Let It Roll

Apr 07 2025 454 ep. 60 mins 496

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"Let it Roll" is a podcast about the history of popular music from the 19th Century to the 21st. Proud part of Pantheon - the podcast network for music lovers.

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Fairport Convention and Pentangle led the UK folk-rock movement

Apr 07 2025 57 mins

Hosts Nate Wilcox and Dave Thompson continue their mini-series discussing Dave's book An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music -- buy the book to support the show. This episode covers the emergence of UK folk-rock out of the hippie, psychedelic ballroom scene in the late 1960s. Dave and Nate discuss the formation of Pentangle a sort of super group c

Recast Technoroll 3: UK DJ Culture Develops With Northern Soul

Mar 31 2025 36 mins

Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of “Last Night A DJ Saved My Life - The History of the Disc Jockey” by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton." Buy the book and support the show! In this episode, Nate and Ryan discuss the uniquely British dance culture called Northern Soul where the kids of the British rust belt just wouldn't let go of their favorite up-tem

Paul Simon dived into the UK folk scene at a key time

Mar 24 2025 49 mins

Hosts Nate Wilcox and Dave Thompson continue their mini-series discussing Dave's book An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music -- buy the book to support the show. This episode discusses the UK folk scene from the peak of skiffle and Lonnie Donegan through the network of UK folk clubs who featured an open mic format that produced many of the leading t

Recast Technoroll 2: The First DJs On the Radio and In the Clubs

Mar 17 2025 43 mins

Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness continue their discussion of “Last Night A DJ Saved My Life - The History of the Disc Jockey” by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton. In this episode, Nate and Ryan go way way back to the beginnings of the 20th Century and discuss the very first radio DJs -- including Sybil True the first female radio DJ who started in 1913 -- and the first club DJs

Bob Dylan Made the US Folk Boom and Then Bust

Mar 10 2025 45 mins

Hosts Nate Wilcox and Dave Thompson continue their mini-series discussing Dave's book An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music -- buy the book to support the show. This episode discusses the peak of the Folk Boom in the US with the rise of Peter, Paul, & Mary, Ian & Sylvia, Judy Collins' continued success and the rise of Bob Dylan. We cover Dylan's use

Technoroll 1 Recast: The History of DJ-Based Music - Reggae, Disco, Hip-Hop, House, Techno, EDM and Beyond

Mar 03 2025 45 mins

Today hosts Nate Wilcox and Ryan Harkness are joined by producer Stephie Haynes to introduce the series and our main source book “Last Night A DJ Saved My Life - The History of the Disc Jockey” by Bill Brewster and Frank Broughton. GO TO THE LET IT ROLL SUBSTACK TO HEAR THE FULL EPISODE-- The final 15 minutes of this episode are exclusively for paying subscribers to the Let It

Joan Baez, Judy Collins, and Tom Rush led the pre-Dylan American Folk Boom

Feb 24 2025 45 mins

Hosts Nate Wilcox and Dave Thompson continue their mini-series discussing Dave's book An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music -- buy the book to support the show. This episode discusses the Child Ballads about Robin Hood and the folk revival's odd disinterest in them as well as the explosion of the American Folk Revival led by Joan Baez, Judy Collins,

Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger, Josh White & Jean Ritchie and the first Folk Revival

Feb 10 2025 43 mins

Hosts Nate Wilcox and Dave Thompson continue their mini-series discussing Dave's book An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music -- buy the book to support the show. This episode covers the collision of the Child Ballads with the leaders of the first American popular Folk Revival featuring leaders of the movement like Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger, Josh White

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

Jan 27 2025 45 mins

Hosts Nate Wilcox and Dave Thompson continue their mini-series discussing Dave's book An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music -- buy the book to support the show. This episode covers the first popular American revival of the Child Ballads by artist like The Carter Family and jazz singer Maxine Sullivan. We also cover the beginnings of the popular folk

The President's Daughter Recorded A Child Ballad

Jan 13 2025 55 mins

Hosts Nate Wilcox and Dave Thompson continue their mini-series discussing Dave's book An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music -- buy the book to support the show. This episode covers Francis James Child himself and how the whole ballad collecting thing went big time, with the trend impacting the recording career of Woodrow Wilson's first lady, one of