Al Kooper interview (2001) 

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I really enjoyed this window into the times. Al Kooper was a significant force in the music of that day. Great interview!

Child is Father to the Man is a criminally underrated album, but for a person who is a lover of music, it’s more than a top 250 album, it’s a trip.

Thankyou Al Kooper (the Yankee slicker) for all you did for skynyrd back in the day. As a hard core skynyrd fan thank God he noticed them and got them a deal and helped them get their signature sound.

Al was a real stunner as a young man! He is still easy on the eyes as an older guy.

The interviewer is Teri Gross, who has a regular interview show on NPR. She is a great interviewer who come superbly prepared to every interview

Al is always so humble in his interviews. Seems like a super-cool dude.

Al's right-his musical thoughts of expression w horns IS magical. Thanks Al for creating one of the greatest bands of all time.

Excellent interview--love "Child is Father to the Man" Blood, Sweat, and Tears album.

Al’s inclusive personality and creative imagination got him more work than his musical talent ever did. He seems like a great guy who is fine to have dinner and drinks with.

Saw him live many times and was never disappointed !

Great story. Love to hear him talk about piano/organ. I know the keyboard he is talking about. The Hammond B-3 was difficult to get fully started because of the complex mechanical motor involved in the instrument's tone-wheel. The instrument was difficult to simply move across the room, let alone out on tours. It's amazing how they make it, a digital instrument, that went from 408 pounds to 49 pounds and still sounds so great. Kooper sounds great on anything you put out in front of him. Thanks for posting. Very interesting. JC

Great interview....she loved it.....great interaction from that....Al is a good sport.

Gross is a masterful interviewer and Kooper is a straight shooter. I enjoyed this.

Al Kooper statement about Sly/Silvester Stewart really shows what a genuine artist/human being he is. It was impressive the way he stood up for Sly, Because pretty much the world did write Sly off. Al Kooper has worn many hats as producer, songwriter, musician, etc. And done them with quality, But the music industry is relentless and in his book he relates that it was and is a hard road. Yet among all that he stands up for a fellow musician who has had very hard times. This show was an interview about AL Kooper and there are some artists that would have told you in the 3rd person how wonderful they are and would never elaborate about any one but themselves every chance they get. Not so with AL Kooper. If he never did anything else but the Super Session Album he would have still have accomplished an enormus amount.

Great interview

I LOVE GARY LEWIS'S THIS DIAMOND RING SONG!!!!

I love to hear him tell about "Like a rolling stone"

i love this guy

I love his speaking voice, it's between super sexy and totally innocent. .

brilliant

These two are great together

Kooper's almost like a Zelig - he's everywhere in rock history

Haha the drifters.. Saw them at Butlins about 20 years ago

Is this Teri Gross from "Fresh Air"?

One of the guys that's very underrated I ask people who is all Cooper and they look at me and say all the guy that says school's out for summer no Al Cooper

this diamond ring gary lewis version is the best...& i love miles davis ,the dramatics, marvin gaye, ray charles...

Good interview.

Great interview, who is the girl, she asked really good questions

The human mind is a weird thing when it's unyielding. Imagine someone who invented paint but didn't like what people were painting?

Merci à Mr.Dupuy pour la compréhension oral sur cette interview mais c'est chaud comment y parle

I love Al Kooper, both as a musician / songwriter and as a raconteur, so this is not a dis, but he must have been smoking some heavy shit at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. I've seen video of Bob Dylan's performance with The Butterfield Blues Band and there was some serious booing going on.

Why can't he even mention Mike Bloomfield? I don't get it.

Tom Wilson tells him you're not a keyboard player, which he doesn't take as a no..... hahahaha.... 90% ambition rules Don't forget he produced the Tubes also, a great 80's band.

I like the lewis version much better. It moves and great singing. It is a good thing Al never tried to promote the song. It was a good move to let Gary have it.

GARY LEWIS SON WAS GOOD...

How funny that Kooper hated the recording of his biggest song. Even after the royalty checks and fame! I'm a sixties musician and I think the Gary Lewis recording brought out everything good in the song - the chord changes, the lyrics, etc. True, it's not the blusey song Kooper envisioned. But I really think it's not a blues song in the first place. But, hey, who am i to argue with a legend lol?

Terry Gross ! NPR

i like how Al can slag this diamond ring.exactly how it should be not afraid to critic'

Al’s version sounds like a cheesy 80’s TV show theme song. lol

The Gary L version is far better- at least he can sing...