Curious Goldfish

A plane-crash survivor on loving something that hurts, and keeping AI out of his lyrics Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Barrett Baber built the album "Crittenden County" out of...

Four friends from Mississippi State on the brink of going all-in on the band Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Certainly So, Colby, Tanner, Zach, and Chase, came together through...

She lost a major label deal twenty years ago after being outed. She stayed in the queue Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Shelly Fairchild lost a major-label deal two decades ago...

A Ugandan singer who learned English from songs, played cruise ships, and landed in Austin by chance Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Jon Muq grew up in Uganda learning English ...

A Halloween blackout she can't remember became the bottom that turned her life around Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Caitlynne Curtis talks about her album "You Need Jesus," a...

He almost refused to write "We Belong." At 72, his whole philosophy is just say yes Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Dan Navarro nearly turned down writing "We Belong" during a ...

The Grammy-winning engineer behind "Golden Hour" on vintage gear, fear in the studio, and AI Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Craig Alvin is the Grammy-winning engineer behind K...

Teen siblings who played Red Rocks with Gregory Alan Isakov, thanks to Aunt Brandi Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Caroline and JayJ Carlile are teenage siblings making music t...

She calls her sound "existential indie folk," and her own worst gaslighter her muse Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Recorded at 30A before her run on The Voice, Abigayle Oakley...

Tyler Halverson wants enough cows to tell the world to get lost. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Tyler Halverson called in from his kitchen table in Nashville, gui...

A Country Music Hall of Famer who never won a single contest, on starting over more than once Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Jimmy Fortune played Holiday Inn lounges before jo...

The face of Gen Z folk on Joni, Woodstock, and being a 12-year-old big-band radio DJ Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Stella Prince, hailed as the face of Gen Z folk, grew up in...

A London-raised, Italy-based cellist who became an accidental filmmaker on the way to Americana. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Janie, who performs as Bird, grew ...

A Dallas financial planner who finally let herself claim the word songwriter Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Stephanie Sammons spends her days as a financial planner in Dallas ...

She called off her wedding and turned the veil into an album cover Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Morgan Myles built her album "Laced" out of the wreckage of a called-off wedd...

A quant-finance mind and songwriter on living in the present, not the glory days Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Pete Muller has built a life across quantitative finance, cross...

A conservatory-trained cellist who traded classical rigor for indie folk Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Lydia Luce trained classically in a conservatory before letting indie f...

A Nashville duo figuring it out, who almost threw away their best song before it became the title track. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Alex and Dave of The Thing...

A 30-year industry vet on why the future belongs to artists who own their work Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Jason Hollis has spent thirty years in the music business, and no...

A member of Certainly So steps out on his own, between band life and a solo voice. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Tanner Lee Gray plays in the rising band Certain...

A Nashville songwriter on faith, the gray areas, and writing from Thistle Farms. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Sammi Accola makes Americana with a gritty edge, a...

An Episcopalian priest who waited a decade to release a rock record Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) John Francis O'Mara is an ordained Episcopalian priest and a rock-and-roll l...

From jazz to Americana, New York to Paris, a singer finally finding home Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Sweet Megg talks about her album "Never Been Home" and the move from ja...

A Kansas fossil museum sparked an album about digging up buried strength Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Lily Vakili built "Oceans of Kansas" around a visit to a fossil museum ...

At fifty, the parts of yourself you only meet in midlife Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Matthew Perryman Jones sits on a Nashville back porch and talks about turning fifty and...