The Doers Of Things Podcast

Hear me talk to bass player extrodanair and all-around wise dude, Victor Wooten, while at his music camp outside of Nashville on the Duck River on January 1, 2023.

Join me for a ride along in West Nashville with slick playing guitar man, Guthrie Trapp, on May 24, 2023.

Listen to me talk with top-tier photographer and trance chaneller, Jeff Fasano, on January 5, 2023 right after I had my first professional photo shoot.

Tune into a convesation had with Executive Director of WMOT Roots Radio in Tennessee, Val Hoeppner on March 23, 2023.

Here is a conversation I had with Jaimee Harris in Mobile, Alabama on January 18th, 2023 while she was on a solo run of shows after the release of her sophomore album, Boomerang Town.

Tune in to hear me chat with Radney Foster about how he caught the music bug and goes digging around in his soul for the songs during our chat on May 10, 2023 at Main Street Crossing in Tomball, Tx; before he played his debut album Del Rio, Tx 1959 from top to bottom.

I got the chance to sit down with Craig Wayne Boyd, winner of season 7 of The Voice, in a publishing house on Music Row March 30, 2023. Tune in to hear his journey as a muscian.

I got to sit down with Slaid Cleaves on a windy day at Fischer Haus Concerts in Fischer, Texas on April 30, 2023. Listen as we take a stroll from day one busking in Cork, Ireland in 1985 having never really written a song to now as one of the most respected songwriters in Texas.

Despite graduating from the same high school and both being singer-songwriters still living in Texas, Austin Gilliam and I sat down for this chat in Nashville, Tennessee on March 1, 2023, before a gig he had at The Local.

 I met Ellie Sanders, Senior VP at Jack Barton Entertainment - a boutique Triple A Radio Services + Artist Management company, at a Bee Taylor show in Nashville and a few days later, on April 12, 2023, I was on her back porch chatting it up with her like we were old friends. 

Thanks to a connection made by episode 10's guest, Ellie Sanders, I was connected with the acclaimed and rebounded throughout the music industry photographer, Michael Weintrob. Listen in as we chat in his studio in Nashville on April 13, 2023.

April 11, 2023, I got to have a Zoom call with a notoriously apprehensive interviewee, country rocker, River “Sarah” Shook. Listen as we discuss their nonbinary declaration, complete with name change, their sobriety, the power of a daily walk, and more. 

Matthew Hartnett has played trombone for the likes of Lauryn Hill, Dave Chappelle, and Talib Kweli. He created The Gumbo Jam, an improv live music collaboration, in New York and Houston. He's known his purpose since the age of 12 and has spent his life living up to it. I sat down with him on August 25, 2023, to hear how and why he does what he does.

Nancy McGalliard has been an artist her whole life in one form or fashion. I feel blessed to call her my friend and I've learned so much from her over the years. I hope you enjoy taking a walk on the ridiculous side with us by listening to this gal pal chat we had Novemeber 14, 2022 in her living room in Huntsville, Texas.

When I first set out to get interviews to see if it was possible to keep my KMXT radio show going and turn it into a podcast, I went to AmericanaFest as soon as I got back from Alaska. Abe Partridge was someone I met at the music industry conference, and he was the first person to reach back out to me to get on the show. I was honored and hopped on a Zoom call with him on October 18, 2022. Listen to learn about Abe's journey from fundamental baptist preacher, to signing up for the Air Force in his late 20s, to writing songs and painting with tar, to then traveling around the south recording the songs of serpent-handling churches and turning into a podcast.

I met Ferrill Gibbs through Abe Partridge. They made this really cool podcast about the music of serpent-handling churches of the south (it's called Alabama Astronaut Podcast). Ferrill and I met up at the public library in College Station, Texas on October 23, 2022 to talk all about it. Still pretty new to the whole interviewing thing, I might have rambled on a bit, but I think I had a point. I hope you get the point. I know there's a good point to why Ferrill Gibbs is doing what he does.

I found my way to premier South Alabama house concert site, The Frog Pond, for the first time on January 22, 2023, to have this talk with its proprietor, Cathe Steele. Far more than just a house concert host, Cathe has been a blacksmith for the Kentucky Derby, a NOLS guide, a bartender and talent booker, and I'm sure more things than we could cover in our first sit down with each other.

I'm still riding that string of interviews that started with show 15's guest. After catching Grace Askew at the house concert of show 17's guest in southern Alabama, I knew I wanted to have this 6th-generation Memphian, prolific songwriter, season 5 of The Voice finalist, and sober musician on the show. Join us at Grace's kitchen counter on May 31, 2023.

COMING SOON:

Lech Wierzynski & Ben Malament (California Honeydrops), Peter Anspach (Goose), Oliver Wood (The Wood Brothers), Bob Schneider, Carolyn Wonderland, Marcia Ball, Tommy Prine, Jackie Venson, Annakalmia Traver & Alex Toth (Rubblebucket), Lindsay Lou, John Mailander, Gary P Nunn, Bee Taylor, Hannah Dasher, Kyle Tuttle, Kevin Russell (Shinyribs), Phoebe Hunt, Cynthia and Edwina Bringle, The Light Center, Ryan Rado, Jeanie Smith (Warehouse 521), Heidi Narum-Hyatt (Hoppy Highhat), and many more…