Trout Mask Podcast

Now here’s a thing … a whole podcast about the Trout Mask Replica album … and not just one podcast but one podcast for EACH track.

This is being bought to you by the Prince Track by Track Podcast set up by Darren Husted (see below for more information about the origin of this podcast series). Darren asked some friends if they’d be interested in creating a podcast for a favourite album and Joel Bakker suggested Trout Mask.

Joel then set about convincing assorted Beefheart fans to choose a track, and with him hosting recorded their discussion about the track, the album, how they got into Beefheart and other Beefheart-related topics. Each podcast lasts around 45 minutes. The full list of who’s talking about which track is below … you may recognise a few names in there!

The podcast begins on 1 October 2020 with Joel giving an introduction to the series. His first discussion is with David Lipson on 2 October about the album’s opening track Frownland and then continues a track a day throughout the month.

To listen to the podcasts as they become available head over to the website – https://prince-track-by-track.pinecast.co – you can then follow the links for Google or Apple Podcasts.

On Twitter it can be found on @princepodcast and @_trackbytrack

The Radar Station would like to thank Darren for allowing us to offer a special pre-release opportunity to hear the first episode about Frownland:

Darren relates the story behind Prince Track by Track:

I started covering Prince’s catalogue track by track from his debut album to his final song (and a few extra tracks he’d written for others) which took me two years (and included a detour into Beck’s Prince influenced album Midnite Vultures). Once I finished that I decided as a bonus to cover the classic period Stevie Wonder, 1971 to 1976. And finished up with 597 episodes in just under two and a half years. At the start of the year I asked others if they would want to cover albums in this format and I’d upload them to the Prince Track by Track stream as it was still getting a good amount of downloads and it felt like an easy enough thing to do, given how quickly I’d done 600 episodes, having guest hosts come in and cover albums they were passion about leaving me to just edit and upload was a smaller burden. Joel had suggested TMR, and there were a half dozen other albums others have suggested, and with lockdown I didn’t want to pressure people to record episodes, nor did I have the energy to edit them. Joel has been the first to organise his guests and start recording so his will be the first presented project on Track by Track.