I Wanna Hold Your Band
Paul Bartholomew
5.0from 99 ratings
- 53
- Episodes
- 10
- Transcribed
- 99
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
About I Wanna Hold Your Band
I Wanna Hold Your Band invites you to experience the music that moves people, one story at a time. Host Paul Bartholomew interviews guests about the songs that define them, sharing their personal stories and the memories tied to the music that helped shape their life.
- Publisher
- Paul Bartholomew
- Category
- music
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 23 Oct 2024
- Latest episode
- 7 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
10 of 53 episodes have a transcript.
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Asher Perlman
16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
John Patrick Shanley
26 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Nikkolas Smith
Inside a recent episode
Asher Perlman
Published 7 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And it was very eclectic. They would put on klezmer music. A lot of... Townes Van Zandt and Johnny Cash. I love Townes Van Zandt. He's one of the greatest songwriters of all time. Incredible. I grew up in Texas, and then I went to University of Texas at Austin. That was my birth into the folk scene. My favorite artist for all time is this woman, Nancy Griffith, who's of that tradition of Townes Van Zandt, Jerry Jeff Walker. I mean, he was earlier on, but just these cowboy storyteller. He's incredible. So Klezmer Music, Towns Van Zandt, what are some of the other ones you remember? Early was definitely a lot of grungy alt rock things. […]
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- Asher Perlman
- John Patrick Shanley
- Nikkolas Smith
- Ann Powers
- Ingrid Jensen
Reach and audience
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 36 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 63 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 54 / 100
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- Quality
- 74
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 85
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How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes bi-weekly, based on its RSS feed.
Does I Wanna Hold Your Band take guests?
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