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Byron Hill
Hall of Famer Byron Hill talks about Can’t Remember Never Loving You by Ian Janes and on the TV Show Nashville by Rayna James and Deacon Claybourne, Nothing On But The Radio by Gary Allan, and Politics, Religion and Her by Sammy Kershaw.
Aaron Barker
Hall of Fame Aaron Barker talks about his hits including Baby Blue, Love Without End, Amen, Easy Come, Easy Go, I Can Still Make Cheyenne by George Strait, Then He Made Horses, What About Now by Lonestar, and I’m Leavin by Aaron Tippin.
Peter “Chanman” Chandler
Peter “Chanman” Chandler is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and bandleader living and performing in Jackson Hole, Wyoming for over 20 years. Chanman shares his creative songwriting process on his songs “Ski’s Boots Poles,” “Ski When Its Time,” “New Uprising,” “Always,” and “Just An Illusion.”
Jenny Van West
Jenny Van West is an Americana songwriter out of Portland, Maine. She is a winner of the Maine Songwriters Association contest and her album Happiness To Burn was a finalist in 2017. Happiness To Burn reached #7 on the EuroAmericana Charts where it stayed for over three months. A leader in the Maine songwriting and performance community, she is the founder of the Maine Immigrant Musical Instrument Project, the International Open Mic at the rapidly growing hipster Portland Mayo Street Arts Festival, and the Women’s Singer Songwriter Composer Showcase in Maine. She shares with us the back story on her songs “Happiness To Burn,” “Live In A New Way,” “Never Alone,” “Embers,” “Empty Bowl” and “Where I Stand.”
Belinda Gail
Belinda Gail was raised on ranches in Nevada’s Carson Valley and in the California Sierra Nevada foothills near Sequoia National Park. She has been named 7 times as the Female Performer of the Year by the Western Music Association. She discusses “She Is A Cowgirl,” “Granite Mountain,” and “Horse Corral Meadow.”
Blake Christiana of Yarn
Blake Christiana is the frontman and songwriter for Yarn, the 4 time Grammy nominated alt-country rock band based in Raleigh, North Carolina. With 10 albums to choose songs from, Blake shares with us the back story on his songs Abilene, Take Me First, Louanne, Hard Times, Bar Down The Road, and New York City Found.
Brenn Hill
Brenn Hill is an award winning Western songwriter who is an authentic cowboy. His songs tell honest stories of today’s western cowboy life. In this episode he discusses his songs Call You Cowboy, How You Heal, Ode To Selway, and Pictures In The Fire.
Rick Gerber of Badfeather
Rick Gerber is the multi-instrumentalist singer songwriter frontman of the five-piece genre-bending outfit Badfeather. Rick talks about his songs Lady December, Beautiful Heart of Darkness, and I’ve Had Enough.
Davey Allen of Davey and The Midnights
Davey Allen is a Los Angeles based touring musician with the Rock N Roll Hall of Famer, Eric Burdon and the Animals. Unable to control is personal creative instincts and surrounded by fantastic Los Angeles session musicians, Davey formed the Midnights and began writing and arranging songs for the band to perform.. He combines traditional country, blues and psychedelia to create an eclectic highway soun in the vein of Gram Parsons, JJ Cale, and the Grateful Dead.
Preston Creed of Jagertown
Preston Creed lead guitarist, frontman and songwriter for Jagertown discusses his songs Rearview, Blame It On The Wine, Old Flame and Falling On The Blacktop from Jagertown’s albums Blacktop, Lucky 13, Small Town Super Stars, and Sleepin’ With My Boots On.
Dickey Lee
Dickey Lee began his career in the 1950s in Memphis at the legendary Sam Phillips’ Sun Studios. He went on to induction in the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. In this episode Dickey discusses his hit songs “She Thinks I Still Care,” “Dream Boy,” “Patches,” “I Saw Linda Yesterday,” “Ruby Baby,” “Memphis Beat,” “I’ve Been Around Enough To Know,” “In A Different Light,” “You’re The First Time I’ve Thought About Leaving,” “I’ll Be Leaving Alone,” “The Door Is Always Open,” and “Keeper Of The Stars.”
John Wayne Schulz
Two Time American Idol Top 40 Singer and U.S. Marine Veteran John Wayne Schulz tells us the back story on Beautiful Water, Let’s Just Be Single, The Jukebox Is Broke, and Hard To Keep A Good Man.
James Bourne
James Bourne talks about Great Escape by Train’s Pat Monahan, Year 3000 by his band Busted and The Jonas Brothers, What I Go To School For by Busted, and his unreleased song Batman’s House inspired by a night with Robert Pattinson.
Jhett and Callie Sioux Schiavone of Gleewood
Jhett & Callie Sioux Schiavone of Gleewood discuss their songs Whiskey Sue, Chocolate On My Tongue, Superstition, The Good Bad And The Blues, Colorado Brew, A Fall Ballad, and Cisco Lights from their Albums: Gleewood and Sweet, Sweet Time.
Danielle Eva Schwob of Delanila
Danielle Eva Schwob of Delanila discusses songs from her acclaimed new album, Overloaded including It’s Been A While Since I Went Outside, Turning On The TV, Time Slips Away, and The Philosopher.
Bandits On The Run
Bandits On The Run trio explores the back story of Love In The Underground, Cowboy On The Run, Blue Heaven and Paris from their albums The Criminal Record and Bandits Live At The Power Station.
Ron Artis II
Ron Artis II dives deep into the back story of his songs Broken, To Dad, Before You Go, and Searching For Answers from his albums Love Is Love and What Music Means To Me with his Voice runner-up brother Thunderstorm Artis.
Robyn Cage
Robyn Cage discusses the back story of the songs Born In The Desert, Fallout, and Theatre Noir from her first two award winning albums Slow The Devil and Born In The Desert.
Michael and Demitri Lerios of Fox Wilde
Michael and Demitri Lerios of Fox Wilde discuss their songs Soap, Life, Strangers On The Run and Angel.
Rain Phoenix and Kirk Hellie
Rain Phoenix and Kirk Hellie discuss songs from their new album River including You Right, Lost In Motion and Emily.