Let It Roll Podcast

10/02/2025

Hosts Nathan Wilcox & Dave Thompson continue the Let It Folk series based on Dave's book "An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk & Rock Music."
Listen here: https://letitrollpodcast.substack.com/p/alan-lomax-pete-seeger-josh-white
This week covers the early Folk Revival in America and covers the likes of Josh White, Pete Seeger, Alan Lomax, and Jean Ritchie.

27/01/2025

This week hosts Nathan Wilcox & Dave Thompson continue their journey through the history of Folk Music & the Child Ballads with discussion of The Original Carter Family, swing singer Maxine Sullivan and early Folk revivalists John Jacob Niles and Burl Ives. Listen here: https://letitrollpodcast.substack.com/publish/posts/detail/155839579

13/01/2025

This week Dave Thompson & Nathan Wilcox continue their discussion of Dave's book "An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Folk & Rock"

Listen here: https://letitrollpodcast.substack.com/p/james-francis-child-collected-ballads

We talk about Child himself, how other collectors picked up the torch, how the First Lady of the USA recorded a Child Ballad, and the surprise gold mine of old British ballads found being sung in the Appalachians of America.

11/01/2025

Bill Wyman on why he left the Stones in 1993: "I didn't see anything new happening in the future."

Wyman joined Brian Jones' Stones because it was obvious to see here was something new happening in the future.

Some of it was awful, but Bill rode out the interesting parts and retired with grace and enough money to do what he wanted.

30/12/2024

Hosts Nathan Wilcox & Dave Thompson return with the 2nd episode of "Let It Folk" discussing Dave's book "An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock."
Listen here: https://letitrollpodcast.substack.com/p/sir-walter-scott-pepys-and-charles
We discuss the ancient origins (Egyptian! Greek! Indian!) of some of the ballads, the disgraced ballad-mongers like Moll Cutpurse who popularized them in the 16th & 17th Century, and then move upscale when literary figures like Sir Walter Scott and Charles Dickens got involved.

16/12/2024

Host Nathan Wilcox & Dave Thompson are kicking off a new mini-series based on Dave's book "An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk & Rock." Listen here:

Hosts Nate Wilcox and Dave Thompson kick off a mini-series discussing Dave's book An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music

02/12/2024

Today host Nathan Wilcox wraps up the Brian Jones miniseries with a look into the circumstances surrounding Brian's death. The full episode is available only to paid subscribers to the Let It Roll Substack. https://letitrollpodcast.substack.com/p/brian-jones-reached-a-bitter-end

19/11/2024

The heavy metal pioneers talk about drugs, groupies, pink Cadillacs, the curse of Motörhead’s Lemmy – and being huge in Sweden

18/11/2024

This week host Nathan Wilcox covers the role of the police in the downfall of Brian Jones, founder of The Rolling Stones. Listen here: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/PAN1413152466.mp3 Nick Broomfield Pantheon Podcasts

15/11/2024

The final FB post by Shel Talmy, rock production great.

FAREWELL FROM SHEL

(We are gutted to tell you that the great Shel Talmy has left the building. He passed away peacefully at home yesterday after suffering a stroke over the weekend. We will have more information, and links to obituaries, shortly, but most importantly we want you to know that Shel thought the world of you, his FB followers and supporters, and to that end, some time ago he prepared the following statement that he would like shared now - preferably with 'You Really Got Me', 'My Generation', 'Friday On My Mind' or your choice of favourite ST production cranked in the background).

"Hi to all, and many thanks to all of you who have been reading my rock stories for all this time, it has been greatly appreciated!

Please note, that if you're reading this now, this is my final vignette, as I am no longer residing on this plane of existence, and have “moved on”, to wherever that may be.

I'd like to think there is something beyond where I was to where I am now, assuming that the millions of suppositions as to what is next, are accurate.

I'd like to think that I'm thoroughly enjoying my new “residence”, and that the countless rumors that there is a big working "studio in the sky" are true, and that we are, dare I say, making heavenly music!

I am also hoping that I am currently engaged in renewing relationships with a ton of friends and acquaintances, many of which go back for decades.

I've had a good run, and I am delighted it lasted as long as it did. I'm also delighted that I am told I have a legacy that will last even longer.

I look forward to meeting some of you in the future who are reading this, but LOL, don't hurry to get here, I'm not going anywhere!"

15/11/2024

Shel Talmy, producer of the Kinks' 'You Really Got Me' and the Who's 'My Generation' among many others, has died.

12/11/2024

Local dancehall The Broken Spoke, located on S Lamar Blvd., will celebrate its 60th anniversary on Sunday. But one day isn’t enough for the venerable venue — festivities begin on Saturd…