The Great Song Podcast
Celebrating the greatest songs in modern music history and the creators behind them.
Episodes
Random episode drop to celebrate a couple of blues legends doing something very cool together. You'll enjoy their chemistry just as much as ours. Check out "Young Fashioned Ways" available now, and enjoy the shenanigans!
Bad Company and Free drummer Simon Kirke joins us to wrap up the Winter Explosion and this iteration of The Great Song Podcast. Plus: Our rock and roll fantasies, and the "Beautiful Nightmare" that is David Lee Roth.
Rob and JP chat with a recent discovery artist who's fast become a favorite. Plus...Fantastic Cat, Adam Duritz, and sad bananas!
A legendary artist with a massive impact over a minuscule amount of time--Jim Croce finally gets his due on The Great Song Podcast. Episode 4 of our Winter Explosion EP.
Get your feels ready, because Max Carl and .38 Special are coming for ALL of them. Rob and JP chat with then-.38-Special-now-Grand-Funk frontman Max Carl about the song that made the biggest commercial success for the band, why rewrites are a good thing, and his career of amazing work.
Rob and JP gush over one of the most underrated guitarists and songwriters in the world, and chat with the Alvarez-beating, acoustic-slinging madman known as Monte Montgomery.
Back for a good time, but not for a long time--the boys are back and kicking off a new EP season with an absolute smash from one of the greatest rock bands of all time--AC/DC's "Thunderstruck." The man behind the pounding beat of the "Razors Edge" era sits down with us to talk about his time with Angus and Malcom Young and company, his latest release with the Chris Slade Timeline, and much more. Enjoy!
Alright alright alright! Your favorite Guitar Hero track brings our 5-episode EP run to a close--we're talking all things "Slow Ride" with Foghat's Roger Earl!
Thanks for hanging with us for a short run of episodes.
See you--soon?
Your friends, Rob and JP
25 years from the landmark release of her mainstream debut Kansas, Jennifer Knapp returns to the source to release Kansas 25, a re-envisioning of the CCM classic. And she's here to tell us all about the process, her holy grail guitar, and her amazing gas station snack food of choice. Episode 4 of our special 5-episode July 2024 run.
One of the great supergroups and classic rock acts of all time breeds one of our greatest side conversations of all time, and we talk Cream and legacy with Malcolm Bruce, son of Cream's legendary bassist and vocalist Jack Bruce. Episode 3 of our 5-episode limited 2024 EP.
Matt Sorum of Velvet Revolver, Guns 'n Roses, and a million other amazing bands joins us to talk about VR's signature hits, trying to outdo Slash, playing to the song, and his gas station snack food of choice.
This is episode 2 of 5 in our limited-run EP return.
The yellow and black attack kicks off our limited-return EP with a holy fury, and we've got frontman Michael Sweet to tell us all his favorite stories about Bible projectiles, angry protestors, and being a shy guy in a loud industry.
Enjoy it while it lasts--GSP is back for 5 episodes only!
This is it.
After 6+ years, 11 seasons and 275 episodes, the boys are putting the record back in the sleeve. And what better way to say farewell than do wholly dive into one of our longest-running references and in-jokes, Dio's absolutely epic and iconic "Holy Diver."
In this nearly two-hour series finale, we'll squeeze the delicious juice from Ronnie James Dio's signature hit, get into his time with Black Sa...
It's the Summer of '99 all over again, and we're shredding your memories with the one and only Mark Tremonti! He's talking with us about his pinball obsession, his new Christmas project, why he abuses his nose live, and of course his favorite gas station snacks.
Enjoy!
One of the greatest rock songs of the 1990s, Everclear's "Santa Monica" gives us shivers of joy every time we hear it! And we've got frontman and songwriter Art Alexakis to chat with us about the song, his favorite rock album, his life of recovery, and much more.
Plus:
- Unfortunate last names
- The Art Alexakis "Yeah"
- And our usual shenanigans. Enjoy!
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Your favorite new rock band is The Effect, and we can prove it! Fresh off a debut single and moments before a follow-up, we chat with Trev Lukather (yep, son of Toto's Steve) and Nic Collins (yep, son of Phil) about getting together on this next-gen collaboration. You'll hear about using live tracks responsibly, loving work that didn't necessarily end well, and what songs of their progenitors you should be more familiar...
The most overwhelming American Idol winner in history sits in with the boys as our official kickoff of the home stretch of episodes before we call it a day. Phillip Phillips' "Gone Gone Gone" is an energetic frenzy of emotion, and so are we! Buckle up for a deep dive and our usual shenanigans.
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We're feeling sentimental as we come toward the end of the show, so we wanted to dedicate this week to our incredible wives (mostly in hope that they'll listen to an episode). And what better song to do it than the syrupy-sweet classic, "You Are The Woman" by Firefall? We'll dig deep, you'll learn about a Moose Call, and in a great interview, Jock Bartley of Firefall will tell us (among other things) about...
One of the all-time "traveling down the dusty old road" songs, a fixture of classic rock radio and biker gangs everywhere, Blackfoot's "Highway Song" has a feel that just won't quit. And we've got Blackfoot founder and long-time Lynyrd Skynyrd lead guitarist Rickey Medlocke to tell us all about it. A great storyteller and affable guy, he'll tell us all about his history with Blackfoot and Skynyrd...
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