You know, I guess I think I've always been a professional critic, you know, or some sort of professional

appreciator or something. And then. Now this is serious business here man.

Putting on a great show is the most important thing you can do.

One great rock show can change the world.

When punk threatened to make Neil Young obsolete,

he responded with one of the greatest albums in his career.

Rust never sleeps. I'm Jim De Dirogatus from W be Z in Columbia College.

And I'm Greg Kott of Chicago Tribune.

We celebrate our 300th show with a classic album dissection of Russ Never Sleeps.

And we review the new album by Stephen Malthamus and the Jicks.

That's coming up on Sound Opinions.

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you are listening to Sound Op to sound opinions and time now for

some music news. I took my troubles down to Madam Ruth you know that gypsy

with a gold cap tooth.

She's got a path on 34th and fine

selling little bottles of love potion Number 9.

Greg, we have the deaths of two important songwriters in rock history to mark this week.

I'm going to start with the great Jerry Leber who died at the age of 78 known forever as the

partner of Mike Stoller. It was Leber and Stoller who put their mark on rock and roll from the

mid-50s into the late 60s with an indelible

string of hits.

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