I'd Buy That For A Dollar

Guest host Trevor Coleman returns to support co-host Sean's audacious claim that Earth, Wind & Fire is the greatest band of all time. Will they convince you?

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Co-host Peter rewinds us back to a transition moment where Diana steps away from disco and into a somehow higher plane of mega-pop stardom.

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Jeremy brings the first live record featuring blues/folk trailblazer Josh White. This record finds him towards the end of a long and hard road but with family to get him through.  

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Sean ends the 'Brothers bands' debate with the final Chambers Brothers album. We dig up the unforgiving story of the extremely talented group that created the era defining jam, "Time Has Come Today."

Jeremy "I Don't Like Musicals" Ruggles brings his second album of showtunes from an artist most have heard of yet very few know. We scratch the surface of one of the wildest rides in music history.  

Multimedia artist Nicholas Naioti joins our regular co-hosts for this episode about British singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading. We focus on Armatrading's eponymous third album from 1976 and somehow e…

Musician Trevor Coleman joins us to discuss this 1985 bargain bin treasure from the one and only Stevie Wonder. While we praise this Michigan legend, we submit why this undervalued album should be he…

Co-host Jeremy brings into focus this breezy spring dream of an album. Roberta's stunning voice and overflowing talent have been forgotten to the dollar bins of history and are ripe to bloom again.  

The crew excavates this ambitious and bizarre experimental rock offering from Boston-born musician Andy Pratt. As we listen, we try to place where this unique record falls in the rock canon as well a…

Guest Host Ryan Werner joins us to peel into the layers of Doobie Bros. history. Reshaped by Steely Dan alumni Michael McDonald and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, the Doobs are in top pop form on this 1978 LP.…

This week we take a hard right (left? inward?) turn towards new-age music pioneer Steven Halpern. We mellow out in these strange times and also go down the rabbit hole of Steven's DIY distribution an…

IBTFAD finally goes full country with Nashville legend and "First Lady of Country Music" Tammy Wynette. We inspect her inspection of the human condition and discuss why the generation following her i…

Co-Host Sean snags up some stripped down dance grooves from his favorite year in funk—1982. The gang "gets loose" with this oft-overlooked jam machine.  

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The crew gushes over this hard left turn by outlaw country pioneer Willie Nelson.  We rewind into the history that led the rebellious Willie into an album of old pop standards. 

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Peter brings us Fairport Convention folkie Ian Matthews' breakaway solo album. We delve into how this proper English lad got the bug for California rays and American twang.

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Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Co-host Sean takes us into the world of boogie funk and unveils the newest album to date that we've featured on the pod: Midnight Star's certified bopper, Headlines, …

Illustrator, musician, and music historian Steve Krakow of Plastic Crimewave fame brings us this light rock classic from Bread. We talk unheralded mastermind David Gates and give a fresh ear to mom's…

Guest Host Scott Schaaf (owner of Pinwheel Records in Chicago) takes us to his Sports section. We dig into this super-selling, near-ubiquitous record that was not passed onto the next generation's co…