Hardcore Troubadour's guest appearances

Hardcore Troubadour

Tasty Brew Music

John Oates

Darrell Scott

Tim Easton

Mireya Ramos

Woody Guthrie

Jim Lauderdale

Chad Elliott

Ray Bonneville

Amy Speace

Kelly Hunt

Jeff Black

Mandy Rowden

Carter Sampson

Courtney Patton

John Hartford

OwlTail

This episode of the Tasty Brew Music Podcast features one of my favorite human beings on the planet… Chad Elliott…Iowa based singer-songwriter, poet, author, illustrator, sculptor, ceramicist, podcaster, and yes I’m going to say it…Renaissance Man! I was introduced to his music early on with my radio show in 2010. I’ve seen Chad perform dozens of times in many different settings, including my own backyard for a house concert. He’s been a huge supporter of my show and community radio in general; one night he drove all night from Colorado to help me pitch during a Pledge Drive Show on KKFI one morning from 6-8 am. He was my featured performer on the 2018 Tasty Brew Music Stage at KKFI’s Crossroads Musical Festival. He leads a very lyrical life that serves as fertile ground for weaving love, loss and forgiveness into timeless melodies. He plays more than 200 shows a year, has penned more than 1,000 songs and released 22 albums to date. His latest …released in 2018… “Rest Heavy” was recorded at the world famous Sun Studios in Memphis with his band The Redemptions. As you’ll hear in this conversation, he has 3 more album projects in the works!  It was a real pleasure to sit down with him for a conversation that lasted more than 5 minutes …this one before a recent repeat performance at the Green Guitar Folk House Concert Series in Lenexa, Kansas. We start the conversation right after I relayed some details of my conversation with Radney Foster the previous week. Chad suggested I ask Radney about Gaffney, South Carolina. I had forgotten to do that so as you will hear at the beginning here…Chad filled in the blanks. Enjoy this wide ranging conversation with a true hard core troubadour and Renaissance Man… Lamoni Iowa’s Chad Elliott!

This episode of the Tasty Brew Music Podcast features one of my favorite human beings on the planet… Chad Elliott…Iowa based singer-songwriter, poet, author, illustrator, sculptor, ceramicist, podcaster, and yes I’m going to say it…Renaissance Man! I was introduced to his music early on with my radio show in 2010. I’ve seen Chad perform dozens of times in many different settings, including my own backyard for a house concert. He’s been a huge supporter of my show and community radio in general; one night he drove all night from Colorado to help me pitch during a Pledge Drive Show on KKFI one morning from 6-8 am. He was my featured performer on the 2018 Tasty Brew Music Stage at KKFI’s Crossroads Musical Festival. He leads a very lyrical life that serves as fertile ground for weaving love, loss and forgiveness into timeless melodies. He plays more than 200 shows a year, has penned more than 1,000 songs and released 22 albums to date. His latest …released in 2018… “Rest Heavy” was recorded at the world famous Sun Studios in Memphis with his band The Redemptions. As you’ll hear in this conversation, he has 3 more album projects in the works!  It was a real pleasure to sit down with him for a conversation that lasted more than 5 minutes …this one before a recent repeat performance at the Green Guitar Folk House Concert Series in Lenexa, Kansas. We start the conversation right after I relayed some details of my conversation with Radney Foster the previous week. Chad suggested I ask Radney about Gaffney, South Carolina. I had forgotten to do that so as you will hear at the beginning here…Chad filled in the blanks. Enjoy this wide ranging conversation with a true hard core troubadour and Renaissance Man… Lamoni Iowa’s Chad Elliott!

Chad Elliott - Iowa's Hardcore Troubadour and Renaissance Man

Tim Easton, American songwriter and fellow Buckeye, has learned the ways of the hardcore troubadour…making his way around Europe and America by busking in the streets and playing the clubs. Although Rolling Stone Magazine praised him as “having a novelist’s sense of humanity” I believe his education as a Poetry Major at Ohio State University is the not so secret ingredient to his lyrical life. When I saw he was on the roster for the 2019 edition of the Woody Guthrie Festival in Okemah, Oklahoma, I knew I had to try and have a sit down conversation with him. Although my familiarity with his work was on the fringe, I wanted to dig deeper.  As soon as I hit the registration desk at the Okfuskee County Historical Society in Okemah, (incidentally the recording site for Tim’s latest CD “Exposition” )I asked the volunteer staff for help in contacting Tim. Within two hours I had a text. We met shortly thereafter in front of the Crystal Theater but where to record a conversation? There was no media room and no readily available space to sit down and chat. A Woodyfest volunteer AGAIN to the rescue…”I live at the rock house down at the corner of Woody Guthrie Boulevard and Broadway. The back door is open, the air conditioning is on; there’s nothing but two chairs and a table in there but you’re welcome to it.” Tim was game and so was I. We had the following conversation in a virtually empty house sitting in two velveteen rockers facing each other with my lavalier mic attached to my water bottle handle. As you’ll hear, Tim talks about growing up in Japan, opening for the Flatlanders and Townes Van Zandt, busking the streets of Europe, heading his own record company, traveling to Alaska to teach songwriting workshops so you can fish and an upcoming State Department sponsored trip to Russia. Woody Guthrie would have loved Tim Easton. Now THAT’s Americana!

Tim Easton, American songwriter and fellow Buckeye, has learned the ways of the hardcore troubadour…making his way around Europe and America by busking in the streets and playing the clubs. Although Rolling Stone Magazine praised him as “having a novelist’s sense of humanity” I believe his education as a Poetry Major at Ohio State University is the not so secret ingredient to his lyrical life. When I saw he was on the roster for the 2019 edition of the Woody Guthrie Festival in Okemah, Oklahoma, I knew I had to try and have a sit down conversation with him. Although my familiarity with his work was on the fringe, I wanted to dig deeper.  As soon as I hit the registration desk at the Okfuskee County Historical Society in Okemah, (incidentally the recording site for Tim’s latest CD “Exposition” )I asked the volunteer staff for help in contacting Tim. Within two hours I had a text. We met shortly thereafter in front of the Crystal Theater but where to record a conversation? There was no media room and no readily available space to sit down and chat. A Woodyfest volunteer AGAIN to the rescue…”I live at the rock house down at the corner of Woody Guthrie Boulevard and Broadway. The back door is open, the air conditioning is on; there’s nothing but two chairs and a table in there but you’re welcome to it.” Tim was game and so was I. We had the following conversation in a virtually empty house sitting in two velveteen rockers facing each other with my lavalier mic attached to my water bottle handle. As you’ll hear, Tim talks about growing up in Japan, opening for the Flatlanders and Townes Van Zandt, busking the streets of Europe, heading his own record company, traveling to Alaska to teach songwriting workshops so you can fish and an upcoming State Department sponsored trip to Russia. Woody Guthrie would have loved Tim Easton. Now THAT’s Americana!

Tim Easton - Hardcore Troubadour - Conversation from the 2019 Woody Guthrie Folk Festival