Welcome to yet another bonus episode of Sound Opinions. I'm Jim D. Regardless, my co-host is Greg Kott.

And if you want to be the first to hear these bonus podcasts, become a Sound Opinions member on Patreon, like Barry Miller of Evanston.

Thank you, Barry, so much for your support.

As you know, we have so much music to talk about. We never have enough time on the weekly podcast and broadcast proper, so we have these bonus podcasts, which are available to be sponsored by an underwriter.

And we would welcome one. We get to have more fun, we get to stretch out, we get to dive deep into our catalogs, play a song that we'd add to the Desert Island jukebox.

If you want to give us a little hint, Greg, of what we're about to hear, I'd appreciate it.

Well, Jim, it's going to be a throwback to that era. I don't know if you remember this distinctly, but it's a weird little pocket of music history in rock, where bands had lyricists, exclusive lyricists.

Oh, yeah. Okay. You know where I'm going?

Yeah, Rockwind had Robert Calvert, the science fiction writer and the grateful dead whose name I hate to even mention had what was a Robert Hunter and John Barlow.

But many there are other examples. I'm going to talk about that here a little bit.

All right. I'm curious to hear who you come up with. We'll hear more about that in a minute on Sound Opinions.

Hello listeners. It is your friends, Jim and Greg coming to you with a throwback to our public radio days. We're doing a plan to drive.

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