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Episode 134: Bonnie's Story

Episode 134: Bonnie's Story
December 3, 2025
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-52s 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 nag champa incense, beads hanging in doorways instead of doors. Oh sure, its all very nostalgic. Great songs fill this and every hour of Tales Vinyl Tells.  
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Episode 154: Supermoon Music And More

Episode 154: Supermoon Music And More
November 25, 2025
Heres Another Tales Vinyl Tells, sharing the The vinyl albums from the 60s & 70s, those LPs carried the new wave of The British Invasion while America was already experiencing its own invasion from Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Beach Boys, Jan and Dean, Mamas and Papas, CSN&Y, Bob Dylan, The Doors, the folkies, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Freddie Boom Boom Cannon, The Turtles, The Buckinghams even. And in the next hour, my intention today is to share some of those great LPs that were breaking a type of sound barrier and blowing minds while we.well, we were having our own revolution, discovering free love, recreational experimental mind altering elements, all to a soundtrack that lives on and has NOT been repeated. This music of today may last, maybe not. 60s & 70s rock has everlasting life.  
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And thanks for listening today.  My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com.  If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, Apple podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

Episode 108: Good Stuff Growing Up Around The Ocean

Episode 108: Good Stuff Growing Up Around The Ocean
October 24, 2025
Some of the songs of summer are right here and they are not what you might expect.Tales Vinyl Tells is in our 4th year of bringing some of those great album tracks of the 60s & 70s to you and thrown into the mix are some others that just need to be added to the recipe for a eargasmic hour.  
And thanks for listening today.  My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com.  If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, Apple podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.
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Episode 149: Quite The British Lineup And Sure, There Are The Temptations And Delaney W Bonnie...

Episode 149: Quite The British Lineup And Sure, There Are The Temptations And Delaney W Bonnie...
October 11, 2025
July 9, 2024
This is Tales Vinyl Tells, continuing to play a lot of the music from the first 37 episodes. There’s lot of great stuff here today. Like Blue Jays, Buddy Guy, The Strawberry Hill Boys. Who? Just listen. Best heard with headphones or you could cast them to your sound system and VOILA! Music to your ears!! My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com. Today’s playlist follows.
And thanks for listening today.  My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com.  If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, Apple podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.
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Playlist:
107.1 Air-Mike Pinder (instrumental)107.2 Saved by the music-Blue Jays107.3 Feeling alright-Joe Cocker 107.4 Soul Shake-Delaney and Bonnie107.5 Which side you on?-Pete Seeger107.6 Damn right, I got the blues-Buddy Guy107.7 Ball of Confusion-Temptations107.8 Dazed and Confused-Led Zeppelin107.9 Where do the children play?-Cat Stevens107.10 Shepherd’s song- Strawbs107.11 Look into the sun-Jethro Tull107.12 Come back again-John Baldry

Episode 201: There Was A Time......

Episode 201: There Was A Time......
October 10, 2025
Wakajawaka and hello to all of you.  This is Tales Vinyl Tells, our extraterrestrial exploration into that great rock of the 60s & 70s that was recorded on vinyl albums and rocked at 33-1/3 revolutions per minute.  Today’s LP Cuts come from Santana, the Stones, Savoy Brown, Jason Isbell and lots more.  The playlist is below. Glad you’re here.  Let’s spin ‘em and grin em!  I’m Brian Hallgren, this is episode 201 of Tales Vinyl Tells.  This is the Revolution!
And thanks for listening today.  My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com.  If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, Apple podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.
Playlist: 201.1 Wakajawaka-Zappa201.1a Revolution-Beatles201.2 One fine morning-Santana 201.3 Ridgetop-Jesse Colin Young 201.4 Rock n roll woman-Buffalo Springfield201.5 Willie and the Hand Jive- NRPS 201.6 Not Fade Away-Stones 201.7 All I Can do-Savoy Brown201.8 Jason Isbell-24 Frames201.9 Them Changes-Buddy Miles201.10 Kid Charlemagne-Steely Dan201.11 Goin’ Down Slow-The Electric Flag

Episode 99: Fun In The Rock Albums Of The 60s & 70s

Episode 99: Fun In The Rock Albums Of The 60s & 70s
October 2, 2025
From ARS and their historic background to the JimJam of Nights in White Satan, this is another fun hour of the great music that came off of the vinyls on the ‘60s & ‘70s.
And thanks for listening today.  My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com.  If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, Apple podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.

Episode 200: I Am An AntiFascist Creator! Definition Below.

Episode 200: I Am An AntiFascist Creator! Definition Below.
September 23, 2025
A fore note: Today Tuesday 9/23/25, I will be guest co-host on my friend Steve Haggard’s radio show, The Haggard & Haggard Radio Hour, at 4 PM CDT on RadioFreeNashville.org. We’ll chat a bit about music and especially my choices for today, two from a very inspiring artist, Jimmie Spheeris and hear some Pacific Reggae from the Herbs of New Zealand, “the land down under the land down under”. Tune in! As Steve says, “and some meaningless banter.” But you already know that.
Hello again and a big hi to you all. There’s a tradition here at TVT to try not to repeat any tunes. Unsuccessful I’ve been but if I do repeat, there’s a high quality put on a number. That’s why we start out with two from Traffic’s John Barleycorn Must Die LP. It is a very cool musical masterpiece. And you’ll also hear Link Wray, Tracy Nelson, John Kongos and more. The ever-so-popular JIMJAM today is CSNY’s Teach Your Children, soon, so get ready for TVT!
And thanks for listening today.  My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com.  If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, Apple podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.
Playlist:200.1-2 Glad/Freedom Rider-Traffic200.3 Fast Car-Tracy Chapman200.4 Rumble-Link Wray200.5 Listening to music-Child’s Garden of Grass200.6 Are you sitting comfortably?- Moody Blues200.7 Teach Your Children-CSNY JIMJAM200.8 Your Time is Gonna Come/Black Mountain Side-Zeppelin200.9 Closer to fine (live)- Indigo Girls200.10 Seven Bridges Road-Steve Young200.11 He’s Gonna Step on You Again-John Kongos200.12 Paper Sun-Stevie Winwood/Traffic

Episode 199: Fall Faves, Salute To Mark Volman

Episode 199: Fall Faves, Salute To Mark Volman
September 19, 2025
Here’s another Tales Vinyl Tells for ya.  High, hello and welcome back to more of that great album rock of the 60s & 70s along with (sometimes) tunes on either sides of those decades. It’s almost fall here in middle Tennessee and Nashville.  Summer is winding down and it’s been one hot mothuh, and not in a good way.  The dogwoods have put out their little green pods which have grown into bigger red pods, and the season will change soon.  It’s on the way.  Today’s hour includes some songs about fall and there’s also my statement about the mess in these United States with a lying evil fascist in our White House.  They bricked over the Rose Garden and there’s so much gaudy fake gold nugget accents in the Oval they should offer barf bags at the door.  No more spray paint, ok??  And he wants a Nobel Prize and wants to name the Beloved Kennedy Center after himself or her.  What a flabby gas bag.  I can’t stand this guy, the Russian asset, ruining not running the US.  He’s the Master of Disaster, the dark lord (thinks he’s God, more like the antiChrist).  The first set goes out to Capt Bonespurs.  That’s my rant for today.  Mark Volman of the Turtles has entered the room next door, we remember him. and I’ve got a new one from Neil Young in this first set.  You’ll like this one! Now Let’s play some great Tales that Vinyls Tell. I’m Brian Hallgren.  Let’s spin some!
And thanks for listening today.  My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com.  If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, Apple podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.
Playlist: 199.1 Summer madness-Kool & Gang199.2 Master of Disaster-John Hiatt199.3Beware of darkness-Harrison199.4 Big crime- Neil Young199.5 Forever Autumn-Moody Blues199.6 September-EW&F199.7 Where you lead I will follow-Carole King ?199.8 Landslide-The Chicks199.9 Come away with me-Norah Jones199.10 Leaves that are green-Simon & Garfunkel199.11 Stop the train-John Mayer199.12 October Road-James taylor199.13 Shes my girl199.14 Keep it warm-Flo and Eddie199.15 Harvest Moon-Neil Young

Episode 85: Macon And Capricorn Records, Tommy Talton Salute And Who'll Stop The Rain JimJam

Episode 85: Macon And Capricorn Records, Tommy Talton Salute And Who'll Stop The Rain JimJam
September 14, 2025
Today’s show is a replay from February 2024, bringing some of the great album rock of the 60s and 70s right to your ears and to your mind. I'm a child of the 60s and I just love this music. It brings me back to sense excitement. The smells, the tastes, the feelings of joy, bliss and of course, some sadness as some of our friends and acquaintances didn't survive those times. My intention this hour and every hour of Tales Vinyl Tells is to lift you up. This hour you'll hear a band with Yes members that absolutely kills it. There's Cold Blood with Lydia Pence and salutes to Tommy Talton of Cowboy and Gregg Allman Band, adding some ear-joy from Melanie Safka who also entered the room next door recently. Today’s playlist is below.
And thanks for listening today.  My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com.  If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, Apple podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.
85.1 Grand Larceny-Sea Level85.2 Pick your nose-Cowboy85.3 Please be with me-Cowboy85.4 Queen of hearts-Gregg Allman85.5 Nothing matters but the fever-Sea Level85.6 Who’ll Stop the rain-Creedence and JimJam85.7 Brand new key-Melanie85.8 One of these days-Ten Years After85.9 Birthright-Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe85.10 Street Worm-Spirit85.10a Funky on my back-Cold Blood w Lydia Pence85.11 Sirius w Games People Play-Alan Parsons Project85.12 Games People Play-Joe South

Episode 198: Salute To Peter Green, This Is Military Madness

Episode 198: Salute To Peter Green, This Is Military Madness
September 7, 2025
Welcome back to another Tales Vinyl Tells.  I hope you’re well and feeling great today.  In the next hour you’ll hear some of those great album cuts from the 60s & 70s.  Some are live updates like one from Joe Bonamassa and a 461 Ocean Blvd tune.  Ry’s live.  So is Mick Fleetwood with Christine McVie saluting the music of Peter Green.  It’s quite possibly a Supernatural hour and it’s for your auditory pleasure. You can email me at talesvinyltells@gmail.com.  I’m Brian Hallgren and these are the Tales Vinyl Tells.
And thanks for listening today.  My email is talesvinyltells@gmail.com.  If you want to hear a Tales Vinyl Tells when it streams live on RadioFreeNashville.org, we do that at 5 PM central time Wednesdays. The program can also be played and downloaded anytime at podbean.com, Apple podcasts, iHeart podcasts, Player FM podcasts, Listen Notes podcasts and many other podcast places. And of course you can count on hearing the Tales on studiomillswellness.com/tales-vinyl-tells anytime.
Playlist:198.1 Mainline Florida teaser-Joe Bonamassa 198.2 Jesus is just alright-Doobies Live at the Beacon Theater.  First appeared on Toulouse Street. 2nd LP, 1972198.3 Jesus on the mainline-Ry Cooder198.4 Mainline Florida-Joe Bonamassa. 198.4a Wild Life-George Terry198.5 Tell her no-Zombies198.6 Gimme some truth-John Lennon198.7 Military Madness-Graham Nash198.8 Yes- Starship Trooper Yes album198.9 She’s a Burglar-Freddie King/Brian Auger/Bobby Tench/Pete Wingfield/Steve Ferrone198.10 Black Magic Woman-Peter Green198.11 Looking for somebody-Mick Fleetwood’s salute to Peter Green with Christine McVie at the London Palladium.198.12 Gypsy Queen-Santana