Hello friends! Modern-day, classic crooner L.C. Franke is my guest for episode 1411! His new album, the gorgeous Still In Bloom is available now wherever you stream your music and on vinyl. L.C. and his small orchestra are celebrating the release of Still In Bloom with a release show this Saturday, August 3rd at The State Theater here in Austin with special guest Jo Alice. Go to lcfranke.com for show and tour info, vinyl, and more. We have a great conversation about taking a left turn in music from indie-rock prodigy to being a crooner singing over beautifully orchestrated music, his new style of touring, musicians on charts, the beautiful string arrangements he wrote on a Mellotron, working with "real" musicians, finding happiness in show business, and much more. I had a great time catching up with my old friend, L.C.. I'm sure you will too. Let's get down!

Hello friends! Peter Holsapple from legendary, and influential power-pop band, The dB's is my guest for episode 1410! Their 1981 album, Stands For Decibels, originally released on the UK-based Albion label, was known as one of the great "lost" power-pop albums of the 80's until now. Stands For Decibels is available now wherever you stream your music or on CD and vinyl on Propeller Sound Recordings. The dB's will also be hitting the road this fall playing shows on the east coast and midwest. Go to thedbs.com for tour dates, music and more. Peter and I have a great conversation about the story of The dB's, their journey as a band, the influence of The dB's on R.E.M., Let's Active and more, Peter's career after the band spending 4 years as R.E.M.'s touring keyboard/guitar player, 26 years touring with Hootie And The Blowfish, and his band, The Continental Drifters with Vicki Peterson (The Bangles) and Susan Cowsill (The Cowsills), and much more. It was such an honor to sit down with Peter and get his story. I hope you enjoy it. I did. Let's get down!

Hello friends! I hope you're all hanging on to your sanity. Austin, ethereal-rock band, March and Beauty are back for episode 1409! Their new single, the gender equality and women's rights anthem, "Change" is out now wherever you stream or download your music. They're celebrating the release of "Change" with a show this Thursday, July 25th at The Mohawk here in Austin. Go to marchandbeauty.com for music, videos, show dates and more. Tim and Terri Dittmar, Paul Stautinger, and Justin Bocanegra talk about writing and recording "Change", how the song came through a prompt in the "11:59" songwriting group, the importance of the conversation about gender equality and women's rights at this time in history, the band's creative process, running a recording school, a few fabulously entertaining rants from Tim, a lot of laughs, and much more. I had a great time catching up with the band. I'm sure you will too. Let's get down!

Hello friends! Matt Lowell, frontman for Los Angeles based, rock band, Lo Moon is my guest for episode 1408! Their latest album, the gorgeous, I Wish You Way More Than Luck is available now wherever you stream or download your jams. Lo Moon will be heading to Europe and U.K. in October and touring the U.S string in November. Go to lomoonofficlial.com for tour dates, music, videos and more. Matt and I have a great conversation about writing and recording I Wish You Way More Than Luck and having it mixed by the legendary Alan Moulder (Depeche Mode, Smashing Pumpkins), growing up in New York, how the band got together, playing "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" with Curt Smith from Tears For Fears, SXSW, touring, staying inspired and much more. I had a great time getting to know Matt. I'm sure you will too. Let's get down!

Hello friends! Jaime Ospina from Austin Colombian funk / Caribe soul band, Superfonicos is my guest for episode 1407! Their latest album, the celebratory Renaceré (Re-na-ce-ré) which means “I will be reborn” in Spanish, drops this Friday, July 19th on Spaceflight Records. Superfonicos is celebrating in Austin with an instore at Waterloo Records on Friday, 7/19 at 5 pm, and a release show Saturday 7/20 at The Continental Club. Go to superfonicos.com for show info, music, videos, and more. Jaime and I have a great conversation about how Renaceré is a response to four difficult years, and four members having children, writing and making the album, growing up in Colombia, discovering music, moving to Austin, the rebirth of Superfonicos, and much more. I had a great time getting to know Jaime. I'm sure you will too. Let's get down!

Hello friends! Songwriter, producer, and business woman extraordinaire Brandi Warden is my guest for episode 1406! Brandi comes from a music industry family that has had 8 decades of someone in the family having a song on the billboard charts. Brandi is no different. She most recently co-wrote and co-produced the album Jackpot! by her husband's band, Monte Warden and the Dangerous Few, which is currently at #47 on the Americana chart and their song "Waxahatchee Hoochie Coo" is currently at #42 on the Americana singles chart. We have an amazing conversation about her incredible family from her uncle working at Sun Records in the 50's and recording "Great Balls of Fire" for Jerry Lee Lewis and "I Walk the Line" for Johnny Cash and more, her grandparents had hits with Johnny Paycheck and others, her dad wrote from Johnny Paycheck, Garth Brooks, George Strait and more and sold over 35 millions albums (and that's not even all of it), her journey in the publishing part of music, songwriting, producing and much more. I had a blast hanging with Brandi. I'm sure you will too. Let's get down!

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Hello friends! Alt-folk-pop, singer-songwriter, and record label owner Rachael Sage is my guest for episode 1404! Rachael's latest album, Another Side, an acoustic reimagining of her critically acclaimed album, The Other Side, is available now wherever you do music. Go to rachaelsage.com for music, videos, tour dates, and more. We have a great conversation about the inspiration to make Another Side, getting a four-track cassette recorder for her bat mitzvah, going to Stanford, coming up in the d.i.y. folk scene, starting and running her record label MPress Records, songwriting, touring the U.K., what keeps her inspired, and much more. I had a great time getting to know Rachael. I'm sure you will too. Let's get down!