I’d been trying to set something up with Colter for awhile, wading through the miasma of management and middlemen that wall off some lucky, talented songwriters. No luck with that, but then I saw my friend Solly was playing drums with him on a recent outing via instagram. so I […]
In a very special edition here, we find Matt Heckler (formerly of Deep Chatham) teaming up with Benjamin Tod (of Lost Dog street band) to play a tune of Matt’s on the porch. Not just any porch, however. This is the house where Guy Clark used to live, and later […]
Y’all know I only bring the realness to the table. Today we’re breaking bread with Greg Farley (& his badass band), whom you might recognize as the fiddle player from the Felice Brothers. Farley is real as they come, enthusiastic and all smiles, no pretentiousness, no bullshit. I’d noticed the […]
Esther played the fair in Nashville, and afterwords we decided to play a little song right in the middle of it. It’s music city, so no one blinked an eye at the trio of weirdos playing old-timey sounding hits, or the cameras pointed at them. Just another day in the […]
Matt Heckler and I traveled outside of Charlotte, North Carolina to visit instrument maker Ryan Navey at his in-home assembly shop. I was picking up a new banjo he’d made for me, and Matt lives in Charlotte so was happy to come along. He imparted some knowledge on us and […]
Benjamin, Ashley and Shannon (from the Teardrop Trio days) stopped by the GemsOnVHS headquarters to record some new songs. Here is the new Lost Dog Street Band one – the one that will be on their newest record set to come out in March of 2019. Benjamin explains here some […]
I introduced Ben and Hayden some time ago, and they’ve been fast friends ever since. Kindred spirits even, both prone to trouble and writing great songs about it. Both were in town for the recording of Hayden’s album we put together, and we decided to sit down and talk shop. […]
Well folks, we’ve taken it international again. A momentous occasion, as this is the first video we’ve posted in a language other than English! I do believe that folk music is a global communion that knows no boundary. This was a different style than i’ve grown accustomed to playing with […]
In June 2018 I flew over the Atlantic Ocean from America to England, the reverse of the trip so many made way back when. I was visiting folk musician, writer and rambler Josh Okeefe when we recorded this little vid. This song, I’ll Tell Me Ma, is an old irish […]
We traveled to rural Kentucky to find Benjamin Tod, who had a collection of songs to share from his new solo record, “A Heart of Gold is Hard to Find,”. We recorded on the porch of his grandfather’s home. These days, it has been great to see Ben really come […]
