What do you love about music?

To begin with,

everything. Everything. Putting on a great show is the most important thing you can do. One great rock show can change the world. A good producer not only records music, but sometimes plays therapist, guidance counselor,

and spiritual advisor.

I'm Jim Dirogatus from W be EZ in Columbia College.

And I'm Greg Cod from the Chicago Tribune.

We talked a veteran producer Butch Big about his career in the studio and working with some of

Rock's most notable artists.

And later, we review the new big produced album by the Food Fighters.

That's all coming up on Sound Opinions.

From W beZ Chicago and distributed by PRX, you're listening to sound opinions.

And now it's time for some music news. Manic depression is searching my soul. I know what I want but I just don't know how to just don't know how to go about

give me Feeling sweet feeling drops from my fingers. Many depression is a

captured my soul.

Yeah.

There's a new study out of the University of Pittsburgh that suggests there's a connection between the popular music that American kids are listening to and

depression.

It was published in the recent issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, and we want

to know what this means for music fans and the parents of those music fans.

Let's talk to the man who conducted this study, Dr. Brian A Primac, an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Doctor, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

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