Let It Roll: Frequent Guests

Let It Roll episodes featuring some of our frequent co-hosts and guests.

Alanna Nash

• The Secrets Behind Elvis Presley's Relationship with Col. Tom Parker

• Dolly Parton Had A Vision Of Superstardom Beyond Nashville

Cam Cobb

• The Moby Grape Story Part 2

• The Moby Grape Story Part 1

Chris Duncan

• Melvins and TAD Were at the Forefront of Seattle's Grunge Wave When It Was Still An Indy Phenomenon

• Thrash Metal Rose and Fell, Led by Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax and Megadeth

Dan Charnas

• J Dilla Transformed Time for Q-Tip, the Pharcyde, D'Angelo, Erykah Badu & Common

• Time Warner Can't Handle The Ice-T Cop Killer Backlash

• The Entrepreneurs of Early Hip-Hop: Sugar Hill & Def Jam

David Leaf

• John Lennon's Political Activism Got Him Targeted By the U.S Government

• Brian Wilson, The Beach Boys and Creating The California Myth

David N. Meyer

• The Bee Gees Rose, Fell, Rose Again, Fell Again Then Helped Invent Modern Pop

• Gram Parsons' Disastrous Career Made Him a Legend

Elijah Wald

• How the Beatles Destroyed Rock and Roll

• Robert Johnson: Escaping the Delta

Gary Giddins

• Beginning the Jazz Age: Vaudeville, Minstrelsy, Spirituals and Louis Armstrong’s Signifying on the Old Songs

• Bing Crosby's Incredible Influence Over America in the 1940s

• The Young Bing Crosby Reinvented Singing for the Microphone Age

• Bing Crosby Ruled The 1940s

• Bing Crosby's Swing Brought Him Superstardom

Gurdip Ladhar & Justin Gausman

• The Unmaking of Elvis Presley

• The Making of Elvis Presley

• How Elvis Presley Rose To The Top

• Elvis Presley: Decline And Fall

Ivan DeHaas

• Juice WRLD Flew High and Fell Fast

• Lil Peep Couldn't Protect Himself

• XXXTentacion Sowed the Wind and Reaped the Whirlwind

Jeff Feuerzeig

• The Devil, Daniel Johnston and Documentary Film

• Interview With Tales from the Tour Bus Producer Jeff Feuerzeig

Jessie Jarnow

• The Grateful Dead were the pied pipers of psychedelics

• Yo La Tengo Surfed The Indie Rock Wave

• The Grateful Dead Builds Psychedelic America

• The Weavers: Folk Music vs the Black List

Joe Bonomo

• Jerry Lee Lewis bounced back at the Star Club

• AC/DC Perfected Hard Rock While Flirting With Punk

• Jerry Lee Lewis Starts His Come Back at the Star Club

Joe Nick Patoski

• How Willie Nelson, Doug Sahm, Stevie Ray Vaughan, SXSW and ACL Fest Turned Austin into the ATX

• Willie Nelson Superstar

• Willie Nelson: Nashville's Not Enough

• Willie Nelson's Honky Tonk Wilderness Years

John Einarson

• Gene Clark's Songwriting Lifted the Byrds

• Steppenwolf's John Kay Came to Hard Rock from the Toronto Folk Scene

• Buffalo Springfield Couldn't Contain Neil Young, Steve Stills and Richie Furay

• Arthur Lee and Love Ruled LA's Sunset Strip Between The Byrds and The Doors

Jonathan Gould

• America Awaited the Beatles

• Otis Redding: Supernova

• The Rise of Otis Redding

Joseph Lanza

• Easy Listening Absorbed Psychedelia in the Late 1960's

• The Lost Art of Elevator Music From Mantovani & Jackie Gleason to Brian Eno’s Ambient Music

Kit Mackintosh

• Jamaican Ska Evolved Directly From American R&B

• Vybz Kartel's Career Arc Landed Jamaica's Most Important 21st Century Musician in Prison

• Future, Young Thug, Migos and Vybz Kartel Have Used Autotune to Create a Vibrant Vocal Psychedelia

Mark Blake

• Freddie Mercury and Queen Earned Rock Immortality

• Which One's Pink (Floyd)?

• Managing Led Zeppelin, the Biggest Band on Earth

• Hipgnosis designed iconic album covers for Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and many more

Michaelangelo Matos

• TechnoRoll 3.20: Interview with Michaelangelo Matos

• Michael Jackson, Madonna and Prince Topped a Banner Year for Pop in 1984

Ned Sublette

• New Orleans Music from Fats Domino thru the Meters to No Limit and Cash Money

• The Cultural Blend That Made New Orleans Music Unique

• The Kingsmen's 'Louie Louie' and The Rolling Stones' 'Satisfaction’ were built on Cuban Mambo & Cha-cha-cha

• Latin Roll 1: The musics of Europe and Africa collided in Cuba

• Latin Roll 2: Clave and the contradance in the colonial Caribbean

• Latin Roll 3: The most popular American musician of the 19th century connected Cuba and New Orleans

Paul Trynka

• Brian Jones got everything he asked for when he formed the Rolling Stones

• Chasing the Blues Legends John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, & Hubert Sumlin

• David Bowie: Starman

• Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed

• Brian Jones The Making of the Rolling Stones

Peter Ames Carlin

• Paul Simon's Brill Building Years Laid the Ground for Folk-Rock Success

• From Jimi Hendrix to R.E.M., Warner Brothers Records Provided Artists a Rock Era Oasis

Peter Guralnick

• Sun Records Presided Over the Dawn of Rockabilly With Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis

• How Jerry Lee Lewis, Howlin' Wolf, & Col. Tom Parker Helped Peter Guralnick Get Lost

RJ Smith

• Rhythm and Blues Exploded Out of 1940s Los Angeles Led by Nat “King” Cole & Big Jay McNeely

• James Brown Hits The One

• RJ Smith Interview

Simon Reynolds

• TechnoRoll 2.24: Simon Reynolds On Rave Music, Dance Culture and the Hardcore to Jungle to Drum & Bass to Dubstep to EDM Continuum

• Pop Music's Past Is Crowding Out Its Present

Stanley Booth

• The Rolling Stones’ journey to Altamont

• The Rolling Stones Road to Altamont

• Dewey Phillips, Elvis Presley, Otis Redding and Memphis music

Steve Bergsman

• The Dixie Cups Were the Girl Group That Brought New Orleans R&B to the Brill Building

• Screamin’ Jay Hawkins Put a Spell On the Music Biz

Susan Whitall

• Little Willie John's dreams turned to nightmares

• The Women Who Built Berry Gordy's Motown Empire

• The Tragic Legend of Little Willie John