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Kenny Roby
In the late 90s, Kenny Roby ushered in the alt-country wave that spread across the world with his band 6 String Drag. Since then he’s released a steady stream of records both with the band and on his own. We talked about his latest release, a gorgeous 16-track, deeply personal record called The Reservoir out August 7th on Royal Potato Family. You recently relocated to Woodstock, is it an indefinite move?Oh, there’s no such thing as permanently! I have a place up here now. I have my stuff and myself and my guitars at a place in Woodstock that I…
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Farmer Dave Scher
Farmer Dave called me and immediately the call dropped. I called back. “I’m in a canyon!” he pronounced. Of course he was. With roots in California dating back to the mid-1800s, Farmer Dave admits that California is an easy place to fall in love with, whether you have roots or not. He speaks like an ancient person from the future. I had a feeling he might be able to shed some light on what makes California so magical, sounds and visions rippling through time. Sure enough, he seemed to, although his answers lead to more questions, a fractal-like investigation of…
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Prana Crafter
Will Sol’s experimental, interstellar sonic scapes are hallucinogenic enough to make you shut your eyes and find yourself transported to his native Pacific Northwest woods. The man known as Prana Crafter‘s early life sounds like something out of an old-timey classic country album, murder-ballad included, but as we chatted, things in his life got spacier and spacier, much like his catalog. Tell me about your relationship to the Pacific Northwest.I grew up about 30 or 40 minutes north of Portland, right over the border of Washington. It was one of those really small intentional towns they built for the logging…
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Brent Rademaker
GospelbeacH has released two records and one collection of unreleased songs, covers, and live tunes since their start in 2016, and their new record Let it Burn will be released on October 4th. The first single will be out next week. Brent opened up about GospelbeacH’s upcoming record, his inspiration, and also delivered some exciting breaking news.
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Avi Vinocur
San Francisco’s Avi Vinocur is a prolific multi-instrumentalist who records with both his band Goodnight Texas, and under his own name and has played with everyone from Phil Lesh to Metallica. We caught up with him to learn a bit more about his process, Goodnight Texas’s whole shtick, and stories from the bay. MM: When and where did you start making music? AV: Well, I played piano as a small kid. I found making up songs on it pretty interesting, as opposed to learning it properly. I actually found some cassette tapes of me writing songs on piano that I…
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Canción Franklin
I saw Canción at my favorite bar in the East Village a few years ago and was impressed and excited not just by his music, but his performance – it is really rare to see someone having as much fun on stage as he does. He’s really electrified when he’s playing, his whole body becomes animated. With a name like his (it’s real), it’s not surprising that nothing can stop him from playing music, be it a broken arm or a global pandemic. Thanks to Canción for being the first interview I ever conducted for a now-defunct pub. I can’t…
