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Walking the streets all alone Hello and welcome to the Great Albums podcast.

My name is Bill, and what we were just listening to right there was True Trans Soul Rebel by Against Me.

If you've never listened to the podcast before, what we do hear every week is take a different album of music and talk about what makes it great.

Usually I have a partner co-host by the name of Brian Erickson, but he is actually on tour this

weekend with a band that he backs up by playing guitar, singing a little backing vocals, and that's

the Jesse Elliott band. Jesse was actually a guest of ours on a couple of episodes.

He did Weezer's Pinkerton with us, and he also did Elvis Costello's My Aim Is True.

So as I was saying, what the podcast is about is we try to have conversations that kind of happen around being a fan of music.

And because Brian won't be with me today,

I actually enlisted the help of a fellow podcaster by the name of Justin Tyler,

who's going to be joining me shortly via Skype.

And we're going to have a good conversation about against me's transgender dysphoria

blues, the 2014 album, that came out after frontwoman Laura Jane Grace transitioned. She came

out as transgender and she started living her life as a woman. So we talk a lot about the band and their history,

and then also about the time around when Laura Jane was transitioning and how it led to the

development of this album. So I won't go into too much detail before we get into that. Because Justin and I

have a pretty good conversation. Some of you are actually going to recognize Justin's voice,

if not his name. He actually came on the podcast about a year ago under his kind of nickname

Maksha Gren. And he was current, he was at that time a co-host of the pruning session

podcast, which was an extension of his work with audio bonsai.com and where they do a large

playlist of songs and, um, of new music that just came out and kind of rating and reviewing it.

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