Tag: Patrick Foster
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Episode 2262: Perfect Pop: Hank Williams ‘(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle’
Patrick is going to add some country music to the Perfect Pop Pantheon and to wrap up the series, he goes to an all-time classic from 1951: Hank Williams and the Drifting Cowboys doing “(I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle).”
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Episode 2261: Perfect Pop: The Carter Family ‘Single Girl, Married Girl’
Patrick is going to add some country music to the Perfect Pop Pantheon and he ventures back to what some scholars call the “Big Bang” of modern country music: The 1927 Bristol Sessions. The Carter Family’s “Single Girl, Married Girl” goes into the Perfect Pop Hall of Fame in this episode.
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Episode 2260: Perfect Pop: Deana Carter ‘Strawberry Wine’
Patrick is going to add some country music to the Perfect Pop Pantheon and today he turns to an artist whose debut single became a number-one hit in the summer of 1996: Deana Carter’s “Strawberry Wine.”
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Episode 2259: Perfect Pop: George Jones and Tammy Wynette ‘We’re Not the Jet Set’
Patrick is going to add some country music to the Perfect Pop Pantheon and what better place to start than with the First Couple of Country Music, George Jones and Tammy Wynette?
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Episode 2258: Rest in Power: Steve Cropper
Paul Hayden joins Patrick to discuss the music and legacy of legendary Memphis guitarist Steve Cropper, who passed away this week at the age of 84.
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Episode 2244: The Albums of 1975 Part Five: Patrick’s Picks
This week, we tune our ears back 50 years to 1975 and flip through some of the albums released in that year. Each episode will examine those records from a different angle. In the series finale, Patrick discusses three of his favorite albums from ‘75, releases from Richard and Linda Thompson, Burning Spear and Brian Eno.
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Episode 2241: The Albums of 1975 Part Two: The Critics
This week, we tune our ears back 50 years to 1975 and flip through some of the albums released in that year. Each episode will examine those records from a different angle. In the second part of the series, we run down some of the critical choices for best album of 1975, including lists from Paste, Rolling Stone and the Village Voice’s Pazz and Jop.
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Episode 2239: The Day John Met Yoko
Patrick searched for the exact date that John Lennon went to a gallery in London to see a preview of an exhibition by an artist named Yoko Ono… and found that it might have been this day in 1966.
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Episode 2238: Golden Growl with Ron Winters
Patrick catches up with his old friend Ron Winters (formerly of Branch Manager) to discuss Ron’s new project, Golden Growl. There is a brand-new, limited-edition 7” single out now. Ron describes the inspiration behind the project and plans for the future.
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Episode 2237: They’re in Both! Who is in both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame?
Patrick discovered recently that pianist Floyd Cramer had been inducted into both the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. That prompted him to seek out others who might be members of both Halls. In this episode, he gives you the list.