380 - Toots & The Maytals - Funky Kingston - Ian Edwards
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EPISODE SUMMARY:
Every era has its vibe, and the quickest way to understand it is to listen to its music. Maybe you only heard this handful of times in the background of your childhood home on the radio while your mom was making Saturday breakfast. But you listen to an album like Jamaican rocksteady legends Toots & The Maytals's 1973 album Funky Kingston and it immediately transports you back to that moment in time. At least that's how comedian Ian Edwards sees it. His unique journey from England to Jamaica to the U.S. has shaped his one of a kind voice as a joke writer, as apparent in his work on Netflix’s Friends From College, HBO’s Crashing, and NBC’s The Carmichael Show, and his 2019 stand up special IanTalk on Comedy Central.
SHOW NOTES:
01:00 - Intro
07:30 - Vibe of the times
12:15 - Medicinal listening
25:30 - Just above barefoot
30:00 - Funky Town
39:30 - The History of Swearing
44:00 - The good parts and the bad parts
50:15 - Facts!
58:30 - A closet at Rockefeller Plaza
1:01:45 - A place you can feel home
1:07:30 - Lightning round
1:11:30 - Outro/New music
Check out the music history of this album here.