Behind the Vinyl Podcast Stingray Podcast Network

Lisa Loeb, 'Stay (I Missed You)', swings by with a great story of how a phone call from “an acquaintance” Ethan Hawke, landed her the gig of a lifetime.

Fred Penner... What you may not know about Fred is, he’s an amazing guitar player along with being a naturally born storyteller. Fred explains how he transformed an old folk song into an ear-worm from our childhood, 'The Cat Came Back'. 

Jay Semko and Don Schmid of The Northern Pikes shed some light on their song 'Girl With A Problem'.
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Lou Gramm of Foreigner enlightens us with how a simple drum beat evolved into lyrics for one of their biggest hits, 'Juke Box Hero'.

Margo Timmins of The Cowboy Junkies recalls some memorable experiences that came to be due to their song 'Sweet Jane'.

Lead singer/bassist from Platinum Blonde, Mark Holmes tells us how the idea of “living in the moment” helped them achieve the success they were hoping for with 'Standing in the Dark'.
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Paul Young sheds some light on his song 'Every time You Go Away' and how it was originally meant for a TV show.

Sam Reid and Alan Frew of Glass Tiger. Here’s the guys on the song 'Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)', the writing process and having a few beers with Bryan Adams to pitch him on being part of the song.

Jean-Marc Pisapia of The Box who (I kid you not) recorded this episode while wearing green Wellington rubber boots. Jean-Marc talks 'Closer Together'.
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Alex Lifeson of Rush goes into detail about recording 'Tom Sawyer' in the winter.

Gino Vannelli talks 'Black Cars' and how it’s not really about, black cars.

Bassplayer/singer and founding member Sandy Horne from the Spoons on their song 'Romantic Traffic'.
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In this episode, Randy Bachman explains how one of his biggest songs, 'You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet' , wasn’t really meant to be a song at all, but more of a sibling rivalry thing.

'Jane' from the Barenaked Ladies and former member, Steven Page giving his side of song’s story.

Michael Sadler of Saga reminisces about the hoops he had to jump through and the dangers he put himself into to “achieve a certain sound” for the producers and the song 'On the Loose'.
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Fred Schneider of The B-52's joins us to give some background on their biggest hit, “Love Shack” and what exactly a love shack is.

Ian Thomas talks about life on the road, strip joints and missing home with "Painted Ladies".

Freddy Curci and Steve DeMarchi of Sheriff stopped by our studios to give some insight on “When I’m With You”.
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