Explore every episode of the podcast ART PEPPER: STRAIGHT LIFE EVERY SUNDAY
| Title | Pub. Date | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Straight Life: Episode Fourteen Featuring Lee Young | 14 Dec 2025 | 00:10:00 | |
Bandleader Lee Young hired seventeen year old Art Pepper to play in his band at the Club Alabam on Central Avenue in Los Angeles. Lee describes young Art, and what the world was like before the war on Central, | |||
| Straight Life: Episodes Twelve and Thirteen | 07 Dec 2025 | 00:12:31 | |
Art describes jamming and performing on Central Avenue in the Club Alabam. American musical history from someone who got to live right in the heart of it. | |||
| Straight Life: Episodes Ten & Eleven | 30 Nov 2025 | 00:11:11 | |
ART QUITS THE COBRAS AND GETS INTO THE MUSIC THING | |||
| Straight Life: Episodes Eight & Nine | 23 Nov 2025 | 00:11:34 | |
Art meets the love of his life (until me, of course). Incidental music is Art's tune, Patricia, performed in Nice in 1980. I'm pretty sure the band is Art, Milcho Leviev, Bob Magnusson, Carl Burnett | |||
| Straight Life Episode Seven | 17 Nov 2025 | 00:10:31 | |
Art describes his early sexual experiences | |||
| Straight Life Episodes Five & Six | 12 Nov 2025 | 00:14:33 | |
Art's "cousin" Johnny talks about Art as a child and as a young man. He gives a fuller picture of Art's adventurous father and difficult mother and has shows a different side of Grandma. I apologize for being a few days late with this episode. I'm just starting this... | |||
| Straight Life: Episode Four | 02 Nov 2025 | 00:28:27 | |
This is a long one, Interviews with Art's stepmother Thelma Pepper, and with Sarah Schecter Bartold, the woman who raised Art's mother, Ida AKA Millie. Thelma talks about Art's grandmother and then about his mother. This is American history, touching and inspiring. | |||
| Straight Life: Episode 3 | 31 Oct 2025 | 00:10:41 | |
At 9, Art starts performing in waterfront bars and gets paid. He keeps his father from throttling his grandmother. This episode is "explicit" in that it includes violence, and dirty words. Author's note: This is one of my favorite episodes. Music snippets heard here: Straight Life by Art Pepper: with Smith Dobson, Jim Nichols, Brad Bilhorn. Unreleased Art Pepper Volume VIII, live at the Winery—Widow's Taste/Omnivore Recordings When You're Smiling: with Roger Kellaway, David Williams, Carl Burnett. Unreleased Art Pepper Volume 2, The Last Concert—Widow's Taste. That Crazy Blues by Art Pepper: with Frank Strazzeri, Hersh Hamel, Bill Goodwin—Unreleased Art Pepper Volume 4, The Art History Project—Widow's Taste Listen to more Art Pepper music at http://artpepper.bandcamp.com And buy Straight Life in paper or kindle on Amazon | |||
| Straight Life: Episode 2 | 30 Oct 2025 | 00:16:27 | |
In episode 1 Art described his violent parents and leaving them to live with his grandmother. In episode 2 he talks about his family and begins music lessons. This episode is "explicit" in that it includes violence, and dirty words | |||
| Straight Life: Episode One | 28 Oct 2025 | 00:08:49 | |
"Straight Life" — slang: THE TRUTH This episode is "explicit" in that sex and abortion are mentioned and it includes violence, and dirty words | |||