Ben came down to Old Hickory, Tennessee to play a new tune for us, just before the pandemic swept the nation. In some sort of premonition of events to come, we talked a little bit about how it is the duty of an artist to go into the darkness and […]
Jesse Daniel is a hard working, hustling honky-tonk troubadour from the land of the tall redwoods, way out West. When I first met him, he’d invited me to his hometown out in the forested backwoods hills of Ben Lomond (not the Scottish one, where I went with Josh Okeefe), in […]
I’ve always thought, personally, that Ben’s best songs are love songs. The temperament of his love songs usually ranges between playful and painful. Someone is usually leaving, or left and came back. They’re asking for forgiveness or dealing with pain. Grace’s Casket is my personal favorite, and the list is […]
Before this trip to Toronto, the farthest north in North America i’d been was Marquette Michigan, filming my friend (and talented songwriter) John Davey (https://youtu.be/KeZcGEL73Mk). I’d even ventured to Niagara Falls with Jeremy Quentin (of Small Houses) once. Never had I ever dared to cross that border though, partly because […]
When we set out to create the Gems in the Rough contest (https://youtu.be/RXld_ZEtnfA), we had no idea what to expect. It really is a crazy thought; to put a video on the channel inviting the audience (y’all) to submit songs, and have the community (also y’all) vote on who they […]
