Riffin' With Griffin

Sid Griffin, author, musician and now broadcaster, plays his current fave tunes from across the musical spectrum and chats about what’s coming up in his own life and what’s going down at large culturally.

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The Sid Griffin Podcast - Call All Coal Porters - Show 37

05-12-2023

The Sid Griffin Podcast - Call All Coal Porters - Show 37

The 37th Sid Griffin Podcast is ready to be heard and enjoyed. No holiday theme this year as Sid has done in past podcasts but…get ready for a surprise…he HAS done an entire show devoted to his fave act, The Byrds.

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The Sid Griffin Podcast - Call All Coal Porters - Show 36

06-07-2023

The Sid Griffin Podcast - Call All Coal Porters - Show 36

After a nine month absence the Sid Griffin/Calling All Coal Porters podcast returns! This podcast explores the original versions of songs the Long Ryders played as encores...

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The Sid Griffin Podcast - Call All Coal Porters - Show 35

28-09-2022

The Sid Griffin Podcast - Call All Coal Porters - Show 35

The lastest and greatest Sid Podcast features both classic and obscure acts who left great, great music on the cutting room floor.

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The Sid Griffin Podcast - A Tribute To Bob Neuwirth - Show 34

17-06-2022

The Sid Griffin Podcast - A Tribute To Bob Neuwirth - Show 34

When Bob Neuwirth died recently he left a lot of great art be it his paintings, his cultural commentary, or his music. We explore the latter in this new podcast, and I hope I did my late friend proud.

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The Sid Griffin Podcast - Call All Coal Porters - Show 33

22-11-2021

The Sid Griffin Podcast - Call All Coal Porters - Show 33

The latest and possibly greatest Sid Podcast is unique to the podcast genre. Every song on the podcast was recorded by a person who wore a wig or at least a toupee!

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The Sid Griffin Podcast - Call All Coal Porters - Show 32

20-07-2021

The Sid Griffin Podcast - Call All Coal Porters - Show 32

Friends, the summer Sid podcast sizzles with super sounds you can soulfully sway to by the seaside while spinning sea shells.

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The Sid Griffin Podcast - A Tribute To Tom Stevens - Show 31

24-03-2021

The Sid Griffin Podcast - A Tribute To Tom Stevens - Show 31

Our first podcast to focus on a single artist it was a quixotic, bittersweet program to produce but with the help of five special Guest Stars it is the jewel in the crown, the flagship of the several dozen podcasts we have recorded.

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The Sid Griffin Podcast - Call All Coal Porters - Show 30

15-12-2020

The Sid Griffin Podcast - Call All Coal Porters - Show 30

A new Christmas themed podcast from Sid Griffin featuring songs from California to Sweden, from Japan to Italy, this hour truly captures the holiday spirit!

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The Sid Griffin Podcast - Call All Coal Porters - Show 29

13-08-2020

The Sid Griffin Podcast - Call All Coal Porters - Show 29

Sid Griffin takes us on a virtual and musical trip around the world, so you folks can stay safe and stay home!

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The Sid Griffin Podcast - Call All Coal Porters - Show 28

08-04-2020

The Sid Griffin Podcast - Call All Coal Porters - Show 28

The new Sid Podcast is features songs from regions hit hard by the Coronavirus. Including music from Italy, Spain, NYC and Japan. Music to raise the spirits of the housebound and to get Mom and even Dad dancing.

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This is the Podcast of Solo perfomer, Long Ryder and now ex-Coal Porter Sid Griffin

Sid Griffin displays many chapeaux in his career as a multi-faceted musician, proud author, knowledgeable broadcaster and professional golfer. Or is that professional go-fer? Okay, only the first three hats get anywhere near his noggin, but they all fit snugly. He is also a proud parent and part time journalist as well as a man who makes excellent cheese mushroom omelettes.

An eighth-generation native Kentuckian who currently resides in England, Sid has popped up in literary circles due to the success of his Million Dollar Bash book on Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes as well as the follow up Shelter From The Storm. In 2006 ABC’s The Jimmy Kimmel Show had their house band play Sid’s song Jimmy Reed as they went to commercial…our hero was watching that eve and fell off the sofa when he heard the familiar melody struck up. In addition to falling off furniture Griffin has already won a Lifetime Achievement Award in Italy in 2003 (Piero Ciampi Award), and Sid’s old band the Long Ryders, the legendary founders of alt-country, are occasionally found touring.

Sid appears as Resident Musicologist on BBC Radio 6 Music DJs Stuart Maconie and Mark Radcliffe’s excellent afternoon show and this brought Sid to an entirely new demographic. Frequently heard on late night BBC Radio, Griffin’s silver-toned vocal chords were heard extensively when the BBC broadcast Mark Lamarr’s four-part series Redneck Music in early 2008. (Griffin was not the redneck in question.)

As a musician, Griffin has performed bluegrass mandolin with his acoustic Coal Porters ensemble. The Coal Porters who played festivals in many places around the world including Glastonbury in the UK, Kilkenny Festival in Ireland and the World Of Bluegrass festival in Kentucky USA. After a seventeen year run The Coal Porters called it a day on July eleventh, 2018. He looks forward the future as his old rock band The Long Ryders sometimes perform again. The Long Ryders box set Final Wild Songs was released in January 2016 to universal acclaim, creating a new demand for live concerts by the band.

And yes, in between all of this activity Sid Griffin still performs the occasional, and very special, solo troubadour show. Lately his solo appearances are in support of his 2015 solo album The Trick Is To Breathe, which earned Griffin four and five star reviews globally. In 2018 Sid is performing solo in Spain, Italy, the UK, Scandinavia and his native United States.

An acknowledged expert on the musical career of Gram Parsons, Sid’s first book Gram Parsons – A Music Biography (Sierra Books) is still in print and it would be nice if the publisher paid him his royalties one day. He has contributed sleeve notes to a great many CD reissues by Gram Parsons and The Flying Burrito Bros, The Byrds and Gene Clark. Sid has also compiled and written sleeve notes for reissues by Long John Baldry, Mike Nesmith, Arthur Lee’s Love, Joe Ely, Dolly Parton, the International Submarine Band, Steve Young, Tim Hardin, The Everly Brothers, Phil Ochs, Iggy Pop, Nils Lofgren, his heroes Bill Monroe & the Bluegrass Boys, his friend the late Ronnie Lane, Hank Williams, Glen Campbell and for various compilations including Beating Up The Campus, Fallen Angels: An Alt-Country Sampler and Okay, So We Lost: Songs Of The Confederacy, Vol. Five.

The Long Ryders reformed for live concerts in 2004, 2009, 2014 and twice in 2016 and on February 15, 2019 Cherry Red Records in London released the first new Long Ryders album in over thirty years, Psychedelic Country Soul. (In the USA the album is released by Omnivore.) And you know what this means… it means the band will hit the road for live performances. So put that wighat on yo’ head and get ready to rock da joint.

Follow Sid on facebook, twitter and on his website at Sidgriffin.com

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