Legacy Podcasts

Preservation Hall Jazz Band – That’s It! 2CD Legacy Edition – in stores now from Legacy Recordings

Preservation Hall Jazz Band – That’s It! 2CD Legacy Edition – in stores now from Legacy Recordings

Preservation Hall Jazz Band – That’s It! 2CD Legacy Edition – in stores now from Legacy Recordings

  Patti Smith hosts music and conversation about Bob Dylan. His friends, early influences and collaborators discuss their close relationships with Dylan, the stories behind his greatest songs and other memorable moments of his career. Journalists and biographers add critical insights and provide historical contexts. A few of today’s singer-songwriters also detail how Dylan’s art […]

First of four podcasts behind the making of Studio Rio Presents the Brazilian Connection.

Eight part series Sly and the Family Stone series kicks off with members first had accounts of how they joined the band

Emmylou Harris and The Secret Sisters talk about their work with Willie Nelson on To All the Girls...

Part 2 of the Willie Nelson To All the Girls podcast features Carrie Underwood and Norah Jones.

The brand-new Willie Nelson album in stores Oct 15, To All the Girls, features female duet partners on each track. Many of them join us for this four-part series about how the album was made. Dolly Parton is featured in part 1.

Harry Nilsson story from Mark Hudson after Q104.3 in NYC played the world-premiere of Nilsson's "Blackbird" cover from the RCA Albums Collection box set.

Legacy Podcasts celebrates the release of the new Preservation Hall Jazz Band release, That's It!, with a brand-new four part series. Go behind the scenes of their first-ever album of all original songs, including the current radio hits "Dear Lord," "Rattlin' Bones" and more. Includes interviews with band members and co-producer Jim James of My Morning Jacket.

Ben Folds Five - new live album, summer 2013 tour and World Cafe session

Our Mad Season episodes conclude with Mike and Barrett remembering their other late bandmember, bassist John Baker Saunders. He and McCready met at rehab, but sadly overdosed in 1999. They then finish the piece by detailing how Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees) came to add his signature howl to "Locomotive" and two other unfinished instrumentals for the new release.

The Searching for Sugar Man podcast series concludes with Rodriguez own comments about his triumphant South African concert tour. Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom add their memories of how people still didn't believe he was really alive, even after they bought tickets.

Mad Season's classic riff from "I Don't Know Anything" kicks off episode 3, setting the dark tone that leads into Barrett Martin's discussion of Layne Staley's demons.

Mike McCready and Barrett Martin look back on they eventually named the band "Mad Season," and the Moore Theater (Seattle) show, It was previously immortalized in video form, and its audio is now available on the Above deluxe reissue.

Episode 3 features more from Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman and Craig Bartholomew Strydom, on how they prepared a mid-90s CD release of the 2nd Rodriguez album, Coming from Reality. Which was surprisingly easier to do than tracking down any information on the artist, himself.

The "Searching for Sugar Man" series continues with backstory on how conditions in South Africa were ripe for a socially conscious artist like Rodriguez to appeal to the country's liberal whites - especially the musicians.

The four part Mad Season podcast hosted by Matt Pinfield tells the story of this Seattle supergroup and their one album, Above. Mike McCready (Pearl Jam), Barrett Martin (Streaming Trees) and the late Layne Staley (Alice in Chains) describe how McCready's rehab stint with late bassist Jon Baker Saunders inspired this acclaimed side project.

The "Searching for Sugar Man" series explores the amazing story of Detroit singer/songwriter Rodriguez, as featured in the Oscar-Winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man. Includes clips from the film and tracks from the soundtrack.

The final Art Garfunkel The Singer podcast includes a clip of a brand-new song, “Long Way Home” and a tribute to his son written for a children’s record. Art Garfunkel: The Singer in stores now from Legacy Recordings      

Episode 3 begins as Art looks back on how he, Paul Simon and James Taylor approached their recording of “What a Wonderful World.”  Art concludes with his unique ruminations about the on-stage experience. Art Garfunkel: The Singer in stores now from Legacy Recordings      

The Art Garfunkel The Singer podcast continues with Art’s feelings about the last Simon & Garfunkel tour, leading into a clip of “Cathy’s Song” recorded on that tour.  He also provides some background to his best-selling solo album, Breakaway. Art Garfunkel: The Singer in stores now from Legacy Recordings      

Four part Art Garfunkel podcast series features "the singer" looking back on his favorite moments as a solo artist, with Paul Simon and other harmony partners. The host is David Dye (World Cafe).

Simon counters criticism that Graceland songs weren't political enough.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo joins Simon and others in the NYC sessions that created "Homeless" and "Diamonds of the Soles of Her Shoes."

Working with John Paul Jones, the inspirations behind "Sand" and a brand new song, "Fanatic," coming for real in Fall 2012.

Paul Simon describes how jams recorded at the South African sessions developed into the final tracks.

The Wilson sisters look back on their musical education at home, Ann discusses the development of their voice, and the formation of the band that became Heart.

Ann and Nancy Wilson discuss what it was like to be women in a rock band among men, and how those experiences found their way into song lyrics.

Paul Simon looks back on the 25th anniversary of Graceland

New four part Heart podcast series features Ann and Nancy Wilson looking back on their career as they celebrate the release of their Strange Euphoria box set.

Final Janis Joplin Pearl podcast shows differences in her public and private lives.

Third Janis Joplin Pearl podcast shows how Janis grew as an artist in these studio sessions.

Part two of the four-part Janis Joplin Pearl podcast series.

Part One of the four-part Janis Joplin Pearl podcast series.

The series concludes with the story of "Army," featuring its live performance from a 2008 one-off Ben Folds Five reunion show

"From Above" is one of Ben's collaborations with the author Nick Hornby

"There's Always Someone Cooler Than You" is one of those sort-of rarities that is actually quite well known.

"Rocking the Suburbs" as Ben's thesis on how much of pop culture comes from the burbs, not the cities.

The interesting tale of "Landed" - the smash hit that never was and the big-budget Paul Buckmaster string arrangement.

Ben remembers how the subtleties of "Brick," his biggest hit with Ben Folds Five, were inspired by watching Neil Young perform when they opened for him on tour.

Legacy Podcasts celebrates Wynton Marsalis' 50th birthday by launching the "Swinging into the 21st" series - looking back on the variety of themes present in the series of 10 albums he recorded for Columbia and Sony Classical 1999-2000.