Are protest songs effective, either as protest or songs? Four songwriters including your host Mark Linsenmayer, Lilli Lewis, Rod Picott, and PMP's audio engineer Tyler Hislop discuss how protest works in various musical genres, who it's aimed at, and when it goes wrong. Has the day of the protest song passed, or is it alive and well? Rod mentions how Bruce Springsteen … [Read more...] about PMP#121: Protesting Protest Songs
Rod Picott
PMP#69: Story Songs w/ Rod Picott
Plenty of songs purport to tell stories, and the narrative ballad of course has a long enough history that the two forms certainly aren't alien. But how do our listening practices conditioned by pop music jibe with recognizing and understanding narrative? Singer/songwriter and short story author Rod Picott joins Mark, Erica, and Brian to talk about classics by writers … [Read more...] about PMP#69: Story Songs w/ Rod Picott