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!

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Tales Vinyl Tells

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Episodes

24 hours ago

Episode 143, 144, 145 & 146: Vacation Time
Link for all four on StudioMillsWellness.
May 13, 2024
Hope you’ve been enjoying those Tales Vinyl Tells. As you can see, there are four episodes that were prerecorded for such a time as this. I’ve got an amazing adventure ahead, with my gal and her sister. Places we’ll visit include Istanbul, Athens, Rome and Cannes. Your financial support is greatly appreciated. Find out how you can help me pay the bills at patron.podbean.com/talesvinyltellssupport. Thank you in a huge way. Please enjoy these replays of some of my favorite episodes of Tales Vinyl Tells, available at studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells and many podcast apps.

Sunday May 05, 2024

Episode 142: The Album Rock Of The 60s & 70s Doesn't Get Old. Only We Do, If We Allow It.
May 4, 2024
MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU!
The aging process on humans is real. What we do and don’t 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 I’m saying is that the age of rock is so wide and varied, from Elvis to Zappa, we have a lot of ground to cover in these short one-hour shows. And, who knows, maybe listening to the music of our youth may give a moment in time when we can enjoy those times or not. Admit it, it wasn’t all bad. If you have some input, like my friend, Puh-’mella did, let me know your taste in music, who/what/when. Email all your comments to me at TalesVinylTells@gmail.com.
If you’d like to hear Tales Vinyl Tells as it plays live on RadioFreeNashville.org, tune in Wednesdays at 5 PM Central time to stream us live. The podcasts are all available at http://www.studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells, on Apple podcasts, podbean.com and a whole bunch of good podcast apps. To financially support this podcast effort to hear the great music of the 60s and 70s, you can go to Patron.podbean.com/talesvinyltellssupport. Thanks to all who have already shown their support.

Saturday Apr 27, 2024

Tales Vinyl Tells podcast Episode 141: Dickey Betts Salute , A Sleigh Ride On Nantucket? Details Here
April 27, 2024
The proverbial circle of life continues to turn and we might find ourself getting in touch with our own mortality as time moves on. This week I reminisce, as I often do hearing this music. The sense input usually brings up feelings, emotions, thoughts, people, smells, tastes, sometimes things I could have done better or differently. But the music doesn’t change and that’s why I enjoy doing this podcast and radio show. If you love the music of the 60s & 70s and want to financially support this exploration into that music, you can surf to Patron.podbean.com/talesvinyltellssupport. You’ll feel good when you give. (IMHO). Thank you!
There are many ways to hear these great tunes: Live on RadioFreeNashville.org Wednesdays at 5 pm Central time, all the podcasts of the radio program(many times extended versions) can be listened to anytime, anywhere at StudioMillsWellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells, on Apple podcasts, PlayerFM, iHeart and many podcast apps.

Friday Apr 19, 2024

Episode 140: Another 15 Million Unit LP, Long Time Since Phoenix Flew And More
April 19, 2024
The ironies in life… This hour-long show just played on RadioFreeNashville.org and yesterday I was informed that Dickey Betts of the Allman Brothers Band had passed away peacefully. He was 80. Jaimoe is the soul survivor of the original ABB now. The irony being that this particular episode started off Wednesday on radiofreenashville.org talking about the Allman Brothers at Fillmore East sessions from the summer of 1971. In fact, the second and third tunes from that session, on this episode, are from those Fillmore East fabulous concerts. If you didn't catch it during the live radio show, I was living in South Florida and was hanging out with some people I would call cool and we were doing a lot of concerts (and a fair amount of extracurricular recreational things). The concerts were affordable, like five dollars to eight dollars and we didn't mind traveling an hour to the Miami jai alai fronton to see the Allman Brothers Band live. That allowed plenty of time to get our heads right. It was a big party! It was the Fillmore East sessions! We were blown away. And in the first three months that the double album was on the market, it's sold a half million copies. I still have mine and you probably know I'm in love with it! Stormy Monday is a killer, you don't love me is a great jam and the four sides contain wall-to-wall great southern rock.
By the way, Tales Vinyl Tells plays Wednesdays at 5 PM Central time on 103.7 and 107.1 FM around Nashville and streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org and here. Replays can be heard on the StudioMillsWellness website, iheart, playerFM, Apple, Podbean.com(our RSS feed host) and most of your good podcasting apps.
I’m asking for your financial support to help me pay the bills and make this show better. Thanks to all the generous fans of this great music of the 60s & 70s. My story is at Patron.podbean.com/talesvinyltellssupport. Thank you, thank you.
All you listeners and especially you financial supporters, I want you to send me your favorite artist(s), favorite songs, memories etc. What I’d like to do is put together a special private podcast for the financial supporters. Ya dig? I asked my bud Vince to do that a few years ago and you can hear the Vince Playlist on episode 92. He’s no longer with us which makes his list that much more valued. Dig in.

Saturday Apr 13, 2024

Episode 139: More Of The Great Rock From The 60s & 70s And Beyond
April 13, 2024
Some summer songs, some blues from Super Session, Janis and Lee Michaels, a Gershwin treatment, an hour filled with tasty treats.
Thank you to all the sustaining givers that support this podcast. It costs to keep this going and my efforts have not gone unappreciated. You’ve heard, you’ve acted. Thank you. If you’d like to financially support this podcast, go to Patron.podbean.com/talesvinyltellssupport and sign up. Join us! Hear Tales Vinyl Tells live at 5 PM Central on RadioFreeNashville.org Wednesdays. Stream it in stereo! Also, all the episodes are free to listen to and download on your favorite podcast app.
Thanks to www.StudioMillsWellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells where our podcast is flagshipped and has been since December 2019.

Wednesday Apr 03, 2024

Episode 137: Nostalgia: "A Sentimental Longing Or Wistful Affection....
April 3, 2024
…for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations”. Yeh man! Like the 60s & 70s. Playing for change remakes songs with musicians from all over the world with sometimes odd instruments, did you enjoy Joy of Cooking? Not the book, but the band. They’re here with a few nostalgic pieces just for you and your silly nostalgia. I’m in the present and love a lot of things about the past. The Doors and Zeppelin on windowpane. Allmans and shrooms. I do hope these tunes today will make you smile and encourage you to be grateful for all you are, here, now.

Episode 136: The Vince Playlist

Wednesday Apr 03, 2024

Wednesday Apr 03, 2024

Episode 136: The Vince Playlist
April 3, 2024
My friend, Vince, went in for heart surgery and I made sure to see him beforehand and wish him the best. That was the last time I saw him. They couldn't fix his heart valve. So our only choice was to mourn. Luckily, before all this, Vince told me that he had all the Tales Vinyl Tells episodes up to that time loaded into his car and he listened to them when he needed some good music that made him feel more alive. I asked him what some of his favorite tunes and artists were. He made a list of 10 songs or so and gave a little comment about pretty much every one of them and he's been gone for over a year now, I still miss him, and his comments, his choices, some of his favorites, are included in this hour of Tales Vinyl Tells. His peaceful spirit can be seen on his bench looking at the pond.

Thursday Mar 21, 2024

Episode 135: Another Leg In The 7 Continent Tour 2024, The Dark Continent & Europe
March 21, 2024
In this 3rd leg of the 7 Continent Tour of 2024, it’s a visit to the African continent and a jump to Europe. Music from the group Africa, Paul Simon, John Mayall and more than enough to fill your ears with an hour of the great LP cuts from the 60s and 70s mostly. Enjoy!
Thank you, financial supporters of Tales Vinyl Tells and of me. Your appreciation of this historic music means a lot to me. To hear tunes from 50 or more years ago still sound so good that bring back memories is a nice break from the news of today, sometimes good and sometimes awful. If you want to show your love for this project preserving this music, you can at Patron.podbean.com/talesvinyltellssupport. Deepest gratitude to you who donate.
You can be nudged (gently, by the way) of new podcasts of TVT by joining the Tales Vinyl Tells Album Club on Facebook, by following TVT on podbean.com and a whole lotta podcast apps, by emailing me at talesvinyltells@gmail.com and I’ll send you a reminder. Pretty simple. Thanks for listening!

Thursday Mar 21, 2024

Episode 134: How Long Has It Been Since You've Heard These? Ever?
March 16, 2024
In a conversation with my friend Bonnie, she said how hearing a certain tune brought back memories of a time long ago. Who she was hanging out with, what music he was listening to (and the B-52’s Rock Lobster was driving her crazy). He played it over and over, saturating his beloved partner. But she smiled as she said some of the things she hears on Tales Vinyl Tells stir up some good memories. So there it is, folks. The album rock of the 60s & 70s was some memorable stuff. Just think about the bell bottoms, the John Lennon-type glasses with purple lens, psychedelic headbands, pungent smells in the air covered by sandalwood or nap champa incense, beads hanging in doorways instead of doors. Oh sure, it’s all very nostalgic. Great songs fill this and every hour of Tales Vinyl Tells. If you appreciate this podcast a whole lot or even just a little, you can show your love by supporting it when you check out Patron.podbean.com/talesvinyltellssupport. I tip my hat to all who have already signed up. Thank you, friends.
All of the 134 episodes of Tales Vinyl Tells can be heard and downloaded at StudioMillsWellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells, podbean.com and many podcasting apps. The live radio show is at 5 Central time Wednesdays on RadioFreeNashville.org.
The JimJam this time is Gordon Lightfoot’s Early Morning Rain, why not play along? And you’ll also catch Dhani Harrison doing a George song, a Deja vu song that shows the terrific harmonies of CSN&Y, a Reggae set with some New Zealand artists and more. Hope your ears will get happy listening.

Sunday Mar 10, 2024


This is the first leg of the 7 Continents World Tour that actually played on podcast episode 23 in January of 2020. At that time, I posted on StudioMillsWellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells, “Sure, it’s imaginary but it’s safe and healthy and has some pretty good music in it. Climb aboard! The upcoming episode or more will include visits to Brazil, Cuba, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia and now you can name the other continents. Today, we hear coast to coast, to Canada and Mexico. Hope you enjoy what you hear. Remember, its in stereo so don’t be afraid to listen well and volume it up.”
Catch up on all the episodes of Tales Vinyl Tells on the above page and on most podcast apps. You could even financially support this podcast at Patron.podbean.com/talesvinyltellssupport. With that, I say a ginormous “thank you”!

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