Let It Roll with Dave Thompson

All Let It Roll episodes featuring music writer Dave Thompson.

Let It Folk

• The Carter Family popularized the Child Ballads and Burl Ives built a new tradition

• Francis Child Collected Ballads and Kicked Off a Craze

• Sir Walter Scott, Pepys, and Charles Dickens: The Literary Roots of The Ballad Tradition

• The Ancient Repertoire the Genre Built On

Let It Roll Originals

• Cream Combined Heavy Blues Rock With Jazz Improv and Psychedelic Pop

• Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder Invented Electronic Dance Music With “I Feel Love”

• Joan Jett's Years With the Runaways Laid the Groundwork for Solo Stardom

• Jeff Beck, Rod Stewart & Ron Wood Nearly Perfected Hard Rock Before Led Zeppelin Even Formed

• From The Supremes to The Four Tops, Holland-Dozier-Holland Made Motown’s Biggest Hits