Sam Sodomsky is a critic, musician, and podcaster. I first learned about Sam through the podcast Late-era which he co-hosted. Through Late-Era I was inspired to dig deeper into Sam’s writings on Bruce Springsteen and would see Sam pop up across the web covering more music that I was interested in. When I thought of inviting him on the show to coincide with the release of Track II (the lost albums boxset released by Springsteen this year) I thought I would check out his project The Bird Calls’ new record Melody Trail. I ended up loving the record and from there I plotted on what we could cover in under two hours.

We of course talk about Bruce, but we get into Sam’s parallel fascination with Metal, The Bird Calls, the music that he loves, his onstage wardrobe, and whatever happened to Welcome to Chicago.

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Band’s Mentioned:

The Bird Calls, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Frank Sinatra, Aerosmith, Jethro Tull, Phish, Neil Young, The Beatles, Toto, Men At Work, Christopher Cross, Billy Joel, Black Sabbath, Mastodon, Baroness, Wolves in the Throne Room, Sun O))), Boris, Dark Throne, Death, Dying Fetus, Deafheaven, Pallbearer, Blood Incantation, Tomb Mold, Enya, Stone Roses, Elliott Smith, Ween, Jeff Tweedy, Silver Jews, Destroyer, Yo La Tengo, The National, U2, Guided by Voices, Martin Newell, The Cleaners From Venus, Chicago, Advance Base, David Bazan, Cass McCombs, Ariel Pink