A Global Music Journey with Joe Boyd: The Echoes Podcast

Back n September of 2024, we brought you the broadcast version of our interview with Joe Boyd. It was was a deep, wide-ranging interview that was hard to condense into 15 minutes, so we also presented our entire conversation in the Echoes Podcast. Joe’s most recent book, And the Roots of Rhythm Remain – A Journey Through Global Music, has just been published in paperback, so we thought it would be a good time to revisit this fascinating interview in is entirety.

Just to remind you you, Joe Boyd is a legendary producer and discoverer of new music, from Pink Floyd (“Arnold Lane”), Nick Drake, Maria Muldaur, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, and Muzsikás, to his Hannibal world music label, and beyond. A few years ago, he wrote a great memoir of his life in the rock and roll world, called White Bicycles. Now he’s taken a deep dive into the influence of world music on western culture. And the Roots of Rhythm Remain – A Journey Through Global Music  explores music from around the world, from Ravi Shankar, to Flamenco, from South African musicians to Paul Simon, from Desi Arnaz to Dizzy Gillespie, It’s a long, sometimes convoluted trip, all in search of an authentic music presence. We bring you our complete interview with this global traveler in the Echoes Podcast from PRX.