Pearl Jam, Ten
Rhythm on the Rocks
Today, Frizz and Bob jump into a perfect ten of a debut album, Pearl Jam's Ten. And, we do so with 10 year old whiskeys. Join us as we talk about the turbulent start of this band, the tragedy that started it, the slow climb that led them to the top, and what makes these tracks pretty dang perfect.
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The Band, Music from Big Pink
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Frizz and Bob pull into Nazarth, feelin' bout half past dead - but then, the amazing debut album, Music from Big Pink, picks us right back up! Join us as Bob drinks Jack Daniel's and Frizz has Rhubarb York Gin while we learn about the long history of names for The Band, their groundbreaking time with Bob Dylan, the legacy of The Last Waltz, cocaine boogers, and what made them one of the most influential groups in American music history.
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Heart, Dreamboat Annie
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Frizz and Bob take on one of the greatest debut albums in rock history, Heart's Dreamboat Annie. Frizz cracks open a Corona and lime and Bob pours E.H. Taylor Small Batch as we tell a tale of love, surviving the draft, finding your freedom, selling albums out of a car's trunk, and then making it BIG. Join us as we reveal the identity of the real Magic Mike, Frizz practices her German, we get a little proggy, and dive into the underrated songwriting skills of the Wilson sisters.
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Mary Lou Williams
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Today, Frizz and Bob talk about one of the most underrated figures in music history - "the Lady Who Swings the Band" - Mary Lou Williams. Join us as Bob cracks open a Fat Pug and Frizz cracks open a bottle of 19 Crimes Malbec while we tell you about THE real matriarch of jazz, the light and darkness of the jazz world, her party house, the way she changed the world around her, and how she walked the actual walk.
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Charlie Parker
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Continuing Jazz Appreciation Month, Frizz and Bob go all in on one of the most important and complicated figures in music history - Charlie Parker, aka Bird. Bob pours a single barrel of EJ Curley and Frizz sips Glen Moray's Phoenix Rising as they unpack the genius and the chaos of the man who changed jazz forever and rewrote its language entirely. We get into Diz and Miles, contrafacts, the big wins and losses for the jazz scene and... more birds.
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Charles Mingus, Mingus Ah Um
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For Bob's birthday, we're kicking off Jazz Appreciation Month with Frizz and Bob celebrating one of jazz's boldest, richest, and most emotionally alive albums: Charles Mingus' Mingus Ah Um. Frizz sips on Heaven's Door Bourbon, and Bob pours some Old Louisville Whiskey Company as they dig into Mingus' genius, temper, humor, protest, and obsession. From tributes to the Duke, more songs about more birds, the origins of "cool," and cats with six toes, we unpack how one album honored jazz history while pushing it into brand new territory.
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Tupac, All Eyez on Me
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Frizz and Bob head back to the chaos of the 90s when hip hop was in the middle of its golden era. Frizz sips on gin and juice, Bob keeps guzzling rum, and together they unpack Tupac Shakur's All Eyez on Me - the first double rap album, a Death Row blockbuster, and a record made by a man fresh out of prison, feeling betrayed, hunted, untouchable, and louder than ever. Along the way they get into Black Panther roots, East Coast vs West Coast, Machiavelli, the legendary K-Ci & JoJo, and how one album felt like both a victory lap and a warning shot.
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Buena Vista Social Club
Rhythm on the Rocks
The rum guzzlin' continues as Frizz and Bob tackle one of the greatest musical accidents ever, the Buena Vista Social Club. Join us for a tale about how passport issues led to Ry Cooder finding some of the greatest musicians from the golden age of Cuban music, and together recorded an album that is a brilliant time capsule of that country. We talk about a ton of traditional Cuban musical styles and the folks who made it possible. Also, we laugh at a very silly name and elephant butt hairs.
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Singles Awareness Day Special
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Today we celebrate a belated Valentine's Day by diving into our favorite singles with a theme of love. Join Frizz and Bob as they chat about Factory Records, the Titanic, friend of the show Seal, the Skatt Bros, and more!
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Tina Turner, Private Dancer
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Today we bring you a comeback album for the ages: 1984's Private Dancer by Tina Turner. Join Frizz and Bob to hear the story of how a daughter of a sharecropper from Nutbush (heh) became one of the world's biggest stars in her 40s. Along the way, learn about Bob's habit of rum guzzlin', Frizz's secret love of Michael Bolton, and both of our love of Tim Capello.
info_outlineFrizz and Bob take the other road in the Genesis breakup and following Peter Gabriel straight into So - the bold, bizarre, and beautiful album that turned an avant-garde art rocker into an unexpected pop icon. Frizz is sipping Ardnamurchan AD Single Malt and Bob’s pouring a glass of Uncle Boojie’s Double Oaked as we track Gabriel’s transformation from inflatable stage props and silent retreats to chart-topping soul bangers, groundbreaking drum sounds, and the most iconic music video of the MTV era. This is Peter Gabriel at his most human, strange, spiritual, and romantic - and it might just be the weirdest way anyone’s ever taken over the world.