Episodes

  • Raw - Bare it all with Viv Black
    Mar 31 2026
    Join Viv Black on Raw, where music history gets stripped down to its bleeding heart—from gospel's origins to modern artists who ditched digital perfection for human imperfection. The untold story of soul, studio warfare, and cracked notes that carry more truth than polished production.

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    1 min
  • Raw - Analog Ghosts: Neo-Soul and the Artists Who Refused to Clean Up
    Mar 31 2026
    Host Viv Black explores how Erykah Badu, D'Angelo, and Amy Winehouse rejected digital perfection in favor of analog warmth and raw emotion, creating the neo-soul movement. These artists championed imperfection, live instrumentation, and unfiltered vocals, proving that vulnerability and humanity matter more than sonic polish in music that truly connects.

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    28 mins
  • Raw - Stop Fixing It: The War Between Polish and Truth in the Studio
    Mar 31 2026
    Viv Black confronts the obsession with perfection in modern music production, tracing the raw versus polished recording debate from Memphis studios to today's digital workstations. She argues that imperfections in music capture human truth and emotional authenticity that sterile, over-produced tracks destroy, urging producers to stop fixing the very flaws that make recordings powerful.

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    32 mins
  • Raw - The Sacred Scream: How Gospel Broke Free and Birthed Soul
    Mar 31 2026
    Viv Black explores how Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, and James Brown revolutionized American music by bringing raw gospel vocal techniques into secular soul. The episode covers their controversial departures from church tradition, the sacred-profane fusion that birthed soul music, and why emotional authenticity trumps technical perfection in creating powerful art.

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    25 mins