Episode 91: Third Leg of the 2020 TVT World Tour. Mayall, Dusty, Carlos, Paul!
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.
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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.
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.
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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"
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.
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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
Episode 8: From 3-1/2 years ago, QMS, Super Session, Donovan. Oh yeh. This is good!
Here…..have another hit…..of Fresh Air is how we start this one with Quicksilver-Dino Valenti and John Cippolina. There’s one song titled “2 Songs for the Señorita”, how about some SRC? All I want for you is Love, Peace and Happiness. And I remember hearing Season of the Witch on my Craig 8 track player, written and performed by Donovan and we also have Al Kooper with Stephen Stills. There’s a story about a firefall and we hear from them too. This and all the TVT episodes are downloadable and the live radio version of Tales Vinyl Tells can be heard most Wednesdays on RadioFreeNashville.org and at 103.7 and 107.1 FM at 5 Central.
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Playlist:
8.1 Fresh Air-Quicksilver Messenger Service
8.2 You Aint Goin Nowhere-Byrds
8.3 2 Songs for the Señorita-Game
8.4 Love, Peace and Happiness-Chambers Brothers
8.5 Living Aint Living-Firefall
8.6 Hall of the Mountain King-SRC
8.7 Looking for a Love-J Giels
8.8 Hissing of Summer Lawns-Joni Mitchell
8.9 Wouldn’t Want to be Like You-Alan Parsons Symphonic Project
8.10,11 Season of the Witch-Donovan, Super Sessions ( Mike Bloomfield, Stephen Stills, Al Kooper)
EPISODE 160: BOWIE, FRIPP, CRUSADERS, HEROES, FRIENDS AND BEING FAMOUS
We are probably all, in my opinion anyway, a friend, maybe even a hero to someone but we cant all be famous. And that may well be a good thing. In the meanwhile, we can keep the fires burning, the love-light burning and the circle turning. Maybe even keep the desires yearning.
Here are some memory-joggers, just some of the great music we had and heard on LP from the 60s and 70s.
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PLAYLIST:
160.1 Put it where you want it-Crusaders
160.2 Come and get it-Badfinger
160.3 Hot Summer Day-It’s a Beautiful Day
160.4 Heroes-David Bowie and Robert Fripp
160.5 Famous-Chuck Glass
160.6 Keep the fire burning-REO Speedwagon
160.7 Keep the circle turning-Lee Michaels
160.8 Do ya know what I mean?-Lee Michaels
160.9 All right now-Free
160.10 Burnin’ sky-Bad Company
160.11 It’s a long way down to the top-Backstreet Crawler
160.12-Fire on the mountain-Grateful Dead
EPISODE 205: Salute to Steve Cropper and so much More
Ready for another hour of some of that great album rock from the 60s and 70s? Here it is! Tales Vinyl Tells, established Dec 2019 and now, this is episode 205 and we continue to learn about the artists that made that era of music so great are passing on and entering into the room next door, according to photographer Henry Diltz. We just saw that the Grateful Dead’s cofounder and leader has also passed. More with Bobby Weir in a soon episode. I’m Brian Hallgren and we got notice that some others won’t make this show. Like Jackson Lamb, Carol Sturka, Cosmo Kramer nor Vincent Furnier. They don’t know what they’ll be missing but you’ll know if you hang with me this hour as we salute the great Steve Cropper. What a history this guitarist leaves behind!! Hopefully the psychotic reaction will be only on wax. We may cry. It’s ok. This life goes on. Booker T and the MGs is the music under me. That’s Steve Cropper on guitar. Let’s go! Today’s Tales Vinyl Tells is already rolling. Glad you’re with me!
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PLAYLIST:
205.1 Something-Booker T and the MGs
205.2 Get it while you can-Janis
205.3 Soul Man-Blues Brothers
205.4 Big Brother-Stevie Wonder
205.5 Conquistador-Procol Harum
205.6 Tin Pan Alley-SRV and Dbl Trouble
205.7 Tomorrow never knows-Beatles Revolver
205.8 Time was-Canned Heat
205.9 Strange game-Jagger
205.10 You give me all I need-Cropper, Felix Cavaliere
205.11 Knock on wood-Eddie Floyd
205.12 Psychotic reaction-Count Five
205.13 Til it shines on you-Crosby Pevar Raymond
205.14 Time is tight-Booker T & the MGs
Episode 204: Old Year Ending with these movers and groovers
Greetings and hellos to you and you and you, once again or for the first time. This is Tales Vinyl Tells, a weekly adventure into the great (and sometimes not so great) but mostly great album rock that was on our LPs of the 60s & 70s. I hope you’re well and nice today. I’m Brian Hallgren and this has been my trip since December 2019. Covid first reared its ugly head in China in mid-December 2019 and the first episode of Tales Vinyl Tells was released that month. Now we’re on episode 204 and it’s another hour of some really good tunes, including Wet Willie with Jimmy Hall, Desmond Dekker, Tom Morello with the Boss, an excellent Warren Zevon cut and lots more. There’s been a lot of talk about the here and now so hear now the Tales Vinyl Tells.
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Episode 171: December Holiday Songs
There are many holidays in the month of December and you might hear of some that you didn’t know about on today’s Tales Vinyl Tells. I do love the old rockin’ Christmas tunes (Ronettes, Beach Boys and the like) as well as those from Tull, Greg Lake and Dan Fogelberg. Sit back and relax, have a cup of cheer and a good holiday month.
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Episode 203: The stylus is in the groove and we're spinning in circles
A list had accumulated of tunes for a Tales Vinyl Tells program and it finally came time to reveal that list. It was……just the right time. So, there’s Renbourn, Winchester, Lake, The ‘Tramp, even Michael Stanley with a cooker, backed by some pros, like Joe Walsh, Sanborn, Deja vu ppl and a really great group. I’ll put into print here what I mentioned in the show, this tune, Let’s Get The Show on the Road, is on YouTube when they played on Don Kirschner’s Rock Concert.
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Playlist:
203.1 Steamer lane-Doobies LIVE AT WOLF TRAP
203.2 Unchain my heart-Joe Cocker
203.3 Riverside-America
203.4 White House Blues-John Renbourn
203.5 Angels and Mercy-Doobies
203.6 Step by Step-Jesse Winchester
203.7 From the beginning-Greg Lake you tube emailed link
203.8. Bloody well right-Supertramp
203.9 Let’s Get the Show on the Road-Michael Stanley
Told you it was a great tune. Michael Stanley with friends and legends, Let’s Get the Show on the Road. Right now…..
203.10 Oh can you tell me-Batdorf & Rodney
203.11 Come and get-Badfinger
203.12 Desiderata-Les Crane
Episode 202: Salute to John Lodge and Bobby Whitlock and much more
And it's another Tales Vinyl Tells. I hope your Thanksgiving was good and that you got what you needed and maybe even what you deserve which could be goodness. There was lots of food in my house and seems like holidays are pretty stressful for me and I assume that's a childhood trauma that needs to be worked out. But we're between holidays now and if you're hearing this episode in December of 2025, it's a brand-new episode of tales vinyl tells. I’m Brian Hallgren and this is our plunge into those great old rock'n'roll albums from the 60s and 70s and if you've listened to any of these podcasts and radio programs, You will know that I color outside of the lines so you might hear something from the 50s or the 40s or the 30s and you might hear something from the 80s or the twenty 20s. Just think, on today's Tales Vinyl Tells, you might hear salutes to: John lodge- Bobby Whitlock, a great tune from Billy Joe royal, Procol Harum, Spheeris long way down, John Renbourn, Batdorf Rodney, America, Free, Jesse Winchester, Eagles, Spencer Davis, War on Drugs and more or less. So, let’s get ‘em spinning first on TT 1, Jimmie Spheeris. I’m glad you’re listening today. If you want to email me, I am talesvinyltells@gmail.com.
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202.1 M’s Lament-The Reverb Syndicate
202.2 Long way down-Jimmie Spheeris
202.3 You wreck me-War on Drugs
202.4 Oh I wept-Free
202.5 Out and In, Isn’t life strange, See-Saw (live) John Lodge/Moody Blues
202.6 Thorn tree in the garden, Bell Bottom Blues, Isn’t it about time- Bobby Whitlock/Derek and The Dominoes, Manassas
202.7 Too Many Hands-Eagles
202.8 I knew you when-Billy Joe Royal
Episode 134: Bonnie's Story
In a conversation with my friend Bonnie, she said how hearing a certain tune brought back memories of a time long ago. Who she was hanging out with, what music he was listening to (and the B-52s Rock Lobster was driving her crazy). He played it over and over, saturating his beloved partner. But she smiled as she said some of the things she hears on Tales Vinyl Tells stir up some good memories. So there it is, folks. The album rock of the 60s & 70s was some memorable stuff. Just think about the bell bottoms, the John Lennon-type glasses with purple lens, psychedelic headbands, pungent smells in the air covered by sandalwood or nag champa incense, beads hanging in doorways instead of doors. Oh sure, its all very nostalgic. Great songs fill this and every hour of Tales Vinyl Tells.
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Episode 154: Supermoon music and more
Heres Another Tales Vinyl Tells, sharing the The vinyl albums from the 60s & 70s, those LPs carried the new wave of The British Invasion while America was already experiencing its own invasion from Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, Mamas and Papas, CSN&Y, Bob Dylan, The Doors, the folkies, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Freddie Boom Boom Cannon, The Turtles, The Buckinghams even. And in the next hour, my intention today is to share some of those great LPs that were breaking a type of sound barrier and blowing minds while we.well, we were having our own revolution, discovering free love, recreational experimental mind altering elements, all to a soundtrack that lives on and has NOT been repeated. This music of today may last, maybe not. 60s & 70s rock has everlasting life.
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EPISODES 151 + 102: THIS MUSIC MAY CAUSE SENSUAL EXCITEMENT !
Did you notice that there are two-two-two shows in one this week? The reason is that it’s time again for a sailing cruise. This time we fly to Lisbon for a few days (raining cats and dogs right now)then to Málaga in southern Spain, hop the Star Clipper then sail to Gibraltar, Morocco, Cadiz and three Canary Islands. It’s 9 days but someone’s got to do it, right? So these two episodes are waiting for your ears. Hope you enjoy. You can reach me at talesvinyltells@gmail.com.
Star Clipper and Star Flyer
