EMOTIONAL RESCUE IS A TUNEFUL TAPESTRY OF ALL THINGS 1970-1980, WITH PLENTY OF AIR TIME GIVEN TO POP, SOUL, FUNK, POSTPUNK, CLASSIC ROCK, NEW WAVE, FILM MUSIC, JAZZ, DISCO, AND MORE.
WHY A SHOW ABOUT THE SEVENTIES? SCROLL DOWN BELOW EPISODES AND FIND OUT.
EPISODES
Featuring Bruce Springsteen, Olivia Newton-John, XTC, Shuggie Otis, Patti Smith, and more.
Featuring King Crimson, Graham Parker, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, The Staple Singers, Johnny Nash, and more.
Featuring Eric Clapton, Dusty Springfield, Carly Simon, Al Green, Neil Young, George Benson, and more.
Featuring John Cale, Stevie Wonder, War, Yes, Steely Dan, Minnie Riperton, and more
Featuring The Grateful Dead, Eddie Kendricks, Roy Ayers, George Harrison, Johnny Hartman, and more
Featuring Donny Hathaway, Roxy Music, Marvin Gaye, Sly & The Family Stone, Mary Lou Williams, and more
By Andy Miles
WHY A SHOW ABOUT THE SEVENTIES?
Because it is the last and, in many ways, most radical of the stylistically groundbreaking decades that shaped the last 100 years of popular music. Whether you're talking arena rock and "prog," synth pop and dance music, punk and post-punk, funk and hip-hop, or important niche genres like ambient electronic and jazz fusion, it is the 1970s where the contemporary music landscape in every decade since was developed and defined. More than that, the '70s is the brilliant bridge decade of modern music, not only creating the template for what followed, but taking the monumental innovations of the previous decade into new stratospheres of artistic, technological, and commercial advancement. By decade's end, popular music — and the industry architecture that supported it — had been transformed, for better or worse, as completely as it had been in the 10 years of the 1960s; no decade since has produced anything approaching this metamorphosis. — July 2023
Pictured top to bottom, left to right: Stevie Wonder, Miles Davis, Led Zeppelin, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band, Marvin Gaye, David Bowie, The Bee Gees, Fleetwood Mac, Elton John, Chic, The Ramones, Talking Heads, Fela Kuti, Michael Jackson, Grandmaster Flash, Yoko Ono and John Lennon
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ABOUT THE HOST
Andy Miles has written for various publications on the arts, history and culture; made audio documentaries; worked in public television and radio; owned and operated a company specializing in congressional hearing transcripts; and for nine years owned and managed the gallery, shop, performance and teaching space Transistor Chicago. For Transistor he also produced the Transistor Radio webcast, hosting a number of music shows, two of which—“Dead Flowers” (renamed “Keep On Pushing”) and “Emotional Rescue”—have now been revived to form, with “Giant Steps” and “Body and Soul,” a quartet of decade-exhuming programs.
Currently he operates Studio C and works at WCPT Radio with the title Production Director/Board Operator; he also produces the WCPT Heartland Signal News Minute and WCPT Progressive Calendar features. Working in collaboration with Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, he recently hosted the Resistance, Resilience & Hope: Holocaust Survivor Stories podcast; likewise, for MISSD (the Medication-Induced Suicide Prevention and Education Foundation in Memory of Stewart Dolin) he hosts the Akathisia Stories podcast and for the anti-human trafficking nonprofit Innocents at Risk the series Turning a Million Eyes to Save Lives. In 2021, Eckhartz Press published Perspectives in Black and White: A Concise History of Evanston’s Struggle to Rid Itself of Segregation and Racism, the book Andy co-authored with his father, Michael Frank Miles.
Born near Chicago and currently residing in Evanston, he has also called Madison, Washington, D.C., Berlin, and Chicago home. He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has played drums and bass in a bunch of bands (and released a solo album under the name Rayograph), loves old movies, and is a tennis, biking, hiking, and ping-pong enthusiast. [Photo by Patty Wetli]