Hosted by Jeff Giles and Matt Wardlaw · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 144 episodes
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Shuffling music has its rewards, but there's still nothing like listening to a good old-fashioned album, start to finish — and that's what The Record Player is all about. With every episode, we'll dig into the music of and story behind a single LP, with co-hosts Jeff Giles and Matt Wardlaw ("1991: The Year AOR Ate Itself") and special guests acting as your guides.
Jeff Giles and Matt Wardlaw hosts The Record Player, a music show with 144 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail The great John Sebastian celebrates his 81st birthday today as we're posting this. We had the good fortune to have a lengthy conversation with John this past fall to discuss John B. Sebastian, his 1970 d
Send us Fan Mail In picking her favorite album, author K.L. Doty let us know up front that she couldn't settle on just one -- something which we're all familiar with as music fans, right? So we talk about a lot of differ
Send us Fan Mail You might know Brian Wecht as Ninja Brian. Or maybe you know him as Trey Magnifique. Perhaps, you just know him as Brian and that's fine too. Matt and Jeff were just thrilled to have him on the podcast t
Send us Fan Mail Rob Baker of The Tragically Hip joins Matt to discuss the 35th anniversary of the band's 1989 debut, Up to Here, which is being celebrated with a lavish box set featuring a wealth of previously unrelease
Send us Fan Mail Professor Louis Moore joins Matt and Jeff to discuss his essential new book, The Great Black Hope: Doug Williams, Vince Evans and the Making of the Black Quarterback. Our engaging discussion with Lou too
Send us Fan Mail This is almost a "lost episode" of sorts. To pull the curtain back a bit, we recorded this episode back in July and then promptly got busy with a bunch of other things. So if you hear a mention or two th
Send us Fan Mail The guys end summer break with a completely random "accidental Cassingle," as Jeff tagged it. There are discussions of Funyuns (which still exist!), Taco Bell, concept albums, Jeff's new book, asbestos,
Send us Fan Mail Our latest Bonus Track features a conversation with author and journalist John Barry, who covered Woodstock '94 as it happened. Thirty years later, he joins Matt to share some of his memories of the expe
Send us Fan Mail Jeff and Matt love nothing more than coming across obscure AOR gems. Jesse Colin Young's 1982 album, The Perfect Stranger, fits into that category. Featuring guest appearances by Carly Simon, Michael McD
Send us Fan Mail Podcasting pioneer Jimmy Pardo hosts the award-winning podcast, Never Not Funny. But he also puts his name behind a lot of good things. Witness his annual Pardcast-a-Thon, which provided nine hours of la
Send us Fan Mail This is a flashback moment to our previous podcast, 1991: The Year AOR Ate Itself. For those of you who didn't hear that podcast series, you'll be interested to hear this episode, which aired July 5, 202
Send us Fan Mail Our latest Bonus Track features a great conversation with the legendary Leland Sklar and director Denny Tedesco regarding his film, The Immediate Family. That's right, someone finally made a movie about
Send us Fan Mail The 1974 Project continues as we welcome back our friend and A&R man Peter Lubin to discuss Pussy Cats by Harry Nilsson. Produced by John Lennon, Pussy Cats is an interesting and at times, unfortunate mi
Send us Fan Mail In 1984, Christopher Cross added a unique new entry to his discography. "A Chance For Heaven" was selected as the official swimming theme for the Olympics. I bet you didn't even know there was an officia
Send us Fan Mail In our first Bonus Track of 2024, legendary artist and producer Narada Michael Walden tells Matt about his time working with the late Tommy Bolin. It's an emotional subject for Narada, but also a period
Send us Fan Mail The magnificent Davia Schendel joins Jeff and Matt to discuss Suzi Quatro's second album, Quatro. Today's conversation definitely goes deep into "music nerd" territory. We talk about record stores of the
Send us Fan Mail It's time for the first solo Jeff and Matt episode in a good while! Today, the guys team up to look back at Every Turn of the World, the third album by Christopher Cross. They dig through a number of top
Send us Fan Mail We have another first on the podcast, but you're going to have to listen to find out what it is. Let's start with the facts: Benjamin Miner of The Feldons joins Jeff and Matt to talk about 1969's Uncle M
Send us Fan Mail Benjamin Wagner joins the guys for a frank discussion about mental health in the midst of Mental Health Awareness Month. He's spent a good amount of time thinking about -- and researching the subject. Hi
Send us Fan Mail Emmy-nominated songwriter Ben Arthur released his third album, Edible Darling, in 2004. A longtime friend of the podcast (long before there was a podcast, in fact), Ben joins Jeff and Matt to look back o
Rob Baker
author of ‘Personalisation at Work’ · Cambridge coaching team
1 appearance on this show
John Barry
Professor at Queen’s University Belfast · Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum
1 appearance on this show
Bill Payne
Executive Director of Science and Technology at the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation · University of Chicago
1 appearance on this show
Michael McDonald
Political Science Professor · University of Florida
1 appearance on this show
Sarah Silverman
educator, independent faculty developer, advocate for neurodiversity
1 appearance on this show
Dave Holmes
former MTV VJ and host of MTV's Spring Break 1999 · Ontario Provincial Police
1 appearance on this show
David Foster
famed composer, musician, 16-times-Grammy Award-winner and a Mentor to the Stars · Frontier Economics
1 appearance on this show
Jon Cryer
actor
1 appearance on this show
Patton Oswalt
1 appearance on this show
Ben Arthur
beat writer · Tennessee Titans
2 appearances on this show
Denny Tedesco
Director of ”The Wrecking Crew” and the NEW film, ”Immediate Family”
1 appearance on this show
Leland Sklar
legendary bassist
1 appearance on this show
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