Mom!

Here’s our second episode of Saturday Night Shut-In, the roughly 33-minute, 33-second–Rock Town Hall podcast hosted by yours truly.

Download episode 2 (31 MB).

This week, inspired by a recent conversation with my teenage son, I dip into my childhood singles collection, a scratchy, fingerprinted mess of ’50s through early ’70s nuggets, many of which were given to my by my then-mustachioed, wide-collared velvet shirt-wearing, piano-playing, baseball-and-music–loving uncle. It was a fine preteen rock ‘n roll education, in which I learned the values of kicking it out, midrange, walking basslines, chooglin’, and patience for the big payoff in a 3-minute single that seemed to last forever when I was 11 years old. Through the years I’ve also continued to dig the extra visceral charge provided by the gradient, as my sophisticated son puts it, or surface noise, of these old records. Maybe you will too. Enjoy!

I encourage fellow Townspeople to contribute their own episodes. Contact me off list if you’re interested. We already have a couple of Very Special Guest Shut-Ins lined up!