Let It Roll Podcast

We’re relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter. In this episode,Nate Wilcox and author Dave Thompson discuss the first chapter of Dave’s book ⁠An Evolving Tradition: The Child Ballads in Modern Folk and Rock Music⁠.

The Child Ballads, so c...

We’re relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter. In this episode, host Nate Wilcox welcomes Ned Sublette, author of “⁠The Cultural Blend That Made New Orleans Music Unique: Let It Roll From the Beginning...to the End 3.⁠“

Sublette’s book ...

We're relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter. Hosts Nate Wilcox and Yuri Campbell look back at Nate's discussion with Ted Gioia about his book "Music: A Subversive History" and what we learned about the uncontrollable, dangerous power of music, music as magic, and how authorities always try to tame m…

We’re relaunching Let It Roll by reposting every episode in chronological order by subject matter.

This episode goes back to the beginnings of human culture and features Ted Gioia discussing his book ”Music: A Subversive History.” Ted and Nate discuss the tension between the social outsid...

Hosts Nate Wilcox and Justin Bankston take it back to Tejas for the final installment of the first series of "We Dig Rock Docs" with a discussion of Les Blanks' classic 1976 film Chula Fronteras.

Originally dropped in 2022.