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Episode 91 – Americana Thanksgiving Rock Mix – In this episode I add some production value to make up for the lack of vocal value and add a MIX to The Mix. I also give thanks to those things I am grateful for.
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Episode 90 – Wish You Were Here – It’s my first show from Florida. The sound quality of my voice is a little off. But hopefully that’ll be fixed soon. Fortunately all the great music in this episode is unaffected. Enjoy.
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Episode 89 – Music To Get Car Jacked By – This episode is full of recent and upcoming events in my life and what that means for The Americana Rock Mix. It’s also full of some pretty fantastic music.
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Episode 88 – Album Titles Are A Lost Art – While recording, I came to the realization that a lot of albums are only self titled by the artist. What happened to the day when artists would name the album something catchy or even related to something within the album? The naming of an album is a lost art.
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Episode 87 – Insert Unoriginal Title HERE – Seriously, what can I say that I haven’t said before. The music in this episode is awesome. Plain and simple.
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Episode 86 – So Fresh And So Clean – The title says it all.
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Episode 85 – Mid Week Refresher – Nuthin’ but some GREAT new music. I promise!
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Episode 84 – Open Your Mail, Jerk – In this episode I’m opening up some mail submissions that I haven’t checked out yet, and playing songs at random. We’ll see how this one turns out…
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Episode 83 – Kyle Gass Interview – In this episode I interview Kyle Gass about his side project called Trainwreck. We talk about their new album,” The Wreckoning“, acting, and Tenacious D. Also, we announce a contest for a free CD.
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Episode 82 – Venting And Lamenting – In this episode I vent about being blown off. But I also have some very cool new music, as always!
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Episode 81 – Americana Heat Wave – Man, I am tired today. This heat really takes it out of ya. But, that’s not going to keep me from doing what I love to do. This show.
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Episode 80 – Friendly Faces, New Music, Family Farewells – In this episode we have some new music bands we’ve heard before, old music never heard, and I say farewell to a loved one.
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Episode 79 – Spreading The Word – In this episode I’m spreading the word on some indie bands that deserve the support!
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Episode 78 – And The Beat Goes On – Well the show is back on track! After some well needed recovery time from my surgeries, I am chomping at the bit to get the show going again. And to help me out with this episode, I have someone show hasn’t made an appearing on the show in over 50 episodes. My ALWAYS charismatic wife, Gretchen. PLUS, I’m opening a new NEWS FEEDBACK section to the show.
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Episode 77 – Moving Too Fast – Man, do I have a lot going on this week. But that won’t stop me from giving you your weekly Americana fix. Enjoy!
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Episode 76 – Two Years Down – This is my TWO YEAR anniversary show. Nothing different from the typical format. I’m just amazed I made it two years.
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Episode 75 – Let’s Play It By Ear – I’m taking a gamble in today’s episode. I’m picking and choosing songs from albums that I’VE NEVER LISTENED TO! This could be a trainwreck… or it could be epic. We’ll see…
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Episode 74 – Listening By Number – It’s my 30th birthday, so numbers have been on my mind. I’ve decided to play some bands whose names consist of numbers. That probably sounds lame. Fortunately the music is NOT.
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Episode 73 – The Real Americana Rock Mix – In this episode I’m playing some of my favorite bands and some of my favorite songs from those bands.
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Episode 72 – With A Little Help From My Friends – We’ve got some great music in today’s episode. Some new stuff, some older stuff, and solo stuff from artists… with a little help from their friends…
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Episode 71 – Zombie Tree Interference – It just so happens that when I recorded today’s episode, my neighbor decided to take a chainsaw to the rest of his tree that wont die. Hopefully it’s not too audible. But on the bright side – the music in today’s episode rocks!
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Episode 70 – Chillin’ In The Sun – This mix is for those days when you get to hang out and relax, chilling out outside and enjoying the sunshine.
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Episode 69 – Numbah 6 Tee 9 – Once again, another week, another set of awesome music.
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Episode 68 – Still Kicking – It’s a shorter episode this week due to myself being under the weather. But I’m still kicking strong despite this annoying head cold. And you know it’ll take more than that to keep me from presenting a new episode of awesome music.
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Episode 67 – You Don’t Have The Stones For This, But I Do – So, it wasn’t food poisoning that I had a few weeks ago. It’s complications with my gall bladder. So, I’m coming fresh from an ultrasound to bring you this episode. Which is surprisingly awesome.
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Episode 66 - The Calm Before The Storm – While editing this episode I realized that I sounded really mellow. Maybe I’m just conserving my energy for the festivities planned on St. Patrick’s Day. I dunno… Anyway, of course there is also some awesome music in this episode.
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Episode 65 – Sequestered By Obama – I’m stuck in the house thanks to the President being in the area. All the roads are blocked, so I figured it was a good time to record this week’s episode.
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Episode 64 – French Titles And Posthumous Tracks – I’m feeling much better this week, so I’m a bit more talkative. But don’t worry, I’ve got a lot of great music as well…
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Episode 63 – E. Coli Rock Mix – Ugh, I’m just starting to get over my bout with food poisoning. So, there’s not an over abundance of talk, just some great music as always.
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Episode 62 – One More Round – What can I say? Another episode with awesome music.
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Episode 61 – Rocking Americana Mix – What a great amount of rock in this episode!
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Episode 60 – Americana Mixer – Quite a mix of new music from some great artists.
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Episode 59 – Chilly Atmosphere – The first episode of the new year, and a lot of great new music.
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Episode 58 – Generosity Abound – It’s that merry holiday season, so I’m giving away FREE CD’s. You want in? Take a listen and find out how. It’s REALLY easy.
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Episode 57 – Mike Doughty Review OR Retro Power Hour – This is what happens when three music nerds try to do a serious review of an album… it turns into two hours worth or conversations about a 33 minute album.
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Episode 56 – Annoying Feedback – Throwing in some good old Americana Rock complete with long feedback endings.
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Episode 55 – Thanksgiving Rock Mix – Happy Thanksgiving to those of you who do celebrate it! Enjoy todays episode full of brand new and some yet to be released music.
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Episode 54 – Americana Swine Flu – Playing a great assortment of brand NEW music!
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Episode 53 – Creepy Americana – Exploring the darker side of the the Americana genre.
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Episode 52 – Running The Gamut – We have quite the variety of music in today’s episode.
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Epiosde 51 – Mister Personality – Getting back on a regular schedule, and what better way to do it than with some NEW music!
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Episode 50 – One Half Hundred – It’s my 50th episode and I had on some past guest to shoot the breeze with and talk music and… other things. NOT A TYPICAL EPISODE. I do want to say that if you’ve never listened to this show before, go back and listen to some other recent episodes before listening to this one. Also, this episode ended NOT being kid safe and probably not work safe.
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Episode 49 – A Good Time Will Be Had By All – Some more fantastic music that might be off of your radar, but all of it is awesome music that is worth your time!
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Episode 48 – Did You Say FREE? – Man, this episode is full of such great music from some very talented artists. This is why I love doing this!
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Episode 47 – It Goes Down Smooth – In this episode, I’ve got a bunch of pretty smooth music. This group of music makes me very chill.
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Episode 45 – Brian Henneman Interview – In this episode I play some new music from The Bottle Rockets and interview the lead singer, Brian Henneman.
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Episode 44 – Same Tunes, Different Songs – Always finding great music, and always wanting to share it. So, enjoy!
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Episode 43 – Too Much To Contain Pt 2 – The second part of a two part episode packed with music.
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Episode 42 – Too Much To Contain Pt 1 – The is part 1 of another music packed episode. Plenty of listening pleasure. Part 2 will be up on Sunday.
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Episode 40 – Dinosaur Jr Review – In this episode, Eric joins me again and we review the new Dinosaur Jr album “Farm”. We also play a voicemail and a few extras that you might not usually expect.
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Episode 39 – Back In The Habit – Adding in the Lo-Fi Videocast through off the schedule a bit, but I got it under control.
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Episode 38 – One Year Down – It’s my one year anniversary show, and I’m giving away free CD’s!!!
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Episode 37 – Goodbye Jay Bennet – I have quite an assortment of musical delightment today. Take a listen and I’m sure you’ll agree.
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Episode 36 – Johnny Hickman INterview – In this episode I play an interview that I had with Johnny Hickman of Cracker, and I play some Johnny Hickman related music.
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Episode 35 – Learning To Add With Neil Young – In this episode I have my good friend Eric join me, and we take time to play some samples the newest Neil Young effort called “Fork In The Road” and do an audio review of it.
In the end we gave it a rating of… well, you’ll just have to listen to find out. But apparently I don’t know how to add. So while you’re listening to the show and yelling at me about how I don’t know how to add, deduct half a point from what I said the final score was. Good thing I actually listen to this while I edit it!
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Episode 34 -Americana Random Mix – In this episode I’m randomly picking some great music to play, and it doesn’t fail to rock.
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Episode 33 -The NEW Americana Rock Mix – In this episode I start my adventure with the online Americana Music Magazine ‘Americana Roots’. I have another local musician, Greg Kettinger, joining me and he brought some interesting music with him.
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Episode 32 -Road To SXSW – In this episode we take a look at artists and bands that are playing at SXSW 2009.
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Episode 31 -Good & Plenty – Plenty of good and new music to go around.
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Episode 30 – Good Times pt 2 – In this episode, local musician Tim Freitag joins me again for a long conversation of many things besides music. And there’s a bit of music in the episode, as well.
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Episode 29 – Good Times pt 1 – In this episode, local musician Tim Freitag joins me a long conversation of many things besides music. Oh, and this episode has a lot of music in it.
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Episode 28 -Shut Up And Play Some Music – In this episode, local musician Todd Joslin joins me and we talk about music and other crap.
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Episode 27 -It’s the first episode of the new year, and we’re just hanging out.
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Episode 26 – Festivus For The Rest Of Us – It’s a Festivus episode about misbehaving and acting badly on holidays. Or just in general. And I play some holiday songs.
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Episode 25 – One Quarter Hundred – It’s my one quarter hundredth episode! Gretchen joins me for some conversation and free CD give-aways.
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Episode 24 – The Rock Mix – Catching up on the past two weeks. Some new info about the show, and an unusual piece of mail. Oh yeah, and good Americana Rock.
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Episode 23 – Acoustica Americana – In this episode we’re checking out the acoustic side of the Americana scene.
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Episode 22 – No Agenda Americana – I didn’t have time to plan an episode, so I just picked some songs that I like and played them. No agenda Americana.
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Episode 21 – Freedom Records – In this episode we’re listening to various artists from Freedom Records (Thanks to Matt Eskey)
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Episode 20 – 2008 IMA Winners - In this episode we’re going to listen to some winners from the 2008 Independent Music Awards. I talk about my recent trip to “The Darkness”, and a play special music request.
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Episode 19 – New West Records – In this episode I’ll be playing an assortment of artists from New West Records.
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Episode 18 – Bloodshot Records – I’m taking advantage of some sampler music from Bloodshot records.
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Episode 17 – SCI Fidelity Records – In this episode I will be playing an assortment of music given to me by SCI Fidelity Records.
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Episode 16 – Bohemia Rock Mix – In this episode we explore the Jam band spectrum of the Americana music scene.
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Episode 15 – Genius Playlist – I let my Genius Bar in my iTunes dictate today’s playlist. And I make an small attempt at trying to figure out the connection between the songs and artists.
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Episode 14 – Avett Brothers – In this episode Eric joins me once again to review another album – The Second Gleam by The Avett Brothers.
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Episode 13 – Ed Anderson Interview – I interviewed Ed Anderson, front man for Backyard Tire Fire.
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Episode 12 – Vacation Mix – In this episode I’m playing a bunch of music that I think would make a pretty decent summer mix.
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Episode 11 – Review of The Toadies “No Deliverance” – In this episode, my friend Eric joins me to review the new Toadies album, and he brings over some great new music.
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Episode 10 – Summer Of Tours – There have been a lot of good tours this summer, and with school coming up for people of all ages, that doesn’t mean the fun has to end. We look at some bands touring right now.
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Episode 9 – UNAVAILABLE
Episode 8 – Listeners Choice – In this episode I have my wife Gretchen join me as I show her some new music, and we talk about other listeners choice in music.
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Episode 7 – Shurman Interview – In his episode I interview Shurman about their newest album, their newest members, past records deals, and some other interesting stuff.
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Episode 6 – Artist Spotlight: Warren Haynes – I take a look at the music and career of Warren Haynes, name our first contest winner, and tie-up some loose ends.
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Episode 5 – Roger Clyne Interview – In this episode, I interview Roger Clyne of Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers and formerly of The Refreshments.
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Episode 4 – Just The Mix – I’m out of town, so here’s some awesome music to listen to.
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Episode 3 – Indie Voting – In this episode we show some love to the indie musicians of Americana music.
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Episode 2 – Flying Solo – In this episode we check out artists who left their bands for solo careers.
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Episode 1 – A Taste – This is an introductory episode of what is to come for future episodes.
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