Reelin' In The Years (RITY)

On this episode of Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is Where To?: Song titles that mention a specific address... Also, Tom Petty went looking for a baseball glove and wound up crossing paths with Jeff Lynne... David Gray made his album, White Ladder, in his bedroom - and a passing car made it onto “Babylon”... George Harrison was losing his voice and later compared the gravelly result to Louis Armstrong... Bob Dylan recorded an unfinished song for a 1973 movie. 22 years later, Ketch Secor finished it... Peter Frampton and others revisit “Heart of Gold” to support a school with a connection to Neil Young... New releases from Bryan Adams, Neal Casal, Kings Of Leon, Bob Dylan, Sam Blasucci, and more!... Deep cuts from Fleetwood Mac, Amos Lee, Allman Brothers, and more! For more info, visit reelinwithryan.com

On this episode of Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is "Seasons Change": Songs that mention that phrase in the lyrics. Also, Devo paid tribute to the Beatles - and John Lennon shouted the tribute right back... Daryl Hall partnered with Robert Fripp and made a solo album that his record label was afraid to release... The Dream Academy’s songwriter forgot his original chorus - and replaced it with something unforgettable... Thundercat picked Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald for a deserted island then got both in the studio... New releases from The Rolling Stones, Foy Vance, Sam Fender, Pete Townshend, and Dave Stewart... Deep tracks from Devo, The John Mayer Trio, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, Paul Weller, Count Five, Van Morrison, The Guess Who, B.B. King, Larkin Poe and much more! For more info, visit reelinwithryan.com

On this episode of Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is Ghost In The Machine: Songs recorded at haunted recording spaces... Also, a storm spoiled Ann Peebles’ plans - and inspired a song John Lennon loved... The fundraiser performance that connected a teenage Joanne Shaw Taylor with Dave Stewart... How unbearable studio heat sent the Alarm onto the roof - and a passing blimp nearly stole the scene... Carole King’s “Jazzman” was inspired by a saxophonist - but someone else played the part... New Releases from Brothers Osborne, Marshall Crenshaw, Rayland Baxter, and more... Deep tracks from Eric Clapton, Little Feat, Rod Stewart, Teenage Fanclub, Omar & The Howlers, and much more!

On this episode of Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is Fortune Tellers... Also, A Grateful Dead mining song so convincing, a miner thought it was an old standard... Stevie Wonder's one beer recording strategy and the effect he wanted it to have on his voice... The young fan Chrissie Hynde left standing in the snow and the Pretenders song he inspired... Thousands turned away, fans trying to enter through the roof, and a chaotic Hendrix concert in Berkeley... How a dad’s nickname for his buddies (borrowed from Cheech & Chong) gave Blind Melon their name... New releases from Hiss Golden Messenger, Zach Bryan, and Bela Fleck & Billy Strings... Deep tracks from Gregg Allman, Lightnin' Hopkins, Wilco, and much more! For more info on the show, visit reelinwithryan.com

On this episode on Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is Pavlov's Dog... Also, A shipping clerk, his record-label boss’s rejection, and the $2,500 that launched Alligator Records... A Jimi Hendrix recording that spent nearly 44 years in the vault before reaching listeners in 2013... A Chicago Blues standard about a man whose five years of paychecks still got him shown the door... A roadside sign in Chicago that helped Roger Miller write a classic... New releases from John Prine and Greta Van Fleet... Deep cuts from Charley Crockett, The Outfield, Steppenwolf, The Cars, Southern Culture On The Skids, and more! For info on the show, visit reelinwithryan.com

This week on Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is The Suburbs... Plus, Robert Plant, a fifteen-foot tree, and a song title born out of a winter firewood problem... Six four-hour sessions and a day job - the making of Elvis Costello’s debut album, My Aim Is True... A Hall & Oates song about existential boredom and how an idealized escape can still leave a person empty... The afternoon political conversation that inspired John Lennon’s next protest anthem... New music from Richard Thompson, The War On Drugs, Rolling Stones, and Paul Weller... Deep tracks from The Long Ryders, Bonnie Raitt, Marcus King, The Beatles, Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings, Bobby Parker, John Hiatt, JD McPherson, and much more! For more info on the show, visit reelinwithryan.com

On this episode of Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is A Needle In A Haystack: Songs that were hidden on albums... Plus, the Beatles song that changed animals after Paul McCartney started barking... Music Stevie Wonder left off Songs in the Key of Life - finally seeing the light of day 50 years later... The strange recurring dream of shattering bottles that inspired a Peter Gabriel classic... The long drives between two Australian cities that inspired a Little River Band favorite... Freak Out! turns 60 - the unrest in L.A. that inspired one of Frank Zappa’s fiercest songs... New music from Leon Bridges, Eric Bibb, and Israel Nash... Deep tracks from Arc Angels, The Dream Syndicate, Gov't Mule, Allen Toussaint, and more! For more info on the show, visit reelinwithryan.com

This week on Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is Commercially Brewed: Songs and beer commercials... The ’90s hit whose title can be traced all the way back to a second-grade book report... What happened when someone sent one of John Prine’s fictional problems to the Dear Abby... The ’60s dance song whose original title was probably a little too risqué for radio... New music from St. Paul & The Broken Bones and Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band... Deep tracks from Gordon Lightfoot, CCR, Buddy Guy, and more! For more information on the show, visit reelinwithryan.com

This week on Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is 100: Songs that mention that number in the lyrics... Plus, Johnny Cash, a cocaine-fueled murder and a 99-year prison sentence - recorded LIVE at Folsom... A spontaneous rehearsal-room jam captured on tape then rebuilt with an Atari computer... The Bad Company tune revisited nearly 50 years later with Paul Rodgers & Blackberry Smoke... A number-one disco hit reimagined as though it had been recorded at Muscle Shoals... How a snowbound Dexter binge supplied Marcus King with a song title... New music from Eli Reed, U2, Sonny Landreth, and Eddie 9V... Deep cuts from Fleetwood Mac, Elton John, Whiskeytown, Josh Ritter, Ted Leo, and more! For more info on the show, visit reelinwithryan.com

This week on Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is It's All Greek To Me: Songs with references to Greece... The future Monkee whose song was rejected for not sounding enough like The Monkees... The soul album recorded in a basement for a grand total of $452.11 - that includes the beer!... The one-off benefit performance that unexpectedly turned into an 11-year comeback... Why Geddy Lee never understood the appeal of one of Rush’s enduring classics... A throwaway line from an old episode of Rhoda that inspired a band's biggest hit... New music from Sheryl Crow/Jesse Welles, The Rylee Bapst Band, Alabama Shakes... Deep cuts from The Stones, Otis Brown, Santana, and much more! For more info on the show, visit reelinwithryan.com