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Speaker 1: A podcast playground. I'm Buzznight, the host of the Taking

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Speaker 1: a Walk Music History on Foot podcast, and I want

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Speaker 1: to thank you for your support of what we're up

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Speaker 1: and when you do follow us, you guarantee you won't

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Speaker 1: miss an episode. Today it's December twenty second, twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: and we are at the North Bridge and Historic Conquered

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Speaker 1: Massachusetts and we have an experiment. It's a solo episode

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Speaker 1: with me, that's right, me focusing on some recent music news,

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Speaker 1: some upcoming events around the Taking a Walk podcast, and

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Speaker 1: also some music history. And I guess, depending on whether

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Speaker 1: I'm a dreadful guest or not, we might drop one

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Speaker 1: of these type of episodes from time to time so

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Speaker 1: we can talk about one of our favorite topics, which

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Speaker 1: is our love of music. All right, So first some

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Speaker 1: recent music news Billboard magazine, which is a great source here,

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Speaker 1: they just mentioned the fact that this year Christmas music

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Speaker 1: streaming is actually cannibalizing holiday music sales. Now. The report says,

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Speaker 1: since twenty seventeen, seasonal music album sales the physical formats

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Speaker 1: along with the digital side have dropped sixty one point eight.

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Speaker 1: According to one major label executive, this might mean that

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Speaker 1: the streaming is really impacting, you know, the Christmas sales. Now.

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Speaker 1: One factor potentially driving this is the fact that this year,

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two, there hasn't been one big new

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Speaker 1: Christmas album dropping, so that might have really had an impact.

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Speaker 1: Once again, thanks to Billboard dot com for that story.

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Speaker 1: Also courtesy of Billboard. In the news is that Elton

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Speaker 1: John topped the November box Score report with a sixty

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Speaker 1: million dollar gross as his Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour

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Speaker 1: brought its final eight shows of twenty twenty two. You

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Speaker 1: Gotta Love EJ. Sad to hear the passing of Terry Hall,

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Speaker 1: the lead singer from the English ska band called the Specials.

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Speaker 1: He died at age sixty three. The band formed in

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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven and they were known for frequently supporting

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Speaker 1: the clash On tour. So rest in peace, Terry Hall.

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Speaker 1: Upcoming on Taking a Walk, The talented musician Will Pequin

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Speaker 1: was captivated an audience with his unique indie blend. So

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Speaker 1: He's coming up and in January twenty twenty three, a

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Speaker 1: few episodes from our Nashville Recordings. Singer, songwriter, fiddle player

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Speaker 1: and founder of the High Women, Amanda Showers. Amanda Shires

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Speaker 1: is going to be on Taking a Walk. I loved

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Speaker 1: her stories of playing with John Prime and her stories

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Speaker 1: of starting out in the business with the Texas Playboys.

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Speaker 1: Also in January, Paul Kingsbury, he takes us on a

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Speaker 1: walk at the Country Music Hall of Fame. He's the

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Speaker 1: managing editor at the museum, and you're gonna love the

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Speaker 1: journey that he takes us on. We got this cool

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Speaker 1: exhibit in there, this Western flavored La scene country rock exhibit.

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Speaker 1: So he'll take us on literally a walk right through

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Speaker 1: On taking a Walk, Music History on Foot coming up

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Speaker 1: in January. On this day in music History, December twenty second.

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Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy eight, the stage version of Nielsen's musical

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Speaker 1: The Point opens in London, featuring ex Monkeys Davy Jones

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Speaker 1: and Mickey Dolan's. Also in nineteen seventy six, remember Isaac

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Speaker 1: Haye's shaft that cool tune. Well, on this day he

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Speaker 1: filed for bankruptcy. Also in nineteen seventy six, Bob Seeger

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Speaker 1: earned the first of many gold records with the live

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Speaker 1: album Live Bullet two thousand on this day, the Cohen Brothers.

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Speaker 1: Remember that movie, Oh Brother, Where art Thou Love? That

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Speaker 1: one one of my favorites. It hit the theaters and

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Speaker 1: that song Man a Constant sorrow centerpiece produced by the

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Speaker 1: great T Bone Burnett, that sold seven million copies in America,

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Speaker 1: And that happened on this day also in history. And

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Speaker 1: then one more little tidbit on Greg Ohlman. He made

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Speaker 1: his acting debut as a drug kingpin in the movie

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