harvey, Trent Reznor, Evanescence, might appear, next to her.

And she's moved audiences at The Drake, and Revival and The Horseshoe, and now she's here at Wild Woods Blue to sing and play and share words and music and her story, welcome singer/songwriter/guitarist/keyboardist/band leader: Delyn Grey.

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191: Dani Strong Special Aug 31, 2023

This is a treat, long time coming, or perhaps as I like to think, it's precisely the right time, to finally meet and shine much deserved light upon multi-award-winning artist and songwriter Dani Strong, who brings her guitar and her smile and her stories to Wild Woods Blue Studio. Her songs have landed in television and movies, and on record, as her 3rd full length releases fall 2023, from which she has put into the world, singles like “Slow Down”, and “Loved” and the one that most caught my ear as something very special, the song “Out of the Darkness” that comes with a harrowing true life story.She'll play two of those on her Martin guitar and her voice and playing are PERFECT. Plus we'll throw to five of Dani's exceptional songs from the studio, plus hear about the other facets of her career like teaching, and managing other artists, and for anyone thinking of creating and releasing music, Dani's Do's and Don'ts.

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190: Mobius Radio World Album Premiere Special Aug 07, 2023

From Toronto, Dylan Hennessy is back as my special guest for the World Album Premiere Special, of MOBIUS RADIO. It's a 79 minute program, about an album unique in sound, and vision – that of Hennessy who invited me to contribute spoken word bits, intros and interludes, which may remind some of the ones legendary Los Angeles radio DJ Jim Ladd, contributed to Roger Water Radio K.A.O.S. album in the eighties.

Mobius Radio the album is now available on Bandcamp and wherever you stream your music.

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189: Bob Wegner and the Definitive Book on Max Webster Jul 27, 2023

Jeff's special guest is as musical as it gets. And now a music author to boot. He learned to play, he learned to teach, and he landed the role as a guitarist in the “We Will Rock You” musical in Toronto, after winning the slot upon a successful audition with Brian May and Roger Taylor of QUEEN. Then he did some performances with Classic Albums Live, faithfully delivering the guitar parts of Jimmy Page for Zeppelin IV, and Alex Lifeson's guitar for the RUSH album 2112. He'd recreate records by other bands including Genesis, Beatles, YES, and Pink Floyd. Oh, and we talk KISS Cruise, because he's done that too. So, Bob Wegner knows how to play. He also knows how to compose. And now he's added author to his resume in coming out with Max Webster "High Class", the DEFINITIVE book about Max Webster, endorsed by Kim Mitchell and the other members of the Max machine, as it were. I hand Bob a guitar and he hands you a few performances including some deep tracks by Genesis and Paul McCartney, plus a precious gem by Max Webster. And we talk Beatles and Stones, and a reaction to Steve Lukather's recent rant about what the hell has become of (some) modern music and the way it's made.

Here comes the intelligent, talented and perfectly talkative Bob Wegner in an episode rooted in Max Webster, with branches all over the place, because these two are geeking out with Kim Mitchell's band, and beyond the moon.

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188: Mike McCarthy Band Talk To Me Special Jul 06, 2023

The return of the guitar slingin' country livin' and playin' gent who after 30 years of laying it down on concert stages, comes with a full 8 song album of story-telling songs of passion, both up-tempo burners and introspective ballads, and a waltz, to boot. The title song "Talk To Me" finds Mike McCarthy reflective upon the exit of someone close. 45 minutes of Mike with Jeff Woods, for the premiere special of the "Talk to Me" album. May contain sax, mandolin, Hammond B3, guitars, bass, drums, vocals, but absolutely no nuts. Suitable for all family members ;)

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187: The Kings Always Off the Deep End Special Jun 29, 2023

“Hey little Donna, still wanna? You said to ring you up when I was in Toronna”.

Or perhaps: “Nothing matters but the weekend from a Tuesday point of view!”

That's right, the Kings are here, with new music and the “Always Off The Deep End” Special, featuring the single of the same name and more of their latest songs that sound as great as their timeless hit “This Beat Goes On/Switchin' To Glide”, which we'll revisit because how do you deny the tune that all those years ago got them signed to a world-wide deal back when world famous producer Bob (Pink Floyd The Wall, KISS, Peter Gabriel) Ezrin dropped by to visit and checked the band out and liked what he heard. He agreed to mix the tracks The Kings had recorded but soon discovered that the whole thing needed to be re-done. He approached ElektraRecords in Los Angeles with The Kings’ tapes and the unknown band was signed.

The project was released as “The Kings Are Here”. ‘Switchin’ To Glide’, was put out and did get noticed but the tune was really two songs in one and the band insisted they be released together.

So when the segue ‘This Beat Goes On/Switchin’ To Glide’ was released radio really picked up on it. Even at over five minutes in length, it caught on all over the USA and Canada with huge airplay in every major market and stayed on the Billboard Hot 100 for six months. 40 plus years later, it sounds as good as it did the first time.

So, Jeff and David Diamond and Mr. Zero dig in to all that and the newest Kings music too, created with collaborators including Ezrin, GGGarth Richardson, Harry Hess, and other world class producers and mixers. Lots of stories and music to go with.

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186: Four Winds Music Fest Preview Special Jun 14, 2023

Jeff welcomes special guests Craig Smith and Ariana Dalie of Four Winds Music Fest for a preview of the July 14-16 2023 concert festival brought to you by The Happiness Mafia in partnership with Elephant Thoughts, at Riverstone Eco Retreat near the Town of Durham, Ontario on 136 acres of historic farmstead with diverse forests and the majestic Saugeen River running through it. The property is home to extensive wildlife. Riverstone is designed to accommodate persons with allergies or respiratory problems. All buildings are also accessible for persons using walking aids and/or wheelchairs. This event welcomes campers and is licensed. Ariana and Craig chat with Jeff about what you can expect from the festival, and they spin select music from participating artists.

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185: Amy Gabba Screaming at the Top of My Lungs Album Premiere Jun 09, 2023

Amy Gabba is up front and center in her band Amy Gabba and the Almost Famous and she's singing up a storm on her June 2023 album “Screaming at the Top of My Lungs”, as she brings guitarists and joins Jeff Woods at his Wild Woods Blue Studio to perform songs from the record, and an AC/DC Bon Scott era gem, and Amy and Jeff make their way through cuts on the slick and energetic new record, throwing to songs and gabbing about life and music and relationships and adventures, like old friends would, including their Sunday fun-day trip to Psilocybin-land. Also contains the ultimate f-you Covid song.

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184: Classic Albums of 1973 Part 2 May 31, 2023

Here's some hints as to the albums in the spotlight this time: Red & Blue, Blue Collar, The Exorcist and Richard Branson's Virgin. If that doesn't pique your interest, who are you even? ;)

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183: New York Stories Part 2 May 25, 2023

The second of two parts featuring stories about bands and signings and concerts and clubs and events that went down in New York City, as we flashback to CBGB, and Central Park, and stories of artists including a former Playboy Bunny, a band of Dolls, plus rats on the west side, bed bugs up town, and more nods to Bowie, who in his own words tells of the why he loved living there, just like his New York pal John Lennon had, plus Ramones, and Sid Vicious, and KISS, and Aerosmith and Lou, too. Are you tuning in? Why wouldn't you. Come along for another trip to New York City.

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182: Justin Rutledge "Something Easy" World Album Premiere Special May 19, 2023

The last time we did a 90 minute world album premiere special was with David Bowie, and I can tell you this session with Justin often moved me in similar ways, in both the stories and the new music. Here's a man from Toronto who himself has negotiated major changes and overcome obstacles and found so many better ways forward. His growth as a recording artist, engineer and producer has been immense. This record is a profound work. Come along for the ride, as we dig deep into Justin Rutledge's 10th album, “Something Easy”, moving through the record cut by cut with stories behind each song, plus Justin picks up his guitar and plays a live performance of “Head for the Hills”.

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181: New York Stories Part 1 May 18, 2023

The first of two parts on New York finds a London Ontario, Canada band delivering one of the finest of New York anthems from the late seventies, and how and with whom the Beatles got high with a little help from their new friend, and a story about two shy souls named Smith and Hendrix, hanging together on the stairs of Electric Lady Studios, plus Lennon, Bowie, and the duo originally known as Tom & Jerry. If you know that last bit, you win our undying admiration. Let's go, to New York City.

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180: Happy Accidents. Rock's Unplanned Classics May 11, 2023

Songs this time that were born out of necessity, chance, in teenage bedrooms, and rooftops, and during jams, rehearsals, sound-checks, and at least one song, over drinks. An episode of happy accidents that didn't result in baby showers.

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179: Bike Week - Get On Your Bikes and Ride May 04, 2023

This time we'll put some fun between your legs -- some “wind therapy” as they say. Here comes an episode featuring motorcycle anthems, mostly. We'll hear memory from RUSH drummer/lyricist Neil Peart about his motorbike riding adventures, and his influence on one of Jeff's bike choices, and the storied history of Woods' rides. And hear music from The Byrds, Steppenwolf, Prince, Richard Thompson, Neil Young, The Allman Brothers, and more.

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178: Even More Weird and Wicked Covers Apr 27, 2023

Sometimes there's themes that bear repeating. And this is one of those. Cover versions you mightn't expect, or haven't heard before, or will be thrilled to hear again. Songs that popped for me. With 3 set ups from my chat in 2012 with Carlos Santana on 3 he nailed with Chris Cornell, Scott Weiland and Joe Cocker. Luther Wright and the Wrongs inspired this episode, so they're back with a Pink Floyd gem, and Bowie with a tribute to Nina Simone, and how about Aretha's cover of a song by the Band! All here, and some bonus podcast only content, of the weekly radio series show. Enjoy.

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177: Mando Music Apr 20, 2023

There's something about the sound of the instrument, smallish in size, that adds something special to select rock songs. It's Italian. It has strings. It's part of the lute family and has a long neck and and rounded body. Most often played with a pick, it typically has four courses or sets of 2 strings, tuned in unison and making it an 8 string instrument, and when you put two strings close together like this, you get more volume because of the strings vibrating against one another.

The mandolin would be put to use in European classic music, and in American folk and bluegrass music. And then thanks to Led Zeppelin, in rock music too. Not just them, but a raft of bands in the seventies, eighties and nineties, each of which is revealed in this episode of so-called mando-music.

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176: Rockstars Favourite Beatle Songs and Why Apr 13, 2023

Jeff prompts 15 rockstars to tell us what their favourite Beatles songs are and why? Featuring some incredibly honest and well thought answers from: Paul Rodgers, Joe Walsh, Colin James, Randy Bachman, Nick Gilder, Kim Mitchell, Moe Berg, Joe Perry, Jim Cuddy, Derek Trucks and Susan Tedeschi, Serena Ryder, Rick Jackett of Finger 11, Jeremy Taggart of Our Lady Peace, and BUBBLES from TRAILER PARK BOYS. Do you remember the band he, i.e. actor Mike Smith, was a part of? Find out in this 25 minute podcast version of Woods' weekly radio show.

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175: Classic Albums of 1973 Part 1 Apr 06, 2023

Jeff takes you back to the early months of 1973 and the music that was both new in record stores and on turntables and 8-tracks, and on the hipper radio stations. This is the first of a 4-parter of recurring episodes celebrating the best of '73.

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174: Mattie Leon 'Backroad Medicine' Album Premiere Special Mar 23, 2023

Remember “World Album Premiere” radio specials? This is just like that, but only available as a podcast as Jeff welcomes the return of the uniquely voiced sweetheart of an artist who debuted on Records & Rockstars in Episode 56 (Oct 2020). Mattie Leon brings his acoustic guitar, and an elpees worth of tunes produced by Mark Howard (Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Willie Nelson, The Tragically Hip), and Mattie and Jeff dig into the songs with stories behind them, featuring four cuts directly off the album, and Mattie plays two more key cuts live at Jeff's Wild Woods Blue Studio. Hailing from Hamilton, Mattie is a craftsman on guitar and piano, with sensibilities informed by the songwriting of the sixties and seventies. His voice, whether soaring or soulful, is his own. At his side is Mike Leon, Mattie's drummer and longtime collaborator. Together, they've become a captivating example of the unique thing that happens when siblings share the studio or stage.

Mattie, Mike and longtime bassist, and multi-instrumentalist Nelson Sobral (Episode 72 March 2021) did things the old fashioned way; recording everything together in the same room. The result is ‘Backroad Medicine’, out March 2023 on Castlemore Records.

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173: The Evolution of Classic Rock Part 5 Mar 16, 2023

Now the conclusion of this 5-parter that started in the decade in which rock and roll was born in the U.S.A. And then the 1950s gave way to the British invasion, and then the seventies and eighties, and then the broad term Classic Rock, would slowly let in another decade. We love the 90's, because much of it sounded rather unlike MOST of what had come before, and much of it was entirely inspired by what had been. So, a review of the nineties and Jeff summarizes what happened to music, starting with Napster.

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172: Miss Emily is on Fire with Conversation and Music Mar 09, 2023

This time a 2022 Juno nominee, and Maple Blues Female Vocalist of the Year, Emily Fennell, better known as Miss Emily, with more of her trademark “electrifying roof-rattling performances”, the “soul-blues dynamo” comes with guitar in hand and joins Jeff for conversation and performances live on record, live at Wild Woods Blue, and from the studio from her latest acclaimed album, “Defined by Love”.

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171: The Evolution of Classic Rock Part 4 Mar 09, 2023

The fourth of five parts in Jeff's dive into the evolution of classic rock takes us back to the decade of incredible diversity in music -- the one in which video did NOT kill the radio star, but did see the reinvention of many. How do you sum up a decade in 20 minutes? Very carefully. Enjoy.

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170: The Evolution of Classic Rock Part 3 Mar 02, 2023

Jeff's investigation into the Evolution of Classic Rock, that began with and predated the 1950's in part 1, and the 1960s in part 2 , now dives into the 1970s in part 3.

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169: The Evolution of Classic Rock Part 2 Feb 23, 2023

The fifties behind us, this time the evolution continues in the decade that introduced The Beatles, Stones, The Who, The Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and so many more, as artists in England looked to America, picked up their guitars and played, and then got an a plane, to come over show us what they'd learned. The British Invasion this time.

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168: The Evolution of Classic Rock Part 1 Feb 16, 2023

Truth be told, radio helped, through its too-tight playlists, all but ruin the format, turned genre, "Classic Rock". And that's where the former iteration of Records & Rockstars came in. It was 2001 we created "The Legends of Classic Rock", designed to go deeper musically, and tell the stories behind the music. 22 years later, the series continues, with records we came to love and the stories around the artists who made 'em. And so comes the first in this four-part series, condensing decade by decade, how rock would evolve, beginning in Part 1 with the birth of the baby born of the blues, called Rock 'N' Roll. We think you'll enjoy this 25 minute podcast version of the weekly radio show. I mean, who spends two days cooking up a 25 minute podcast? Woods does. Weirdo. In a good way. Here's how he sounds with a wicked head cold.

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167: Songs for Your Baby Jan 26, 2023

Another podcast version of the weekly radio show - this time nothin' but songs for your baby, baby, spanning 1935 to now. Soul, blues, torch, twang, Rock 'n' Roll, Motown, British Invasion, southern troubadours, Heartbreakers, and even a guy named Theodore, all singing sweet sweet songs for baby.

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166: Return of Dave Loopstra of Glacial Erratic Jan 20, 2023

The evolution of this Canadian band from trio, to foursome, with the addition of Marek Barlow on lead guitar, takes what was a good time, and propels it to a seriously dangerous funk flavoured boogie time rock and roll machine. Their front man Dave Loopstra is back to talk behind the other guys back, with compliments and studio recordings that rock. Dave pulls out his banjo and drops a couple live performances too.

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165: Cold Shots Jan 19, 2023

This ain't no frat house bro' party. This is music and music history with stories about musicians and albums and songs, in an episode with nothing but cold shots. Think Stevie Ray and hazy shades of winter and listen in.

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164: Brennen Sloan - A Dance in the Rain Special Jan 05, 2023

You mightn't expect a 23 year old to possess a voice reminiscent of Gordon Lightfoot, or expect him to sing about the early history of Canada. But Brennen Sloan is cut from a cloth unique, and he comes armed with acoustic guitar for his return to Wild Woods Blue to play and to chat with Jeff about his travels that inspired these new songs, 3 of which he'll do live and we'll go directly to the record for 3 more. A 6 pack of Canadiana, by the artist who made his mama cry – he'll tell you why, and about how he decides to go cowboy hat, or ballcap. Songs about Billy Bishop, and Tobermory, and the formation of the RCMP and the expansion of the Canadian west, and about the location in which we're talking music and history – The Blue Mountains of Ontario.

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163: Glenn Milchem of Blue Rodeo Dec 29, 2022

Glenn Milchem is best known as the drummer for the some 2000 concerts performed, and four million albums sold by Blue Rodeo, and he's also performed behind everyone from Big Sugar to Ian Thornley, Ian Blurton, Andy Curran, Art Bergman, and @joansmithandthejanedoes and @mrpharmacist

For Glenn's first visit to Records & Rockstars, he comes armed with a vintage Gibson J-45 acoustic guitar and does a couple of his own original songs!

Plus conversation finds Glenn telling stories about when he first knew he wanted to be a musician, why he chose drums, the one “straight job” he took on for a minute, plus the bands he's moonlighting with, as he names what he calls one of the greatest drumming records of all time, and speaks to Blue Rodeo's inductions, and songs, and current lineup, plus his love for The Sadies and for the dearly departed Dallas Good, and so much more.

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162: Tribute to Legends Gone in 2022 Part 3 Dec 22, 2022

In loving memory of more legends we lost in 2022, this is the 3rd and final episode in the series, as Jeff pays tribute.

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161: Tribute to Legends Gone in 2022 Part 2 (of 3) Dec 15, 2022

The second in a 3 part tribute series, to music makers we lost in 2022.

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160: Tribute to Legends Gone in 2022 Part 1 Dec 08, 2022

The first in our 3 part tribute to music makers we lost in 2022.

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159: It's a Kind of Magic Dec 01, 2022

We have a list of words we'd be happy to see go away anytime soon (pivot, narrative, divisive, bandwidth), but one word we're thrilled to see having a unexpected comeback? MAGIC. So this time, songs about that.

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158: Classic Albums of '72 Part 4 Nov 24, 2022

The finale of our look at '72 in rock, with a light investigation into some key albums landing in record stores in the months of October, November, and "just in time for Xmas", 1972. Hints: You actually can buy a thrill. A Perfect Day for a Foxtrot made in Japan.

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157: In A World ... Nov 03, 2022

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around. Sang Sting. Here's the condensed podcast version of the latest weekly radio show, featuring nothing but songs about the world.

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156: Threesomes (Triple Shots!) Oct 27, 2022

Last time we looked at nice pairs – songs you typically expect to hear one right after the other. And we did. This time, the adventure continues with, threesomes and the recording studio art of blending one song right into the next, and the next. It's a finely curated playlist of some of rock's finest threesomes.

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155: Nice Pair Oct 20, 2022

People REALLY have their favourites when it comes to those songs that go so well one straight into the next. Songs that alone are fantastic, but together! Nothing but those, this time.

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154: More Songs About Waiting Oct 13, 2022

Reviving a theme from season 5, with more songs about that thing that sometimes feels like it's all you do.

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153: How Bands Got Their Names Part 3 Oct 06, 2022

It's the 3rd of 3 parts in our look at how bands got their names. This time, after expressions, and songs, and lyrics, and everything else, from body parts, to animals, drugs, body parts, and more.

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152: How Bands Got Their Names Part 2 Sep 29, 2022

This time, bands who found their names in books and movies.

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151: Jake Chisholm Hands Held High Album Special Sep 22, 2022

One smoke-show of a record with the most great songs back-to-back. For “Hands Held High”, Jake Chisholm has assembled a monster four-piece, featuring producer/bassist Darcy Yates, multi-instrumentalist Jimmy Bowskill and Ian Mckeown on drums. Whether you know Jake from his playing at the legendary Skyline on Queen West, or from his earlier days killing it at The Cameron House, or even if he's just catching your attention for the first time, this record is landmark stuff, and we give you 5 cuts from the studio and Jake performs two live at Wild Woods Blue.

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150: How Bands Got Their Names Part 1 Sep 22, 2022

Reviving a much loved theme in the first of a 3 part investigation into where bands got their names.

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149: Classic Albums of 1972 Part 3 - Summer Releases Sep 15, 2022

Here's the 3rd of 4 episodes in the recurring theme featuring nothing but classic albums from 1972. This time it's choice cuts and stories from albums out that July/August/September.

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148: Bernadette Connors Aug 18, 2022

She grew up in a music store on her way to becoming a full time singer/songwriter and she's got game. Introducing Bernadette Connors and her full length debut “Monarch”, created with producer John-Angus MacDonald (The Trews), and featuring songs born out of the experience of a life lived mostly in a small town. Kind and clever, she's been writing and performing since she was fifteen and she's a vocal coach.

Guitar in hand, here comes Bernadette Connors.

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147: Queen M. Interview and Performance Jul 16, 2022

It started with Motown and Marley. And it evolved to Queen M – the project fronted by the soulfully rich and wonderful Marcia Alderson, with producer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Craig Smith, and percussionist Bam528. This is that. Conversation, cuts from the studio, and live performances. This will give everyone a full body smile.

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146: Endless Summer Jul 10, 2022

Songs that sound like summer, for the Season 6 finale.

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145: Mark Berens Remembers Gord Downie Jul 01, 2022

Mark Berens paints with oils, natural surroundings, capturing light and depth to a level that finds collectors and art lovers captivated and coming back to see his latest works. Mark is also profoundly connected to and affected by a band that to many, has in their music, best represented Canada. When Mark was younger, his connection to the Tragically Hip would grow, and rather profoundly, when faced with a profound loss. This episode is these stories, with a bit of music, in a tribute of sorts to Gord Downie in this Canada Day Special.

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144: Songs from the Sea Jun 30, 2022

"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea". The oceans roar is nothing if not music to the soul. And the roar you'll hear this time, will lead directly to songs about the ocean and songs about the sea,

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143: Tamara Williamson Jun 23, 2022

“All it takes is one juicy betrayal”. The Break Up Diet

Musical and intense, funny and fun, at times difficult, like looking in a mirror can and regrets often are, no matter which side of the equation you're on in a breakup. The Break Up Diet was written and is performed by the artist FEIST called “an inspiration”.

She's my guest this time, this talented London England born and raised, Canadian alt-rock singer/songwriter, whose resume includes working on stage with Rheostatics, and King Cobb Steelie, and as Mrs. Torrance and CROW.

Her singing voice is subtle, calming, controlled and truly moving.

And if you're a sucker for a British accent, well.

@tamarawilliamson is the creator and performer of the one person 5 star stage production The Break Up Diet, and during covid lockdown, she also came with a new song every month for a year. Several performances of these songs, as she joins me live @wildwoodsblue plus studio recordings, and a live excerpt from her stage play, and our wide open conversation are yours to experience and enjoy,

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142: Brennen Sloan Jun 17, 2022

Erie, Simcoe, Kawartha, The Grand River, London, Moose Beach, Port Burwell, places we're headed this time in a session with the artist with stories set to music in songs that range from heartfelt truths about loss to songs exploring the wild natural landscapes of the great white north. With his guitar in hand, and heart on his sleeve, and a 10 song collection out in May 2022 on the album “Skyline”, welcome Brennen Sloan.

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141: Rolling Stones Live at the Elmo 1977 Jun 16, 2022

Finally! As of May 2022, it's OUT. And in this episode, it's my pleasure to bring to you this special Rolling Stones Live at the El Mocambo 1977 presentation, featuring select cuts from the spectacular 23 song album, PLUS highlights from the afternoon I spent at the famed club, revisiting the event, with 4 people who were THERE. Duff Roman. David Bluestein. Rob Bowman. And Myles Goodwyn of April Wine. Their stories, and Rolling Stones at the Elmo, 1977.

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140: Henry Taylor and Monique Montgomery Jun 09, 2022

My fellow Neil Young loving friend since 1999, Henry Taylor straps on his guitar and harmonica, and plays a couple from his 5th album "Good to See", and we go straight to the record for two more, as Henry and his songwriting partner Monique, talk songwriting, their love of Keith Richards, and how they help women at risk.

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139: Under the Covers Jun 09, 2022

There's a very long list of songs we call cover versions, because so many artists, for whatever reason, decided to record songs written by others. Some of them have been re-created so effectively, they've even managed to eclipse the original. But this isn't that so much, as it is a look back for some of us, and a discovery for others, as we're headed under the covers, for an episode filled with rock classics in the hands of the Legends that wrote them.

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138: This Is Spinal Tap Revisited Jun 02, 2022

With the announcement that the crew are doing a sequel, we revisit the legendary film with the perfect, and often-times improved dialogue. So turn it up to "eleven" and enjoy.

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137: Steve Marriner Special May 26, 2022

Remember how there used to be World Album Premiere Specials on the radio? This is like that. 3 songs performed live plus 5 directly off the record, including a Tom Petty cover, with Steve sharing stories prompted by my questions about the songs and the players and life as a maker of music.

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136: Down on the Farm May 26, 2022

This podcast version of the weekly radio show is inspired by way of riding motorcycle down country roads, marveling at both the expanses of land, and the pungent aroma of natural fertilizer. And by all the references of late to the great writer George Orwell whose literary triumphs include "Animal Farm". I just realized I forgot the song "Sex Farm" by Spinal Tap. How even?

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135: Songs of Freedom May 19, 2022

This episode has no upside down flags on pickup trucks. Just music and music history and stories about songs about freedom.

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134: Classic Albums of 1972 Part 2 May 12, 2022

50 years since! Let me take you back to 1972 when spring fever had a pretty cool soundtrack to go with.

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133: Sax Education Part 2 (finale) May 05, 2022

More Sax and drugs and rock 'n' roll, as it were. Think Morphine. And think more sexy sax licks and solos in rock songs, in this, the finale of a 2 parter starring some legends of the saxophone.

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132: Sax Education Part 1 Apr 28, 2022

War, what is it good for? The Saxophone apparently. Beyond the triumphant marches of the militaristic minded, the saxophone became well known in big band music, blues and jazz and soul and rhythm and blues which gave way to good ol' rock and roll music. IN fact before the guitar took over, it was the sax that got all the solos. With their smooth and brassy tones and their unique blend of power, finesse and versatility - what an instrument to create a mood and convey emotional context and help tell a story within a song.

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131: Steely Dan Interview 2003 Apr 21, 2022

The Marx Brothers of Rock, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker (R.I.P.) joined me two times in the early 2000s to talk about new albums. This was the second time, before which to the surprise of many, they'd won the Grammy. They tell that hilarious story and reflect on songs from their colourful past too.

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130: PF Sloan Apr 15, 2022

He was one of the most prolific and influential artists to emerge from the golden age of the 60s, from his tiny studio at Dunhill Records, PF Sloan was a songwriter, a collaborator, a facilitator, an innovator and a bonafide hit-machine who was everywhere. And then he disappeared. And when he reappeared and set about to release his memoirs. That's when he called me to talk about his life, and why he disappeared. This is that.

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129: Radio Radio Apr 07, 2022

Without music, life would be a mistake. We have philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche to thank for that truth. Music has long been our solace and security, as important in times of trouble as it has been in moments of triumph. And still, thankfully, much of the connection to music continues to come through the speakers of the radio.

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128: Holidays in the Sun Mar 31, 2022

Sun's out buns out as we're headed on a trip so far from here. 2 free tickets to paradise. Or something like it in an episode about songs about holidays in the sun.

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127: Mountain Head - The Backseat Special Mar 24, 2022

The boys are back at Wild Woods Blue with a new 6 song EP and their guitars and we get metaphysical as Kyle and Ben Hannah sporting their big ass beards and hats and grills, talk music, booze, weed, depression, meditation, dedication, and much much more.

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126: Classic Albums of 1972 Part 1 Mar 17, 2022

Let's dig into the albums that were in the record store racks in Jan/Feb/March 1972.

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125: Sagen Pearse as Hollowsage Mar 04, 2022

With a 2nd album near completion in the "Aftermath" of lockdown, the artist known as Hollowsage comes to catch us up and play his guitar and we play two gems off the debut record, in "Haunted" and "Monsters".

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124: Telephone Songs Mar 03, 2022

You hate voice mail as much as I do? And avoid 80% of the unscheduled incoming calls like the plague? Let's go back to a time when everyone had a land line, white pages, yellow pages, no call display, no cell phone, and you had to get past her/his mom to talk dirty (or not) on the phone. Telephone songs, including the subcategory of the "drunk dial", from the 50's to now.

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123: Eamon McGrath Album Release Special Feb 25, 2022

A very special 52 minutes with the incomparable Eamon McGrath as his February 2022 full-length album Bells of Hope comes out. This Toronto-based songwriter made the album at home and it's immaculate, stirring and provocative, causing this podcast host to well up, particularly in the presence of a live performance in this interview of the song “Age of Unease”. You'll hear that plus another new song played live, and two more directly off the record, and as a bonus, Eamon's spectacular version of Daniel Johnston's “True Love Will Find You In the End”.

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122: The Power of Possibility Feb 24, 2022

I bring in some big guns from the interview archives, to share stories that exemplify the power of possibility, including Bowie. Bob Seger. Jeff Beck. Jimmy Page. Neil Peart.

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121: Miranda Journey Interview and Performance Feb 18, 2022

At 23 years old, she possesses great wisdom and kindness and talent. Let's catch up with the beautifully voiced Miranda Journey, in conversation plus a brilliant recent single and two songs live.

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120: Bassists By Default Feb 10, 2022

You can't all play guitar. SOMEBODY'S gotta play the bass. Here's 10 prime examples of bands with bass players who weren't, at first.

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119: Drummers That Also Sing Feb 03, 2022

Wait a minute, who's singing? Oh. The drummer. That can't be easy. Here's some of the legends who did it best.

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118: Epic Vocal Productions in Song Jan 27, 2022

When I say epic vocal productions, it can mean intricate and elaborate, or understated and simple, or deemed epic solely on the basis of just how passionate the artist sounds in the way he or she committed,

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117: Breathe In Breathe Out Jan 20, 2022

In these times of uncertainty and anxiety and attention around wellness, there remains nothing more essential to your health and well-being than taking a breath! Songs about breathing in the air and breathing out the bull**** ;)

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116: Tribute to Legends Gone in 2021 Dec 23, 2021

We compile the stories behind the legends that left us in 2021.

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115: DJ WAVES Dec 16, 2021

Voted the #2 Open Format DJ in Toronto, "DJ WAVES" joins me in an in depth conversation about her career curating playlists and spinning songs at clubs, events, everywhere. And we talk "Stoner Rock", her guitar playing, coffee, and so much more.

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114: Mind Games Dec 12, 2021

The battle isn't between you and the world – it's between you and your mind. Songs and stories about what goes on in your head.

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113: Smashing Pumpkins Adore Interview (1998) Nov 25, 2021

Back in the studio after the Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness world tour, Billy Corgan's Chicago band approached their fourth album, in a very different way, only partly in light of the firing of drummer Jimmy Chamberlain after the drug related death of the Pumpkins keyboard player. Billy and the Pumpkins talk about the4 making of ADORE, and more.

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112: Brothers In Arms Nov 18, 2021

An episode chalk full of brotherly love.

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111: Interview: Jeff Buckley's Mom Nov 11, 2021

An intimate conversation with Jeff Buckley's mom, Mary Guibert, in 1998, the year after Jeff's tragic passing May 29, 1997.

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110: Gold, Jerry, Gold Nov 11, 2021

Inspired by the Seinfeld episode, it's all about songs of gold.

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109: Friends of Mine Nov 04, 2021

We get by with little help from our friends!

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108: 1971 Classic Albums Part 4 Oct 28, 2021

Here's the conclusion of a four-parter on classic albums from '71.

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106: Get Lucky Oct 27, 2021

It's an episode about songs about luck, good, bad, or otherwise, and as is the way we do things -- it's untethered by genre or era. Enjoy!

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107: Number 9 Songs Oct 14, 2021

This is fun -- a 15-minute romp with stories and music -- all songs featuring the #9.

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105: Movin' In/On/Up/Out Sep 30, 2021

This should move you. The latest podcast version of the radio show.

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104: Self Titled Albums NOT These Bands First Sep 23, 2021

We tend to think of albums named after the artist or band alone, as their first albums. But what about bands whose self-titled album is not their debut? Who, why, when, and music to go with.

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103: Charlie Watts Remembered Sep 16, 2021

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102: Jeff Beck Interview (2010) Sep 09, 2021

As in-depth as it gets, with Jeff Beck, this is a treat. 30 minutes with the musician musicians rave about. His story about "auditioning" with The Rolling Stones is a must-hear, here.

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101: Bob Seger Interview (2013) Sep 02, 2021

More you'll ever find out about and from Bob Seger in 17 minutes than anywhere else in this engaging conversation between Seger and Jeff Woods on songwriting and so much more.

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99: Metaphorically Speaking Part 2 - Love Is Aug 26, 2021

The L-Word in this short sweet musically diverse romp, featuring the effect love has on you and me and the songs.

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100: Joe Walsh Interview (2012) Aug 26, 2021

You can't help but love the artist and the insight of Joe Walsh who opens up here, as featured in a chapter of my first audiobook, about what it's like to be Ringo Starr's brother-in-law, to be mentored by Who drummer Keith Moon, how love had eluded Joe for so long, plus joining the Eagles, and gifting Pete Townshend a guitar and amp.

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98: People As Animals Aug 19, 2021

Metaphorically speaking Part 1 - stories about songs that liken people to animals.

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97: Kings and Queens Aug 12, 2021

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96: Trevor Hurst Interview Part 2 of 2 Aug 05, 2021

The conclusion of our in-depth conversation about so many things, including a story Trevor has never shared publicly about his past.

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95: Trevor Hurst of Econoline Crush - Part 1 Jul 29, 2021

Come with me inside the fertile mind of a man who came to the crossroads and took a hard left, finding himself in a very unique position – one in which he could affect change in the lives of indigenous citizens while realizing incredible change within himself, on a road that leads straight back to music

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94: You Feel Me? Jul 29, 2021

Nina Simone gets us rolling with an episode featuring stories about songs about FEELING. All the 'feels' in 16 minutes jam-packed with music and music history.

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93: Lindsey Buckingham Interview Jul 22, 2021

The third of 3 in the series of interviews with Fleetwood Mac from Jeff's archives from 2003.

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92: Courage Jul 22, 2021

It's not the absence of fear but rather the decision that something else is more important than fear. An episode of stories and music inside the theme of COURAGE.

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91: Ch-Ch-Changes Jul 15, 2021

Could you have imagined the events of your life in the last year? This time the theme is change, with music from Sam Cooke to Black Sabbath, Bowie, Lana Del Rey and lots more.

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90: Stevie Nicks Interview Jul 08, 2021

A Stevie Nicks fan's must. My intimate conversation with Stevie from the last time Fleetwood Mac were about to put out a new studio album. April 2003, in Los Angeles. Nicks opens up about the post-911 process of writing new songs, plus thoughts on her biggest regret, her proudest achievement, and so much more.

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89: Bands Named After Members Not The Lead Singer Jul 08, 2021

When you hear a band named after a member there's a good chance he or she are the lead singer. These would be some of the most notable exceptions.

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88: Guess the Year in Rock? Jul 01, 2021

No spoilers here. You go ahead and guess the year with the clues that start this radio show podcast episode.

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86: Short People - Rock's Small But Mighty Jun 24, 2021

This time, a follow-up to Rock's Tall Boys, it's Rock's Short People, and it's a lot of fun and music and info. Enjoy!

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87: Mick Fleetwood Interview (2003) Jun 24, 2021

This is Mick Fleetwood baring his soul to me in 2003 when I met up with Fleetwood Mac. A must for fans to hear the founding member/drummer get personal about life and music.

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85: Rock's Tall Boys Jun 17, 2021

Who plays Rage, QOTSA, Snoop Dogg, alongside Fleetwood Mac, The Cars, Howlin' Wolf and Long John Baldry? Woods does. The podcast about music, untethered by genre or era. Everyone this time is 6' 1" or taller, except for one.

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84: George Thorogood talks rock 'n' blues with Jeff Woods Jun 10, 2021

A nice chunk of chapter 4 from first audiobook, features music and a rock fan's must, my conversation with the rock 'n' blues legend George Thorogood who talks about getting 'white hatted' at Calgary Stampede, articulates the difference between Beatles and Stones, tells of the secret to his success (it has to do with dancing), reveals why parents are well served having their kids in music, and so much more.

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83: Celebrity Voice Cameos in Rock Jun 04, 2021

28 minutes of music and stories featuring songs containing spoken word by actors, voice-over artists, political figures, and band members and a bonus clip of Orson Welles selling peas.

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82: Born in the Water May 27, 2021

This theme, inspired by the song of the same name, we get wet this week with stories and music born in the water.

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81: David Bowie Interview May 20, 2021

A Bowie special featuring my first conversation with David from 2002 and we go deep with subjects like New York, his then 2-year-old daughter, John Lennon, Pete Townshend, Neil Young, The Legendary Stardust Cowboy, Pink Floyd, and so much more.

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80: Top 10 Songs about Waiting May 13, 2021

The radio show untethered by era brings you an array of compelling songs about that thing we're tired of doing right about now.

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79: Drive She Said May 06, 2021

Just drive she said -- and the legend who had previously sung about being on a Mexican Whoah-oh, Ray-dee-oh, sang, inspiring this episode about songs about driving. Stories and music to go with.

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78: REM Reveal Interview Apr 29, 2021

This is a must for fans of REM! From April 2001 in New York, my one on one with singer/lyricist Michael Stipe, which followed a face to face the same day with the band's music writers, Peter Buck and Mike Mills.

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77: Pearl Jam "Yield" Interview 1998 Apr 22, 2021

Back 23 years, in advance of the February 1998 release of the 5th Pearl Jam album YIELD, my chat with Ed Vedder and Stone Gossard about LOTS of stuff.

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76: Vox Rea members Kate and Lauren with Jeff Woods Apr 16, 2021

The audio-only version of the recent Zoom session with Vox Rea whose song "Dose Me Up" is one of the best of 2020. It's one of the four original songs from Vancouver's Vox Rea featured in this music special. Beautiful souls and beautiful songs.

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75: It's Raining Again (Rain Songs Part 2) Apr 15, 2021

Let it Rain, with more April Showers and stories and music from the '70s to 2021.

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74: Rain Songs Apr 08, 2021

Every kind of rain song from the last 70 years and stories go with April showers. Enjoy.

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73: Long Time Gone Apr 01, 2021

Another condensed version of the weekly hour-long radio show, this time themed around the passing of time and featuring some incredibly timeless music. Enjoy.

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72: Nelson Sobral Mar 29, 2021

Nelson Sobral is a singer/songwriter from Toronto whose passion for music is IMMENSE and his brushes with like-minded artist many, from Jeff Healey to Mick Taylor, and he has stories about both and more, along with 3 song performances inside of our conversation about favourite albums and songs and players.

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71: Things Rock Stars Told Me Part 2 Mar 25, 2021

Taking you into the vaults again, with highlights from my conversations with Neil Peart of RUSH (this was the very first time we talked), Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac, David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, and Robert Plant.

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70: Things Rock Stars Told Me Part 1 Mar 18, 2021

Some of the few hundred interviews I've had the pleasure of doing - this episode features things included in the audiobook "Radio, Records & Rockstars", from my chats with 3 Rolling Stones, Joe Walsh, Carlos Santana, Eddie Vedder and Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam, Steely Dan members Walter Becker (RIP) and Donald Fagen, plus a bit of my never before release conversation with Michael Stipe of REM.

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69: Tattoo You 40 Years Strong Mar 11, 2021

It could very well be the most cohesive sounding collection of strays ever assembled. Comprised mostly of outtakes from their storied past, some that were a decade old, some that had no vocals, others that did, most given overdubs and new vocals, plus a couple new songs, it's an album that got made because The Rolling Stones wanted to tour, but there wasn't sufficient time beforehand to do a whole new album, so they went back, into the vaults. Cut by cut, here we go.

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68: Gotta Get Away! Mar 04, 2021

Who isn't suffering from cabin fever right about now? Come get away (no, not sail away) with music from the British Invasion to A-maaaaaaair-i-ca. I'm loving these new short-doc length versions of the hour-long show. You get the whole story inside of about 15 minutes. Enjoy.

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67: Eye in the Sky Feb 25, 2021

Revisiting a theme from Season 3 of the radio series, keeping things light this time, as we hover in the place that resides above the horizon.EVERY THURSDAY, you get a new podcast version of the weekly Records and Rockstars Radio Show episodes. And we'll start to add archived episodes of the show too.

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66: Devil's Music Feb 18, 2021

The devil's music, they called it, and kept calling it right up through the 1950's, when rhythm and blues gave way to rock and roll. The push back by the “adults” would only get worse as the music became less restrained and more shocking, to some. We begin this episode in the American south, six years to the day before Jimi Hendrix was born. EVERY THURSDAY, you get a new podcast version of the weekly Records and Rockstars Radio Show episodes. And we'll start to add archived episodes of the show from the last 5 seasons too.

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65: Joan Smith and the Jane Does Dec 22, 2020

Powerful performances and conversation with the principle members of Joan Smith & the Jane Does including a scorching cover of “Where Did You Sleep Last Night (In the Pines)."

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64: Layton Dec 10, 2020

An artist of great proportion, Layton brings his voice and guitar and stories and “Film Noir” -- the song that has formally launched his recording career. We go to the record for it, and to a 3 song acoustic performance alongside in-depth conversation about the creative process, and the light and dark of life.

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63: Samantha Martin Dec 04, 2020

Powerhouse soul singer with a sense of humour, Samantha Martin is back full force with a bold album and joins me for an in-depth conversation and we play some of my faves from “The Reckless One”. You'll love this.

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62: Falcon Jane Nov 26, 2020

Sara May is the lead singer and songwriter of her project Falcon Jane. She might remind you of Emmylou Harris. Sometimes there's a hint of Cyndi Lauper. But mostly, it's Sara May. Sometimes haunting and sometimes just plain sweet, she performs new songs and she's convinced to go back to the very beginning, with the first song she ever wrote. Comes with a great story too. And we go to the new album “Faith” and play the title song and she covers the big one from Chris Isaak. Wonderful episode.

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61: Jay Stiles Nov 19, 2020

Austin Texas based keyboardist J. Stiles is known for his working with Gordie Johnson of Big Sugar, but that's just a bit of the story of the go-to player who's vibe is as chill as his heart is big, and talent immense, on vintage keyboard instruments and feel-good melodies and vocals. Otherwise known as Crystal Finger, Jay brings along drummer/backing singer Kolston Gogan from Collingwood Ontario, and performs and tells stories about his residencies in Austin clubs and lots more. A must for lovers of keyboards, ska, reggae, soul and a good time.

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60: Mike Bennett Nov 17, 2020

Ever heard a one stringed electric uke through a VOX amp? Nobody sounds quite like this punk rock, spoken wordsmith, who counts some 65 day jobs and four countries of residence and gigs from Toronto clubs to kids shoe stores to ladies lingerie shows to the London Palladium. The obsession of writing and the need to perform has remained with him through hell and high water. He performs several original songs the likes of which you've never before heard, and the conversation is rich, too.

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59: Shane Cloutier Nov 12, 2020

Passion is his only path, in playing guitar, singing, and songwriting. Handpicked by Frank Marino to accompany him on tour, when bands can do that again, Shane Cloutier is an artist the guitar and amp companies love to align with, because he's that good. Here's a catch up conversation and 3 songs, including one of his latest from the studio, a new live original, and a Black Crowes cover.

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57: The Honeyrunners Nov 10, 2020

We perched an iPhone atop the lighting rig at Wild Woods Blue Performance Studio, the new home of the podcast and intimate live shows, and captured the trio version of The Honeyrunners in concert, to a small and masked but enthusiastic audience. This episode is a combination of live music and conversation between Jeff Woods and the band's frontman/keyboardist Dan Dwoskin, including songs from the forthcoming album “Everything is On Fire”. The Honeyrunners are soul-drenched roots artists from Toronto.

Since their inception in 2012, the band has released two EPs, garnered radio play for singles across the country, hosted live TV appearances, and played more than five hundred shows in North America. Their debut full-length album, Everything Is On Fire, is slated for release March 2021. The Honeyrunners have shared stages with The Sadies, Philip Sayce, Nick Waterhouse, The Trews, King Khan, U.S.S., The Balconies, Grapes of Wrath, The Beaches, SATE, Sun K, and more.

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58: Karla Crawford Nov 05, 2020

File under country soul, because she's steeped in both. She's Karla Crawford and she's a character with a helluva voice and songwriting ability. She's also put on the spot in this episode, to commit, which is something she's long avoided. Stories galore, about Elvis' guitarist, about writing in Nashville, and about indulging in “adult snacks”. Karla Crawford is accompanied by her record producer/performer Craig Smith and the pair share a never-before-heard recording from a new album in the works, and play a couple live, too.

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56: Mattie Leon Oct 05, 2020

Here's a uniquely voiced songwriter from Toronto who has been working with producer Gavin Brown on his latest songs – Mattie Leon stops in to sing and play and talk, as we get into the want for playing publicly again, the courage of young people facing distance and daunting odds, and he talks about his favourite Beatle with reasons why. This is the first podcast from the new Wild Woods Blue Performance Studio. Mattie Leon is a singer/songwriter hailing from the western reaches of Toronto. A craftsman with a guitar, Mattie refuses to leave the past behind. His sensibilities are informed by the songwriting of the sixties and seventies. His voice, whether soaring or soulful, is his own. The result is a fresh take on a classic form; familiar but unmistakably new.

Mattie is no stranger to the road. He's brought his music to stages across Canada, from the Atlantic to Pacific coasts. At his side is Mike Leon, Mattie's drummer and longtime collaborator. Together, they've become a captivating example of the unique thing that happens when siblings perform together. The fourth single of the record, Hallelujah (I Found You) can be found on YouTube, and his work is available on Spotify.

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55: Madison Galloway Mar 06, 2020

Sunshine personified with guitar and voice and sweet rootsy blues sass all rolled into adventurous original performances both LIVE and on record. Introducing the young and incredibly creative artist Madison Galloway from Southern Ontario, Canada, who barely into her twenties has a full-length album out that she co-produced with Ron Hawkins (Lowest of the Low).

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54: Liberty Silver Feb 14, 2020

Imagine being on stage at the age of twelve, opening for Bob Marley at Madison Square Garden, or singing solo on a #1 hit alongside Burton Cummings, Neil Young, Geddy Lee, Joni Mitchell and Bryan Adams – that was “Tears are not Enough”. Liberty Silver chats and sings.

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53: The Moon and The Sun Feb 05, 2020

In the tradition of the male/female duo with harmony, these two just fit! The timing and the tone on tone, and the give/take of The Moon and The Sun is pure and sweet. Drew McIvor and Amy Lynn Gaudette chat and sing.

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52: Mike McCarthy Band Jan 30, 2020

Imagine parents so cool that their son, in his early twenties, chooses to be in their band. Introducing Collingwood Ontario based 7 piece, The Mike McCarthy Band tell of their love of the Bakersfield country of Dwight Yoakam, plus stories of encounters with legends like Mike Myers, Robert Redford and John Candy. This trio version of the band also lay down 2 acoustic performances, including their interpretation of a Chris Stapleton gem.

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51: Future History Jan 22, 2020

The strong original band who sound like they are from 'somewhere else', Future History are Guinness World Record holders, slept where The Tragically Hip slept, and share these stories and brilliant performances including a cool MGMT cover.

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50: Lily Frost Dec 15, 2019

This time, the extraordinarily charming and creative singer/songwriter Lily Frost, joins Jeff and shares songs from her latest and perhaps finest album Retro Moderne, as well as gems from the past. Lily talks songwriting, Billie Holiday, The Cramps, Hank Williams, and Lily and Jeff also get into tattoos, relationships, nature, and more.

https://www.audible.ca/pd/Radio-Records-Rockstars-Audiobook/B07JGF7PS7

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49: Franny Wisp and her Washboard Dec 11, 2019

The Franny Wisp & Her Washboard show is a funny, self-deprecating response to a society that is preoccupied with youth, beauty, success and romantic relationships. Her satire and wit are expressed musically through song, spoken word, washboard rhythms and a kick drum. Franny and Jeff get along like a house on fire.

https://www.audible.ca/pd/Radio-Records-Rockstars-Audiobook/B07JGF7PS7

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48: Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar Dec 03, 2019

7 piece soul band featuring soul singing powerhouse Samantha Martin play and we chat about touring the world and the ultimate rock and soul male singer.

https://www.audible.ca/pd/Radio-Records-Rockstars-Audiobook/B07JGF7PS7

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47: Dave Loopstra & The Glacial Erratic Oct 03, 2019

Take an ADHD connoisseur of music, the history of glacially-deposited rock, and growing weed, and give him a guitar and a microphone and that is this. Starring the frontman of the band Glacial Erratic. When Dave started out, he simply wrote lyrics that made him laugh out loud. He’s still doing that. And the world is laughing along with. Included: Interview, live performance, and cuts from the recording studio.

https://www.audible.ca/pd/Radio-Records-Rockstars-Audiobook/B07JGF7PS7

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46: Michael Costantini Sep 27, 2019

When you’ve played 2000 shows, and practiced in your bedroom since you were 14, you get good. That was the age he was in NYC and got the Gibson Les Paul he plays in this episode, including original songs, a Hendrix cover, and we spin his latest from the recording studio. For reference, beyond Jimi, he’s a Jeff Buckley freak too.

https://www.audible.ca/pd/Radio-Records-Rockstars-Audiobook/B07JGF7PS7

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45: BONDS OF MARA Aug 14, 2019

A capital ‘R’ rock band featuring rock stars from other bands, like I Mother Earth, and My Darkest Days, I’m joined for a get-to-know-the-band chat by Sal Costa and Brian Byrne. Note: Since this session, Byrne left the band. That’s a story for another day. We’ll spin a demo and a finished version of the hit “Lights Out”, and more from their debut recording session.

https://www.audible.ca/pd/Radio-Records-Rockstars-Audiobook/B07JGF7PS7

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44: Roddy Colmer and Pat Robitaille Aug 01, 2019

These two tag team their way into the hearts of everyone they encounter, through music and sense of humour. Roddy led the band Rebel Emergency with whom he stage surfed, literally. Pat’s played more shows than the Grateful Dead (maybe), including his years leading the acclaimed Walkerviles. Both have done time in NYC and have stories about that and more, and songs to share. It’s a “Beautifully Stange” hour plus of listening.

https://www.audible.ca/pd/Radio-Records-Rockstars-Audiobook/B07JGF7PS7

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43: Jake Good Jul 30, 2019

“HIS VOICE is MAGIC”. A quote from Jake Good’s website. Attributed to some guy named Jeff Woods. But where is Azilda? The answer to that and stories of the evolution of a singer who wins hearts the second he takes the stage. Jake sings in my attic, including his trademark cover of an all-time classic, along with one of his own about being “Tethered to the Moon”.

https://www.audible.ca/pd/Radio-Records-Rockstars-Audiobook/B07JGF7PS7

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42: Johnson Crook Jul 26, 2019

A band of brothers featuring two “Crooks with Nathan Crook on gtr/vocals, Trevor Cook on drums, Jared Craig on bass, and lead singer Noel Johnson. In fact they ALL SING! And come with lots of stories and heart in conversation and performance.

https://www.audible.ca/pd/Radio-Records-Rockstars-Audiobook/B07JGF7PS7

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41: Sages Jul 09, 2019

The return of the solo gem known as Sages, aka Racquel Hardy (ex of Falcon Jane, my guests Oct. 2018). She is the epitome of ‘artist’, sitting on my studio floor, with a synthesizer between her legs and poetry spilling from her mouth. She had me at Massive Attack and Thom Yorke, among her influences. She performs 3 songs, including 2 originals and we spin one from her latest album.

https://www.audible.ca/pd/Radio-Records-Rockstars-Audiobook/B07JGF7PS7

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40: Shane Cloutier Jun 27, 2019

The guitar virtuoso makes a return visit, with an update and performances, and speaks of guitar hero Frank Marino (update March 2020 – Shane was hand-picked by Marino to be his 2nd guitarist on a 2020 North American tour!)

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39: Jane's Party Jun 04, 2019

These four are deadly together. Three lead singers including bassist Devon Richardson, guitarist Tom Ionescu , keyboardist Jeff Giles, and on drums the Levon Helm meets Ringo Starr: Zach Sutton. Our in depth conversation and acoustic performances of songs from their 2019 album “Casual Island.”

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38: Skye Wallace May 28, 2019

Shining star Sky Wallace brings it! Joined by drummer Alfie Vienneau, guitarist/producer Devon Lougheed and bassist Jenna Strautman, Skye delivers live performances of songs from the acclaimed album “Coal”, and more.

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37: Sterling & The Birdwatchers May 24, 2019

It might get loud. 3 piece plugged-in, Sterling & The Birdwatchers are the definition of alt/surf/punk, featuring Duncan Crone on drums, Jack Doris on bass and Kailum “Sterling” MacKenzie on guitar and vocals. 3 live songs including a Metric cover, and we spin one from the studio.

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36: Mountain Head May 16, 2019

The most unique band I’ve encountered in forever, the Hannah Brothers – Ben (gtr and vocals), and Kyle (bass and vocals) are as kind as they are cerebral, and as creative as they are musically mindful. This episode is an introduction to Mountain Head, complete with acoustic performances and a cut from the studio.

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35: Gracie Marino Apr 16, 2019

When you get up and sing with Sting, you’re on the right track. She sings and plays guitar and piano and says “I’m an R&B-jazz-soul singer blooming out of a meta-head child” and “Mainly a writer”, she professes. Introducing Gracie Marino, AKA Gracie Ella. Interview and live performance.

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34: Watson & Stephens of Fourth Born Apr 11, 2019

“If I don’t write, then life starts to become distorted”, says James Stephens AKA “Fourth Born”. He’s the sister of past podcast guest, country starlet Rebecca Rain. With his guitar, Fourth Born is accompanied by drummer Sarah Watson, in debuting his new single “Last Cigarette”, and more.

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33: Eric Schenkman Mar 12, 2019

Is that a pocket full of kryptonite or are you just happy to see me? This time, what a performer! His talents and hits would land him on the cover of Rolling Stone (Jan 1993), and on stages around the world. Joining me in-studio, solo, for a chat and impassioned acoustic performances from his new solo album, Spin Doctors guitarist Eric Schenkman.

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32: Ron Hawkins of Lowest of the Low Feb 27, 2019

His career would begin with an album that would place top 10 in the Top 100 Canadian Albums of All Time – the 1991 Lowest of the Low album “Shakespeare My Butt”. His songs sound at home alongside Elvis Costello, and Billy Bragg. Songs that are stories, odes, laments, celebrations and revolutions! Ron Hawkins in conversation and acoustic performances from his latest band album.

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31: The Honeyrunners Feb 14, 2019

This time a story that begins in South America, with multi-instrumentalist record producer Guillermo Sebauste, the soulful Dan Dwoskin on keyboards/vocals, guitarist Haig Beylarian and drummer Lewis Spring. The Honeyrunners chat and perform.

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30: Rob Elder Jan 22, 2019

This blue-eyed soul singer alternates between the lower depths of his voice to its falsetto highs. With acoustic performances from his 2018 album “Changer”, Rob Elder ponders tried and true folk and rock themes of love, inequality and social unrest.

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29: Swampy & The Note Troll Dec 11, 2018

Not every day a guitarist with a PhD in Biophysics who studied airflow in honeybee hives using 3D computer models, and hydroponics for outer space, drops by. Performing acoustically, his tough-luck-inspired soul-healing blues, and telling the story of Swampy & The Note Troll (featuring producer Josh Maitland), is Cody Thompson, with percussionist Bamalamb.

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28: Jon Zaslow & Chris Scerri Dec 11, 2018

Take a festival creator, and a Beatle, Byrds, Tom Petty, Mark Knopfler fanatic and ‘em together, and you get this: stories and music from a duo featuring singer Chris Scerri and guitar veteran Jon Zaslow.

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27: Rebecca Rain Nov 13, 2018

When you love old-school legends like Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, and June Carter Cash, you get bumped to the front of the line, where I live. Introducing Rebecca Rain. She lives at the intersection of passion and ambition and brings her story and acoustic performances to my Wild Woods attic studio.

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26: Falcon Jane Oct 23, 2018

Sara May is Falcon Jane. Self-coined as “Plez rock” (she’ll explain), they come with performances of chill songs about heaven and earth. Joining Sara, is Andrew McArthur, and Racquel Hardy (AKA Sages).

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25: David Russell Oct 09, 2018

He’s all heart and artist integrity. Very much his own man, with a handful of his own albums and unique takes on other people’s music, David Russell tells the story of how music has moved the mountains of his life, and he performs live.

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24: Miranda Journey Sep 11, 2018

There’s no better remedy for a broken heart than a song. Artists with ready smiles and laughter, sometimes have the deepest wells. Miranda Journey is that. At the beginning of her career, she plays mostly her own songs, and isn’t afraid to bleed from the heart she can’t help to wear on her sleeve. One to watch for. And to listen in these acoustic performances.

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23: Shane Cloutier Aug 29, 2018

Here’s a guy who you’d want on your team. The opposition would be very afraid, that is until they got to know him. He exemplifies a favourite expression – a rising tide raises all boats. For first appearance on the podcast, the guitar wiz steeped in Lemmy, Sabbath, and Frank Marino –performs acoustically.

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22: Jerry Leger Apr 06, 2017

One look at his record collection and you know he didn’t choose to become a musician – it chose him. Dylan, Hank Williams Sr., Leonard Cohen, Buddy Holly, and Byrds, Jerry Leger’s collaborators and contemporaries include Ron Sexsmith and Michael Timmins (Cowboy Junkies). Get acquainted with this gentle and inquisitive soul, guitar in hand and happy to perform.

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21: Kate Kurdyak of The Katherines Mar 28, 2017

It appears we’re bringing sexy back with this compelling singer/songwriter and member from the vocal trio The Katherines. “Modern men aren’t modern to me. They lack simplicity, and I don’t belong in this century”. Beyond the sheen of some of the trio’s pop, there’s a depth and darkness to Kate’s writing that I’ve been itching to know about. That, and hear her voice and guitar, in these inspired performances from Wild Woods Liberty Village.

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20: The Layrite Boys Mar 16, 2017

Brothers from different mothers this time as we get downright down home with that grinnin’ and pickin’ brand of country, known as bluegrass. Make that, countrygrass, with this Toronto based duo brought together by a love of tucked-in shirts and slicked-back hair. Mandolin player and singer Graham Mansfield and country guitar ace Nichol Robertson join Jeff to chat and perform.

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19: Kristen Violet May Feb 28, 2017

Beyond being named one of the “35 best Canadian (jazz) artists under 35” by CBC, this singer’s middle name is ambition. Always fresh from a trip to L.A. or NYC to collaborate in studio, Kristen dropped in to my Toronto studio to chat and sing.

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18: Mother Mother Feb 07, 2017

Grounded in self-knowledge and creativity, band leader Ryan Guldemond goes deep, in a tag team of charm and introspect as the Canadian stars open up about the pursuit of the song and peace of mind.

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17: USS Feb 01, 2017

These two are at the top of my list of bands that could rule the world, or at the very least, make it a better place to be, through their music. Singer/guitarist Ash Buchholz and MC and master of the turntable Jason “Human Kebab” Parsons join me to spread word of their latest album New World Alphabet and perform live in at Wild Woods Toronto.

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16: Dylan Hennessy Jan 11, 2017

Music obsessed looping master Dylan Hennessy is becoming known for his bizarrely cool re-workings of other people’s songs alongside his own singer-songwriter pieces. I know of nobody more tethered to the pursuit of creativity than he.

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15: Kalyna Rakel Dec 28, 2016

The well-travelled and vocally unique Kalyna Rakel from Toronto, sings and plays guitar alongside standup bassist George Chenery.

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14: James Hetfield of Metallica Dec 12, 2016

From the needs-no-introduction department, here’s my November 30, 2016 one on one with James Hetfield who opens up about everything I throw his way, the morning after Metallica delivered a blistering show at Toronto’s famed east end venue, The Opera House. One of us is ridiculously hungover. The other is on the wagon.

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13: High Valley Dec 05, 2016

Signed to Atlantic Records Nashville in October 2015 a year ago, High Valley is a Canadian country duo from small-town Alberta, who grew up in a Mennonite community. Their story, here.

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12: Damhnait Doyle & Stuart Cameron Nov 14, 2016

He’s a much in demand guitarist for stage and studio, and the son of the Canadian “Godfather of Celtic Music -- John Allen Cameron: Stuart Cameron is here with the beautifully powerful voiced Canadian singing treasure, originally from Labrador City Newfoundland, Damhnait Doyle, at this point in their career, part of the Toronto band The Heartbroken.

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11: Rik Emmett Oct 17, 2016

Time to catch up with guitar virtuoso, solo artist, and 1/3 of the legendary Canadian power trio, Triumph. https://www.audible.ca/pd/Radio-Records-Rockstars-Audiobook/B07JGF7PS7

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10: Blackie Jackett Jr. Oct 10, 2016

This is what the two guitar players from Finger 11 do when they really want to have fun. On acoustic guitar and vocals, is James Black. Trading his guitar for a banj-i-tar (he’ll explain) is Rick Jackett. Blackie Jackett Jr. channel the time-honored tune-smithing of legends like Hank Williams and Johnny Cash. To put it simply – this band is thematically all about the who/what/where/when and why of whiskey, weed, and women.

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9: Phil Naro Oct 03, 2016

What a voice! Emmy-winning performer, composer, producer, the epitome of “working musician”, and member of the band TALAS (with Billy Sheehan), Phil Naro sings a couple alongside first-hand stories of life at the front of the concert stage.

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8: Finger 11 Sep 26, 2016

One way to define BIG rock band would be 20+ million views of your songs, including a couple of modern rock’s biggest in “Paralyzer” and “One Thing”. They’ve long killed it on record and ultimately on the concert stage, and they do it again, much more intimately in this episode, starring lead guitarist James Black and lead singer Scott Anderson of Finger 11.

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7: Philip Sayce Sep 12, 2016

The blues guitar lover’s episode! Consummate pro Philip Sayce is here with his guitar to shine a light on the magic of legends like Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Alvin Lee, Albert Lee, Albert Collins, and the 3 Kings – Freddie, Albert and B.B., plus reflects on his days playing alongside Jeff Healey.

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6: Scott Helman Aug 31, 2016

Upon one listen of his 2015 song “Bungalow”, you knew that Scott Helman was one to watch. Just ten years old when he picked up the guitar, and fifteen when he got a deal with Warner Music Canada, that led to the 7 song EP “Augusta”, which led to his opening shows everywhere for “Walk off The Earth”. Scott Helman reveals the album behind this quote: “I want to spend the rest of my life trying to make something half as good as this.”

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5: George Thorogood Aug 22, 2016

George Thorogood talks about the distinctly different impacts of The Beatles VS The Rolling Stones, and touches on subjects like the importance of women to his career, help he got along the way from John Lee Hooker, Johnny Winter, and mom and dad plus reveals why Bill Clinton was so smart.

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4: Urvah Khan Aug 15, 2016

Kickass lover of Black Sabbath, Urvah is a fighter for human decency, especially for young women who have been relegated to the stereotypes of her culture. The Pakistan-born, Dubai-raised, Canadian resident took what she called the scraps of punk and rock and created her own brand of music, inspiring about a million supporters and detractors along the way – just for having the audacity to be herself. Urvah joins me to talk about embarking on the craziest journey of her life, so far, and we spin a new song.

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3: Neil Peart Aug 08, 2016

Perhaps the most intimate and revealing of our chats together, RUSH lyricist and drummer Neil Peart stops in to share stories about music and life, and his latest book; 2014’s “Far and Near On Days Like These”.

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2: Bob Seger Aug 01, 2016

Bob Seger my guest with stories about writing songs like Night Moves, We've Got Tonight, & Against the Wind, and Bob reflects on other artists including Thin Lizzy, Beatles, Glenn Frey, Tom Waits, Bruce Springsteen, and he talks about his induction to the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame, and riding a motorbike.

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1: Jimmy Page Jul 24, 2016

When Led Zeppelin first came to Canada, they played the Rockpile, AKA The Masonic Temple in Toronto. The same venue, 5 decades later in the summer of 2015, the band’s founder and producer joins me on stage in the presence of a studio audience, to talk Zeppelin.

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