Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill, and today we're talking about the Walkman's 2012 release, Heaven. 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 cap it all off with a

track-by-track review in which we talk

about the things we love about the songs and the things we think about while listening to them.

Regular listeners of the show will notice that Brian's voice is not joining me right now in the

intro, but rest assured he does join us for our conversation.

It's just that timing things worked out that he couldn't join me for the wraparound.

So it's totally fun.

I'm just going to do this little bit of an intro right here, give you guys a little bit of a bio in a minute,

and then we'll jump into our conversation with Brian and our guest, Chris Fox, formerly Chris Nova, he was a guest on the podcast last year when we

talked about Spoons, Gaga, Gaga, Gagga, Gagga. Chris is a local musician from New Jersey,

plays in a band called Ruby Bones, very, very good rock band. We talk a bit about that with him

and about their sound and things like that. But

in addition to that, Chris has definitely become like a friend of ours over the last year, too.

We were actually, before we hit record on this episode, he just kind of came over early and hung out

with, you know, he and I were hanging out with guitars in hand, just kind of showing each other

some songs and stuff and having a lot of fun with that. So before we get to our conversation with Chris, I'm going to give

you guys a little bit of a background on the Walkman so that we're all on the same page on names,

dates, and places that during the conversation, I like to prefer not to have to explain that every

single time.

So we do it right here up top.

So the Walkman formed in the year 2000 out of the ashes of previous bands,

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