Welcome to Hard Rain and Pink Cadillacs!
A new podcast on Americana Music....and more.
Welcome to Hard Rain & Pink Cadillacs, a combination podcast series and SubStack blog, founded and co-hosted by longtime music journalist Geoffrey Himes and veteran TV/film director Mark Finkelpearl. Our first podcast episode, an interview with singer-songwriter Kevin Gordon, is already up and ready for viewing, and our SubStack site has lots of new content, with more being added all the time.
Geoffrey explains the meaning of our name in that first podcast episode. “It describes the kind of music we're gonna be talking about in the hopefully months and years ahead,” he says. “Hard rain conjures up that dark, prophetic side of rock and roll:, Bob Dylan's “A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall,” John Fogerty's “Have You Ever Seen the Rain,” and Prince's “Purple Rain.” But there’s another side of rock'n'roll, the pleasurable, joyful side of Elvis Presley or Bruce Springsteen or Aretha Franklin riding down that road in their pink Cadillacs. This covers the waterfront.
“What we want to do here is a different kind of podcast and blog. We don't want to do celebrity gossip; we really want to keep the music in the foreground. We’ll talk about other things, the context for the music, but we really wanna talk about how the music was made, why it affects us the way it does, and what it means for the rest of the music we listen to.”
Our new podcasts and music reviews will always be free and available to the public. Nonetheless, we encourage you to sign up for a free subscription, so we can let you know when new podcasts and content are available. At some point in the future, we will probably have a paid subscription for bonus content and archived material, but for now everything is free. Of course, if you want to give us a tip or donation to help us develop the project, we will gladly accept Venmo, Zelle or Pay Pal. On our merchandise tab, we will have books and other items for sale.
Please send us feedback. This is a new venture for us, and we’re constantly tweaking it to make it better
--Geoffrey Himes & Mark Finkelpearl