Reelin' In The Years (RITY)

On this episode of Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is Ghost In The Machine: Songs recorded at haunted recording spaces... Also, a storm spoiled Ann Peebles’ plans - and inspired a song John Lennon loved... The fundraiser performance that connected a teenage Joanne Shaw Taylor with Dave Stewart... How unbearable studio heat sent the Alarm onto the roof - and a passing blimp nearly stole the scene... Carole King’s “Jazzman” was inspired by a saxophonist - but someone else played the part... New Releases from Brothers Osborne, Marshall Crenshaw, Rayland Baxter, and more... Deep tracks from Eric Clapton, Little F...

On this episode of Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is Fortune Tellers... Also, A Grateful Dead mining song so convincing, a miner thought it was an old standard... Stevie Wonder's one beer recording strategy and the effect he wanted it to have on his voice... The young fan Chrissie Hynde left standing in the snow and the Pretenders song he inspired... Thousands turned away, fans trying to enter through the roof, and a chaotic Hendrix concert in Berkeley... How a dad’s nickname for his buddies (borrowed from Cheech & Chong) gave Blind Melon their name... New releases from Hiss Go...

On this episode on Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is Pavlov's Dog... Also, A shipping clerk, his record-label boss’s rejection, and the $2,500 that launched Alligator Records... A Jimi Hendrix recording that spent nearly 44 years in the vault before reaching listeners in 2013... A Chicago Blues standard about a man whose five years of paychecks still got him shown the door... A roadside sign in Chicago that helped Roger Miller write a classic... New releases from John Prine and Greta Van Fleet... Deep cuts from Charley Crockett, The Outfield, Steppenwolf, The Cars, Southern Culture On The Skids, and more! For in...

This week on Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is The Suburbs... Plus, Robert Plant, a fifteen-foot tree, and a song title born out of a winter firewood problem... Six four-hour sessions and a day job - the making of Elvis Costello’s debut album, My Aim Is True... A Hall & Oates song about existential boredom and how an idealized escape can still leave a person empty... The afternoon political conversation that inspired John Lennon’s next protest anthem... New music from Richard Thompson, The War On Drugs, Rolling Stones, and Paul Weller... Deep tracks from The Long Ryders, Bonnie Rait...

On this episode of Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is A Needle In A Haystack: Songs that were hidden on albums... Plus, the Beatles song that changed animals after Paul McCartney started barking... Music Stevie Wonder left off Songs in the Key of Life - finally seeing the light of day 50 years later... The strange recurring dream of shattering bottles that inspired a Peter Gabriel classic... The long drives between two Australian cities that inspired a Little River Band favorite... Freak Out! turns 60 - the unrest in L.A. that inspired one of Frank Zappa’s fiercest songs... New mu...

This week on Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is Commercially Brewed: Songs and beer commercials... The ’90s hit whose title can be traced all the way back to a second-grade book report... What happened when someone sent one of John Prine’s fictional problems to the Dear Abby... The ’60s dance song whose original title was probably a little too risqué for radio... New music from St. Paul & The Broken Bones and Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band... Deep tracks from Gordon Lightfoot, CCR, Buddy Guy, and more! For more information on the show, visit reelinwithryan.com

This week on Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is 100: Songs that mention that number in the lyrics... Plus, Johnny Cash, a cocaine-fueled murder and a 99-year prison sentence - recorded LIVE at Folsom... A spontaneous rehearsal-room jam captured on tape then rebuilt with an Atari computer... The Bad Company tune revisited nearly 50 years later with Paul Rodgers & Blackberry Smoke... A number-one disco hit reimagined as though it had been recorded at Muscle Shoals... How a snowbound Dexter binge supplied Marcus King with a song title... New music from Eli Reed, U2, Sonny Landreth, and Eddie 9V... Deep cuts from...

This week on Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is It's All Greek To Me: Songs with references to Greece... The future Monkee whose song was rejected for not sounding enough like The Monkees... The soul album recorded in a basement for a grand total of $452.11 - that includes the beer!... The one-off benefit performance that unexpectedly turned into an 11-year comeback... Why Geddy Lee never understood the appeal of one of Rush’s enduring classics... A throwaway line from an old episode of Rhoda that inspired a band's biggest hit... New music from Sheryl Crow/Jesse Welles, The Rylee Ba...

On this episode of Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is Friday Night Lights: Songs that make some sort of reference to high school football in the lyrics... Also, the basement recording that became an indie-rock phenomenon - thanks to a movie scene... David Bowie’s eye patch looked like a fashion statement - but the truth was far less glamorous... The 19-year-old thief, a diamond ring and a deadly 1921 robbery that inspired a Grateful Dead classic... The suburban road that inspired a songwriter’s attack on similar houses, perfect lawns and status symbols... The hit single writ...

This week on Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is "Bay" Watch... Plus, the deliberately “uncommercial” song written in a room at a Holiday Inn that became a hit... The accidental guitar tuning that left Pete Townshend and David Gilmour searching for answers... The soul classic secretly powered by Motown's The Funk Brothers and a big stack of cash... The upbeat hit followed by a mysterious death - and questions that remain unanswered... The song that connected a band’s British-blues past with its polished California future... New music from Brandon Flowers, Eddie 9V, and the sibling duo Sa...

This week on Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is Paying The Bills... Also, the reggae legend who refused a Chuck Berry classic - until Louisiana became Jamaica... The New Orleans classic featuring a future superstar - still in her teens - singing backup with her mother... The late-night hotel room lyric that went from “walking around the room” to something more memorable... The song title overheard during a high-speed ride with a drug dealer nicknamed “The Count"... New music from Billy Strings and The Womack Sisters... Deep cuts from The Allman Brothers, Men At Work, Wilco, Michel...

This week on Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is "Back To School"... Also, The song inspired by an open window, a missing cat and one very worried songwriter... How a trip to Elvis’s home helped a songwriter turn a broken relationship into a journey toward healing... How a childhood memory of gathering wild plants in rural Louisiana inspired a swamp-rock classic... The ordinary airplane ride that became a confrontation with anxiety, mortality and the imagination... New music from American Aquarium, Rolling Stones, and Kevin Morby... For more info on the show, visit reelinwithryan.com

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This week on Reelin' In The Years... For the Featured Five Theme, we explore the roots of rock 'n' roll... Plus, The ancient empire, missing verse and faulty mixing console behind a Neil Young epic... The Linda Ronstadt hit that began when six encores left her band with nothing else prepared... The road anthem that began as an idea for a Ford commercial... The Guns N’ Roses co-founder who traded stadium chaos for a return to basics... New music from Wyatt Flores and Buffalo Traffic Jam... Deep cuts from The Black Crowes, The Call, The Blasters, Rolling Stones, Beth Ha...

This week on Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is Lucky No. 7... Also, the phone call that arrived just before a songwriter’s phone service was disconnected... A hit song from 1991 that was inspired by two events that reshaped the world in 1989... The story behind a famous “bass line” that wasn’t actually played on a bass guitar... The studio accident that unexpectedly made room for the biggest song of Jonathan Edwards’ career... Deep tracks from Pete Townshend, Elton John, Iron & Wine, MT Jones, Mac Demarco, Jesse Welles, Lemonheads, and more! For more info on the program, visit reelinwithryan.com

This week on Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is Smoke From A Distant Fire... Plus, The Waterboys revive a Prince recording that sat unheard for nearly 40 years... The Canadian band that landed on the cover of Rolling Stone before they even had a record deal... What song by Andrew Gold was inspired by growing up in a Hollywood family - and feeling overlooked?... A Pixies classic that they nearly left off an album because they thought it was too "pop"... New music from Role Model and Slap Dragon... Deep tracks from Jason & The Scorchers, T. Rex...

On this episode of Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is Finding Some Shade... Plus, what band got its name from an Aboriginal Australian expression?... How a single overheard sentence became one of rock's greatest mysteries... What Queen song nearly featured backing vocals from David Bowie?... New music from The Revivalists, Trey Hensley & Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Johnny Blue Skies... Deep cuts from Little Feat, Junior Wells, Van Morrison, and more! For more info on the program, visit reelinwithryan.com

On this episode of Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is Making The "Cut"... Also, the day Paul McCartney unknowingly became Nirvana's lead singer... Why Berry Gordy almost kept a Stevie Wonder classic off the radio... The strange story behind Jefferson Airplane's most unusual song title... A Bryan Adams classic born from a happy accident that felt so right... New music from The Rolling Stones, Houndmouth, Jeff Tweedy, and Bartees Strange... Plus deeper tracks from Pavement, J.J. Cale, The Velvet Underground, Jackson Browne, Dire Straits, The Black Keys, Sturgill Simpson, The Beatles, and more! For more info on the...

On this episode of Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is Boom!... What Beatles song was inspired by a phrase uttered by reggae singer, Jimmy Scott?... A Motown song that had to be recorded three different times before it passed quality control... Amphetamine abuse + Occultism = A 1968 title track by The Velvet Underground... Music from a soul singer who got his big break as a backing singer for CeeLo Green... New music from King Tuff and Low Cut Connie... Deeper tracks from Bad Company, Poco, Buffalo Springfield, Turnpike Troubadours, Dirty Honey, and much more! For more info on the show, visit...

On this episode of Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit of Happiness: Celebrating America's Independence... Also, music from a singer who's been out of the public eye for 16 years! I'll tell you why... What Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers' tune was inspired by a quote from Janis Joplin?... What song by Wings is named after Paul McCartney's old Labrador Retriever?... A song that John Sebastian wrote on a dreary November day when he was feeling depressed... New music from Jesse Welles, The James Hunter Six, and Johnny Marr... Deep cuts from Free, Bob Mould, 10,000 Maniacs...

On this episode of Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is Hiking... Also, the story of Johnnie Taylor's death and the lengthy legal battle that ensued... A Smashing Pumpkins song that was initially titled "Strolling" and nearly cut from the album... What band formed in England, but shares their name with their native country?... How the Traveling Wilburys evolved out of a proposed George Harrison European bonus track... New music from Aaron Lee Tasjan... We'll go deep with Dan Auerbach, Missing Persons, Dawes, The Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio, Huey Lewis & The News, and more! For more information...

On this episode of Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is A Backyard Barbeque... Also, a 90s hit song that was inspired by the disappearance of Lela & Raymond Howard... A tune that went from a love song to one of the creepiest songs ever thanks to alcohol... One of three Pink Floyd tunes to feature a guest lead vocalist. Cigar, anyone?... That time when the Stone Temple Pilots recorded with the legendary Glen Campbell... New music from Red Stray Clays, Stella Lefty, and Blues musician - Amani Burnham... Deep cuts from Flo & Eddie, Tyler Childers, and many more! For more...

On this edition of Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is Subconscious Behavior: Song titles that represent responsibilites of the subconscious... Also, a demo of the most played song in the history of American radio... What Stevie Ray Vaughan song is inspired by "shaggin' wagons" from the 70s?... A song by The Who that's named after Meher Baba and Terry Riley... New music from Devon Gilfillian... Deep cuts from Billy Strings, The Jam, Arcade Fire, The Bird and The Bee, McCartney & Wings, The Impressions, and much more! For more info, visit reelinwithryan.com

On this episode of Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is What's Your Fortune: Song titles that could serve as a message inside of a fortune cookie... Also, who is the woman on the cover of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan?... A song about an alternate universe where J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr. is president... What Blue Oyster Cult song was inspired by a drug deal gone horribly wrong?... Ringo and Paul McCartney reunite for a new song on McCartney's new album... More new music from Michael Stipe, Vince Gill, and Thee Sacred Souls... Deep cuts from Little...

On this edition of Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is Playing "Favorites": Songs that mention the word "favorite" in the title... Also, Paul McCartney talks about partnering with John Lennon to write "A Day In The Life"... Paul Simon on finding love on the set of Saturday Night Live... What band gets their name from a passage in the Spanish novel, Don Quixote?... New music from Marcus King, The Lone Bellow, and more!... Deep tracks from Blues Traveler, Mudcrutch, Mike Doughty, Split Enz, Gregg Allman, Mavis Staples, and much more! For more info on the show, visit reelinwithryan.com<...

On this episode of RITY... The Featured Five Theme is Car Trouble: Songs that mention some sort of car-related issue in the lyrics... Also, Norman Greenbaum explains the process of writing his big hit from 1970... What do people from Vermont call the period between Halloween and the winter snow?... We know Tommy was the deaf, dumb, and blind kid, but why was he the pinball wizard?... What Joni Mitchell song was inspired by her first trip to Hawaii?... New music from The Rolling Stones, Goose, Linda Perry, and Kirk Fletcher... Deep cuts from Steely Dan, M. Ward, Jose Gonzalez...

On this episode of Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is At The Library... Plus, A band that gets their name from a term they found in a TV Guide Magazine... The story behind one of Bob Seger's most well-known songs... The Tubes will give us a deep cut about rich kids in Hollywood with drug problems... Music from a guy who worked in a factory installing toilets on airplanes prior to his big break... New music from Deer Tick and Samantha Fish. Deep cuts from The Black Keys, Sharon Jones, Eric Clapton, John Mayer, Rilo Kiley, Mojo Nixon, Leon...

On this episode of Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is Gone Fishin'... Plus, a song inspired by Peter Fonda's near-death experience that happened when he was a kid... A Bowie tune that's nearly a reworking of "I'm Waiting For The Man" by Velvet Underground... What influential Delta Blues musician simply vanished in the early 1940s?... The band - Heart - and a song inspired by the rumor of an incestuous relationship... New music from Kurt Vile, Jack White, Duane Betts, and Bruce Hornsby... Deep cuts from Chris Cornell, Bobby Womack, Big Star, Wilco, Freedy Johnston, Kaiser...

This week on Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is The State Line: Songs that mention "state line" in the lyrics... Also, The Beatles give us a diss track inspired by the illegitimacy of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi... An 80s hit inspired by the story of a murderous plastic surgeon who steals his victim's skin... Charlotte Caffey - of The Go-Go's - shares the inspiration behind, "We Got The Beat"... New music from Peter Frampton and it's a tribute to the legendary, Tom Petty... More new tunes from Band Of Heathens, Tyler Ballgame, Robert Plant, and more!... Deep...

On this episode of Reelin'... The Featured Five is The Ocean... Plus, a Steely Dan song inspired by the rise and fall of LSD Chemist, Owsley Stanley... An ode to a train caboose that's been turned into a vacation rental in WA... Music from a guy who enjoyed occasionally streaking on stage... What Beatles song was inspired by the group learning they were nearly bankrupt?... New music from Iron & Wine and Charley Crockett... Deep cuts from The Police, Grateful Dead, The Pretenders, Spoon, and more... For more info on the show, visit reelinwithryan.com

This week on Reelin' In The Years, The Featured Five Theme is Bootlegs. These are considered some of the best Bootlegs of all-time according to multiple sources online... Also, a song inspired by a dream that involved Jimi Hendrix and a Holiday Inn bathroom... A Collective Soul song inspired by a two hour stroll around New York City... What White Stripes song gets it's name from a North-English expression?... New releases from MT Jones, Altered Five Blues Band, & Kashus Culpepper... Deeper tracks from Fleetwood Mac, Ringo's All-Starr Band, Doc Watson, CCR, Black Pumas, Counting Crows, and much more! For...

On this week's edition of Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is American Folk Heroes... Plus, Rock 'n' Roll muse - Annabella Corro - shares the true meaning behind "Spill The Wine"... Music from an artist who sadly took his own life by jumping from his hotel room window... The Byrds, Art Reynolds Singers, and Gene Parsons - What's the connection?... How Phil Spector - quite literally - took advantage of the "Be My Baby" recording sessions... New releases from Aerosmith, Joanne Shaw Taylor, The Black Keys, and more!... Deep tracks from Lou Reed, Miles Davis, The...

This week on Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is Secret Agent Man: The CIA Theme... Plus, who was John Sinclair and how John Lennon had a role in getting him out of prison... A song written for the 1989 film, Say Anything, but was omitted from the movie... A song that was inspired by a ghostly visit from the songwriter's mother... Dickey Betts, Boz Scaggs, and a random grave - What's the connection?... Speaking of a ghost and a grave, how about a song about a headless soldier?... New Music from Johnny Blue Skies, Hiss Golden Messenger...

This week on Reelin'... The Featured Five Theme is In Bloom: The Spring Theme... Plus, music from a former mailman who used to write songs in his head during routes... A young and relatively unknown Angelina Jolie appeared on what band's album cover?... How a child running wild in a grocery store inspired the title of an Allman Bros. hit... A song written at the historic Lorraine Motel during a stormy night in Memphis... New music from The Altered Five Blues Band and St. Paul and The Broken Bones... Deep cuts from Elton John, Nina Simone, Billy Strings, and...

On this episode of Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is songs that correspond with the five levels of Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs... A song that Van Morrison nailed in one take!... Idol turned Rival? Todd Rundgren's beef with John Lennon in the 70s... The song that was the end result of being stuck in Tulsa during a snowstorm... Who was Ann Cole and why didn't she follow the directions given by her music publisher?... New music from Tedeschi Trucks & The Red Clay Strays... Deep cuts from Jude Cole, Canned Heat, The Buckinghams, Eric Johnson, John Hiatt...

On this episode of Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is At The Diner: Song titles that mention something you could probably order from the menu... Also, a cut from the newly released soundtrack to the McCartney documentary, Man On The Run... Music from an artist who had a habit of starting bar fights, unfortunately it cost him his life... A song that marked the final time CCR played together, but it's not even a CCR song... What song was recorded and released five different times in 1974?... New music from St. Paul & The Broken Bones - do...

This week on Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is songs used as background music during the Local On The 8s Segment on The Weather Channel... Music from a band that's named after the psychological concept of Primal Therapy... What band is comprised of members from Wilco, Soul Asylum, The Jayhawks, and others?... What is an Albert Flasher and what does it have to do with radio broadcasting?... A rarity by R.E.M. that was nearly used in the film, Batman Returns... New music from Robert Plant, Robin Trower, and Vance Joy... Deep cuts from Hot...

This week on Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is The "Silver Spoon"... Plus, a song David Bowie wrote about actress, model, and Warhol superstar - Cyrinda Foxe... A hit by Badfinger that was first recorded at a slower tempo and was nearly not released... A song inspired by an awkward relationship between a father and his son... John Fogerty shares the story behind the 1969 CCR hit, "Fortunate Son"... That time when Roger McGuinn reunited with a few of his former Byrds bandmates... New music from The Black Crowes, and folk-pop singer/songwriter Noah Kahan... Deep cuts...

On this episode of Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is 1 Is The Loneliest Number: Bands or Artists who only released one album... That one time when Rick James & Neil Young played in the same band in the 1960s... Arthur Lee of the band - Love - explains the meaning behind "7 And 7 Is"... A track from the first album to win a Grammy for Best Americana Album in 2010... A song that was the end result of Darius Rucker being rude to a homeless man... Deep tracks from The Badlees, XTC, James Gang, Tift Merritt, Stevie Ray Vaughan...

On this episode of Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is Stage Fright... Music from a short-lived California band formed by Neil Young & Bob Mosley... A band that formed in 1970, but didn't release their debut album until '08... Music from a former professional boxer, who was a Middleweight Champion... Why Anne Murray's 1986 album, Something To Talk About, is missing a title track... New music from Mike Farris, Don West, and James McMurtry... Deep cuts from Bruce Hornsby, Warren Zevon, Faces, Don Henley & Elton John... For more info on the show, visit reelinwithryan.com

On this episode of Reelin' In The Years... The Featured Five Theme is Units Of Measurement... The story behind the cover of Abandoned Luncheonette by Hall & Oates... How the discovery of lost Bob Dylan lyrics led to the formation of a supergroup... A song inspired by the tragic story of a delivery truck involved in a fatal crash... A song that's been played a million times on Pandora, but it's only earned the songwriter $17... Deep cuts from Sam Fender, Jakob Dylan and Eric Clapton, Faces, The Jayhawks, Steve Winwood, Wilco, Squeeze, and much more! For more info on the...