The Crooked Road of Songs and Stories - A Podcast

07/12/2023

In case you missed it, the latest episode from The Crooked Road of Songs and Stories - A Podcast is available. It features a conversation with my friends Alastair Moock and Mark Erelli. This picture also features two of my buddies – Marco Giovino and Marty Ballou – and was taken when Mark produced Alastair’s record “Alastair Moock.” Link to the episode in the comments.

04/12/2023

The Crooked Road of Songs and Stories - A Podcast
Episode 5
Alastair Moock & Mark Erelli

On a rainy Monday morning in October, I sat down with my friends Alastair and Mark. Our conversation, leaning heavily into folk and blues music, winds through influential records and artists for Alastair and Mark (and yours truly.) I hope you enjoy our conversation and have as much fun listening to it as we had talking and recording it.

I would be remiss not thanking Lorne Entress for introducing me to Alastair and Mark in what seems like another lifetime ago.

(You’ll have to pardon the frog that kept coming and going in my throat.)

On a rainy Monday morning in October, I sat down with my friends Alastair Moock and Mark Erelli. Our conversation, leaning heavily into folk and blues music, winds through influential records and artists for Alastair and Mark (and yours truly.) I hope you enjoy our conversation and have as much fun....

10/10/2023

https://mailchi.mp/b2b90fac53fc/keith-sykes-and-michael-dinallo-faded-highway
Keith Sykes and Michael Dinallo first met in April of 2016 during the recording of Feel Like Going Home: The Songs of Charlie Rich. The album was produced by Michael and released by Memphis International Records in October of 2016.

Keith and Michael return seven years later with the country-soul song “Faded Highway” backed by the industrial, recitation blues of “Never, No More (A Reckoning).” Both songs we’re written by Michael and produced by Michael and Tim Carter.

24/04/2023

https://the-crooked-road-of-songs-and-stories.simplecast.com/episodes/holly-harris-rujhbzj

I spent an evening at the end of last year in Witch City, Salem, Massachusetts, with my dear friend Holly Harris. We talked about her career as one of the preeminent blues deejays in the United States and the world. One of Holly’s bona fides: W.C. Handy Keeping the Blues Alive Award. I hope you en...

11/03/2023

01/03/2023

https://youtu.be/C0XqZOIzkV4

“All the Ponies Go ’Round (Danny’s Lullaby)”The first time I remember meeting Danny Graflund was during the recording session that resulted in The Radio King...

24/02/2023

Peter Guralnick on The Crooked Road of Songs and Stories podcast -

24/02/2023

https://the-crooked-road-of-songs-and-stories.simplecast.com/episodes/peter-guralnick-QFG39a07

As days wind down towards the end of the year, New Englanders take advantage of any nice autumn day. Last October, Peter Guralnick and I sat in his backyard talking while basking in the sun and the gentle fall breeze. As you’ll hear, our conversation was punctuated by the background sounds of the ...

02/02/2023

“All the Ponies Go ’Round (Danny’s Lullaby)”The first time I remember meeting Danny Graflund was during the recording session that resulted in The Radio King...

06/12/2022

https://youtu.be/ESAB6cLTZ6E

08/10/2022

Coming in 2023.