"THE WRECKING CREW" plus an obsessive's look at the music of Richard Davies w/ Richard Davies

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Robert Pollard: "Richard Davies is one of the last great songwriters on planet Earth." Alright…this is a big one for me, as one of my long-time musical heroes, Richard Davies of The Moles & Cardinal , joins me on this week's episode to let me discuss his body of work as well as his music film pick, The Wrecking Crew !!!! We discuss why no two of his albums are the same (down to multiple re-issues of the same album, with different versions of the songs!), coming from Wales to Australia to form The Moles, their John Peel session, pulling stressed out bagpipe players and unknown trumpet players into his recordings, how writing lyrics got easier for him as he got older, both of us writing…