Jonathan Taplin on the Band, the Rolling Stones, and 'The Magic Years'

This week, I had Jonathan Taplin on the podcast to discuss how politics is downstream from culture—and whether the Band would be canceled today for the song, 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.'

This week, I talked with Jonathan Taplin about his new memoir, The Magic Years: Scenes From a Rock-and-Roll Life. Taplin’s life has put him at the crest of every major cultural wave in the past half century: he was tour manager for Bob Dylan and the Band in the ‘60s, producer of Mean Streets in the 70s, an executive at Merrill Lynch in the ‘80s, creator…