Episode 76 - The Bacon Brothers

Sodajerker On Songwriting

Sodajerker

Sodajerker, Barber, Simon, Music Interviews, Liverpool, Songwriters, Musicians, Oconnor, Songwriting, Interviews, Music, Podcast, Brian

4.9 • 885 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2015

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Actor/musician Kevin Bacon and composer Michael Bacon, aka The Bacon Brothers, sit down with Sodajerker to discuss the songwriting techniques behind songs like 'Hookers and Blow', 'Only A Good Woman', 'July Away', 'Ten Years in Mexico', 'New Year's Day', 'Guess Again', 'Unhappy Birthday', 'She is the Heart' and 'Go My Way (The iPod Song)'. In addition to the stories behind the songs, the brothers describe growing up in Philadelphia, their working relationship, and plans for the future.

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0:00.0	The Hello and welcome to So Dijaker on songwriting. The podcast we liked so much, we bought the company. This is Brian, seated at my left hand
0:25.6	is Simon and joining us today is a Philadelphia and singing and songwriting duo who've been recording
0:30.4	and performing a hugely appealing blend of folk, rock, soul and country for two decades.
0:35.6	Appropriately enough, given their roots in the city of Brotherly Love, they also happen to be siblings.
0:40.3	We're delighted to welcome the excellent Bacon Brothers to the show.
0:43.2	We sure are.
0:44.2	Michael and Kevin released their seventh album, 36 cents in September 2014.
0:48.8	And as we record this episode in early June 2015, they're giving up for a month long US tour.
0:54.0	In fact they're taking a little break from rehearsing for that tour just to chat to us
0:57.6	which is extremely decent of them. It's not a bad gig doing this podcast
1:01.0	is it? No sirry. Before we chat to the guys we'll give you a very condensed history.
1:05.3	As we said Michael and Kevin Bacon hail from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the northeast of the United States.
1:11.2	Michael, the elder of the two, was born in 1949 and became interested in music from a very early age, as did his kid brother Kevin, nine years as junior.
1:19.5	The boys played music together as kids along with their sister Hilda. I think they even had their own jug band.
1:24.4	And the whole Bacon Brood were enthusiastically supported in their creative endeavors by their parents
1:29.3	who were both eminent Philadelphians. Michael was already a multi-instrumentalist by his teens.
1:34.4	He formed his first rock band, Peter and the Wolves, whilst at college, and in the late 60s cut his teeth
1:39.2	performing at various clubs around Philly like the Electric Factory.
1:42.1	I think he also recorded for Columbia didn't he with
1:44.6	the band called Good News? Mm-hmm. I believe they played the Isle of White Festival in that year, like 1970.
1:50.3	In the early 70s he up sticks and relocated to Nashville where he became a staff songwriter.
1:55.0	A few years later, after moving back to Philly and studying composition, he headed to New York to pursue a career in film scoring,
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