The Kate and Vin Scelsa Podcast
1) Episode 25 - Pat Conroy
Pat Conroy was a rare writer, both a critical and popular success. He wrote The Water Is Wide, The Lords Of Discipline, The Great Santini and The Prince Of Tides among many other titles. His 1995 appe...Show More
2) Episode 24 - Jeff Buckley
Jeff Buckley never knew his father Tim Buckley, the influential 60s-70s songwriter vocalist, yet their lives shared many similar aspects. During the early 1990's Jeff was a ubiquitous fixture on NYC’...Show More
3) Episode 23 - Laurie Anderson
Songwriter and performance artist Laurie Anderson visited Idiot's Delight late one Sunday night after a concert appearance in NYC. Vin says, “This was a real intimate late night/early morning conversa...Show More
4) Episode 22 - Joan Baez
Vin's interview with Joan Baez from January 31, 1993 - right at the beginning of Bill Clinton’s first presidential term. Joan Baez was 52 years old and entering a new phase in her already decades-long...Show More
5) Episode 21 - Ray Price
Vin’s interview with country music legend Ray Price from June 11th, 2000 on WNEW, during one of the few appearances Ray ever made as a solo artist in New York. In which Vin and Ray discuss Hank Willia...Show More
6) Episode 20 - WNEW Part 3 - 12/8/80
Vin talks about being on WNEW the night that John Lennon died
7) Episode 19 - WNEW Part 2 - T-Shirt and Razoo Kelley
Part 2 of Vin's time at WNEW, chronicling the years that Vin received a series of mysterious letters from the legends known only as T-Shirt and Razoo Kelley. How the phenomenon grew, and how no one wi...Show More
8) Episode 18 - WNEW Part 1
Vin's journey to WNEW in the 70's, including unemployment and a misguided stopover in Long Island. Dave Herman, Scott Muni, Alison Steele, and WNEW's brief moment with an all-female DJ lineup.
9) Episode 17 - Odetta
An interview that Vin did with the legendary singer, songwriter and activist Odetta, originally broadcast on "Idiots' Delight" on WNEW-FM in 2000
10) Episode 16 - A Scelsa History of Protest
Kate has Vin and Freddie sixties-splain their relationship to the history of activism and protest in this country and all three Scelsas try to figure out if the world is ending. Vin only embarrasses K...Show More