I recently traveled to the family farm to meet with Jason Dea West, and see where his story started. Jason is one of my old pals, we’ve checked in with him at various times over the years. Hopping trains with Benjamin Tod (https://youtu.be/wwxAqeSMc0k?si=O7Hk3pzQt7nYDzMi) and stopping at a random truckstop and […]
Arlo McKinley is a real one. Recently, one of my very good friends was in a car wreck. He was drunk, rear ended someone and totaled his car. He didn’t realize that if you put someone in your iPhone as an “emergency contact”, it sends out a SOS location ping […]
Winner of the Gems in the Rough 2023 content, Jordan Smart. We recorded this one when he visited Nashville, as part of the grand prize, picking up his Gold Tone instrument and filming with us. This is the song that really turned me into a Jordan Smart fan. He has […]
We’re back again for a trip to Korea. Some of y’all might remember Ye Ram from our longer video (https://youtu.be/3AurW0e2X-c?si=3j92PvnfcxPQQzZ_). We filmed this one on the same day, in another room in her apartment in Seoul. That room was her home studio setup, and I spied a two channel red […]
I was on a little tour, headed from Dublin to Cork in a very stiff seat in the DUG band van, when we stopped along the way at a beautiful old castle. We sat down on a windy rock high above the surrounding fields to record this little Ian Felice […]
Back at the Jackalope Jamboree festival in the little town of Pendleton, Oregon again this year. My 2nd annual trip thus far. I love it because they are down in the dirt, the real down, real people playing real music with real passion. Nothing gets me going like a van […]
Here’s one from the vaults, back in the before times, before even 2020. Arlo Mckinley playing at the Wild Bean on my trip to West Virginia. Arlo told me it was cool if this one came out, but then I couldn’t get ahold of him after that lol so if […]
Another one from this years Jackalope Jamboree festival in Pendleton, Oregon. Stayed at this motel called the Motolodge this year, and decided to crash the pool area with a song from Boy Golden. They’re Canadian, so we’re healing the USA/Canada divide together. In this song they ask the universal question… […]
Back to the ole Jackalope Jamboree (https://www.jackalopejamboree.com/) to hang with a new friend, Alabama’s own, Taylor Hunnicutt. She has one hell of a voice, lotta power in those cords. Her and the lads were on a journey out West, on tour in the Hunnicutt mobile, when I met them out […]
We went up to Wisconsin to hang out with my pal Jason Dea West this past spring, visiting his family farm. On the way I had to check off a bucket list item, a little detour to the home of Jobi from the duo Pine and Fire. They had been […]
