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Blues • Ragtime • Country • Motor Homes!
Roy Book Binder, legendary ragtime blues guitar playing folksinger from New York has been on the road for 50 years. He talks about how that happened and how h…
Storytelling? African Storytelling? Storytelling!!
This episode makes a slight departure by moving into the subject of how (and why!) we tell stories and what we can learn by sharing. How is African s…
JAZZ GUITAR! WESTERN SWING! METAPHYSICS?
Joe Settlemires grew up in Oklahoma and played guitar with all the big jazz guitar players. He joined Bob Wills group in the sixties when he was still in hi…
Deja Vu! Dolphin Consciousness! Perambulatory Spontaneity!
Johanna and I talk about what it's like to find yourself in the world surrounded by strangers and then discovering that we are strangers in …
Optimism!!!! LOVE??? SUNDAY VIBES!
Chris Trapper has been writing songs since he was a kid. Now he is getting somewhere. The optimism and determination you hear in his songs is real, and it's takin…
Phantom Power! Pathos! Disney! Ragtime! Bivalves!
100 years later, it’s pretty cool to be infatuated with the twenties, but in the fifties, being so hep wasn’t so cool. Brad talks about how he disc…
Cobainesque? Dylanesque? Ginsbergian? Lael Neale and I discuss the terms "straight coat vision", "white coat mistake", "white robed mystic" and other whipped delights.
In between clips from her live …
Leadbelly? A Serial Killer? What is Blues? What is Folk?
We catch up with Todd Albright in Oklahoma City at The Blue Door listening room.
Todd and I discuss crazy Oklahoma weather, finger style guita…
THE TEXAS MOTH MAN!!! EXISTENTIALISM!!! UFO'S!!!
Growing up in the country. Farm life. The nature of existential reality. The healing power of music. UFOs !! and THE TEXAS MOTH MAN.
Hold on to your …
Jennifer Jane Niceley and I talk about life, love, loneliness, Nashville, songwriting, growing up on a farm, the "Edgar Allan Poe" question, and living in a world that somehow combines phenomenal be…