Episode 63 - Jordan Davis - The Next Thing You Know we will be Dancing in a Parking Lot (external version outside of Spotify)

Biography

Jordan Carl Wheeler Davis (born March 30, 1988) is an American country music singer and songwriter signed to Universal Music Group Nashville's MCA Nashville division.

Davis was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, to mother Luwanna. He has a brother, ⁠Jacob Davis⁠ (who is also a country singer), and a sister, Jentry. His uncle, Stan Paul Davis, wrote ⁠Tracy Lawrence⁠'s hit singles "⁠Today's Lonely Fool⁠" and "⁠Better Man, Better Off⁠".

He began playing guitar when he was twelve years old. He attended C. E. Byrd High School. He then attended Louisiana State University before graduating in 2012.

After graduation, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee and secured a recording contract with Universal Music Group Nashville in 2016.

Davis's debut single, "⁠Singles You Up⁠", came out in mid-2017. He wrote the song with Steven Dale Jones and Justin Ebach. The corresponding debut album, ⁠Home State⁠, released on March 23, 2018.

Songs from this episodeJordan Davis - Next Thing You Know

⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c909oqLfao⁠

Jordan Davis - Slow Dance In A Parking Lot

⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D3V4s4zzxc⁠

⁠https://www.jordandavisofficial.com/⁠

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E63 - Spotify Has Cancelled Our Show - Yes, it is true!

Podcasting has evolved quite a bit since its early days. As a format, it is increasingly becoming more visual and interactive, with more people around the world creating, listening, and engaging with the medium than ever before.

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And while the core vision of Spotify for Podcasters has remained — to make podcasting so brilliantly simple that anyone, anywhere, can share their voice with the world — like podcasting itself, we’ve expanded our purpose over time. Today we are focused on helping you reach larger, more global audiences and giving you the tools to develop meaningful, authentic connections with those fans.

To that end, we have a couple of important updates to share as they relate to some of our features on Spotify for Podcasters.

Alongside the rollout of this integration and to better optimize the needs of creators today, we are refocusing our attention — and resources — from some of our legacy tooling to the next generation of podcast innovations. As part of that shift, we are discontinuing our web and mobile native creation tools, including recording and editing tools as well as our “Music + Talk” format (an experimental feature that allowed podcasters to include full licensed music tracks in their podcast episodes on Spotify), beginning this June. https://podcasters.spotify.com/resources/learn/create/updates-to-spotify-for-podcasters

EXTERNAL EPISODE 62 - A Thousand Horses - We fill the Room with Smoke and a Room Full of Strangers

A Thousand Horses was founded in 2010 in Nashville by longtime friends, vocalist Michael Hobby and lead guitarist Bill Satcher (both natives of Newberry, South Carolina), along with rhythm guitarist Zach Brown and bassist Graham DeLoach. This ballad is their debut release.

The high-powered new single from A Thousand Horses, “Highway Sound” marks the start of the most dynamic era yet in the Nashville-based band’s career. Produced by GRAMMY Award-winner Jon Randall, the wildly life-affirming anthem delves deeper into the freewheeling originality they’ve embraced since their Dave Cobb-produced debut SOUTHERNALITY—featuring the PLATINUM-certified smash “Smoke”—and artfully merges elements of Southern Rock, Classic Country, and hard-driving Americana. Along with adorning the track with plenty of ear-catching details (achieved in part through such left-of-center instrumentation as electric sitar and talkbox), A Thousand Horses fully capture what frontman Michael Hobby refers to as “the freedom of cutting ties with the negativity of the past, and putting your energy into celebrating a new beginning.”  

Written after a period of intense change in their personal lives, “Highway Sound” first took shape over the course of a weekend trip to a Texas farmhouse in summer 2021, during which Hobby, guitarist Bill Satcher, bassist Graham DeLoach, and former guitarist Zach Brown came up with the song during an impromptu session on the porch. A major leap forward for A Thousand Horses, “Highway Sound” spotlights the powerful musicianship and soulful urgency first revealed on SOUTHERNALITY—a 2015 LP that reached #3 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart, with “Smoke” earning recognition as the first debut single for a group to reach #1 on the Country Airplay charts that decade. Soon after launching their own label, Highway Sound Records, A Thousand Horses returned with their 2022 sophomore album BROKEN HEARTLAND, featuring standouts like “When I Hear Your Name,” “Another Mile,” and “Never Liked the Rain.” Known for their incendiary live show, A Thousand Horses have also toured the country with iconic acts like Lynyrd Skynyrd, Darius Rucker, Jason Aldean, Kid Rock and more. 

Songs featured in this episode:

Smoke

⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDWepmUXk3w⁠

Room Full of Strangers

⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrQELduz_Lw⁠

YouTube

⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkRTIm4k5MISqXx9NFF22lQ⁠

⁠https://www.athousandhorses.com/⁠

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EX61 - Boo Trundle - 90's Artist Looks Back on Her Musical Career and Shares Three Songs - Stavos Confession, Banister and Girl Like You

Biography

Boo Trundle is an author, blogger, and musician who recorded and released records in the nineties through Big Deal/Caroline Records. Based in New York City, she performed and recorded with a community of musicians which included Kurt Ralske (Ultra Vivid Scene), Joe McGinty (Loser's Lounge tribute series), Yuval Gabay (Soul Coughing), and Clem Waldmann (Blue Man Group). She toured and performed in support of three commercial releases: The Vast Underneath (LP), Tall Sleep (EP), and Possible Bodies (LP.) She wrote and recorded a fourth album, The Popular Dream, which was produced and engineered by Chad Clark (Smart Went Crazy, Beauty Pill) at Inner Ear studio in Arlington, Virginia.

BOO TRUNDLE is a writer, artist, and performer whose work has appeared across various platforms and publications, including The Brooklyn Rail, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and NPR’s The Moth. She has released three albums of original music with Big Deal Records. She lives in New Jersey. The Daughter Ship is her first novel.

https://www.last.fm/music/Boo+Trundle

Songs we cover in this episode

Stavo's Confession

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h9HE0TU7bU Banister https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTZihpKkaT4 A Girl Like You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qXap4il9H4

https://www.bootrundle.com/

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EX60 - The 1975 - I'm In Love With You and It's Not Living If It's Not With You

The 1975 are an English pop rock band formed in 2002 in Wilmslow, Cheshire. The band consists of lead vocalist, principal songwriter and guitarist Matty Healy, lead guitarist Adam Hann, bassist Ross MacDonald, and drummer and primary producer George Daniel. The name of the band was inspired by a page of scribblings found in Healy's copy of On the Road by Jack Kerouac that was dated "1 June, The 1975".

The band members met in secondary school, and first performed together as teenagers in 2002, before professionally releasing music in 2012 under independent label Dirty Hit

Rolling Stone stated that the band has been at "the forefront of modern pop rock" since their debut. Pitchfork has described them as a "band of friends" who "ascended from scrappy emo rockers to global superstars". Entertainment Weekly has characterized them as "British Phenoms," with Billboard declaring them "the most ambitious pop-rock band of their generation". They have received several awards and nominations including four Brit Awards, two Ivor Novello Awards, as well as two nominations for the Mercury Prize and Grammy Awards. In addition, they have been awarded "Band of the Decade" at the 2020 NME Awards. Songs Featured in this episode

⁠I'm In Love With You⁠⁠It's Not Living (If It's Not With You)⁠

⁠https://the1975.com/⁠

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EPISODE 59 - Michael Sweet - Solo Tunes From Stryper's Lead Singer - Radio and Tomorrow plus Baby Doll

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SINGER/SONGWRITER/GUITARIST AND FOUNDING MEMBER OF STRYPER EMBODIES ROLE AS HARDEST WORKING MUSICIAN IN THE BUSINESS

On any given day, veteran musical artist Michael Sweet can be found practicing guitar riffs, laying down vocals, writing a song or giving an interview on a podcast. And that’s just to name a few of his diverse and demanding priorities.

“I’m fortunate to have so many opportunities with all sorts of projects on the table,” says the multifaceted singer/songwriter/guitarist from his Massachusetts home. “Sometimes I get overwhelmed, but as an overachiever I tend to work really well under pressure.”

It would be extremely tough to find a more hardworking and accomplished musician in the business than Sweet. Need evidence?

For starters, he continues to helm Grammy-nominated Christian hard-rock outfit Stryper, which he co-founded more than 35 years ago. With more than 10 million career album sales worldwide, the venerable band ascended to prominence in the 1980s with Billboard Top 40-charting singles like “Calling on You,” “Honestly” and “Always There for You.”

Stryper’s 1986 multi-platinum release To Hell with the Devil has been lauded by critics and fans alike as among the best Christian rock albums of all time. The group also made history when it scored two songs simultaneously in MTV’s Top 10 with enduringly popular videos “Honestly” and “Free.”

Along the way, Sweet also managed to churn out first-rate solo albums like his self-titled release in 1994, which yielded five No. 1 singles, Truth in 2000, the critically acclaimed 2015 project I’m Not Your Suicide (peaked at No. 10 in Billboard’s Hard Rock albums), and 2019’s Ten, which reached No. 4 on Billboard’s Top Christian Albums chart.

Sweet is no stranger to witnessing success all while maintaining positive spiritual themes in his prodigious catalog of work. What’s more, he consistently takes on significant side projects like a provisional stint as co-lead singer and guitarist for legendary rock band BOSTON. Never mind cooperative endeavor Sweet & Lynch with guitarist George Lynch, best known as a former original member of metal quartet Dokken, and a metal project called Sunbomb with Tracii Guns of L.A. Guns. 

Songs featured in this episode:

⁠Radio⁠

⁠Tomorrow⁠

(Bonus) ⁠Baby Doll⁠

⁠https://michaelsweet.com/⁠

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E58 - Killium - Punk, Pop-Punk, and Alternative. Writing our feelings and seeing what sticks

This is the external verso for listeners outside of the paid Spotify Platform

Jonas and Ryan drop by to talk all things Killium - find out how many songs that Ryan knows the lyrics to, the story behind Ryan's double neck guitar, Jonas walks us thru the origins of the Killium musical library and hear their plans for their upcoming album release!

We feature these songs in this episode - check out these links to Killium's music on YouTube

⁠Feed It⁠

⁠Dirty Rotten (Dirty)⁠

Jonas, Kyle, RyanBooking: KilliumOfficial@gmail or DM

⁠https://linktr.ee/Killium

Killium's YouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjwxWQ8gGVzOh79M6dGXhOA

EX57 - Bryan Adams - A Great Canadian Musical Export - Cuts Like a Knife and Everything I Do, I Do it For You

Bryan Adams, in full Bryan Guy Adams, (born November 5, 1959, Kingston, Ontario, Canada), Canadian rock singer-songwriter, photographer, and social activist whose hit albums Cuts Like a Knife (1983) and Reckless (1984) made him one of the most popular and successful recording artists of the 1980s.

Adams was musically talented at an early age and taught himself how to play guitar. His father served in the Canadian army, was a UN peacekeeping observer, and served as a diplomat, necessitating many relocations for the family. When his parents divorced, he lived with his mother just north of Vancouver, British Columbia. At age 16, he dropped out of high school, ready to pursue a full-time career as a musician, having already performed as lead vocalist for Canadian glam-rock band Sweeney Todd. He spent time working in a recording studio, performing on tours, and recording music for Sweeney Todd’s album If Wishes Were Horses (1977). Shortly after the recording’s release, Adams was introduced to Jim Vallance, a Canadian musician, songwriter, and producer. Vallance recognized Adams’s ability but also saw the need for further vocal training. With Vallance’s help, it was not long before Adams established a powerful, distinct sound, one compared to that of Rod Stewart, Paul Rodgers, and Steve Marriott.

Bryan Adams - Cuts Like A Knife

Bryan Adams - (Everything I Do) I Do It For You

https://www.bryanadams.com/

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