Tag: Patrick Foster
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Episode 2275: Exploring the Top Classical Albums of 2025
Patrick consults a few of his favorite publications as a guide to some of the best classical releases of 2025.
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Episode 2274: Exploring the Top Jazz Albums of 2025
Patrick consults a few of his favorite publications as a guide to some of the best jazz records of 2025.
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Episode 2272: Rest in Power: Joe Ely
West Texas musical icon Joe Ely passed away recently at the age of 78. Listener David Lee contributes his appreciation of Ely’s music and Patrick chips in, too. Rest in Power, Joe.
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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.