Let It Roll EXTRA

We’re relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter.

In this episode, host Nate Wilcox is joined by Garrett Cash to continue their discussion of the evolution of American Gospel music with a look at Afro-American music in the late 19th Century.

Source materials include ⁠⁠Robert Darden’s “People Get Ready!: A New History of Black Gospel Music”⁠⁠ and “⁠⁠Tell Them We Are Singing for Jesus: The Original Fisk Jubilee Singers and Christian Reconstruction, 1871-1878⁠⁠“ by Toni P Anderson.

This episode originally dropped in 2022.

We’re relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter.

In this episode, Nate is joined by Author, David Wondrich, to discuss his overlooked classic: “Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot, 1843–1924.” In this episode, David takes Nate way way back into the history of American music, long before the invent…

We’re relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter. In this episode, host Nate Wilcox interviews author Dale Cockrell about the musical ferment bubbling under the New York demimonde in the 1800s as described in his book ⁠”Everybody’s Doin’ It: Sex, Music, and Dance in New York, 1840-1917”.⁠

This episode orig…

We’re starting the second seasons of our Let It Roll relaunch in chronological order by subject matter. In this episode, host Nate Wilcox interviews Emily Bingham, the author of ⁠”My Old Kentucky Home: The Astonishing Life and Reckoning of an Iconic American Song⁠.”

Host Nate Wilcox asks Emily to detail the 150 years of myth-making around Stephen Foster’…

We’re relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter. In this episode, host Nate Wilcox welcomes back Dave Thompson to continue discussing Dave’s book ⁠An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music⁠.

This episode covers Francis James Child himself, how he came to collect British balla…

We’re relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter. In this episode, host Nate Wilcox welcomes back Ned Sublette to continue the discussion about his book “⁠Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo.” ⁠

Ned and Nate discuss Louis Moreau Gottschalk, the most popular and important 19th Century Amer…

We’re relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter. In this episode, host Nate Wilcox welcomes back Dave Thompson to continue discussing Dave’s book ⁠An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music⁠.

This episode covers the very oldest examples of The Child Ballads, with lyrical themes…

We're relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter.

In this episode, host Nate Wilcox welcomes Norman Lebrecht author of "⁠Why Beethoven: A Phenomenon in One Hundred Pieces.⁠" Nate asks Norman about Beethoven's innovative business practices, his conflicts with royalty, his opposition to the sexual mores of …

We’re relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter. In this episode hosts Nate Wilcox and Garrett Cash dive into the roots of African-American spirituals and Gospel’s deep roots in African musical practice.

The discussion is based on Robert Darden’s “⁠People Get Ready!: A New History of Black Gospel Music.⁠“

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We’re relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter. In this episode, host Nate Wilcox welcomes back Ted Gioia to continue their discussion of his book “⁠Music: A Subversive History⁠.”

Nate and Ted talk about the less than perfect realities of the lives of the great composers. From the murderous makers of mad…