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Dirk Lind – “Safer in Misery”
Episode 21: ——- Dig what I’m doing? Consider donating $5 or more at the bottom of this post Growing up in Charlottesville I was exposed to a great deal of music with a vast variety of styles, from rock groups like Wolves of Azure to bluegrass groups like Magraw Gap, and of course, at the time […]
Castle Park – “Night Rider” & “Machete”
Episode 20: ——- Dig what I’m doing? Consider donating $5 or more at the bottom of this post I was visiting Hawaii recently, researching some interests of mine and I luckily reconnected with one of my oldest and best friends, Dkind AKA Danny Mawyer. Growing up we played in a few different groups together, mostly […]
Ezra John- “Missing You” & “The River”
Episode 19: ——- Dig what I’m doing? Consider donating $5 or more at the bottom of this post Ezra John came to Charlottesville with his new original group, Ezra John & The 1st Second to play a few shows in VA last week. During their tour, Ezra stopped by 106.1FM The Corner to do one of […]
Erin Lunsford- “Sitting on Top of the World”
Episode 18: ——- Dig what I’m doing? Consider donating $5 or more at the bottom of this post The first time I met Erin Lunsford was during a recording session which I was engineering. She was featured on about 3 songs and right from her first take, I was very impressed. When she records as a session musician, […]
Ezra Hamilton – “Oh Mama” & Medley
Episode 17: ——- Dig what I’m doing? Consider donating $5 or more at the bottom of this post During my final year in college, I was invited to sit in with Joe Lawlor’s band, XPS, at the now defunct Outback Lodge. They were holding their annual Xmas Jam and it was then when I first […]
Tom Lasko – 2 originals & “Monticello”
Episode 16: ——- Dig what I’m doing? Consider donating $5 or more at the bottom of this post “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,” so they say. For this next Pun Picks session, that saying definitely rings true. Tom Lasko is Morwenna’s father, a talented visual artist as well as a highly skilled […]
Laurent Brondel – “Nardis”
Episode 15: ——- Dig what I’m doing? Consider donating $5 or more at the bottom of this post. *photos courtesy of Laurent Brondel, video below Upon finishing our first international tour that Morwenna and I took in 2012, we visited her family in Maine and I spoke with her father, Tom Lasko, about how most of the guitars I have owned […]
Toubab Krewe – “Underground Improv”
Episode 14: ——- Dig what I’m doing? Consider donating $5 or more at the bottom of this post. I first heard Toubab Krewe when we played FloydFest in Floyd, VA during the summer of 2006. I could tell right away that they were a festival favorite and sure enough, we saw them almost every time we played that festival. […]
Emma Davis – “Landslide”
Episode 13: ——- Dig what I’m doing? Consider donating $5 or more at the bottom of this post. When I first met Emma Davis, she came to my studio with her friend who was studying guitar with me. My student said that I should hear her sing, so she grabbed his guitar and sang “Wagon Wheel” by Old Crow […]
Keller Williams – “Sheebs / The Drop”
Episode 12: ——- Dig what I’m doing? Consider donating $5 or more at the bottom of this post. When I was 17, I bought an effects pedal for my guitar called “The Boomerang,” which allowed me to record my guitar and then instantaneously play it back at the press of a button. Prior to this, there had been long delay pedals that […]