Nashville Revolution: Bobby Braddock, Don Schlitz, and Don Henry
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
Pushkin Industries
4.5 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2018
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Malcolm Gladwell talks to three songwriters who helped transform country music in the 1970s. Gone were cowboy hats, train whistles and church suppers. In came songs about desperation, loss, changes, and regret that changed how Nashville made music and spoke to a new generation of audiences. Bobby Braddock, Don Schlitz and Don Henry talk about their influences, trade stories, and play acoustic versions of their classic hits.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin. |
| 0:09.7 | Hi, this is Steve Martin. |
| 0:12.6 | Throughout my career I've been a member of various duos. |
| 0:15.7 | I was a wild and crazy guy with Dan Acroid, and more recently I teamed up with Martin |
| 0:19.8 | Short, we've done a live show, and who lose only murders in the building. |
| 0:24.5 | Now, Pushkin Industries is bringing another pairing into the world. |
| 0:28.2 | Me and my friend of three decades, bestselling author, SAS New Yorker writer, Rack Untour, |
| 0:35.2 | Adam Gopnik. |
| 0:36.4 | Our audio original, So Many Steves, afternoons with Steve Martin, is a series of conversations |
| 0:42.2 | about my career and created life recorded over the course of a year in my apartment. |
| 0:47.5 | You can find So Many Steves at Pushkin.fm and wherever audiobooks are sold. |
| 0:56.1 | In the 1970s and 80s there was a revolution in Nashville that was every bit as important |
| 1:02.0 | to country music as the Beatles were to rock and roll. |
| 1:05.9 | A new generation of songwriters came along who didn't just want to write about Cowboys |
| 1:10.6 | and pick up trucks. |
| 1:12.2 | They wanted to write about emotion and conflict and to bear their souls. |
| 1:17.6 | My name is Bobby Brattick and I'm bald in our right songs and borderline mentally ill. |
| 1:25.6 | I'm Don Henry and I've been very spoiled being able to enjoy what I love doing for the |
| 1:30.2 | longest time and I still continue to do it to this day. |
| 1:33.4 | I'm Don Schlitz and I, with no particular talent at all, I was 20 years old and $80 and |
| 1:41.3 | got off a bus and I was in Nashville. |
| 1:46.0 | My name is Malcolm Gladwell. |
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