54 episodes

KCRW’s acclaimed music documentary podcast, Lost Notes, is back for its fourth season! Co-hosts Novena Carmel (KCRW) and Michael Barnes (KCRW / KPFK / Artform Radio) guide you through eight wildly different and deeply human stories, each set against the kaleidoscopic backdrop of LA’s soul and R&B scene of the 1950s-1970s.

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    • 4.9 • 24 Ratings

KCRW’s acclaimed music documentary podcast, Lost Notes, is back for its fourth season! Co-hosts Novena Carmel (KCRW) and Michael Barnes (KCRW / KPFK / Artform Radio) guide you through eight wildly different and deeply human stories, each set against the kaleidoscopic backdrop of LA’s soul and R&B scene of the 1950s-1970s.

    Dear Ruth: How Ruth Dolphin (Re-)Built a Musical Empire

    Dear Ruth: How Ruth Dolphin (Re-)Built a Musical Empire

    Lost Notes celebrates the life of Ruth Dolphin, who went from being a terrified widow with four kids to the mother of an LA musical empire.

    • 41 min
    Go with the Flow: Community, Virality, and the Politics of Dancing

    Go with the Flow: Community, Virality, and the Politics of Dancing

    Lost Notes presents a story about Soul Train, the Slauson Shuffle, and what’s lost – and found – when a regional dance suddenly belongs to the world.

    • 36 min
    Places & Spaces: The Mizell Brothers’ LA Alchemy

    Places & Spaces: The Mizell Brothers’ LA Alchemy

    Lost Notes introduces a pair of brothers - one from NASA, the other from Motown - who launched an entire musical universe from their Hollywood Hills hideout.

    • 41 min
    Kendrick Lamar and the big samples (from “Switched on Pop”)

    Kendrick Lamar and the big samples (from “Switched on Pop”)

    Lost Notes returns with a brand new episode next Wednesday. To tide you over, we’re featuring a deep dive into Kendrick Lamar’s 2022 album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers from our friends at Switched on Pop.

    • 28 min
    Viva Tirado: The South/East LA Connection

    Viva Tirado: The South/East LA Connection

    Lost Notes explores how the song “Viva Tirado” exemplifies the inter-generational musical conversation between LA’s Black and Brown communities.

    • 22 min
    My Lady’s Frustration: How Fela Kuti Found Afrobeat in LA

    My Lady’s Frustration: How Fela Kuti Found Afrobeat in LA

    Lost Notes explores how Fela Kuti’s time in LA in 1969 was instrumental in the creation of his legendary Afrobeat sound.

    • 29 min

Customer Reviews

4.9 out of 5
24 Ratings

24 Ratings

KatKenz ,

Amazing

Beautiful story telling. Thank you

benry ,

If you are a music fan...

Lovingly assembled, passionately excavated, and well told these are great music stories. The Louis Louis and Glen Sherley episodes hooked me and I’m looking forward to more. Would be amazing if they assembled Apple Music playlists for every episode that you could download quickly afterward.

98Bones ,

Great start

brilliant podcast so far, top notch stories and writing.

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