Z. speaks with folk/blues guitarist and singer/songwriter Sunny War.
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Turns out that while Sunny War was playing her poetic brand of punky blues on the rowdy boardwalk in Venice Beach, host Z. Lupetin was living just up the block and walking past her every day without noticing. She’s come quite a long way since those days, having released three albums since 2014, culminating with 2018’s breakout, “With the Sun.”
Host Z. Lupetin talks with the honey-voiced singer/songwriter Lindsay Lou. For over a decade she has been making slow-burning soulful roots music, first with her Michigan band the Flatbellys and now with her Nashville crew billed simply as Lindsay Lou.
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They talk about how she joined the “Great Americana Band Migration” from Michigan to Nashville, as well as the nuances of pleasing her punk-rock mom with her evolving music. They also try out some new lullabies, because it seems like all of their friends are having babies.
Song: “The Great Defender”
Built around the electric energy of husband and wife duo Allison Russell and JT Nero, Birds of Chicago cook up a special brew of soulful rock and roll and goosebump-raising secular gospel that is a much needed shot of pure and positive energy.
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The Show On The Road host, Z. Lupetin, had them over to his place in Los Angeles a few months back to talk about Allison’s wild childhood in Montreal, their slow motion story of falling in love back in the windy city of Chicago, and how they now balance marriage and touring schedules with their adorable four year old daughter in tow.
Featured Song: “Superlover”
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Darlingside’s Auyon Mukharj talks about his unexpected climb from being an unsure classical violinist as a kid to the height of the current folk music circuit.
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Featured Song Clips From Darlingside’s Latest Release “Extra Life”
Rita Hayworth
The Rabbit and The Pointed Gun
Singularity
For nearly ten years, Mandolin Orange, the North Carolina folk duo comprising of Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz, have made their quietly powerful, deeply-entwined harmonies sing out from stages around the world, Red Rocks to Newport Folk Fest.
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Host Z. Lupetin talks with Emily and Andrew about how discussing Andrew’s southern family history and politics can be like fighting wildfires around the dinner table — and how Emily’s morning running routine has made her more in tune with each new city she arrives in on tour. Make sure you stick around to end of the show where Andrew and Emily play an exclusive performance of “That Wrecking Ball”.
Song – “That Wrecking Ball”
The boundary-breaking bluegrass outfit Front Country is this week’s guest. They are among the most fiercely intelligent, straight-up wacky, and genuinely warm-hearted people playing music on the road today. The Show On Road host Z. Lupetin was initially only going to talk to a few band members for this episode, but this time the entire band got cozy and gathered around the mic for a cool and casual conversation.
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Song – “If Something Breaks”
This week Zach talks to Chicago-based troubadour Robbie Fulks. They talk about how he’s made his own brand of sharp-tongued country music for over three decades, and how he considers Hank Williams the Shakespeare of American Music. They also discuss how he’s become more fearless and less embarrassed to confront heartbreak and the darkness always lurking in America as he’s grown older.
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Song: Alabama At Night
The Shook Twins are a psychedelic folk rock band out of Portland, Oregon, fronted by the effervescent twin sisters Laurie and Caitlin Shook. Zach talks to Laurie and Katelyn about their origins as renegade loop artists in Idaho, their process as songwriters, and how loneliness cannot exist when you have a twin sister.
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Song – “Try As I Might Do”
The Wild Reeds are a harmony-rich folk rock group with three female lead singers based in LA. Zach talks to them about their songwriting sisterhood, how you’re supposed to act when you hear your own song being played at a Whole Foods parking lot in El Paso, and the rules of writing brutally honest breakup songs in the #MeToo era.
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December 8 Holiday Show in LA! If you happen to find your way to LA around the Holidays, don’t miss their annual Holiday spectacular at the Bootleg Theater on December 8. Tix on sale here.
Song – “New Ways To Die”
