Episode #31: Picking Up Guests On Street Corners

Another wacky, educational episode of Musicians, Mentors, and Barroom Heroes! New friends and dear/weird friends. Live music, not-live music, bar stories about not-live people, fine literature, good company, company, $2 chips. Thank you bunches to Eric Ess, Nervous Duane, Karen Childs, Stephen Medina, Carrie Anne Rose, Ashley Rice, Shawn Williams, and Cousin Andrew Jonathan for hanging out! (See Karen Childs’ video below!)

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Episode #29: Bob Bateman and the Musical Intros

When you ask Bob Bateman to introduce the people he brought with him to your radio show (“Mike Marks and Sweet Dee”, you learn eventually), and you get this convoluted explanation of how they met (see video below.) Ha! Awesome. (Also when you are capable of controlling your spastic laughter and acting like a professional.) Crazy fun night with these folks, Jimi Palacios, Martha Francis, and Pizza Mike.

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Episode #28: N.O. Dead Air No. 5 (the Last One Before We Retire that Moniker, as the Show Has Pretty Much Become a Songwriter Hang All the Time Anyways, Plus We Kinda Like Dead Air)

N.O. Dead Air on tonight’s episode. Live music, bar stories, pregnant pauses, live applause-s, a convivial atmosphere, and info on exciting upcoming shows. Courtesy of Valerie Jean Capitanich (ha!) & a slew of local singer-songwriters. This week’s lineup includes some combination of Patrick Cooper, Lili Dove, Judy Hill, Ron Hotstream, Tina Jamieson, Alison McConnell, Natasha Sanchez, and whoever else wanders in with a guitar, a washboard, or a set of trigger-happy vocal cords. (You know who you are.)

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