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Root 66: Jared and the Mill’s Roadside Favorites

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Name: Jared and the Mill
Hometown: Phoenix, AZ
Latest Project: Orme Dugas

Tacos: La Santisima — 120 % — in Phoenix, AZ.

Burger: Dick's Burgers in Seattle, WA.

Roadside Diner: All of them. Every one of them is a beautiful, unique flower.

Truck Stop: Chiriaco Summit! (Somewhere between Phoenix and Los Angeles …)

Coffee House: Too hard to say. There are so many rad cafés with different styles across the world.

Dive Bar: There’s a place in Appleton, WI, that serves a Snowball, which is like a Christmas-y White Russian, ice-blended.

Book Shop: Myopic Books in Chicago, IL.

Backstage Hang: Life If Beautiful festival in Las Vegas!! They brought in a chef that cooked whole pigs over a charcoal fire and iron cross — and life has never been the same.

Highway Stretch: The I-17 coming down from Flagstaff to Phoenix is the most incredible welcome home we could ever ask for, always a sight for sore eyes.

Day Off Activity: We do something we call “Peeping the Scene” which basically means we go to a cool part of town and split up to poke around and find cool cafés, bookshops, bars, pool halls, bars, vintage shops, bars, and bars.

Tour Hobby: We learn … a lot. We read, we listen to podcasts, we observe, we talk about different cultures, and we grow with one another. It’s a really exciting way to live.

Record Store: Amoeba Music in L.A. is the mother load. It’s so much more than a record store: It’s an important part of American counter-culture. It’s a badass shirt shop. It’s a meeting place. It’s a beautiful venue. It’s everything you could ask for and more.

A Minute in London with Josienne Clarke & Ben Walker

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Welcome to "A Minute In …" — a BGS feature that turns our favorite artists into hometown reporters. In our latest column, London duo Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker take us on a tour of their favorite listening rooms, coffee shops, and parks.

Tintico

This is Tintico, a coffee shop in Finchley, north London, near Ben's studio. We meet here before most rehearsals for a caffeine boost.

The Harrison

The Harrison pub on Harrison Street in King's Cross is the home of our very own night. The Folkroom is held two Wednesdays a month. Many of our favourite acts do a music turn down in its basement venue. Great food, great beer, and, naturally, great music

Ben's studio

This is Ben's studio (complete with Ben). This is where we seem to spend most of our time. We record all our demos here and quite a few of our previous albums.

Clissold Park

This is Clissold Park, Stoke Newington. I walk here most days. I get to watch all the seasons change from here — green leaves growing, turning orange then falling off the trees and round again. Quite inspiring images for songwriting, I find. 

Hobgoblin Music

Hobgoblin Music in Central London (Denmark Street) is where we get a lot of our music supplies. Ben can sometimes be found here trying out guitars, mandolins, etc … anything with strings!  

Josienne Clarke and Ben Walker are London residents and musicians. Their latest EP Through the Clouds is available now.

All photos by Josienne Clarke, except lede photo, courtesy of the artist.