Episode 59: Paul Kelly

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Paul talks about growing up in Adelaide, Australia, Louis Armstrong, discovering The Stanley Brothers, trading cassettes and mix tapes, road stories, bad gigs, Kasey Chambers stories, Tim O’Brien, touring with Crowded House, Neil Finn stories, Steve Earle stories, his first trip to Nashville, thoughts on songwriting, etc.

Episode 58: Joe Pug

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Joe talks about studying playwriting in college, his favorite teacher, Fugazi, succeeding on your own terms, moving to Chicago, Steve Earle stories, Rhett Miller, Josh Ritter stories, searching for grapefruit juice in Cleveland, bad gig stories, drinking whiskey with Hayes Carll on a ranch in Colorado, getting punched in the face by a cowgirl, etc. 

 

Episode 57: David Olney

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David talks about Killer Kowalski’s claw hold, opening for Townes Van Zandt in 1973, his friendship with Townes, watching Guy Clark play pool, Guy Clark stories, forming The X-Rays, stepping in dog shit on stage, playing Austin City Limits, meeting Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, Emmylou Harris stories, Linda Ronstadt, Daniel Lanois, Wrecking Ball, Sergio Webb, bad gig stories, touring with Melissa Etheridge, life outside of the mainstream, audience honesty, etc.

Episode 56: Will Johnson

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The Centro-matic frontman talks about growing up in a military town, playing in people’s living rooms, hitting a deer and totaling the van, David Bazan, Quiet Riot vs Peter Gabriel, Jason Molina Stories, Vic Chesnutt stories, Bridge School Benefit, having dinner at Neil Young’s house, having Sheryl Crow as a babysitter, his love of baseball, his paintings, Slurpee tantrums, etc.

Episode 53: Grant Showbiz (Part 2)

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Grant talks about meeting Billy Bragg, The Frank Chickens, Billy Bragg opening for the Smiths, early road stories with Billy, Weddings Parties Australia, “going nude” at a party with Billy Bragg, producing Mermaid Avenue, Wilco stories, tensions during the Mermaid Avenue sessions, the genius of Jay Bennett, etc.

Episode 52: Grant Showbiz (Part 1)

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Grant talks about working with The Smiths, meeting The Smiths at their fifth gig, Johnny Marr stories, Morrissey stories, The Smiths breaking up in his studio, the London squat scene, Frestonia, working with Gong, touring with Here & Now, playing naked at Stonehenge, producing The Fall, etc.

Episode 51: Warner E. Hodges

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Jason and the Scorchers’ guitarist talks about growing up on an Army base in Germany, his musical parents, seeing Merle Haggard as a kid, moving to Nashville in 1973, playing in his parent’s band, seeing The Ramones and The Police at the Exit In, his first guitar, touring with Bob Dylan, meeting Jason Ringenberg, opening for Carl Perkins, witnessing Jerry Lee Lewis play to 1,500 punk rock kids on a flatbed trailer, Jason And The Scorchers road stories, touring with Stevie Ray Vaughn, being booed by Survivor fans, meeting Dan Baird, Todd Snider stories, playing with Iggy Pop, playing 200 shows with REM, road life, etc.

Episode 50: Otis Gibbs

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Otis talks about playing a biker gang’s clubhouse in Illinois, growing up in Wanamaker, the art of avoiding time share meetings, meeting Ernie Ladd, being banned from local wrestling matches at a diesel garage, living on $300 a month, living with 10 people in a 2 bedroom apartment, almost shaking hands with Johnny Cash, terrible interview stories, reasons for deciding to do this show, thoughts on 50 episodes, music industry people discovering this show, etc.

Episode 49: Delbert McClinton (Part 2)

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Delbert talks about being attacked by teenage girls in England, meeting the Beatles at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, John Lennon taking him to beatnik clubs in London, teaching John Lennon some harmonica licks,  touring in a WW2 British ambulance, moving to LA in 1971, Emmylou Harris recording Two More Bottle’s Of Wine, getting signed to Atlantic Records, the Blues Brothers recording his song, John Belushi stories, playing on Saturday Night Live, IRS problems, moving to Nashville, thoughts on making records, traveling to China and Peru, finally getting to visit Machu Picchu, etc.

Episode 48: Delbert McClinton (Part 1)

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Delbert talks about seeing Bob Wills in a Lubbock dance hall, Buddy Holly, his first guitar, winning a local talent show as a kid, opening for Jerry Lee Lewis in 1957 at the Dallas Sportatorium, seeing Gorgeous George wrestle, the neon jackass marquee at Jack’s Place in Mansfield, Texas, working with Joe Turner, Jimmy Reed, Howlin’ Wolf, Lightnin’ Hopkins, O. C. Smith, playing juke joints in the 1960s, touring with 6 people and equipment in a station wagon, mud suckers, playing clubs with dirt floors with no electricity, befriending local gangsters in Fort Worth, bank robbing pills, juke joint horror stories, Freddy king sitting in with the band at Mother Blues in Dallas, etc.

 

Episode 47: Austin Lucas

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Austin talks about sword fighting trees, growing up in Southern Indiana, dealing with social anxiety, Lotus Dickey memories, Chuck Ragan stories, The Revival Tour, singing Get Up Kid songs with Frank Turner and Matt Pryor, Glossary stories, drinking all of Europe’s booze, picking up Cory Branan at the airport, playing Willie Nelson’s Country Throwdown Tour, leaving Bloomington, Indiana and moving to Nashville, etc.

Episode 46: Peter Cooper

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Peter talks about growing up in South Carolina and Northern Virginia, his love of baseball, his first visit to Nashville, getting a job at the Tennessean and relocating to East Nashville, Duane Jarvis stories , David Olney stories, Todd Snider stories, the birth of the Fuzz-Tone guitar pedal, Woodland Studios and Will The Circle Be Unbroken, the greatness of Lloyd Green, working with Tom T. Hall, writing George Jones’ and “Cowboy” Jack Clements’ obituaries, interviewing Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson stories, getting yelled at by Toby Keith, playing on the front porches of East Nashville, etc.