The Outsiders Who Changed Modern Music [Episode 188]

Published: April 3, 2024, 8:55 p.m.

b'Picking up where Samuel Johnson left off more than two centuries ago, Ray Robertson\\u2019s Lives of the Poets (with Guitars): Thirteen Outsiders Who Changed Modern Music\\xa0offers up an amplified gathering of thirteen portraits of rock & roll, blues, folk, and alt-country\\u2019s most inimitable artists.

Irreverent and riotous, Robertson explores the \\u201cgreater or lesser heat\\u201d with which each musician shaped their genre while offering absorbing insight into their often tumultuous lives. Robertson includes essays on Gene Clark, Ronnie Lane, The Ramones, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Townes Van Zandt, Little Richard, Alan Wilson, Willie P. Bennett, Gram Parsons, Hound Dog Taylor, Paul Siebel, Willis Alan Ramsey, and John Hartford. In this episode, Robertson gives us the stories behind Gene Clark, Ronnie Lane, The Ramones, Little Richard, Gram Parsons, and John Hartford.

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