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There's a new Cowboy Junkies collection on the horizon and it's one to be excited about. Guitarist and songwriter Michael Timmins joins Matt to discuss Songs of the Recollection, which will be released on March 25.

Michael shares a lot of good stories, including his memories of Vic Chesnutt, and also, the band's collaboration with Garth Hudson of the Band, just to name a couple. It was a real pleasure to speak with him.

The band will be back on tour starting in April. Check out the tour dates to see if they're coming your way.

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Del Amitri's Justin Currie is our guest to discuss all things Dels-related, including Change Everything, the band's third album, which turns 30 this year.

On March 26th, Del Amitri will launch their first U.S. tour in 25 years. We discuss the upcoming trek with Justin and he shares the details behind Fatal Mistakes, the band's newest album, which helped to make this tour a reality.

While Change Everything is one element of our conversation with the Dels frontman, we dig deep into other stories regarding the band's catalog of work. We appreciate Justin's time and insights. It was such a thrill.

Jeff had a scheduling conflict, so producer and A&R man Peter Lubin, a previous guest on our fourth episode (and a big fan of the group), joined Matt and Justin for the conversation.

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Matt and Jeff are celebrating 311 Day. March 11 is also a great day, because it means there's now a brand new live album from the Georgia Satellites that you can listen to.  Cowboy Junkies have a new album coming out later this month and Matt just spoke with Michael Timmins from the band. Those are just a few of the many topics we dig into.

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We enjoyed having guitarist George Marinelli on the podcast earlier this year to talk about some of his favorite music, including Ahmad Jamal.

He's back for a special Bonus Track to discuss Sign Here, his new solo album that's being released on March 10. You can pre-order the album now and all proceeds are being donated to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

We also discussed  a good amount of music, including Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder, the Police and more. He shares the story of how he connected with Bonnie and also some cool anecdotes about working with Don Was on a number of projects.

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Okay, so on today's episode, we actually discuss two albums by Mew, 2005's And the Glass Handed Kites and 2009's No More Stories. Our show intro features "Introducing Palace Players" from the latter album.

Yvette Young is our guest to discuss these records from the Danish band that provided interesting influence on her own career as a musician and songwriter. As you'll hear, Yvette is always wrapped up in a bunch of different musical projects. Truly, she lives, breathes and sleeps (not necessarily in that order) music all of the time.

She announced a tour with her band, Covet, not long after we recorded this episode. You can find details on the Frogwild tour (best tour name EVER) here.

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It's weird being online. Remember when friendship disagreements involved a conversation instead of the block button? That's one topic of today's Cassingle. Jeff and Matt also discuss Klassik '78, a great band that fans of '70s KISS should be aware of. Are you watching The Afterparty? Well, you should be.

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Podcasting pioneer, funny guy and fellow music nerd Jimmy Pardo (Never Not Funny, The Tonight Show, Conan O'Brien) is our guest to discuss Peter Cetera's third solo album, One More Story.

A fellow lifelong Chicago fan, Jimmy has seen the band a zillion times and appeared in the documentary film, Now More Than Ever: The History of Chicago. He also wrote liner notes (with fellow Record Player guest David Wild) for the 2021 box set, Chicago at Carnegie Hall Complete.

But his real credentials for being on this episode are that he once spent actual time writing up setlists for Peter Cetera that he did not actually deliver to Peter Cetera. In all seriousness, we had so much fun discussing Peter Cetera and all things Chicago with Jimmy for this episode. We'll look forward to speaking with him again soon to continue our music nerd session.

Until that happens, check out Never Not Funny and for a whole bunch of music nerdery, Jimmy's Records and Tapes.

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On the heels of our conversation with David Wild regarding Ringo Starr's Time Takes Time album, which turns 30 this year, we went a bit deeper. (As if David's great interview with Don Was in that same episode wasn't impressive enough....)

Former Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers drummer Stan Lynch (a talented producer and songwriter himself) had the pleasure of co-writing a song for the Ringo album called "Don't Know a Thing About Love."  He got on the phone to share his memories of writing the track with Richard Feldman, enlisting Sheryl Crow to sing on the demo and lots more.

Stan has new music on tap for release this year from The Speaker Wars and also, The Chefs, his band with Dan Baird, is readying a second course (read: second album). He gives us an update on both pending releases.

Show Notes:

Our conversation with David Wild regarding Ringo Starr’s Time Takes Time (with David’s bonus interview with Don Was regarding his work on the Ringo album).
Thanks to Dan Baird for connecting us with Stan
Georgia Satellites - Lightnin' in a Bottle: Live in Cleveland 1988
Stan is organized.
Stan’s parents
The Speaker Wars, Stan’s latest band.
The Speaker Wars and Andy Timmons
The Speaker Wars - "Never Ready to Go"
Andy Timmons - Electric Truth album
The 30th anniversary of Ringo Starr’s Time Takes Time album
Stan’s song on Ringo’s album, “Don’t Know a Thing About Love”
Richard Feldman
Eric Clapton - “Promises”
June Pointer - “Love Calling”
The birth of “Don’t Know a Thing About Love”
Writing for Ringo
Sheryl Crow
Stan’s history with Don Was
Was (Not Was) = awesome
Going to hear the finished song
Meeting Ringo
All roads lead to Ringo
Stan sitting in with Ringo and the All-Starr Band
Ringo Starr, the drummer
Stan’s impression of the Get Back documentary
The demo of Stan’s song vs. what ended up on Time Takes Time
New music from Stan and Dan Baird - the second album from The Chefs
Someone/Anyone Todd Rundgren tribute 
Was Stan a Rundgren fan back in the day?
Stan and The Speaker Wars have recorded different versions of “No Matter What” for a Badfinger tribute

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Legendary rock scribe David Wild joins Matt and Jeff to discuss Ringo Starr's Time Takes Time on the brink of the album's 30th anniversary. But that's not all -- David came armed with audio from Ringo Starr and additional audio of a conversation he had with Don Was to revisit Don's experience as one of the producers on Time Takes Time.

While David's wife just wants him to listen to more Rick Springfield (that's our flimsy tease for one of the subjects of this episode), we somehow convinced him to tell us about working with Ringo on the new book, Lifted. The book is available now in two different editions, with profits benefiting The Lotus Foundation charity.

David has also teamed up with Phil Rosenthal (Everybody Loves Raymond) for the forthcoming podcast, Naked Lunch. He shares plenty of details on that exciting endeavor as well.

No worries, he tells plenty of rock and roll war stories also. We had so much fun chatting with David and we're already plotting to get him back.

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Show Notes:

David’s famous experience trying to interview Van Morrison 
David’s Bob Dylan story
Bob Dylan’s Hearts of Fire movie ​​
Ringo Starr - Time Takes Time EPK
David’s experience working on Ringo Starr’s new book, Lifted.
Ringo Starr on Jimmy Kimmel
David spoke with Don Was for this episode
David’s Flowers in the Dirt story
Paul McCartney - “Figure of Eight”
Paul McCartney - “Distractions”
Ringo Starr - “Weight of the World”
The Ringo audio
Ringo Starr - Don’t Go Where The Road Don’t Go
Paul McCartney - “1985”
David’s Paul McCartney Grammy story
Ringo Starr - “Don’t Know a Thing About Love”
Ringo Starr - “Golden Blunders”
Ringo Starr - “In a Heartbeat”
Mickey Thomas and Robin Zander are, in fact, awesome.
Matt’s defense of “We Built This City”
Starship - “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now”
Mickey Thomas - Alive Alone
Elvin Bishop - “Fooled Around and Fell in Love”
Jeff’s UCR article regarding Jefferson Starship and Starship 
David Wild’s 1992 Rolling Stone profile on Time Takes Time 
Ringo’s Old Wave album
David’s new podcast with Phil Rosenthal
David’s appearance on Jimmy Pardo’s Never Not Funny 

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Mike Errico joins Jeff and Matt to discuss Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot, the 1995 debut album by Sparklehorse, the banner which the late Mark Linkous used to bring his music into the world.

Nearly 30 years after the record first hit the shelves, it remains an extremely compelling listen. We enjoyed having the chance to revisit the album with Mike. It proved to be the catalyst for a number of interesting discussions. Visit Mike at his website, where you'll find details on his new book, which we also talk about.

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Show Notes

Cleveland memories
The Twinemen and Morphine
Dana Colley “The guy who played two saxophones at the same time.”
Morphine - ‘Sharks”
Morphine in Cleveland
Meeting Mark Sandman at a diner
The History of Bones: A Memoir by John Lurie
The threads that connect our favorite musicians
Warren Zevon
Mike’s experiences touring with Warren Zevon
Running into Steve Buscemi at a Tom Waits show in Columbus, Ohio
Playing Woodstock ‘99
Almost getting beaten up as the opening act for a concert
Opening for Art Garfunkel
America - Crying in My Sleep (not written by Art, but written by Jimmy Webb and recorded by Art) 
Art Garfunkel - The Singer (I called it “The Songwriter.” Dammit, Jeff wins again!)
Richard Marx, Night Ranger and Kevin Cronin
Mike’s book
Big questions about songwriting
The similarities between songwriters and astrophysicists
Twitter rage caused by Martians
The allure of a chorus
The movie Contact and why it’s Mike’s favorite sci-fi film, but why it’s also a horrible movie.
Giving prospective songwriters a map that doesn’t exist
Jeff Giles 2011 interview with Mike Errico
Pancakes and the importance of milk
The Wallflowers - Bringing Down the Horse
Battling self-esteem issues with a project
Students walking the alternate path
Battling against the urge to quit.
George Saunders
Trusting the universe and being open to taking a different path
Mike’s path to Sparklehorse
Analyzing the sound of Sparklehorse
Contemporaries of Sparklehorse
What was it like submitting this album to Capitol Records?
Alessandro Nivola and the movie Laurel Canyon, which uses two of Mark Linkous’s songs from Sparklehorse
Mark’s vision for his songs, “Every song is a different planet.”
Mark Linkous interview by Chip Midnight
Sparklehorse article at Stereogum by Annie Zaleski
Mike’s favorite songs from the Spark

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