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How We Heard ItAuthor: howweheardit
Veteran entertainment journalists, music columnists and longtime friends Wayne Bledsoe and Chuck Campbell host How We Heard It, a breezy and sometimes offbeat take on how music and movies got to where they are today and where its all going. They break down who are the most promising Generation Z singers one minute and the next they debate who are the most overrated acts from the past. Sexy songs, soundtracks, controversies and weird movies find their way into the discussion, and they also weigh in with recommendations on who to hear and what to see in music and film from the past and present.Wayne and Chuck have more than 65 years of experience in professional journalism between them, but they dont waste time indulging in scholarly breakdowns of their institutional knowledge. Instead, they share behind-the-scenes stories about their odd, funny, inspirational and embarrassing encounters with celebrities, managers, fans and readers. And they laugh at themselves and each other. A lot. Because being an entertainment journalist does that to you.An important third voice in the How We Heard It podcast is engineer John Baker, himself a musician and producer who reins in Wayne and Chuck when they need it. Johns tastes are a little bit Wayne and a little bit Chuck, and hes a friendly sort.Waynes primary role in his nearly four decades at the Knoxville News-Sentinel was his work as an entertainment writer and critic. He currently hosts The Six OClock Swerve weekly radio show on WUTK, 90.3 FM in Knoxville, hes a former Grammy nominee, and hes an organizer of the annual concert series Waynestock: For the Love of Drew and Rylan. Hes also an artist and unconventional garden writer - see more at www.waynebledsoe.com.Chuck started his career in journalism at the Daytona Beach News-Journal in Florida before joining the staff in Knoxville. He has reviewed more than 5,500 albums, and his column was distributed by the New York Times, Gannett, Cox News Service and the Scripps Howard News Language: en Genres: Music, Music Commentary, TV & Film Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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This podcast topic took unexpected turns!
Episode 74
Friday, 21 November, 2025
Your hosts of the "How We Heard It" podcast usually have a general goal in mind when they pick a topic ... but when they came up with this idea, they had no clue what they were in for: "Hey, let's dig through our music collections and just see what we find." Keep in mind that these guys have each amassed thousands of albums and compact discs (and even some 8-track tapes for Wayne), accumulated over decades thanks in great part to record companies sending the guys an avalanche of free music, hoping for reviews. Amazingly, Wayne and John independently decided they wanted to start the podcast with the same artist. And Chuck quickly remembered he didn't like the smell of the cardboard in album covers and had never even listened to many of the artists in his collection. On this week's episode, the guys talk about some of their initial findings, their random systems of filing and storing their collections, some hidden gems they turned up, and some unexpected, funny and baffling memories that surfaced with their research. The guys came up with ample podcast material when they had barely made even a dent in their collections, so they decided they'll dig deeper for future podcasts. Meanwhile, have you poked around in your music collection lately? You might be surprised by what you find.
