Episode 190: What Should I Name This One?

June 8, 2026 Linda Mills

I hope I caught you at a good time. After all, this is a program about the great album cuts of the 60s and 70s. This is Tales Vinyl Tells and I am Brian Hallgren. Today we continue to feature a lot of the songs from the year 1969, in particular. These cuts may not be what you expect to hear from the album and we’ll hear from the Kinks, The Mothers of Invention, Simon and Garfunkel and more this time. I’m glad you’re here and I hope you’ll stay with me for this hour of some of the greatest music ever recorded.

And thanks for listening today. My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com. If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, Apple podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

PLAYLIST:
190.1 She’s so heavy (nibble), You Never Give Me Your Money-Abbey Road Yummies
190.2 Absolutely Free-The Mothers of Invention
190.3 Fakin’ It-Simon and Garfunkel
190.4 Last of the Steam Powered Trains-The Kinks
190.5 Pretty Polly-The Byrds
190.6 Chest Fever-The Band
190.7 Astral Weeks-Van Morrison
190.8 Nowhere Man-Beatles
190.9 Rainy Day, Dream Away-Jimi Hendrix Experience
190.10 Mr. Moonshine- Fat Mattress w/Noel Redding, Hendrix’ bassist
190.11 No Expectations- Rolling Stones
190.12 Sally Go ‘Round The Roses- Pentangle
190.13 Dark Eyed Woman-Spirit

Episode 189: One Of The Main Musical Topics Of The 60s: Protest!

June 1, 2026 Linda Mills

One nonviolent way to show one’s displeasure/disgust/disagreement is to protest. In a letter to the editor, written in a blog, by contacting your lawmakers, taking it to the streets and there are many other ways. Pete Seeger was known for his songs protesting mistreatment of workers and war itself, and over time there has been a great abundance of songs and actions of protest. Marvin Gaye, CCR, Nina Simone, Dylan, Lennon and many others wrote and performed their protest songs from What’s Goin’ on?, Blowin’ in the Wind to Fortunate Son, Give Peace a chance and Strange Fruit. In the future you’ll hear an episode of Tales Vinyl Tells dedicated to protest songs. Please send your ideas to me at TalesVinylTells@gmail.com and yours may well be included. And when you email me, please be sure to let me know who and where you are. I mention protest songs because we kick off with a real kicker from Quicksilver Messenger Service and include Petty, Joni, Cheech, Chong, Nick and more. Thanks for listening.

Thanks for listening today. My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com. You can hear a Tales Vinyl Tells radio program when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org and here. We do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

PLAYLIST:

189.1 What About Me?-Quicksilver Messenger Service
189.2 At The Chime of the City Clock-Nick Drake
189.3 All That You Dream-Little Feat
189.4 Brown Eyes- Fleetwood Mac w/Peter Green
189.5 You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere-Dylan and The Byrs
189.6 What Am I Living For-Mark Almond
189.7 Listen to Her Heart-Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
189.8 Roadhouse Blues-The Doors
189.9 Trouble Child/Twisted-Joni Mitchell/Cheech & Chong
189.10 Here Comes The Sun-Nina Simone

Episode 184: Some Of The Vinyl Goodies From 1969

May 25, 2026 Linda Mills

Hello and welcome! It’s another Tales Vinyl Tells, an excursion into the great album cuts of our vinyl records of the 60s & 70s. Today we’re tuned into some of the 1969 releases that rocked and changed the consciousness of the world. Tommy, the Who’s Rock Opera came out in 69. So did the Stones’ Let It Bleed, Santana’s first, The Stooges debuted with Iggy Pop and the first two Zeppelin LPs came out in that year. So did Abbey Road. And “The Band” LP, with Cripple Creek and The night they drove old dixie down. Yeh! It was a great musical year, 1969. I’m Brian Hallgren. I’ve been doing this podcast since December 2019 and the radio program since January of 2022. And here’s today’s episode, #184, exposing some of the Tales Vinyl Tells. Welcome to the camp.

Thanks for listening today. My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com. You can hear a Tales Vinyl Tells radio program when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org and here. We do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

PLAYLIST:
184.1 Flor d’Luna (Moonflower)-Santana
184.2 We’re Not Gonna Take It/See Me Feel Me/I’m Free-The Who
184.3 Treat/No One To Depend On-Santana
184.4 Christine’s Tune-The Flying Burrito Brothers
184.5 Trout Mask Replica- Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band
184.6 1969-The Stooges
184.7 Babe, I’m Gonna Leave You-Led Zeppelin
184.8 Bring It On Home- Zeppelin
184.9 King Harvest-The Band
184.10 Monkey Man-The Rolling Stones
184.11 I Ain’t Superstitious-Jeff Beck

Episode 183: Remembering Marianne Faithfull, Jesse Colin Young And Roy Ayers, Jr. + More

May 18, 2026 Linda Mills

Replaying from March 2025. Welcome back to this hour that we call Tales Vinyl Tells. It’s your chance to hear some of the great album rock from the 60s and 70s mostly. We’ve been doing these programs since late 2019 and have covered lots a ground. You know and I know that we’ve just scratched the surface of recorded rock, so the new shows keep coming. The reruns aren’t bad either. They can be heard on your favorite podcast app. Just search for Tales Vinyl Tells.

Today we’re going to say thanks and farewell to Marianne Faithfull, Jesse Colin Young of the Youngbloods and vibraphonist Roy Ayers Jr. The music under me is Roy Ayres with Herbie Mann at the 1969 Harlem summer of soul extravaganza with a song cowritten by Isaac Hayes. Those three have entered the room next door, as Henry Diltz coined the phrase. You also get some of the blues with Boz Scaggs and Duane Allman, together. So these are the stories that songwriters and artists want to convey to you. These are the Tales Vinyl Tells.

Thanks for listening today. My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com. You can hear a Tales Vinyl Tells radio program when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org and here. We do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

PLAYLIST:

183.1 Hold On, I’m Comin’-Roy Ayers and Herbie Mann
183.2 Guardian Angel-The Stills-Young Band
183.3 She’s My Girl-The Turtles
183.4 Something Better (Live)-Marianne Faithfull
183.5 As Tears Go By-Marianne Faithfull
183.6 Sweet Tears-Roy Ayers Ubiquity
183.7 Toast to Freedom (Long Version)-Amnesty International (Carl Carlton, Larry Campbell, others)
183.8 The Only One I Know-The Charlatans
183.9 Codine Blues-Amazing Charlatans
183.10 I Scare Myself-Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks
183.11 Darkness, Darkness-The Youngbloods
183.12 Get Together-Jesse Colin Young
183.13 Loan Me A Dime-Boz. Scaggs & Duane Allman

Episode 210: Brand New! Country Joe & Dave Mason Salute, Barefoot Jerry, CDB, Elvin, Kooper & More!

May 11, 2026 Linda Mills

Hello and welcome again, to an hour of Tales Vinyl Tells as we dig into the great album rock and important music from the LPs of the 60s and 70s that spun and still spin today on turntables around the world. I’m Brian Hallgren and it’s my blast to be bringing you the Tales Vinyl Tells since 2019. This is episode 210 and today we salute Barefoot Jerry’s guitarist Mac Gayden, Country Joe McDonald and the superb Dave Mason. They’ve all left us recently (or have they?) You need to stay for the entire hour! It’s a good one!

Thanks for listening today. My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com. You can hear a Tales Vinyl Tells radio program when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org and here. We do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

PLAYLIST:
210.1 That’s ok, he’ll be your brother someday-Barefoot Jerry
210.2 You can’t get off with your shoes on-Barefoot Jerry
210.3 Days Gone By-Joe Walsh
210.4 Still in Saigon -CDB
210.5 Struttin’ my stuff, y’all-Elvin Bishop
210.6 Everlasting Love-Carl Carlton
210.7 Not so sweet Martha Lorraine, Fish Cheer, Feel Like I’m Fixin to die rag- Country Joe
210.8 World in Changes live, Sad and Deep As You, All Along the Watchtower
210.9 All you fascists bound to lose-Billy Bragg and Wilco
210.10 Al Kooper-I stand alone
210.11 Can’t Quit Her-Blood Sweat & Tears

Episode 182: The Final Vinyl That Sold More Than 15 Million Units! Buffy, Bob, Jakob, Cat!

May 4, 2026 Linda Mills

I hope you're having a good day. I'm going to play the final vinyl of the 29 albums of all time that sold more than 15 million copies and this one is not the biggest selling LP, but stayed on the charts for 1,716 weeks! That's the equivalent of 33 years! Also, one in 14 Americans own or have owned a copy of this album. I have the album as well as had the eight track and I even remember where the tracks changed, in fact I played the eight track on the school bus I drove in the early 70s. On this episode of Tales Vinyl Tells you'll also hear Buffy Sainte-Marie, Cat Stevens and many more.

Thanks for listening today. My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com. If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org and here. We do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

PLAYLIST:
182.1 Breathe-Pink Floyd
182.2 Money Honey-Ry Cooder
182.3 On The Dark Side-John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band
182.4 Pink Floyd “Dark Side” Medley
182.5 Carry It One-Buffy Sainte-Marie
182.6 One Headlight-The Wallflowers
182.7 Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine-Bob Dylan
182.8 Another Day- Paul McCartney
182.9 Rosalinda-Billy Joel
182.10 Oh Very Young-Cat Stevens

Episode 181: More Of The Best Selling LPs, Alanis! Traffic! Bowie!

April 28, 2026 Linda Mills

It’s another adventure into that great album rock of the 1960s and 1970s. In fact we are continuing to wind down the 29 best selling albums of all time that sold more than 15 million copies as of July 22, 2022 and listed by insider.com. We’re down to number two and there’s more great music ahead today from the 60s and 70s and beyond. Today you’ll hear Cream, in a few minutes we’ll play a cut from one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, David Bowie, Traffic and a lot more.

Thanks for listening today. My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com. If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org and here. We do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, Apple podcasts, Google podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

PLAYLIST:
181.1 Agua de Beber-Twist of Jobim, asstd artists
181.2 Good Morning Little Schoolgirl-Ten Years After
181.3 Moonage Daydream-David Bowie
181.4 Crossroads-Cream
181.5 Bad Love-Eric Clapton
181.6 Ironic-Alanis Morissette
181.7 Hand in My Pocket-Alanis Morissette
181.8 Three Little Birds-Bob Marley and The Wailers
181.9 Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys-Traffic
181.10 Scarborough Fair-Sea Level
181.11 World Turning-Fleetwood Mac

Episode 180! Here In Gator Landing, Fla There's No Time To Lose!

April 20, 2026 Linda Mills

Today’s hour is a visit to the radio program of November 2022 on RadioFreeNashville.org and is a salute to the spirit of Nicolette Larson and her work as a successful solo artist and her work with The Doobies, Neil Young and many of the artists that Ted Templeman produced.

I’m here for a short while longer near the Atlantic, and when I look way out on the horizon of that great ocean, first there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.

I’ve had two roommates from long ago recently pass away and I hope you will let people know how you feel about them, unless you don’t like them and in that case, do what’s right.

There are many ways to hear these great tunes: Live on RadioFreeNashville.org Wednesdays at 5 pm Central time, all the podcasts of the radio program(many times extended versions) can be listened to anytime, anywhere at StudioMillsWellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells, on podbean.com, Apple podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places.

PLAYLIST:
180.1 Les Brers in A Minor--Allman Brothers Band
180.2 Don’t Bring Me Down-Eric Burdon and The Animals
180.3 Give A Little-Nicolette Larson
180.4 Out in the Woods-Leon Russell
180.5 Real Love-Doobie Brothers w/Nicolette
180.6 Lotta Love-Nicolette Larson
180.7 13 Questions-Seatrain
180.8 Long May You Run-Stills-Young Band
180.9 One of These Things First-Nick Drake
180.10 There is a Mountain/Mountain Jam(edited)-Donovan/Allman Brothers

Episode 209: Absolutely NEW! Except for the tunes. They've been around and round many times.

April 13, 2026 Linda Mills

Hello again. This hour, it’s another Tales Vinyl Tells, a sojourn into a lot of the album cuts from the 60s & 70s mostly. The music is jam packed today and I hope we get to all that I’ve chosen for today’s show. We’re going to honor and say thanks to a couple major players in the music of the 60s & the 70s. These two artists have influenced and entertained so many other artists and especially us , the listeners. Both John Hammond Jr. and Dash Crofts of Seals and Crofts entered the room next door recently. You’ll also hear some Seger, Outlaws and more. You can email me at talesvinyltells@gmail.com. The tune under me is Tree of Life from Dash Crofts. The Doors are next.

There are many ways to hear these great tunes: Live on RadioFreeNashville.org Wednesdays at 5 pm Central time, all the podcasts of the radio program(many times extended versions) can be listened to anytime, anywhere at StudioMillsWellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells, on podbean.com, Apple podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places.

PLAYLIST:
209.1 Tree of Life-Dash Crofts
209.2 People are strange-Doors / Kit Sebastian-1st
209.3 No man’s land-Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band from Against the Wind
209.4 Moonlight Mile-Rolling Stones
209.5 I’m Tore Down-Push Come to Shove-2007 John Hammond Jr
209.6 Crosscut Saw- 1968 John Hammond Jr
209.7 Give Me a 32 20- John Hammond Jr
209.8 Crying Eyes- JJ Cale
209.9 Lions-Dire Straits-1st album
209.10 Your mind is on vacation-Mose Allison
209.11 High on a Mountain-Seals and Crofts
209.12 Thunderfoot Live-Seals and Crofts
209.13 Hurry sundown-Outlaws

Episode 101/144:Joni, Dave, John David, Dan, Tim. They’re all here!

April 6, 2026 Linda Mills

Hope you’ve been enjoying those Tales Vinyl Tells. As you can see, this was prerecorded so I could take an amazing adventure , with my gal and her sister. Places we visited include Istanbul, Athens, Rome and Cannes.
There are many ways to hear these great tunes: Live on RadioFreeNashville.org Wednesdays at 5 pm Central time, all the podcasts of the radio program(many times extended versions) can be listened to anytime, anywhere at StudioMillsWellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells, on podbean.com, Apple podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places.

Playlist:

101.1 Winners-Delicate Steve
101.2 Chelsea Morning-Joni Mitchell
101.3 Sun’s Still Shining-Moody Blues
101.4 Do I look Worried-Tedeschi Trucks Band
101.5 Chelsea Morning-Dave Van Ronk and The Hudson Dusters
101.6 You Don’t Know Me-New Riders of the Purple Sage
101.7 Kind Woman-Buffalo Springfield
101.8 Kite Woman-John David Souther
101.9 Ticket to Ride-Beatles
101.10 Power of Gold-Dan Fogelberg/Tim Weisberg
101.11 Are you experienced-Hendrix Eperience
101.12 Time Won’t Let Me-The Outsiders
101.13 Woman-Peter & Gordon (written by Paul McCartney, aka Bernard Webb)
101.14 I Love to Watch a Woman Dance-Eagles
101.15 Moonshine Whiskey-Van Morrison

Episode 97: Gershwin Prize winner! Winner, winner, got a spinner!

March 30, 2026 Linda Mills

From May 2024: The aging process on humans is real. What we do and don’t do may play a big part in how that process affects us or not. The vinyl LPs of that era and the new ones being purchased today will last a lot longer than the color in our hair or our smooth and youthful skin. All I’m saying is that the age of rock is so wide and varied, from Elvis to Zappa, we have a lot of ground to cover in these short one-hour shows. And, who knows, maybe listening to the music of our youth may give a moment in time when we can enjoy those times or not. Admit it, it wasn’t all bad. If you have some input, like my friend, Puh-mella did, let me know your taste in music, who/what/when. Email all your comments to me at TalesVinylTells@gmail.com.

There are many ways to hear these great tunes: Live on RadioFreeNashville.org Wednesdays at 5 pm Central time, all the podcasts of the radio program(many times extended versions) can be listened to anytime, anywhere at StudioMillsWellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells, on podbean.com, Apple podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places.

PLAYLIST:
97.1 Rhapsody in Blue-Gershwin/ Bela Fleck
97.2 60 Years On-Elton John
97.3 Come Down in Time-Sting
97.4 Madman Across The Water-Elton John
97.5 Happy House-Shuggie Otis
97.6 Strawberry Letter 23-Shuggie Otis
97.7 Closer to the Ground-Joy of Cooking
97.8 JIMJAM-Powderfinger-Neil Young & Crazy Horse
97.9 Heart of Rock and Roll-Huey Lewis & The News
97.10 Perfect World-Huey Lewis & The News
97.11 Jacob’s Ladder-Bruce Hornsby & The Range
97.12 Ain’t No Sunshine-Bill Withers

Episode 98: THE ALBUM ROCK OF THE 60S & 70S DOESN'T GET OLD. ONLY WE DO, IF WE ALLOW IT.

March 23, 2026 Linda Mills

The aging process on humans is real. What we do and don’t do may play a big part in how that process affects us or not. The vinyl LPs of that era and the new ones being purchased today will last a lot longer than the color in our hair or our smooth and youthful skin. All I’m saying is that the age of rock is so wide and varied, from Elvis to Zappa, we have a lot of ground to cover in these short one-hour shows. And, who knows, maybe listening to the music of our youth may give a moment in time when we can enjoy those times or not. Admit it, it wasn’t all bad.

There are many ways to hear these great tunes: Live on RadioFreeNashville.org Wednesdays at 5 pm Central time, all the podcasts of the radio program(many times extended versions) can be listened to anytime, anywhere at StudioMillsWellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells, on podbean.com, Apple podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places.

PLAYLIST:
98.1 Lunatic Fringe-Red Rider
98.2 Something in the Air-Thunderclap Newman
98.3 One of These Days-Pink Floyd
98.4 Some Day, Some Way-Marshall Crenshaw
98.5 One of These Days-Ten Years After
98.6 River Song-Dennis Wilson
98.7 Until I Hear It From You-Gin Blossoms
98.8 Last DJ-Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
98.9 Something About You-Boston
98.10 Didn’t Mean to Fall in Love-Boston
98.11 Famous Blue Raincoat-Leonard Cohen
98.12 Suzanne-Judy Collins
98.13 A Nibble of Riviera Paradise-Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble

Episode 141: Dickey Betts Salute , A Sleigh Ride On Nantucket? Details Here

March 16, 2026 Linda Mills

The proverbial circle of life continues to turn and we might find ourself getting in touch with our own mortality as time moves on. This week I reminisce, as I often do hearing this music. The sense input usually brings up feelings, emotions, thoughts, people, smells, tastes, sometimes things I could have done better or differently. But the music doesn’t change and that’s why I enjoy doing this podcast and radio show.

There are many ways to hear these great tunes: Live on RadioFreeNashville.org Wednesdays at 5 pm Central time, all the podcasts of the radio program(many times extended versions) can be listened to anytime, anywhere at StudioMillsWellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells, on podbean.com, Apple podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places.

Playlist

141.1 Les Brers in A minor-Allman Brothers Band
141.2 Join Together -The Who
141.3 Master of Disaster-John Hiatt
141.4 Nantucket Sleighride-Mountain
141.5 Highway Call-Dickey Betts & Great Southern
141.6 Out to get me-Dickey Betts & Great Southern
141.7 In Memory of Elizabeth Reed-Allman Brothers Band
141.8 Wish You Were Here-Pink Floyd
141.9 Run Gypsy Run-Dickey Betts & Great Southern

Episode 140: Another 15 Million Unit LP, Long Time Since Phoenix Flew And More

March 10, 2026 Linda Mills

This is a replay from April, 2024. The ironies in life… This hour-long show just played on RadioFreeNashville.org and yesterday I was informed that Dickey Betts of the Allman Brothers Band had passed away peacefully. He was 80. Jaimoe is the soul survivor of the original ABB now. The irony being that this particular episode started off Wednesday on radiofreenashville.org talking about the Allman Brothers at Fillmore East sessions from the summer of 1971. In fact, the second and third tunes from that session, on this episode, are from those Fillmore East fabulous concerts. If you didn't catch it during the live radio show, I was living in South Florida and was hanging out with some people I would call cool and we were doing a lot of concerts (and a fair amount of extracurricular recreational things). The concerts were affordable, like five dollars to eight dollars and we didn't mind traveling an hour to the Miami Jai Alai fronton to see the Allman Brothers Band live. That allowed plenty of time to get our heads right. It was a big party! It was the Fillmore East sessions! We were blown away. And in the first three months that the double album was on the market, it's sold a half million copies. I still have mine and you probably know I'm in love with it! Stormy Monday is a killer, You Don't Love Me is a great jam and the four sides contain wall-to-wall great southern rock.

Thanks for listening today. My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com. If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, Apple podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

PLAYLIST:
140.1 Memphis Underground-Herbie Mann
140.2 Hot ‘Lanta-Allman Brothers Band
140.3 Trouble No More- “ “
140.4 Hey Jude-Wilson Pickett
140.5 When-Shania Twain
140.6 For What It’s Worth-Buffalo Springfield
140.7 Deal-Jerry Garcia
140.8 Henry-New Riders of the Purple Sage
140.9 Panama Red- “ “
140.10 Phoenix-Wishbone Ash
140.11 Alien-Atlanta Rhythm Section

Episode 139: More Of The Great Rock From The 60s & 70s And Beyond

March 3, 2026 Linda Mills

April 13, 2024
Some summer songs, some blues from Super Session, Janis and Lee Michaels, a Gershwin treatment, an hour filled with tasty treats.
Thanks for listening today. My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com. If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, Apple podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

PLAYLIST:
139.1 Icarus-Paul Winter Consort
139.2 Free as a bird-Beatles
139.3 Hot summer day-It’s a Beautiful Day
139.4 Slow ride-Bonnie Raitt
139.5 Love stands on its toes-Top Model
139.6 Love is a beautiful thing-The Rascals
139.7 For what it’s worth-Buffalo Springfield
139.8 Really-Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper, Stephen Stills
139.9 Stormy Monday-Lee Michaels
139.10 Maybe-Janis Joplin
139.11 Cleveland Rocks-Ian Hunter
139.12 Summertime-Billy Stewart
139.13 She waits-Jason Isbell and the 400

Episode 208: Are we on a collision course with ourselves?

February 23, 2026 Linda Mills

Hello and welcome to an hour of some great album cuts, mostly from the 60s & 70s. Man, we’re now on episode 208 of TVT and I’m in our southern studio, better known as the clothing inventory room. Hope you like the tunes I’ve hand picked for you today. Spencer Davis, Lizzy and the Triggermen, Charley Crockett, If. Lots of questionable things happenin’ around here. What it is aint exactly clear. Everybody look what’s goin’ down here.

OK. This is Tales Vinyl Tells, I’m Brian Hallgren. Starting on TT 2 today. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers here on TVT.

Thanks for listening today. My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com. If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, Apple podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

PLAYLIST:

208.1 Road to hell instrumental
208.2 Out in the cold-Tom Petty
208.3 Keep on runnin’-Spencer Davis Group
208.4 When that man is dead and gone - Lizzy and the Triggerman
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208.5 Evil ways-Santana
208.6 Enter the young-The Association
208.7 Your city is falling-If2
208.8 Road to hell-Chris Rea Live at NEC Birmingham-1991
208.9 Power of Love-Huey Lewis & The News
208.10 Destroyed-Charley Crockett
208.11 Entrance/Fire and Ice-Edgar Winter
208.12 Indian Summer-Chris Botti

Episode 93: Nostalgia: “A Sentimental Longing Or Wistful Affection....”

February 17, 2026 Linda Mills

…for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations”. Yeh man! Like the 60s & 70s! Playing for Change remakes songs with musicians from all over the world with sometimes odd instruments. Did you enjoy Joy of Cooking? Not the book, but the band. They’re here with a few nostalgic pieces just for you and our silly nostalgia. I’m in the present and love a lot of things about the past. The Doors and Zeppelin on windowpane. Allmans and shrooms. I do hope these tunes today will make you smile and encourage you to be grateful for all you are, here, now.

Thanks for listening today. My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com. If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, Apple podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

PLAYLIST:

93.1 “In” Crowd-Ramsey Lewis
93.2 Cool Night-Paul Davis
93.3 Kamikaze-Copperhead
93.4 Who Do You Love?-Quicksilver Messenger Service
93.5 Tennessee Rise-Carlile, Morris, Howard, Shires, Emmylou, et al
93.6 Good Shepherd-Jorma Kaukonen
93.7 Doctor My Eyes-Playing for Change band with Jackson Browne
93.8 JIM JAM-Ripple-Grateful Dead
93.9 Wrapped around your finger-Rufus Wainwright and Sting
93.10 Did you go downtown?/A Thousand Miles -Joy of Cooking

Episode 91: Third Leg of the 2020 TVT World Tour. Mayall, Dusty, Carlos, Paul!

February 10, 2026 Linda Mills

Thanks for tuning in today. This hour was originally episode 25 going back to late 2020 when we were getting ready to inaugurate a new president. Remember back that far? I’m gonna sit with ya today and we’re gonna mind-travel because we’re on the third leg of our 2020 TVT World Tour and after a few whatevers, we’re going to the continent of Africa and on the Europe, getting a taste of their culture and music, with tunes today from Dusty to Paul, Sun and Sonny to Mayall and mix in some Toto, I think you’re gonna really like this episode.

Thanks for listening today. My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com. If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, Apple podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

PLAYLIST:
91.1 Love will find a way-Pablo Cruise
91.2 LA woman-Doors
91.3 Light my fire-Little Brown
91.4 Africa-Toto
91.5 Under Africa skies-Paul Simon
91.6 You don’t have to say you love me-Dusty Springfield
91.7 Europa-Santana/Gato Barbieri
91.8 I me mine-Beatles
91.9 The laws must change-Mayall, Mark, Almond
91.10 The cage-Elton John
91.11 United we stand-Brotherhood of Man (Sonny & Sue)

Episode 207: Snow and ice. And the mail still got delivered. Snow suite and more.

February 2, 2026 Linda Mills

Hello again and thanks for joining me for more of those Tales Vinyl Tells. Well, it’s been snowy and icy here in middle Tennessee, just a wee bit outside music city, and yesterday I scraped 2” of ice off 3 cars and it was lots of fun. I took lots of time to finish up episode 206 and knew I had the juice for another new episode, so here it is. I’m Brian Hallgren saying hello to all of you, from many parts of the world listening these programs. Including Singapore, Norway, Netherlands, Lithuania, Finland, the UK. Tell me where you’re hearing Tales Vinyl Tells. My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com. Today we have some White trash, a first electric album, dreaming about the golden bear state and dreading the white stuff still on our ground. I’ve even got a snow suite for you today. Do you ever feel like you’d like to crawl in a hole and hibernate? Maybe you have the Subterranean homesick blues.

Thanks for listening today. My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com. If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, Apple podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

PLAYLIST:
207.1 California Dreamin’-George Benson
207.2 Subterranean homesick blues-Dylan
207.3 California Dreaming- Bobby Womack
207.4 Waiting for a star to fall-Boy Meets Girl
207.5 Snowblind friend-Steppenwolf and John Kay
207.6 The Pusher-Steppenwolf
207.7 Hazy shade of winter-Simon and Garfunkel
207.8 Snow blind-Styx
207.9 Snow hey oh-Red Hot Chili Peppers
207.10 Under the ice- Nazz- Todd Rundgren
207.11 Save the planet-Edgar Winter & Edgar Winter’s White Trash
207.12 Another Man Down-Heartsfield

Episode 206: Salute to Bob Weir and The Dead, "Morning Maniac Music.. It's a new dawn"

January 27, 2026 Linda Mills

Welcome back to another Tales Vinyl Tells, our 3rd new episode for 2026. Today, we have a salute to Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead, he was also a very successful solo artist and toured with Dead and Company and the Wolf Brothers. We have a 5-song set to honor Bob later in this hour. I have Pop, Nilsson, Palmer and a lot more. Also, a short word about the effect that the rock of the 60s has had on world culture and politics. I’m Brian Hallgren with episode 206 and I hope your ears will appreciate today’s Tales that Vinyl albums Tell. My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com. Supertramp is my music under me and here’s more from Supertramp shifting this thing into gear.

Thanks for listening today. My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com. If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, Apple podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

PLAYLIST:
206.1 Cannonball-Supertramp
206.2 The Logical Song-Supertramp
206.3 Punkrocker-Teddy Bears w Iggy Pop
Grace Slick at Woodstock
206.4 Early in the morning—Harry Nilsson
206.5 Ghost towns-Blue Mountain
206.6 China Cat Sunflower-=Dead
206.7 Scarlet Begonias-Dead
206.8 Deal-Live at Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 5/8/77.
206.9 Cassidy-from first solo LP “Ace”
206.10 Good Morning-Beatles
206.11 Early in the morning-Robert Palmer
206.12 “”—Bad Company
206.13 “”-Vanity Fare
206.14 “”-Jr Wells Chicago Blues Band
206.15 Cannonball-Supertramp