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I'm Brian Hyatt. This is Rolling Stone Music Now.

So in the 1990s, a really from a period between about 91 and 95, a window open were all kinds of bands, all kinds of acts, made it to the mainstream who might not have done so in any other era.

One of the last rock bands to make it into the MTV and Radio pipeline in that time was

Bluth Traveler, who'd been around for a bunch of years at that point, coming from the same

New York City jam scene as Spin Doctors.

Thirty years ago, in 1995, they scored two big hit singles, Run Around and Hook, from their

album 4, which had come out the year before.

Today, that band's frontman, Harmonica virtuoso John Popper, joins me to talk about that anniversary,

to explain why he can't stand the harmonica playing of Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and Alanis Morissette.

To talk about 2025, a year, it turns out, he barely survived.

Here's my very colorful conversation with John Popper.

I would like to start off the interview.

You know, it's funny, because my first Rolling Stone interview I ever did,

I was annoyed because there was a misprint in our lyrics on our liner notes.

And so before we started the interview, I corrected, I made corrections.

And so that's the very first blues traveler Rolling Stone interview started with that.

I would like to now start this interview with a correction I would like to make for Wikipedia. See, I've gotten remarried just over a year ago. I got married

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