The No Sleep ’til Sudbury podcast series is where Brent Jensen and his guests talk about the music that makes their skin vibrate.
Jensen’s third book, All My Favourite People Are Broken, examined the fact that music can tell us who we are based on the types of music we really connected with at various points in our lives. As music fans, we all have that special grouping of songs that have a certain emotional control over us – maybe they make us feel like we can lift a Dodge Dakota over our heads, maybe they bring us to tears. Maybe we know why, maybe we don’t. Either way these songs carry a distinct power, and this podcast series is the place where we talk about that, and where we celebrate that.
This series was designed to serve as an interactive extension of All My Favourite People Are Broken, in that it’s an opportunity for guests to talk about music that means something to them. And because music appreciation is so far-reaching and vast, the discussion is absolutely limitless, covering a wide span of genres – rock, hip hop, metal, Britpop, country, folk, funk, blue-eyed soul, jazz, calypso, classical and more. The stories are incredible, and the potential for learning through the sharing of music and personal experiences is immense.
The reason why mixtapes were so popular years ago was because they were a means of expressing our emotional identities to others in a way that we wouldn’t or couldn’t verbalize. In recent times, playlists have taken the place of mixtapes, but the intention remains the same – to provide a representation of our emotional selves to others by sharing that music that gives us goosebumps, and truly represents who we really are at our cores.
No Sleep ’til Sudbury podcast guests have included celebrities like Ron MacLean, Erica Ehm, Alan Cross, The Go-Go’s Kathy Valentine, and Zakk Wylde, but Jensen has also invited neighbours and childhood friends to guest on the show. Because music fans all have one thing in common – we love to express ourselves through talking about the music we love.