Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill. And I'm James. And what are we talking about today, James?

We're talking about Bar Naked Ladies' 2000 album Maroon.

But we What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it great.

We try to have the conversation around the music that fans do, and we tie it all together with a track-by-track review,

in which we discuss the things we think about while listening to the songs and the things we like about them too. And most people are noticing

right now that my usual co-host, Brian, is not the voice that we just heard a moment ago.

Instead, it is a friend of the podcast, James Anderson.

James, welcome back to the show.

Thank you so much for having me.

I'm excited to be back.

You're going to be my guest co-host for today, since Brian wasn't able to join me.

He's celebrating his mother's birthday.

Priorities.

Priorities have to be taken.

And I'm excited to be here.

He gave me a heads up and everything. He let me know that he was going to be doing this

ahead of time. So I was like, okay, fine. I'll just find somebody else. I don't need you.

That was my reaction. No, actually, James, you were very kind to ask. You know, it's like,

did you do, do you want me to do Brian's part since he won't be there? Because normally, you know, it's like, did you do, do you want me to do Brian's part since he won't be there?

Because normally, you know, I just do it myself.

But, you know, thank you very much for taking the time to do the research and, and do Brian's part.

Absolutely.

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