Episode 24: The Lillywhite Sessions, with Steve Lillywhite (Part 2)

Matt Norlander brings Steve Lillywhite back on the podcast for a long-awaited reflection on the ill-fated 2000 "Lillywhite Sessions," a studio project that was initially supposed to be DMB's fourth major-label record. Things went awry, Lillywhite was fired, the recordings shockingly leaked almost a year later anyway ... and then pretty much everyone thought the halfway-done recordings were sketches of an amazing record aborted too soon. Those sessions still carry a heavy, important and positive legacy for DMB, and it's worth lifting up this project in addition to providing context of the music business and popular music culture when this saga unfolded. For Lillywhite, this was the rare instance of him being unceremoniously fired from a project. More than two decades on, he looks back on being in the studio, finding out how he was sacked, and goes track by track through the recordings to offer thoughts on the cuts all these years later