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.

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.

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00:00 Introduction and Sponsorship

00:22 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