A Positive Jam
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A Positive Jam

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A Positive Jam breaks great albums down track by track to find out what makes the music great, what goes into the songs, and why these albums matter. The second season covers The Hold Steady's breakthrough second album, Separation Sunday, an ambitious follow-up that saw the band refine their sound, their style, and their narrative approach, and which put them on the map with the wider music-listening audience. Season 2 is hosted by Shawn Westfall, with Mike Taylor and Daniel Shvartsman alongside. It will feature a variety of guests while focusing on the key lyrical themes of the concept album, its resonance with classic works in both rock and roll and beyond, and the way it built on The Hold Steady's debut album, Almost Killed Me (subject of Season 1 on A Positive Jam) in almost every meaningful facet. 

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episode Season 2 Bonus Episode 2: A Reading Of The Wasteland artwork
Season 2 Bonus Episode 2: A Reading Of The Wasteland

As listeners will know, A Positive Jam Season 2 host Shawn Westfall has called Separation Sunday our generation's The Wasteland, and so our final bonus episode of the season puts that to the test. We read T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland in a Craig Finn-inspired voice. We think and hope you will enjoy it as another lens on the wisdom of The Hold Steady. You can follow along here: https://poets.org/poem/waste-land This wraps up season 2. Get in touch with us on Twitter at @shawnwestfall, @mbrookstaylor, or @danielshortman, or @shortmanstudios. Email us at mail@shortmanstudios.com [mail@shortmanstudios.com]. And hold steady.

07. apr. 2021 - 27 min
episode Season 2 Bonus Episode 1: Dictating Doxologies With Father Christian Raab artwork
Season 2 Bonus Episode 1: Dictating Doxologies With Father Christian Raab

In our first of two bonus episodes for Season 2, we welcome Father Christian Raab, a Catholic Priest and scholar who also has a musical and Midwestern background, which gives him quite the perspective on Separation Sunday. We talk about beauty, man and God searching for each other, female mystics, the strings of baptism, other St. Theresas, and, somehow, Evelyn Waugh. Stay turned for our second and final bonus episode of Season 2 next week.

31. mar. 2021 - 47 min
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Season 2 Track 11: How A Resurrection Really Feels

We're crashing the Easter mass, hair done up in broken glass, and despite what the mural says up on East 13th (which one?) we're going to walk on back. For the last track of Separation Sunday, we do one of our closest readings, wondering about video booths and redemption, amen cadences and calm and collected priests. Somehow we span from Wilco to Mighty Max to crying in the shower. But maybe as you hear this you'll hear us say we love you too. (Also, bonus episodes coming starting next week!)

24. mar. 2021 - 52 min
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Season 2 Track 10: Crucifixion Cruise

"Crucifixion Cruise" is the briefest track on Separation Sunday, and arguably both the most forgettable and the biggest sign of concept album excess on the album. But! But there are some serious questions the song poses that we try to put our mouth around, like: * What's the difference between a poem and a song? * Why is it good that this is a concept album? Or is it good that it's a concept album? * What do Simone Biles, Pink Floyd, Canto IV of the Wasteland, and the Avalanches have to do with Separation Sunday. Climb aboard, we think you're going to like the view.

10. mar. 2021 - 48 min
episode Season 2 Track 9: Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night artwork
Season 2 Track 9: Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night

Hard rocking blues, scene reports and literary or religious spirits, and one of the tightest cover bands we've ever heard: "Chicago Seemed Tired Last Night" has a lot going on. And since Craig Finn told us what to celebrate, we invited a special guest to join us: Matthew Hess, founder of the famed Clicks and Hisses [https://clicksandhisses.com/] Hold Steady fan resource. He joins us to explain why this song is so important, and we go through the lyrics and the music to make sense of one of the band's high as hell moments, while acting out one of the key lines from the song all the while. And after listening, check out Clicks and Hisses if you haven't already: https://clicksandhisses.com/

03. mar. 2021 - 1 h 4 min
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