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My Favorite Album with Jeremy Dylan

Dec 24, 2015

For Christmas Eve, I dive into the melodramatic and perverse world of Phil Spector, and his seminal Christmas pop record ‘A Christmas Gift For You’, with my friend and sometimes producer Jaime Lewis and a large batch of eggnog.

Why did the album bomb on first release? Which 60s pop legend considers it the greatest...


Dec 22, 2015

For the first ever My Favorite Album Christmas special, I delve into the origins of the Christmas pop songs we all know today with musicologist and Sydney Morning Herald music journo Tim Byron - how did we go from religious music to songs about cold weather? Why were all the best Christmas songs written by Jewish guys?...


Dec 17, 2015

Californian Americana singer/songwriter Sam Outlaw explains the roots of his passion for country music - Emmylou Harris's classic 1975 country debut 'Pieces of the Sky'.

We talk about how the album introduced Sam to a litany of classic country songwriters, the Hot Band that Emmylou assembled to record the album, why she...


Dec 14, 2015

On the heels of my conversation with Jason Isbell, I'm revisiting one of my favorite episodes from the archives - acclaimed filmmaker and former music exec Brian Koppelman talking about how and why he fell in love with Jason's album 'Southeastern'.

What insights did Brian glean from his own chats with Isbell? What is is...


Dec 9, 2015

One of today’s most renowned and skilful Americana singer-songwriters, Jason Isbell, talks about the classic record that helped inspire the genre - The Rolling Stones 1971 LP ‘Sticky Fingers’.

We talk about how growing up around Muscle Shoals Alabama got Jason into the record as a child, how the album shows the...