Rick Solem's guest appearances

Rick Solem

Independent's Day Radio

OVERTIME with Dave – WKTY

WISCO SPORTS SHOW with Grant Bilse

La Crosse Talk PM WIZM

Independent's Day

Bill Michaels

Andy Haines

Joe Zenzola

Mike McCarthy

Hunter Baumgardt

Kobe King

Ted Thompson

Bart Starr

Travis Kowalski

Ryan Braun

Mike Schmidt

Jack Coan

Aaron Jones

Allen Lazard

Blake Bortles

OwlTail

Joe Duguano

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All in today's OVERTIME podcast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

All in today's OVERTIME podcast. See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

1st Senior Salute, NFL insider Joe Duguano & WIZM's Rick Solem

Grant discusses the AP All Pro selections, talks politics with WIZM's Rick Solem, and explains why Mike McCarthy will succeed again as a head coach.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Grant discusses the AP All Pro selections, talks politics with WIZM's Rick Solem, and explains why Mike McCarthy will succeed again as a head coach.See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

All Pros, WW3 with Rick Solem, some team needs McCarthy

Music is woven into the city of New Orleans in a way that should make every other city in the world envious.  A stroll through the French Quarter is like being given a well-curated iPod stuck permanently on shuffle.  But it isn’t just a big show for the tourists.  Nearly every take on the human experience has passed through New Orleans, headed one way or another on the Mississippi River - a wide and muddy artery that makes up the heart of America - and it has all seeped into the lives and the songs of the Crescent City.  Musician Rick Solem spent some of his formative years in Minnesota - at the very headwaters of the Mighty Mississippi - but he was brought to California when he was only three years old and missed his first chance to get caught in the current that was destined for New Orleans.  He made his way through school, studied classical music and  and started a career playing the piano.  At some point, he met and jammed with the famed New Orleans pianist and cultural emissary, Dr. John, but still Solem missed the boat.  At a session, when another musician heard that Solem had met a string of the New Orleans musical royalty over a period of years, he told Solem that it was a sign that he, too should learn the ways of the boogie-woogie Force.  So Solem applied the diligence gleaned from playing years of classical music to learning the piano stylings of Dr. John, Professor Longhair and others who made New Orleans famous… and it paid off.  Rick Solem’s swampy songs are fun and entertaining and his playing is downright virtuosic - and he makes it look easy.

Episode 118: Rick Solem