TechnoRoll 2.3: DJs Paul Oakenfold, Nicky Holloway and Danny Rampling Break Acid House Big in the UK

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Gary Giddins agreed to write a 300-page Bing Crosby book in three years so he could get back to Duke Ellington. That was more than twenty-five years ago. He started out half-believing the hatchet jobs and fo…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Show up to a jazz gig and there is no rehearsal. The bandleader calls a tune and expects you to know it, and if you don’t, you are not working next week. Ted Gioia used to write lists of those tunes for his …

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com In 1946 Louis Jordan had the number one record on the R&B chart for most of the year. He crossed over to pop, he was in the movies, Chuck Berry admitted to the day he died that Jordan was who he had set …

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit letitrollpodcast.substack.com Jean Ritchie learned the old ballads the old way - at home in eastern Kentucky, from her own family, songs that had come down through generations. She may have been the last important singer who did. And the…