Every artist has a story. Every story has a beginning.
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Journey to the Stage explores the winding pathways traveled by musicians, artists and songwriters, to gain insight into the music that has shaped who they are and the music they make.
Trevor Kowalski has a beautiful new album that just released today. Trevor is a wonderfully gifted composer and a favorite of mind. Available on Spotify, AppleMusic and all streaming platforms. Current favorite piece is “This moment will be hard to forget.” This is an album worth exploring.
Album · 2024 · 12 Songs
MTv debuted when I was in middle school. Anyone have any favorite videos from the early days?
Looking forward to interviewing this brilliant composer tomorrow morning. The one and only Bear McReary.
📣🌟 NEW Episode:
Dirty Loops Bassists Henrik Linder
(Links below)
In this exclusive one-on-one interview with Dirty Loops bassist extraordinaire, Henrik Linder, we cover a lot of musical terrain. Henrik and I chat about his development as a musician who started on piano at age 4 through today as Henrik has become known for his great skill and innovation on the bass. Our conversation was filled with Dirty Loops history, working with Cory Wong, tour life, the writing process in the band and we do a breakdown of the band's latest single, "Run Away," something that will not be found anywhere else. If you are a fan of Dirty Loops and the great music they make, you will enjoy this insightful and wide-ranging interview.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/journey-to-the-stage-with-bryan-frazier/id1569949936?i=1000659263838
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1aMNn6Hx0dSFUWaIHZK7MN
This is the last big hit my step uncle Hank Cochran wrote. It’s a regular in the setlist when George plays live.
Support them or they fade away…
Got my new turntable connected and ready to take it on its maiden voyage. For the first record to play on it, I went with Paper Airplanes by Blue Water Highway.
📣🌟New Episode: Staudt Brothers (links below)
This may be the debut album of the Staudt Brothers, but these Texas gents are musical veterans. Their new album, "Livewire Priest," is filled with songs that are road tested and built on a foundation of memorable hooks, gritty guitars, powerhouse vocals, and a rhythm section that is taking no prisoners. Produced by fellow-Texans Zack Kibodeaux, Greg Essington and Kyle Smith of Blue Water Highway, "Livewire Priest" is stirring up some Texas dust and is an album that needs to be heard.
This chat with Caleb Staudt (lead vocals, guitar, and principal songwriter) and David Stockton (bass, goat harmonizer. True story) was a blast and a half. Blue Water Highway's Zack Kibodeaux makes an (almost) surprise appearance to talk about working with the band in the studio.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/journey-to-the-stage-with-bryan-frazier/id1569949936?i=1000658450281
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Ljh67NHJHy1gwIRzd0bSR
I’m intervening Dirty Loops bassist Henrik Linder Saturday morning. To say he’s one of the best bass players I’ve ever heard would be an understatement. He is pushing the envelope of what it means to be a bassist and that’s on full display in this song. He’s just mind blowing.
WE ARE ON TOUR!!! Find dates and tickets at:https://www.bandsintown.com/a/1445235-dirty-loops?fbclid=PAAabrrndf1KLF50UfZUg-o9N9GUWBNvW28g1zcO-URdt5gmXeTaMixi...
Anyone who knows me knows how much I love RUSH. My last podcast guest, Jonathan Dinklage, toured with RUSH in two tours and has maintained a friendship with Alex Lifeson, RUSH’s guitarist. I just got off the phone with Jonathan and he said he was going to reach out to Alex to see if he’d join me in my podcast. Alex may pass on it, but if he said yes, I t would be a dream come true. Alex is one of my absolute favorite guitar players. Wish me luck!!!
Something for my past guests and musician friends to laugh at.
📣🌟 NEW EPISODE!
Jonathan Dinklage (links below)
Jonathan Dinklage is a world class violinist and violist who has recorded and toured with some of the biggest and most talented artists of our time- with names like David Bowie, Michael Jackson, Lady Gaga and many more. His dream gig was being invited to tour with RUSH as part of the band's string ensemble for their Clockwork Angels tour.
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We chat about being the lead violinist on Broadway's HAMILTON and explore the origin story of Jonathan, including being raised in a home that launched Jonathan's and his brother, actor Peter Dinklage's careers. We spend the bulk of our time talking about his time touring with RUSH. Jonny gives us an insight into that tour and working closely with RUSH, like few others can.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/journey-to-the-stage-with-bryan-frazier/id1569949936
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Hbyy2lYqyu6Gi3oCGAhkP
📣🌟NEW EPISODE: Salt of the Sound
(Links below)
Salt Of The Sound have been making some of the most beautiful music I've come across in the last several years. The husband and wife duo, Ben and Anita Tatlow, continue to create music for prayer, contemplation, worship and meditation.
In this conversation that is near to my heart, Anita shares about the musical and life journey they have been on. Touched by a period of heartache and uncertainty, some of the most personal and hope-filled music The Salt of the Sound has made, finds itself on their latest album, "For All the Moments in Between." From that beautiful album comes a song we feature in our discussion, "Kyrie Eleison," as song with a deep story.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/journey-to-the-stage-with-bryan-frazier/id1569949936?i=1000654671194
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0U0X1YRYiQWkoDNmyRGQum
To all the guitarists out there- how deep is your fuzz?
WHO KNEW???
📣⭐️NEW Episode: The Dream Syndicate’s Steve Wynn
(Links below)
The Dream Syndicate is one of the few bands that have been a part of starting a new movement in the Rock world. With equal doses of The Velvet Underground, Black Flag, Neil Young and Bob Dylan, The Dream Syndicate helped create what would later be known as Alternative Rock. In this two part conversation, Steve Wynn and I track his personal musical journey, through his first band at 9 years old, all the way through his next solo album coming out this year.
Steve and I dig into his earliest musical influences, solo career, his friendship with Long Ryder's guitarist Stephen McCarthy as well as the rocket rise of The Dream Syndicate, the descent and demise of the band, and reforming many years later.
This was a wonderful and genuine conversation filled with great history, insight and candor by one of my favorite songwriters, Steve Wynn. I hope you enjoy it.
Part 2 will be released on April 22, 2024, and we spend time talking about the Baseball Project, the shear power of early Dream Syndicate performances and the contrarian nature of their setlists (and much more).
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/journey-to-the-stage-with-bryan-frazier/id1569949936?i=1000651771573
https://open.spotify.com/episode/437brlc65IBTsY09x865sZ
📣⭐️NEW Episode:
The Dream Syndicate’s Steve Wynn
(Links below)
The Dream Syndicate is one of the few bands that have been a part of starting a new movement in the Rock world. With equal doses of The Velvet Underground, Black Flag, Neil Young and Bob Dylan, The Dream Syndicate helped create what would later be known as Alternative Rock. In this two part conversation, Steve Wynn and I track his personal musical journey, through his first band at 9 years old, all the way through his next solo album coming out this year.
Steve and I dig into his earliest musical influences, solo career, his friendship with Long Ryder's guitarist Stephen McCarthy as well as the rocket rise of The Dream Syndicate, the descent and demise of the band, and reforming many years later.
This was a wonderful and genuine conversation filled with great history, insight and candor by one of my favorite songwriters, Steve Wynn. I hope you enjoy it.
Part 2 will be released on April 22, 2024, and we spend time talking about the Baseball Project, the shear power of early Dream Syndicate performances and the contrarian nature of their setlists (and much more).
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/journey-to-the-stage-with-bryan-frazier/id1569949936?i=1000651771573
https://open.spotify.com/episode/437brlc65IBTsY09x865sZ
My interview with Noel Paul Stookey is coming up Friday and I’d be lying if I said I didn’t feel a bit nervous. I’m starting my prep tonight 😬.
I’m thinking of going full Chris Farley mode and asking “remember when you sang in Peter, Paul and Mary?”
Could be a great place to start 😂
📣 🌟 📣 NEW Episode: Emmaline- Alternative R&B and Jazz vocalist.
Links below
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Emmaline is an artist who can take a song decades old and bring it to life with her magic touch in arranging and sultry vocal delivery. Beyond adding a fresh coat of paint to the great songs of a bygone era, Emmaline writes songs that are fresh and exciting, yet are laced and graced with the feeling of musical nostalgia; songs that will put in a Jazz club of days gone by.
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In this delightful conversation, Emmaline and I chat about her musical journey and the joys of rearranging songs to create new artistic expressions.
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We play a wonderful song called "These Are the Memories" from Emmaline's recent project "Retro Kind of Love," which is available now!
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/journey-to-the-stage-with-bryan-frazier/id1569949936?i=1000650357834
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Ut48KZ6IsIqbBNqiJt1z1
📣 🌟 📣 NEW Episode: Emmaline Alternative R&B and Jazz vocalist.
Links below
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Emmaline is an artist who can take a song decades old and bring it to life with her magic touch in arranging and sultry vocal delivery. Beyond adding a fresh coat of paint to the great songs of a bygone era, Emmaline writes songs that are fresh and exciting, yet are laced and graced with the feeling of musical nostalgia; songs that will put in a Jazz club of days gone by.
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In this delightful conversation, Emmaline and I chat about her musical journey and the joys of rearranging songs to create new artistic expressions.
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We play a wonderful song called "These Are the Memories" from Emmaline's recent project "Retro Kind of Love," which is available now!
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/journey-to-the-stage-with-bryan-frazier/id1569949936?i=1000650357834
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Ut48KZ6IsIqbBNqiJt1z1
Coming Monday!!!! My interview with the wonderfully talented vocalist and songwriter Emmaline.
For those who prefer a visualizer version, my conversation with Shannon Clark of Shannon Clark and the Sugar is up on my YouTube channel. This is an easy band to love and man, can they make some wonderful music. Pure Americana goodness.
There are some bands that when you hear them for the first time, they just stop you in your tracks and draw you in. That's what happened the first time I hea...
🌟 📣 New Episode: Shannon Clark and the Sugar (links below)
There are some bands that when you hear them for the first time, they just stop you in your tracks and draw you in. That's what happened the first time I heard Shannon Clark and the Sugar. I was honored to be joined by Shannon Clark, the bands vocalist and principle songwriter, for a great chat about music, struggle, and life.
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Shannon and I talk a bit about the band's history and how personal loss caused this family musical group to walk away from music for a while. With great stories to tell and the ability to tell those stories with heartfelt Americana hooks and blood harmonies, Shannon Clark and the Sugar is a band everyone should have in their listening rotation, proven by the title track from their latest album, "This Old World" that we play during our chat.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/journey-to-the-stage-with-bryan-frazier/id1569949936?i=1000648762705
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5ANNJrXy25ouHQ32kztwNR
https://podcasts.google.com?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL2JyeWFuZnJhemllcmZvdXIvZmVlZC54bWw%3D&episode=YnJ5YW5mcmF6aWVyZm91ci5wb2RiZWFuLmNvbS9iYzYwMWI1ZC1iNmExLTMwZDUtYmE2My0zMTI3MWMzODM2NzI%3D
Happy birthday to Gary Louris, one of the greatest songwriters in American music history.
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📣🌟 New Episode: Malcolm Guite Part 2!! (Links below)
Malcolm Guite is truly a delight to speak with, which made interviewing him a thing of beauty. In this second and final segment, Malcolm and I converse about the film adaptations of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit books, Malcolm shares one of his own beautiful sonnets, and much, much more.
I hope those who listen will find this insightful and encouraging. If you have not listened to Part 1, you can find that episode on the platform you are listening on now.
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A special thank you to my friend, Phil Keaggy for granting permission to use "When Night Falls" from his wonderful album, "Beyond Nature," an album I fell in love with as a younger man.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/journey-to-the-stage-with-bryan-frazier/id1569949936?i=1000646878845
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5mirLaY5UQQboIHZyyNwKh
Coming Monday, the second and final segment of my fascinating interview with the legendary Malcolm Guite.
Malcolm Guite reading a passage from The Fellowship of the Ring is one of the greatest moments of my podcast he reads as the Fellowship travels to, and enters into Lothlorien. It is some of the finest prose I have ever written, and to hear it read by Malcolm, elevates it even further. It’s a minute and a half. Check it out if you’d like.
In this segment of a two-part interview I did, Malcolm Guite reads from The Fellowship of the Ring, as the Fellowship travels to, then enters into Lothlorien...
🌟📣 NEW EPISODE: Malcolm Guite
(Links below)
Malcolm Guite is a man of many facets. He is a poet with a deep appreciation for the classical form and higher realms of language. Equal parts songwriter, author, ordained priest in the Church of England, avid reader and academic, Malcolm brings these beautiful colors into one of the most fascinating conversations I have had on my podcast.
Malcolm and I cover a wide range of topics with one of the highlights of this first installment being a reading he does from The Fellowship of the Ring. The longer I spoke to Malcolm, the more I saw in him the affability of Bilbo Baggins, and the wisdom and percipience of Gandalf. I hope all who listen will enjoy this chat as much as I did.
--PART 2 will be released on Monday February 26, 2024. Be sure to follow or subscribe wherever you catch podcasts.--
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/journey-to-the-stage-with-bryan-frazier/id1569949936?i=1000645037256
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4U6du8OWBhmzgKE6mt0mtG
60 years ago. America would never be the same
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Director Denny Tedesco, who brought us The Wrecking Crew film is back with a great film, “Immediate Family” that tells the story of the small group of musicians who were the engine of the Singer Songwriter revolution.
After listening to Journey for 42 years, I finally saw them live. They were amazing!!
Journey’s album, Evolution, was the first album I ever bought. I was a young 10 year old who was just beginning to develop his own musical taste- and I’ve been a Journey fan ever since. I got to see them live for the first time a couple of nights ago, and “Don’t Stop Believing “ was one of the songs I captured with my superior cinematography 🫠
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