We remember the genius of the late Chuck Berry with Nashville DJ and musician Heath Haynes. For the last decade Heath has immersed himself in the local Nashville scene with his DJ sets and band The High Dollars. He's been along for the ride as Nashville has grown from backwater southern town to the latest "It" city, and a lot of what he does today he owes to Chuck Berry. Like Chuck, Heath knows how to work a room and get folks dancing. And this month he helps us remember just how influential Chuck Berry, the true king of rock and roll, was to so much of the music we treasure today.

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Reed Turchi joins us to talk about how North Mississippi hill country blues and the desert blues of the North African Taureg people both relentlessly pound you into the ground. Reed's a great guitar player and he's got a new record out now. It's called Tallahatchie. Check it out wherever you stream your music, find him in action at reedturchi.com, and listen to this episode to hear him perform live.

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Parker Gispert of The Whigs joins the podcast to discuss the music of Athens, GA. Parker and The Whigs came of age on the Athens music scene, and the music of The Elephant 6 collective had a big influence on him. Bands like The Glands, Of Montreal, Neutral Milk Hotel, and Elf Power taught him a lot about how to be in a band and make your own music. We talk about his new solo project, The Whigs, and the Athens bands that influenced him.Get Parker's Athens playlist at http://originalfuzz.com/podcast, and follow him at http://instagram.com/parkergispert, and check out The Whigs at http://thewhigs.com.

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In this episode the editorial team at Original Fuzz gets together to review the legacy of Jimi Hendrix. Is he overrated? Underrated? Aptly rated? While we all have our own opinions about him, we can agree that he changed the guitar, and music, irrevocably.

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Ben and Michael Ford visit the podcast to discuss the late, great Leonard Cohen. Ben and Michael are brothers that have been playing music together since they were in middle school in Louisiana. Formerly of Apache Relay, they've a new band called Airpark and recently started a rehearsal space in Nashville called Eugenia Hall. Our thanks to Ben and Michael for coming on to pay tribute to one of the all-time greatest songwriters who's lived.

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This month Ron Gallo, Dylan Sevey, and Joe Bisirri of the Ron Gallo 3 join us to share a few tunes that influenced their upcoming album Heavy Meta. Ron also plays a couple of solo acoustic versions of songs on the record, we talk about Heavy Meta is out on February 3, 2017 on New West Records, but you can pre-order it now on pledge music at pledgemusic.com/projects/rongallo.

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We sat down with Matt and Andy from Nashville psych band Ranch Ghost to discuss their new album, Lookin. We also talked about some of their favorite bands coming out Nashville right now. This episode is loaded with tasty tunes.

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We sat down with recording engineer, producer and musician Billy Bennett to talk about some of the records that taught him the most about how to make a record.Highlights include recording vocals like Aretha Franklin and Iggy pop, how Dave Fridmann gets his signature drum sound made famous by The Flaming Lips, touring with MGMT, a demo of modular synths, the Grateful Dead's live recording techniques, making the first Whigs album, and a whole lot more. It gets a little technical at times, but there are some great tunes on here and you'll enjoy this episode if you're interested in the techniques and technology used to make some classic albums.

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This time we play some of our all-time favorite albums with the same fatal flaw: one terrible song. It’s a playlist full of songs that always make you hit skip, balanced by some of the stellar tracks that put these artists in the pantheon. Thanks to our guest Mark Harrod for helping with this episode.

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In honor of the late, great Prince we asked our friend, and consummate Prince Fan, Jack Reed to make a playlist of the top 10 essential Prince tracks. Listen as we work our way through Prince's discography, picking out The Purple One's best songs. It's good, real good.

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