We’re starting Season 3 with a bang.  Peter McDade is here to talk about his novel ‘Songs by Honeybird’, a story that features a fictional integrated rock band from 1960s Macon, Georgia, that fell off the musical map after a fire killed the lead singer and guitarist and also . . . possibly, the band’s African American drummer. To put it more succinctly, ‘Songs by Honeybird’ is about a band, a romantic break-up, a Ph.D candidate in History’s research, secrets, fathers, racism, Atlanta, the sixties and the repercussions the South still feels from that period, and . . . a talking dog. In the last segment of the episode Alan Light joins me to talk about musician, civil rights activist, and my fellow native-North Carolinian Nina Simone. The reason I’ve roped Alan into popping in is because one of the two main characters in ‘Songs by Honeybird’, the piano-playing Nina, is named after the legendary artist. Alan is a rock critic, journalist, former editor-in-chief of ‘Spin’ and ‘Vibe’ magazines, a former senior writer at ‘Rolling Stone’, and author of the book ‘What Happened, Miss Simone?’, a biography of Nina Simone inspired by the Academy Award-nominated Netflix documentary of the same title. You won’t want to miss our convo. Subscribe to my YouTube channel, @ChristyHallberg, to catch the upcoming YouTube-only full interview with Alan Light about Nina Simone.   MUSIC AND MEDIA IN THE EPISODE IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE: Clip from 'Hell's Kitchen': "It's coming right now, baby" Rock is Lit theme music Clip from Season 3 Announcement/’Duck Tales’/Disney Channel [Guitar Instrumental Beat] Sad Rock [Free Use Music] Punch Deck—"I Can’t Stop” Southern Rock Royalty-Free Music “Keeping Secrets” by Christine McVie “The Grad Student Shuffle” by Chris Fleming “Gardenia” from ‘The Weight of Sound’ soundtrack “Waiting Here” from ‘Songs by Honeybird’ soundtrack “Heavy Heavy Hands” from ‘Songs by Honeybird’ soundtrack “Losing Control” from ‘Songs by Honeybird’ soundtrack “Feeling Good” (Anthony Newley, Leslie Bricusse) performed by Nina Simone “The Puppy Song” by Harry Nilsson “Karma Police” by Radiohead        “Game On!” by Aqours “What’s Your Name” by Lynyrd Skynyrd “I Put a Spell on You” (Jay Hawkins) performed by Nina Simone Jazz music royalty free background café music [Jazz no copyright]—Creative Commons Music “Little Liza Jane” (Huey P. Smith, John Imbragulio) performed by Nina Simone at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1960 “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” by Nina Simone “Stars” (Janis Ian) performed by Nina Simone “I Shall Be Released” (Bob Dylan) performed by Nina Simone “Ain’t Got No, I Got Life” (Galt MacDermot, Gerome Ragni, James Rado) performed by Nina Simone Jazz music royalty free background café music [Jazz no copyright]—Creative Commons Music Swamp Blues Rock Music Rock is Lit theme music—royalty free background music    LINKS: Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Goodpods: https://goodpods.com/podcasts/rock-is-lit-212451  Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rock-is-lit/id1642987350 Peter McDade’s website: www.peterjmcdade.com Peter McDade on Twitter: @PeterJMcDade Peter McDade on Instagram: @peterjmc33 ‘The Weight of Sound’ soundtrack on Bandcamp: https://wampusretrospectives.bandcamp.com/album/the-weight-of-sound-original-soundtrack ‘Songs by Honeybird’ soundtrack on Bandcamp: https://wampusretrospectives.bandcamp.com/album/songs-by-honeybird-original-soundtrack Peter McDade on Season 1 EP15 of Rock is Lit (talking about his novel ‘The Weight of Sound’): https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/rockislitpodcast/petermcdade Alan Light on Aevitas Creative page: https://www.aevitascreative.com/client/alan-light Christy Alexander Hallberg’s website: https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/ Christy Alexander Hallberg on Twitter, Instagram & YouTube: @ChristyHallberg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices