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Mining the layers of long players. We focus on great albums in their entirety and believe every album tells a story. We take a deep dive into the history of the artist and the album while discussing the merits of the music within the grooves. We are highly opinionated and outspoken and hope to provoke you into sharing your own opinions on albums. If you are serious about great music, this is your podcast. www.tappingvinyl.com
Unknown Host hosts This is Vinyl Tap, a music show with 163 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail On this episode we talk about the historic seventh studio album by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Will the Circle Be Unbroken. Having proved their worth with a hit cover of the Jerry Jeff Walker's "Mister B
Send us Fan Mail As long-time listener's know, as a part of all of our discussions, we have a segment called Connections, where we connect the artist and album we are currently talking about to artists and albums we have
Send us Fan Mail On this episode of This Is Vinyl Tap, we do something a little different from our typical fare and interview Austin singer-songwriter Beaver Nelson. Beaver Nelson has been on the Austin scene since befor
Send us Fan Mail On this episode we tackle the LP that introduced the world to Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band: 1967's Safe as Milk . Captain Beefheart, né Don Van Vliet, is best known for having recorded one of the
Send us Fan Mail On this episode we discuss Dave Alvin and his 1994 LP, King of California. Dave Alvin started his storied career in Los Angeles with the Blasters, a band he founded with his brother Phil. Full of energy
Send us Fan Mail On this episode we discuss one America's great modern singer-songwriters -Robbie Fulks, and his wonderful 2016 album Upland Stories. Produced by the late, great Steve Albini, Upland Stories combines folk
Send us Fan Mail On this episode of the podcast, we discuss Joni Mitchell’s 1971’s LP Blue, regarded by most critics as a masterpiece and consistently is listed on best of lists of the greatest albums ever made. A bit of
Send us Fan Mail It's a listener pick! On this episode we look at one of the most influential musical groups of the twentieth century - Sly and the Family Stone, and their 1970 LP There's a Riot Goin' On. By 1970, Sly St
Send us Fan Mail This week we discuss Ian Hunter and his 1979 LP You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic . Hunter worked a long time to find success. His band Mott the Hoople were instrumental in advancing glam rock by g
Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode, we discuss the self-titled debut by the New York Dolls, one of most influential albums of the 1970s. The New York Dolls blended the Rolling Stones' swagger with garage rock aggres
Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode, we discuss an album that came out in 2024, the fifth album by the Lemon Twigs, A Dream is All We Know. Consisting of multi-instrumentalist brothers Brian and Michael D'Addario, th
Send us Fan Mail On this episode, we discuss one of the most heralded debut albums of the early 1990's: The La's by the La's. Heavily influenced by the 1960s British Invasion bands, The La’s is full of bright, jangly, me
Send us Fan Mail On this episode, we discuss one of the first albums of 1967, the eponymous debut by the Youngbloods. 1967 is one of the most heralded years in rock music, and The Youngbloods was a good primer to the mus
Send us Fan Mail On this episode, we discuss Grievous Angel, the last album recorded by one of the most interesting, tragic, and influential people in modern music: Gram Parsons. In just six short years, from 1967 until
Send us Fan Mail On this weeks episode, we discuss an LP by John Wesley Harding (né Wesley Stace), 1996’s John Wesley Harding’s New Deal. After releasing two EPs and three full length albums with a full band for Sire Rec
Send us Fan Mail On this weeks episode, we take a listen to a true Texas legend, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and his 1993, Spinning Around the Sun. With his high, lonesome voice, Jimmy Dale embodies the very essence of that lan
Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode, we take a listen to another Listener's Pick: Thin Lizzy's sixth studio album, Jailbreak from 1976. It took some time, but by the time they recorded Jailbreak, Thin Lizzy's had fig
Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode, we dig into the the forth album by the band the National, 2007's Boxer. The National is a band, literally, of brothers (two pairs) and a friend all from Ohio that formed after all
Send us Fan Mail This week This Is Vinyl Tap discusses the criminally underrated album by Pure Prairie League, 1972's Bustin’ Out. Bustin' Out contains the band's most well known song, "Aime," a radio staple for the last
Send us Fan Mail On this episode, we take a deep dive into a “Listener Pick” - the fifth and final studio album by the Simon and Garfunkel, 1970's Bridge Over Trouble Water. While the partnership between Simon and Garfun
Dave Alvin
King of California · White Trash
1 appearance on this show
Robbie Fulks
indie-country songwriter
2 appearances on this show
Joni Mitchell
1 appearance on this show
Gram Parsons
1 appearance on this show
Nick Lowe
1 appearance on this show
Joe Jackson
powerlifter, coach · Delco Spotting Crew
1 appearance on this show
Pete Townshend
guitarist and songwriter for The Who · Goldline
1 appearance on this show
Kris Kristofferson
Abraham Whistler
1 appearance on this show
Billy Joel
1 appearance on this show
Lucinda Williams
1 appearance on this show
Steve Miller
Senior Manager of U.S. Distribution and National Accounts · Service Corporation International
1 appearance on this show
Nick Drake
joint head of leasing in Victoria · Google
1 appearance on this show
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