Tales Vinyl Tells-”stories record albums convey”

Tales Vinyl Tells-”stories record albums convey”

Tales Vinyl Tells is my podcast that evolved into my radio show that airs weekly on RadioFreeNashville. I had quite a few LPs that I collected in the late 60s and 70s and I always knew the magic of the albums of that era of album-oriented rock brought back memories of times, people, smells, tastes and feelings. I hope it does for you too. Back-stories and album liner notes tie the tunes together. I’m your host Brian Hallgren and you should hear the Tales Vinyl Tells!

Episodes

Episode 126: Chris Hillman Salute! He's Been A Major Player In Rock And Country/Rock

August 29, 2025 • 59 mins
Episode 126: Chris Hillman Salute! He's Been A Major Player In Rock And Country/Rock August 29, 2025 At the turntables today with some of that great album rock from the 60s & 70s. Those sweet vinyls can still sound as good today as they did 50+ years ago. Pardon the ashes and candlewax. But there aren't any greasy fingerprints because we hold them by the edge, with the edge in the palms of our hands. And there's really...
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Episode 8: Have You Ever Seen The Firefall In Yosemite Or Been In The Hall Of The Mountain King?

August 25, 2025 • 59 mins
Episode 8: Have You Ever Seen The Firefall In Yosemite Or Been In The Hall Of The Mountain King? August 25, 2025 This is a replay of a very early show that ran on RadioFreeNashville in 2023, though it was about the 45th or so overall. And I say hello to you and wonder how you’re doing in this crazy time? I’m taking care, staying well and being nice. This heat is ridiculous. I know that fall will do just that and soon. One ...
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Episode 197: Celebration 5. What Has This/We Become?

August 14, 2025 • 65 mins
Episode 197: Celebration 5. What Has This/We Become? August 14, 2025 Hello and a big hi to you and you and you and you hope you’re doing very well today. It’s another Tales Vinyl Tells! Today we’ve got some interesting music, ha ha, a lot of it from the 60s and 70s, and some of it is brand new music. From people who were making music in the 60s and 70s. So, I hope you’ll increase the volume a couple notches and enjoy these...
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Episode 150: Finding The Good Stuff Of Growing Up Near The Ocean

August 9, 2025 • 57 mins
Episode 150: Finding The Good Stuff Of Growing Up Near The Ocean August 8, 2025 What are the good memories of your childhood? What music soothed you or really turned you on? For me, the ocean was 10 minutes away by car. 20 on bike. The aroma of the salt sea is evident hours away. It was soothing to see the calm flat blue, like glass. It was also exciting to see the ocean when it was full of waves. Summertime in South Flori...
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Episode 196: Celebration Of Life 4. Did We Miss Something?

July 31, 2025 • 61 mins
Episode 196: Celebration Of Life 4. Did We Miss Something? July 31, 2025 Hi again and welcome to another Tales Vinyl Tells.  This hour is all about the music of the 60s & 70s, with occasional reaches north or south of those decades, but hopefully it’s all good.  Thanks for tuning in.  If you’re a boomer, you know what I’m playing here.  If you’re not so familiar with the music of that time, stay with me.  I’ll give you...
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Episode 195: Celebration Of Life In The Present. It Is A Gift, After All.

July 22, 2025 • 62 mins
Episode 195: Celebration Of Life In The Present. It Is A Gift, After All. July 22, 2025 Hi again and welcome to another Tales Vinyl Tells.  This is an ear-pleasing excursion into the great music from the albums of the 60s & 70s. Sometimes outside those decades too.  and we’re celebrating life more these days with some tunes that might describe my ways …or not…maybe they do yours too.  Each of these songs from my Celebr...
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Episode 194: Celebration Of This Life, Part 2. What Songs Describe Your Life?

July 15, 2025 • 57 mins
Episode 194: Celebration Of This Life, Part 2. What Songs Describe Your Life? July 15, 2025 Hi again and welcome to another Tales Vinyl Tells.  This is a plunge into the great music from the albums of the 60s & 70s.  As suggested by my wonderful partner, Sparky, The vinyl ventures today celebrate life in the here and now and they are a part of my Celebration playlist that I just might want to be played during my celebr...
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Episode 97: Gershwin Prize Winner

July 7, 2025 • 57 mins
Episode 97: Gershwin Prize Winner July 6, 2025 And the Gershwin Prize goes to …….The aging process on humans is real. What we do and dont 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 Im saying is that the age of rock is so wide and varied, from Elvis to Za...
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Episode 105: Happy Independence Day! It's The 4th Of July TVT!

July 1, 2025 • 58 mins
Episode 105: Happy Independence Day! It's The 4th Of July TVT! July 1, 2025 Here’s a salute to America with Yes, Steppenwolf, Karla Bonoff, Linda Ronstadt with one of Bonoff’s tunes and an encouragement to be registered to vote and to be aware of ballot issues everytime the polls are open. Vote with your head and heart. I also encourage you to even consider working the polls, getting involved in letter writing (it’s easy!)...
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Episode 193: NEW! Salute And Thanks To Brian Wilson And Sly Stone

June 26, 2025 • 67 mins
Episode 193: NEW! Salute And Thanks To Brian Wilson And Sly Stone June 26, 2025 I have been working on a new series of these shows for a little while now and I’ll tell you about that in a few minutes. And it will affect everyone of us in our lifetime. Don’t be scared, don’t fret, there’s lots of great album cuts from the 60s and 70s in the next hour and maybe even some unexpected songs. Today we salute a couple music geniu...
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Episode 147: Juneteenth Special

June 18, 2025 • 58 mins
Episode 147: Juneteenth Special June 17, 2025 Here it is again. My annual salute to the celebration of the end of slavery on June 19, 1865 when Union General Gordon Granger read federal orders in Galveston, Texas that all previously enslaved people in Texas were free even though the emancipation proclamation had formally freed them almost 2-1/2 years earlier. This was a very significant event but was replaced by Jim Crow l...
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Episode 162: Saluting Kristofferson, Lesh, Sergio, John David

June 10, 2025 • 60 mins
June 5, 2025 The hourglass is filling with sand. I’ve been working on this one over the past couple weeks and got the word that Phil Lesh passed, I knew that I needed to finish up and get the salutes ready. These four had unique lives and affected millions around the world, like many of the artists from the 60s & 70s did. This hour is a major tease. Do you have a story or memory of any of these artists that you might ...
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Episode 118: Indian Summer, RIP Rudolph, Petty/Campbell Now And Then, Health Workers Salute

June 10, 2025 • 60 mins
  Didn’t get no notice from Spot-to-fy since last time I posted. Maybe they were just being sensitive and not getting any attention. Whatever. We’ll see what happens this week and see if I can care any less. This time we salute all health care workers and providers, including those on what some call “the fringes”, complementary medicine, like osteopathy, acupuncture, homeopathy, massage, reflexology and reiki, from here. A...
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Tales Vinyl Tells Music Podcast Episode 192! New and improved! Lots of LPs to hear. So little time.

May 27, 2025 • 62 mins
Episode 192! New and improved! Lots of LPs to hear. So little time. Hello and welcome to another Tales Vinyl Tells. Our trek into the great album rock of the 1960s and 70s is what we focus on here. The albums that came out during that time carried at least one maybe two really great numbers and my mission is to dig some of those hidden gems out and share them with you. I’m Brian Hallgren and these are the Tales Vinyl Tells. Looking...
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Episode 191! A New Dive Into The Great Album Rock Of The 60s & 70s

May 21, 2025 • 65 mins
Episode 191! A New Dive Into The Great Album Rock Of The 60s & 70s May 20, 2025 Welcome back to the 60s and 70s….music, that is.  It’s Tales Vinyl Tells!  Today we jump into the time machine and re-visit 1966, Woodstock and what’s that smell?  There’s Something in the air.  I’ve got a cut from Ummagumma, even Deep Purple.  My name’s Brian Hallgren and this is my trip, Tales Vinyl Tells, since 2019.  Some of the best al...
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Episode 190: What Should I Name This One?

May 13, 2025 • 69 mins
Episode 190: What Should I Name This One? May 13, 2025 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 a...
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Episode 189: One Of The Main Musical Topics Of The 60s: Protest!

May 7, 2025 • 63 mins
Episode 189: One Of The Main Musical Topics Of The 60s: Protest! May 6, 2025 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...
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Episode 184: Some Of The Goodies From 1969

May 1, 2025 • 64 mins
Episode 184: Some Of The Goodies From 1969 May 1, 2025 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 an...
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This is Episode 188: Come Along With Me And Let's Dig Some LPs!

April 24, 2025 • 58 mins

It's another Tales Vinyl Tells! You've heard a lot of these before and they are so much fun to hear again! This is Episode 188: Come Along With Me And Let's Dig Some LPs! April 22, 2025 We loved sitting around after work in the late 60s and early 70s and checking out the new LPs that were flooding the market and heard on great radio stations like Mother-WMUM, KSAN, WSHE. The album cuts ranged from King Crimson and Captain Beefhear...

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Episode 187: A Few Years Ago, Bob Dylan Sold An Estimated $300 Million Worth Of His Work

April 15, 2025 • 60 mins
Episode 187: A Few Years Ago, Bob Dylan Sold An Estimated $300 Million Worth Of His Work April 15, 2025 He signed with Columbia in 1961 and the deal included around 600 pieces. More details in this episode, which includes Dylan himself and lots of great copies of his songs. The Byrds really favored Dylan’s works and recorded around 18 of his songs. The Turtles did one. It’s here on the original episode, #30. It’s here too ...
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