Let the Music Be Your Master

This time around we’re playing musical connections. Join us in trying to find the commonalities in each others picks.

We’re taking a break from our usual nostalgic tendencies and instead focusing on new music, or at least music that is new to us, as well as discussion of favorite methods for finding new music.

A tribute to David “Trugoy the Dove” Jolicoeur, and Burt Bacharach.

Jason leads us through a discussion of how music triggers and influences our memories.

Will the night last forever?

– Low, “Will the Night”

Thank you to Steve Kesler for guiding us through some great moments in The Dead’s vast collection of recordings.

Sometimes dreams do come true. With this episode, they came true for us as we got to sit down with Gentry Densley of Iceburn and Eagle Twin. Join us as we dig into some of his musical and literary inspirations, recording techniques, composition philosophies, and tales of debauchery at the University Mall.

This is for those of you that wanted to hear even more of our thoughts regarding Easy Listening tunes. Thank you to our guest, Janell Tuttle.

Jordan guides us on a tour through the mellow sounds of Soft Rock, Yacht Rock, Easy Listening, and other forms of “grown folks” music. With special guest, Janell Tuttle.

This episode has been a long time coming. In case you can’t tell, we here at Let the Music Be Your Master (most of us, at least) are fans of Neil Percival Young. He is featured on our Tshirts and even our tiny little logo on your web browser tab, and I think embodies a lot of what we are trying to do as music appreciators, educators, and sometime creators. So we are happy to pay tribute to Mr. Young on this episode, and are even happier that we were joined by Brian Watts, a great friend of ours and a true Neil Young evangelist (not apologist). What are your favorite Neil Young songs? What did we miss? Let us know in the comments.