Looking For The Magic

Looking For The Magic

By Elizabeth Nelson & Amy RigbyArtsMusicPerforming ArtsMusic Commentary
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Looking For The Magic episodes

  • LFTM - Prove You Are Alive

    Tonight we're going to party on the Looking For The Magic podcast - Amy and 
    @paranoiacs Elizabeth Nelson will discuss the weird magic of birthday shows, wedding gigs gone wrong...join us live at 6:30 pm, working on your birthday is proof you're alive.

    Happy Birthday Amy! 

    42 min
  • Personal Worst

    Good riddance to 2020, the shittiest year. Sharing stories of worst gigs, stage outfits, venues and performances by other bands. Also things we thought might be crap that turned out to be good.

    Referenced in this episode:

    The Center Of Nowhere - documentary about Springfield MO music scene
    Bobby Keys documentary: Every Night's A Saturday Night
    Glenfarg
    Philly
    Business suits on stage
    "The jacket"
    Replacements at the Ritz
    Luton on LSD
    Love for NRBQ
    Rod Stewart's autobiography

    41 min
  • No Snow, No Show

    Elizabeth and Amy brave a December snow storm Wednesday night. It doesn't take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

    Bee Gees doc
    Luc Sante's Maybe The People Would Be The Times
    Alright Alright Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed & Confused
    Braving the elements
    Jimmy Page's argyle vest; Kurt Cobain's sweater
    Yo La Tengo's Hanukkah shows & Do You Remember That
    Sex Pistols Pittsburgh show that never happened

    57 min
  • Live

    We share memories of first live shows, last live shows, best nights ever and hope for future gigs.

    Peter Murphy at Roseland
    Sonny & Cher 
    The late David Olney
    Drive-By Truckers
    Wussy
    Fave music venues

    https://youtu.be/PwXQpT7Vkqk


    41 min
  • Positively Bob

    This is the second episode of our new podcast about music. This week we share some reflections on Columbia Recording Artist Bob Dylan.

    Show Notes: 11.25.20

    Conversations with Tom Petty / Paul Zollo

    They Might Be Giants / Live at The Music Hall of Williamsburg 11.29.15

    Emma Swift / Blonde on the Tracks

    Peter Paul & Mary / Blowin’ in the Wind

    Hippies / Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again

    Bob Dylan / Biograph 

    Bob Dylan / True Confessions Tour with Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

    Bob Dylan / Chronicles

    Suze Rotolo / A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties

    Carole Bayer Sager / They’re Playing Our Song: A Memoir

    Bob Dylan / Knocked Out Loaded

    Bob Dylan / Street-Legal / The Changing of the Guards

    Bob Dylan / I Contain Multitudes (Emma Swift / I Contain Multitudes)

    Charlie Daniels / Off The Grid: Doin’ It Dylan

    Oxford American

    Bob Dylan / Nashville Skyline / New Morning (Charlie Daniels)

    Charlie Daniels / Drinkin’ My Baby Goodbye (Last Roundup)

    Amy Rigby / The Old Guys / From philiproth@gmail to [email protected]

    Tony Garnier

    Mary Lee Kortes / Mary Lee’s Corvette / Dreaming of Dylan

    Bob Dylan / Theme Time Radio Hour

    Bruce Bennett / Action Swingers / Hoodies / Mike Bloomfield

    Ratso Sloman / On The Road With Bob Dylan

    Bob Neuwirth

    Bob Dylan / Planet Waves / Going Going Gone

    Bob Dylan / Fort Worth Texas / May 16, 1976

    The Last Waltz

    Thanksgiving 

    Bucket Hats

    55 min
  • Heroes

    Looking For The Magic gets off to a start with a discussion of current reads, brushes with greatness and things you shouldn't say to your heroes.

    Discussed in this episode:

    Peter Frampton's memoir Do You Feel Like I Do
    Chris Frantz's book - Remain In Love
    Pittsburgh
    Richard Thompson
    Shants
    Interviewing NRBQ; Terry Adams
    Bill Monroe & The Bluegrass Boys
    Touring with Warren Zevon
    Jill Sobule
    Tom Petty
    Joe Strummer; The Clash
    Beethoven; Theme from St. Elmo's Fire
    Herb Alpert - Whipped Cream & Other Delights
    All the greens from all the (pressing) plants

    Recorded live here https://youtu.be/cVm_5Sr6Vno



    32 min

About Looking For The Magic

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Elizabeth Nelson & Amy Rigby talk about music - living it, loving it - just like they're hanging out in a dingy backstage somewhere. Loosely themed episodes cover current fave reads and listens;…