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This a selected public episode of Walter Martin Radio Hour — a weekly deep-dive radio show about music, records, and the strange emotional life we build around listening. The show is hosted by Walter Martin, a lifelong musician and songwriter (The Walkmen, solo work, film & TV).
These are standalone, episodes chosen from the larger archive. The full show — including weekly music episodes, handmade playlists, interviews, Classical Club, and the complete back catalog — lives at waltermartin.substack.com.
This is the front door. The whole house is over there.
This episode will arm you with many interesting facts that you can drop into boring conversations at all of your tedious holiday events throughout this holiday season.
Because in real life, as in music, when things get boring, just remember the woodblock.
Yes, on this clip-clopping episode we plow through a ton of songs and examine the special place of the woodblock in recorded music. We go from 1911 to 2016. That’s right—100 years of woodblocks for your enjoyment.
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