Tales Vinyl Tells-”stories record albums convey”

Episode 171: December Holiday Songs

December 18, 2024

There are many holidays in the month of December and you might hear of some that you didn’t know about on today’s Tales Vinyl Tells. I do love the old rockin’ Christmas tunes (Ronettes, Beach Boys and the like) as well as those from Tull, Greg Lake and Dan Fogelberg. Sit back and relax, have a cup of cheer and a good holiday month.

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Episode 203: The Stylus Is In The Groove And We're Spinning In Circles

December 15, 2025

A list had accumulated of tunes for a Tales Vinyl Tells program and it finally came time to reveal that list. It was……just the right time. So, there’s Renbourn, Winchester, Lake, The ‘Tramp, even Michael Stanley with a cooker, backed by some pros, like Joe Walsh, Sanborn, Deja vu ppl and a really great group. I’ll put into print here what I mentioned in the show, this tune, Let’s Get The Show on the Road, is on YouTube when they played on Don Kirschner’s Rock Concert.

Thanks for listening today.  My email is [email protected].  If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

Episode 134: Bonnie's Story

December 3, 2025

In a conversation with my friend Bonnie, she said how hearing a certain tune brought back memories of a time long ago. Who she was hanging out with, what music he was listening to (and the B-52s Rock Lobster was driving her crazy). He played it over and over, saturating his beloved partner. But she smiled as she said some of the things she hears on Tales Vinyl Tells stir up some good memories. So there it is, folks. The album rock of the 60s & 70s was some memorable stuff. Just think about the bell bottoms, the John Lennon-type glasses with purple lens, psychedelic headbands, pungent smells in the air covered by sandalwood or nag champa incense, beads hanging in doorways instead of doors. Oh sure, its all very nostalgic. Great songs fill this and every hour of Tales Vinyl Tells.  

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Episode 154: Supermoon Music And More

November 25, 2025

Heres Another Tales Vinyl Tells, sharing the The vinyl albums from the 60s & 70s, those LPs carried the new wave of The British Invasion while America was already experiencing its own invasion from Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, Mamas and Papas, CSN&Y, Bob Dylan, The Doors, the folkies, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Freddie Boom Boom Cannon, The Turtles, The Buckinghams even. And in the next hour, my intention today is to share some of those great LPs that were breaking a type of sound barrier and blowing minds while we.well, we were having our own revolution, discovering free love, recreational experimental mind altering elements, all to a soundtrack that lives on and has NOT been repeated. This music of today may last, maybe not. 60s & 70s rock has everlasting life.  

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And thanks for listening today.  My email is [email protected].  If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

Episode 108: Good Stuff Growing Up Around The Ocean

October 24, 2025

Some of the songs of summer are right here and they are not what you might expect.

Tales Vinyl Tells is in our 4th year of bringing some of those great album tracks of the 60s & 70s to you and thrown into the mix are some others that just need to be added to the recipe for a eargasmic hour.  

And thanks for listening today.  My email is [email protected].  If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

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Episode 149: Quite The British Lineup And Sure, There Are The Temptations And Delaney W Bonnie...

October 11, 2025

This is Tales Vinyl Tells, continuing to play a lot of the music from the first 37 episodes. There’s lot of great stuff here today. Like Blue Jays, Buddy Guy, The Strawberry Hill Boys. Who? Just listen. Best heard with headphones or you could cast them to your sound system and VOILA! Music to your ears!! My email is [email protected]. Today’s playlist follows.

And thanks for listening today.  My email is [email protected].  If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

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Playlist:

107.1 Air-Mike Pinder (instrumental)

107.2 Saved by the music-Blue Jays

107.3 Feeling alright-Joe Cocker

107.4 Soul Shake-Delaney and Bonnie

107.5 Which side you on?-Pete Seeger

107.6 Damn right, I got the blues-Buddy Guy

107.7 Ball of Confusion-Temptations

107.8 Dazed and Confused-Led Zeppelin

107.9 Where do the children play?-Cat Stevens

107.10 Shepherd’s song- Strawbs

107.11 Look into the sun-Jethro Tull

107.12 Come back again-John Baldry

Episode 201: There Was A Time......

October 10, 2025

Wakajawaka and hello to all of you.  This is Tales Vinyl Tells, our extraterrestrial exploration into that great rock of the 60s & 70s that was recorded on vinyl albums and rocked at 33-1/3 revolutions per minute.  Today’s LP Cuts come from Santana, the Stones, Savoy Brown, Jason Isbell and lots more.  The playlist is below. Glad you’re here.  Let’s spin ‘em and grin em!  I’m Brian Hallgren, this is episode 201 of Tales Vinyl Tells.  This is the Revolution!

And thanks for listening today.  My email is [email protected].  If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

Playlist:

201.1 Wakajawaka-Zappa

201.1a Revolution-Beatles

201.2 One fine morning-Santana

201.3 Ridgetop-Jesse Colin Young

201.4 Rock n roll woman-Buffalo Springfield

201.5 Willie and the Hand Jive- NRPS

201.6 Not Fade Away-Stones

201.7 All I Can do-Savoy Brown

201.8 Jason Isbell-24 Frames

201.9 Them Changes-Buddy Miles

201.10 Kid Charlemagne-Steely Dan

201.11 Goin’ Down Slow-The Electric Flag

Episode 99: Fun In The Rock Albums Of The 60s & 70s

October 2, 2025

From ARS and their historic background to the JimJam of Nights in White Satan, this is another fun hour of the great music that came off of the vinyls on the ‘60s & ‘70s.

And thanks for listening today.  My email is [email protected].  If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

Episode 200: I Am An AntiFascist Creator! Definition Below.

September 23, 2025

A fore note: Today Tuesday 9/23/25, I will be guest co-host on my friend Steve Haggard’s radio show, The Haggard & Haggard Radio Hour, at 4 PM CDT on RadioFreeNashville.org. We’ll chat a bit about music and especially my choices for today, two from a very inspiring artist, Jimmie Spheeris and hear some Pacific Reggae from the Herbs of New Zealand, “the land down under the land down under”. Tune in! As Steve says, “and some meaningless banter.” But you already know that.

Hello again and a big hi to you all. There’s a tradition here at TVT to try not to repeat any tunes. Unsuccessful I’ve been but if I do repeat, there’s a high quality put on a number. That’s why we start out with two from Traffic’s John Barleycorn Must Die LP. It is a very cool musical masterpiece. And you’ll also hear Link Wray, Tracy Nelson, John Kongos and more. The ever-so-popular JIMJAM today is CSNY’s Teach Your Children, soon, so get ready for TVT!

And thanks for listening today.  My email is [email protected].  If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

Playlist:

200.1-2 Glad/Freedom Rider-Traffic

200.3 Fast Car-Tracy Chapman

200.4 Rumble-Link Wray

200.5 Listening to music-Child’s Garden of Grass

200.6 Are you sitting comfortably?- Moody Blues

200.7 Teach Your Children-CSNY JIMJAM

200.8 Your Time is Gonna Come/Black Mountain Side-Zeppelin

200.9 Closer to fine (live)- Indigo Girls

200.10 Seven Bridges Road-Steve Young

200.11 He’s Gonna Step on You Again-John Kongos

200.12 Paper Sun-Stevie Winwood/Traffic

Episode 199: Fall Faves, Salute To Mark Volman

September 19, 2025

Here’s another Tales Vinyl Tells for ya.  High, hello and welcome back to more of that great album rock of the 60s & 70s along with (sometimes) tunes on either sides of those decades. It’s almost fall here in middle Tennessee and Nashville.  Summer is winding down and it’s been one hot mothuh, and not in a good way.  The dogwoods have put out their little green pods which have grown into bigger red pods, and the season will change soon.  It’s on the way.  Today’s hour includes some songs about fall and there’s also my statement about the mess in these United States with a lying evil fascist in our White House.  They bricked over the Rose Garden and there’s so much gaudy fake gold nugget accents in the Oval they should offer barf bags at the door.  No more spray paint, ok??  And he wants a Nobel Prize and wants to name the Beloved Kennedy Center after himself or her.  What a flabby gas bag.  I can’t stand this guy, the Russian asset, ruining not running the US.  He’s the Master of Disaster, the dark lord (thinks he’s God, more like the antiChrist).  The first set goes out to Capt Bonespurs.  That’s my rant for today.  Mark Volman of the Turtles has entered the room next door, we remember him. and I’ve got a new one from Neil Young in this first set.  You’ll like this one! Now Let’s play some great Tales that Vinyls Tell. I’m Brian Hallgren.  Let’s spin some!

And thanks for listening today.  My email is [email protected].  If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

Playlist:

199.1 Summer madness-Kool & Gang

199.2 Master of Disaster-John Hiatt

199.3Beware of darkness-Harrison

199.4 Big crime- Neil Young

199.5 Forever Autumn-Moody Blues

199.6 September-EW&F

199.7 Where you lead I will follow-Carole King ?

199.8 Landslide-The Chicks

199.9 Come away with me-Norah Jones

199.10 Leaves that are green-Simon & Garfunkel

199.11 Stop the train-John Mayer

199.12 October Road-James taylor

199.13 Shes my girl

199.14 Keep it warm-Flo and Eddie

199.15 Harvest Moon-Neil Young