I'd Buy That For A Dollar

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."If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks! 

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.  If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks! 

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 end up on a Jimmy Buffett tangent along the way. If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks! 

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 held in as high esteem as Wonder's best-known work.   If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks! 

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.   If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks! 

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 as how it registers for us personally.  If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks! 

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.  If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks! 

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 and tightrope walk between science and pseudoscience.  If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks! 

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 is wrong in their wholesale dismissal of this classic. If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us. Thanks! 

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.   If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us, thanks! 

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. If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content (episodes on 45s!), or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us, thanks! 

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.If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content, or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us, thanks! 

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, only 34 years old—wow!

On the last of our episodes recorded in Chicago, guest host Shannon Gross takes us for an enthusiastic spin through Cyndi Lauper's 1983 megahit LP, She's So Unusual. We explore how this unconventional voice and icon for punk fashion was able to infiltrate the pop charts during the decade of extremes.If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content, or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us, thanks! 

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 favorite breezy California jams. If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content, or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us, thanks! 

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 collective memory. Scott calls this the "greatest American rock record of the last 40 years," if you want to internet argue about something.   If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content, or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us, thanks! 

Guest Host Rich Tupica, author of There Was A Light: The Cosmic History of Chris Bell and the Rise of Big Star, brings us a bonafide bargain bin beauty—The Beach Boys Today! We dive into this proto-Pet Sounds work which marked the transition out of cars/surfing into transcendent artistry. Inzane Johnny sits in to discuss the podcast he and Rich recently started, Inzane Michigan.If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content, or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us, thanks! 

Guest Host Jon Howard brings us this cowboy classic from a vintage crooner. We explore the string arrangements by John "Johnny" Williams and wander into a discussion on field recordings. John Olson aka Inzane Johnny sits in. If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content, or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us, thanks!

Special Guest Host John Olson aka Inzane Johnny brings us this unnerving and gnarly religious artifact from a Michigan thrift store dollar bin. Jon Howard of Flat, Black & Circular sits in and will feature his own selection next episode. If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content, or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us, thanks!

Peter brings us this deceptively titled final record from Yippie folk icon Phil Ochs. We explore the roots of this uncharacteristic album from an enigmatic artist.If you like us, please support us at patreon.com/idbuythatpodcast to get exclusive content, or tell a friend about us. Broke and have no friends? Leave us a review, it helps more people find us, thanks!