Living Loud, Living Fast: Connections between Musicians & Motorsports

Living Loud and Living Fast will explore the connections between musicians and motorsports. Highlighting how several well-known professional musicians from diverse genres took their interest in high-performance vehicles to regional, national, and sometimes international levels of motor racing competition.

Mark Howell is a professor of Communications at Northwestern Michigan College. Prior to NMC, he was a visiting assistant professor in the Department of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University.

As a Motorsports historian, Dr. Howell has published numerous articles and two books: From Moonshine to Madison Avenue: A Cultural History of the NASCAR Winston Cup Series (1997) and Motorsports and American Culture: From Demolition Derbies to NASCAR (2014). 

Since 2011, he has been a Senior Writer for frontstretch.com, where his essays appear every Wednesday during the racing season. Dr. Howell also spent three years (2001-2003) as a part-time crew member with Brett Bodine Racing in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, and has worked closely with drivers Hut Stricklin, Kenny Wallace, and Todd Bodine.

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00:00 Meet Mark Howell

01:13 Exploring Musicians in Motorsports

06:01 Johnny Clay: From Jazz to Racing

07:22 George Harrison and Mark Knopfler's Racing Inspirations

09:33 Musicians Turned Racers: Success and Failures

11:54 Tommy Borgud: The Drummer Racer

16:20 Musicians in Motorsports: Various Stories

20:54 Marty Robbins: The Racing Legend

24:23 Conclusion and Audience Interaction

30:48 Closing Remarks and Credits

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This episode is part of our HISTORY OF MOTORSPORTS SERIES and is sponsored in part by: The International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC), The Society of Automotive Historians (SAH), The Watkins Glen Area Chamber of Commerce, and the Argetsinger Family - and was recorded in front of a live studio audience.