Bonus Song Thursday - Johnny Cash and Fiona Apple "Father and Son"

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2017

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

It's Bonus Song Thursday! This week the boys in broadcast are tackling yet another duet: Johnny Cash and Fiona Apple! Bill and Brian discuss how it reminds them of a different Johnny Cash partnership from the early 70s, how singular artists like Fiona and Cash are at their best when they "do their own thing" (even when they're working together), and what qualifies as overkill for posthumous recordings. Additionally, they uncover the origins of the mysterious voices on Tom Petty's Damn the Torpedos album, and Bill lists his most representative artists of each decade. NOTE: check out our friend Chris Nova's band Ruby Bones (http://rubybones.bandcamp.com) whose album comes out on 5/12. And catch their free-admission album release party at Asbury Park Yacht Club on Friday May 19, 2017.

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0:00.0	It's not time to make a change. Just relax and take it easy.
0:12.0	You're still young. Let's your fault. There's so much you have to know.
0:19.0	Find a girl, settle down. down if you want you can marry look at me I am old but I'm happy
0:30.7	hey I'm bell and I'm Brian and this is the great album's podcast podcast, Bonus Song Thursday. Bonus.
0:39.1	What were we just listening to right there, Brian?
0:41.3	We were listening to Johnny Cash featuring Fiona Apple, though we didn't really get to her part yet.
0:48.5	Their cover of Father and Son by Kat Stevens.
0:52.4	What we do here every week on the podcast is take and I'm over music and talk about what
0:56.7	makes it great.
0:57.5	Then we follow it up with a bonus episode where we take a single song either by the same
1:02.6	artist or something tangentially related and do the same kind of deep dive into it.
1:08.2	And maybe a little later we'll do some listener interactions,
1:12.6	emails and things like that.
1:14.5	Yeah, and this kind of does a little bit of both.
1:20.7	You know, it's Fiona, it's kind of like the Stevie Nix Tom Petty where, you know, we kind of add another prominent artist into the mix.
1:25.5	Yeah, it's tangential, but also the same thing.
1:28.5	And this is kind of an extra layer because it's a Cat Stevens.
1:32.4	So yeah, there is, we were debating on what Fiona song to talk about.
1:39.1	And, you know, maybe the obvious choice may have been to talk about criminal.
1:43.5	But we kind of touched on that in the main program a little bit,
1:46.4	so we figured we might move past that.
1:48.5	Speaking of criminal, one thing that I said I would do,
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