Let It Roll EXTRA

Hosts Nate Wilcox and Dave Thompson continue their mini-series discussing Dave's book An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music -- buy the book to support the show.

This episode covers the collision of the Child Ballads with the leaders of the first American popular Folk Revival featuring leaders of the movement like Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger, Josh White and Jean Ritchie.

This episode covers the emergence of the commercial recording industry into the story of the Child Ballads with producers like Ralph Peer, performers like The Carter Family, and “songwriters” like A.P. Carter all transforming the ballads for a new popular audience. Dave Thompson and Nate Wilcox also discuss the emergence of the first “folk revivalists” …

This episode covers James Francis Child himself, how he came to collect British ballads and how they were published. We also discuss the recording career of Woodrow Wilson’s First Lady who was the second person to commercially record a Child Ballad, and the discovery of Child Ballads in the American South.

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

Host Nate Wilcox welcomes Dave Thopson to kick off a new mini-series on his book “An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music.” The song lyrics collected by Francis J. Child in the 19th Century have contributed mightily to the repertoire of the people we often call “folk singers” from Pete Seeger to Ewan MacColl, from Leadbel…

In this episode, I discuss Nick Broomfield’s documentary The Stones and Brian Jones and in the full episode (for paying subscribers) I discuss Rolling Stone: The Life & Death of Brian Jones directed by Danny Garcia and the book Who Killed Christoper Robin: The Final Truth by Terry Rawlings with Paul Spindle.

Those last two get into the “conspiracy theori…