The same song, every time

with Henry Strauch

Can a song get better based on where you heard it? We talk about this phenomenon in ski movies. He has one song he puts on at the top of every descent, bike or skis. The episode starts with bluegrass and what it does to a person. Next is being in a band in college, including the song that started a movement. We close with more ways out of a music funk. Somewhere in the middle I started noticing how much our listening overlaps, which is always a sweet feeling.

1:51:2616 tracksOpen episode →

My dad's life in songs

with David Palmer

My dad on the show, going through his life in order — growing up in California, the car rides to school, the Air Force Academy, the one and only rock concert the Academy ever hosted, the flying, the skiing, and meeting my mom. This one is for the books.

2:00:0116 tracksOpen episode →

The big idea, or overkill

Another solo one — the year is going faster than I expected, wondering what the big idea is, whether any of this is overkill, and landing again on how lucky I am to live where I live. Then the practical half: what I actually do when I'm in a music funk and nothing I put on is landing.

1:22:2019 tracksOpen episode →

Mostly music

Dolly Parton passed away this week. Beyond saying so, this one is mostly music — a random set, not much talking.

59:4914 tracksOpen episode →

Peaks and valleys

with Nick Hegyesi

Nick's back for a second go. He's a buddy of mine, an entrepreneur, and the kind of outdoorsman who owns the right gear for all of it — hog in the garage, twin tips in the truck, hair that gets its own glacier clay. Two hours mostly on house, and on flow state: the thing he's chasing down a run, inside a build, and halfway through making something. How Nick started his company "Capture" through the need to brain dump.

2:01:1518 tracksOpen episode →

Music is about taste

with Amie

Amie spent ten years working restaurants in New Orleans and the music from this city gets into you whether you were born there or not. We get into jazz funerals or "Second Line Parade", where people take tragedy and turn it into a party to process grief. Then discount bins and what's buried in them, marrying a drummer, and the excitement of music with your kid (wiggling to JJ Cale). Music is all just taste, so keep an open mind!

1:21:4613 tracksOpen episode →

What it means to be punk

with Garrett Howitson

Two hours on punk — both the sound and the posture, and whether it can survive being defined. Do artists give up punk once they sign a record deal? Garrett makes the case for anti-establishment as something more considered than contrarian, and along the way talked me out of an idea I'd been carrying about the word angsty. His dad stopped by the studio partway through, which turned the conversation somewhere neither of us planned.

2:00:3017 tracksOpen episode →

The Dead, the road, and bluegrass in his blood

with George Wright

Started the show playing some recently discovered favorites while I waited on my long-awaited guest — George Wright, a former roommate, current buddy, and avid Grateful Dead listener. We get into long car rides with the Dead, rap and when to listen to it, how bluegrass runs in his blood, and where our sentiments toward music come from.

18 tracksOpen episode →

Bully, and the Blevins brothers

A solo show, four days after Blevins put out their single "Bully." Three brothers I grew up with — Brandon, Kevynn and Dillon — writing, producing, recording, mixing and mastering everything themselves between San Marcos, Austin and New York. One hour on what they've made and what it's like to watch people you've known your whole life build something this epic.

11 tracksOpen episode →

Swiftie

with A.V.G

Story telling, boats in the ocean, beauty in the mundanity - this is the Taylor Swift Special. Her writing encompasses the female human experience for A. Do people show us reflections of ourselves? The universe nudges you towards the right people... an invisible string. It's clear the existence of two beautiful female minds in this episode.

1:38:1710 tracksOpen episode →

All of the good stuff is left of the dial

with John Boydston

KDPI's new general manager knows the history and he knows the people who made it — where a record sits in the lineage, and who the person behind it actually was. The episode lives where those two meet: how knowing an artist's life changes what you hear in their work, and how radio has been the thing carrying both along. Plus nostalgia, whether the songs that found you first keep their hold, and what music turns into once you're a dad.

1:40:0515 tracksOpen episode →