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Audio Autopsy, 1984-91: Austin's The Reivers, Capitol Records; Brad's First Impressions: Collab with Emm as in Music
Meet The Reivers, courtesy Discogs: “Austin, Texas indie rock/pop band formed in 1984 as Zeitgeist.
 • Brad Kyle and Emm as in Music
Audio Autopsy, 2025: Will Worden, "The Only One & All The Others" LP Reveals Countrypolitan's New Voice
Pronounced like "warden," Will moved from Texas to California in 2018 after giving business school a try. He grew up in Sugar Land, 20 miles SW from my…
 • Brad Kyle and The Twelve Inch (Disco/80s)
Audio Autopsy, 1968: The Graham Gouldman Thing LP; Collab w/Hugh Jones of The Record Store Years
Before the hits with 10cc in the '70s, and melting into Wax with Andrew Gold in the '80s, Graham Gouldman was a hit songwriter for hire in the '60s…
 • Brad Kyle and Hugh Jones
🎙Audio Autopsy, 1980: Linda Ronstadt, "Mad Love," and Her New Wave Hired Gun, The Cretones' Mark Goldenberg
From fronting early Eagles to topping pop charts with bold ballads & rockers, Linda signals this hard left toward New Wave with Mad Love, but hires a…
 • Brad Kyle and Dan Pal
Audio Autopsy, 1973: Bonnie Raitt, "Takin' My Time" LP: Collab with Andres of The Vinyl Room
When Andy told me he loved Bonnie's 3rd album, I had to try and arrange a collab of some sort! I loved Bonnie, in real time, from her 1971 start (I was…
 • Brad Kyle and Andres
Audio Autopsy, 1971: Who Was Arnold Corns & Why Did David Bowie Produce His Single?
While we're at it, who on earth was Freddy Burretti, and why should we care? A pretty cool single I picked up in a record store's import section in 1974…
 • Brad Kyle
Audio Autopsy, 1972-'85🌈Chris Rainbow, Alan Parsons' One-Man Beach Boys
Rainbow had a fan in Brian Wilson, his inspiration. Chris worked with Alan Parsons, Camel & others, and even created & sang jingles for the BBC! His was…
 • Brad Kyle and Mark Edward Randall
Audio Autopsy, 2013: One Direction No One Expected: The Blondie & Undertones Medley For Charity
To the hipper-than-thou, kindly adjust your "cool quotient" to allow for the following several moments where a billion-selling teen-pop group is…
 • Brad Kyle
Audio Autopsy, 1967:🎵Victor Garber & The Sugar Shoppe: Actor, 75, Had a '60s Folk-Pop Start🎶
He's excelled on the stage, and on screens big and small. But, before all that, he was a '60s solo folk singer, and was in a folk group who broke into…
 • Brad Kyle
Audio Autopsy, 1981👟Sneaker: 2 Albums, 1 Hit + Steely Dan Guitarist, Jeff Baxter, Producing
They took their name from a Steely Dan song, covered one of their songs, and even had their guitarist produce their only two albums! Pretzel logic that…
 • Brad Kyle
Audio Autopsy: Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown Power Classic Rock Into New Millennium
Anachronism: "A chronological inconsistency, or the act of placing something in the wrong time period." Rarely does a rock act have their pic accompany…
 • Brad Kyle and Christopher Bradley
Audio Autopsy: Michael Zager Boogies From Late '60s Rock to '70s Disco🕺"Let's All Chant"💃
The rare career move across decades from a ten-piece rock band with a female lead singer to a hit-making career producing disco records makes this New…
 • Brad Kyle and The Twelve Inch (Disco/80s)
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