Acclaimed singer-songwriter Madison Cunningham joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about the Beatles song that blew her mind, the sadness in songwriting, her Grammy-Award winning album "Revealer" and much more on "Everything Fab Four," a podcast co-produced by me and Womack (a music scholar who also writes about pop music for Salon) and distributed by Salon.
Cunningham, who says her grandmother was a "fabulous" guitar player, took up the instrument as a child and began writing songs by the age of eight. As she told Womack, though her father was also a guitarist, she didn't hear a lot of popular music around the house and specifically remembers him saying, "I just don't like the Beatles." Being young, she "didn't have any context for who that was." A few years later, when she was 17 and working on her own album, a producer gave her copies of the "Rubber Soul" and "Abbey Road" albums as a graduation gift.
