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as ever.

I'm Jason P. Woodbury, and this week on Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions, I am pleased to welcome Richard Thompson back to the show.

If you dig our program, there's a pretty solid chance that you already know that Thompson is one of the founding fathers of British folk rock, known for his work with the pioneering group Fairport Convention.

and singer-songwriters like Sandy Denny, his former wife Linda Thompson, Nick Drake, and others.

Writing about Richard Thompson, Aquarium drunkard's own Tyler Wilcox praised his, quote, unparalleled instrumental prowess, his superhumanly sensitive tone, and his singular melodies.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Thompson last joined us in 2021 to discuss his memoir, B-Swing, Losing My Way and Finding My Voice, 1967 to 1975.

on some of that stuff.

We've definitely been meaning to do this for quite some time.

I've been a fan of your work for a while, you know, what you do over at Aquarium Drunkard and then, you know, your animations.

And it's really, really cool, man.

I really, really love what you do.

And for me, so like this film, Clambake, it's my third personal short film.

In between all of those is freelance work, illustration, and animation.

And then, you know, there's also the writing stuff with Aquarium Drunkard and occasionally some other publications.

But it's primarily with the visual work, you know, freelance stuff comes in.

Yeah

... people in record stores and all that stuff, and I think at Aquarium Drunkard we definitely try to think of ourselves in the lineage of that.

You know, where it's like maybe not everybody...

We try not to write, you know, about the records that just everybody else is covering so much.

Awesome, man.

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Fortunately, this was an unfounded fear.

As you'll hear, he was more than a little accommodating and more than willing to get deep with me here on Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions, which comes at you each and every Wednesday, produced in partnership with the Talkhouse podcast network.

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Johnny Marr on Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions.

Yeah, one, two, three, four, five.

So I wonder if it's to do with the Wi-Fi.

And we have podcaster, musician, and writer Jason Woodbury joining us.

He is the host of the Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions Podcast.

And he's coming to us from Phoenix, Arizona today.

Hey, Jason.

Our theme song is Disarmament Blues by Lou Turner.

The transition music on this episode is by Andy McLeod, and the outro music is Wingback Chair by Emily Hilliard with Joe Hilliard.

Our special guest is the writer, podcaster, producer, and musician Jason P. Woodbury, who edits the online music magazine Aquarium Drunkard, where he also hosts the Transmissions interview podcast.

Our sources are the film Lost Angel, The Genius of Judy Sill, as well as newspaper and magazine clippings, YouTube performance videos, and album liner notes.

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Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions.

This week on the show, guitarist and psychotherapist Matt Baldwin, who is here to teach you how to play guitar.

Okay, not exactly, but Baldwin is the author of How to Play Guitar, a series of zines that have been collected into a handsome book edition.

You have infinite number of things that you could be listening to, so the fact that you've chosen to tune into Transmissions and be here with us means so much to me and the entire Transmissions team.

Alright, so let's get into it.

Here is my friend and your future sage, Matt Baldwin, discussing how to play guitar and much more on Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions.

Thanks for being with us.

A singer-songwriter.

Um, again, in that sort of aquarium drunkard vein, I would say.

Mm-hmm.

[laughs]

Yeah

... what I w- the, uh, what I would like to see...

I- I mean, he's definitely in that aquarium drunkard lane.

I'll definitely listen to it.

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Welcome back to Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions.

I'm your host, Jason P. Woodbury.

You'll hear me repeat it in our conversation, but there are moments watching comedian James Austin Johnson's new special, Heel Yeah, that I feel like I was witnessing a stand-up routine created just for me.

They are in the midst of their new Leonard Cohen series, and I'm absolutely loving it.

James Austin Johnson's Heel Yeah is currently available on Gorilla Comedy Plus before launching on 800 Pound Gorilla's YouTube channel on September 22nd.

So here to music nerd out, talk Dylan deep cuts, dig into the filmography of Wes Anderson, and share what he said to Scarlett Johansson when he met her is James Austin Johnson on Aquarium Drunkard Transmissions.

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