They were so much older then, they’re younger than that now: me ‘n’ RBP’s Mark Pringle reel in the years and riff on all that’s new this week in the world’s biggest library of music journalism – definitive interviews with legends of the last 60 years by the pop press’ greatest writers … and much much more.

In this week’s RBP podcast , the great ETTA JAMES considers her life in R&B up to 1978—‘Roll With Me Henry’, Johnny Otis, Chess Records and working with Rick Hall in Muscle Shoals. Your hosts in turn consider her impact on singers from Janis Joplin to Adele and discuss the late Rob Partridge, Royal Trux and pioneeringly “out” glamster Jobriath. Their attentions then turn to Burl Ives, Marc Bolan, Willie Nelson, Portishead and the Fugees.