{"podcast":{"title":"Word In Your Ear","slug":"word-in-your-ear-3755187","podcast_index_feed_id":3755187,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/5ff0586154e2a73589267809?cache=false","website_url":"https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/1620937674526-4e6eb29c967e869bd9d5a9d205d55599.jpeg","author":"Word In Your Ear","episode_count":986,"summary":"Mark Ellen and David Hepworth have been talking about and writing about music together and individually for a collective eighty years in magazines like Smash Hits, Mojo and The Word and on radio and TV programmes like \"Rock On\", \"Whistle Test\" and VH-1. Over thirteen years ago, when working on the late magazine The Word, they began producing podcasts. Some listeners have been kind enough to say these have been very special to them. When the magazine folded in 2012 they kept the spirit of those podcasts alive in regular Word In Your Ear evenings in which they spoke to musicians and authors in front of an audience. Over these years they've produced hundreds of hours of material. As of the Current Unpleasantness of 2020, they've produced yet hundreds of hours more with a little help from guests kind enough to digitally show them around their attics such as Danny Baker, Andy Partridge, Sir Tim Rice and Mark Lewisohn. For the full span of the Word In Your Ear world, visit wiyelondon.com . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T06:19:56.425854+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-3755187"},"episode":{"title":"How Daniel Lanois made those adventurous records with Dylan, U2 and Willie Nelson","slug":"how-daniel-lanois-made-those-adventurous-records-with-dylan-u2-and-willie-nelson","published_at":"2026-05-29T18:07:22+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-3755187/how-daniel-lanois-made-those-adventurous-records-with-dylan-u2-and-willie-nelson","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-3755187","url":"https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/5ff0586154e2a73589267809/e/6a19d5dadd90858af91c9eb9/media.mp3","summary":"Daniel Lanois built a studio in his basement in Quebec and began producing local acts when a teenager. Through work with Brian Eno, he went on to record U2, Bob Dylan, Arcade Fire, Emmylou Harris and scores of others with a method that’s unique, cinematic and utterly extraordinary, a brand of sonic architecture that creates settings to accommodate the songs, often in exotic and stimulating places. And he's made nine albums of his own, the latest the magical instrumental suite ‘Belladonna Nocturne’ – “hear this and you may never go home again”. This rich and fascinating conversation includes …   … how the place you record affects the way you think   ... producing Dylan and Willie Nelson in an abandoned Mexican cinema   … why the first record he bought was Wipe Out by the Surfaris   … the process of “printing sound” and his Music Minus One theory   … “Songs are doorways to another dimension”   … Eno’s working method: “he walked round the studio for 45 minutes ringing bells to map out the length of the album”   … drawing song sketches to stop everyone having to crowd round a laptop   … making the Unforgettable Fire with U2, “expanding Slane Castle ‘til there were little critters crawling out of the walls!”   … conjuring the tropical heat of Robbie Robertson’s Somewhere Down the Crazy River   … and what Hells’ Angels like to do to his music.   Order Belladonna Nocturne here: https://artsmusic.lnk.to/BelladonnaNocturne Help us to keep The Longest Conversation In Rock going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Help us to keep The Longest Continuous Conversation In Rock'n'Roll going: https://www.patreon.com/wordinyourear Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","meta_description":"Daniel Lanois built a studio in his basement in Quebec and began producing local acts when a teenager. Through work with Brian Eno, he went on to record U…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2269,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/word-in-your-ear-3755187/episodes/how-daniel-lanois-made-those-adventurous-records-with-dylan-u2-and-willie-nelson/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/word-in-your-ear-3755187/how-daniel-lanois-made-those-adventurous-records-with-dylan-u2-and-willie-nelson.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}