Queen of S-Mountain

Jessica Lea Mayfield is an alt-rock/country singer-songwriter from Kent, Ohio (with musical roots in Nashville) who resides in an RV in Los Angeles where she is recording and self-producing her next album - which is a pretty familiar setting for her. Jessica grew up on a tour bus (with a family full of musicians) and spent her youth writing music and homeschooling herself. She has collaborated and...

Gwendolyn Forrester is a boutique guitar designer/builder who lives in a queer commune in Tennessee. She creates and sells incredible custom guitars, some made from reclaimed materials, including using wood from a barn's door where she lived. This episode follows her path to guitar building and her personal journey as well, including the challenges she faces as a transwoman trying to compete in th...

LG interviews Christine Lilyea, proprietor of Slash Run in Washington, D.C., on the topic of small music venues in the U.S. that are facing closures and financial troubles, the importance of rallying behind the venues we love, and the reasons for saving them. Christine talks about adapting during the pandemic and how her venue has been able to do so without laying off a single employee in the proc...

Fun episode alert! This week, host LG talks with her friend Kate, a professional dancer who joined her on stage to perform last year during the first leg of the tour with her rock band Thelma and the Sleaze. If you know LG, you know she has intense admiration and respect for dancers and is an advocate who strongly believes in removing the negative stigma from all sex workers. In this episode, they...

This week, we pulled some of our favorites clips from QOSM podcast Season Two in this special retrospective episode! Featuring interview snippets and stories from Grammy-winning legends Tanya Tucker and Brittany Howard, beloved icon Kate Pierson (The B-52's), singer-songwriter music geniuses Margo Price, Lilly Hiatt, Lizzie Powell (Land of Talk), Makenzie Green (Bird Cloud), Kam Franklin (The Suff...

Kam Franklin and LG continue their chat in part two of this episode, discussing the cities that are a "hard nut to crack" for touring musicians, like Atlanta and Kam's hometown of Houston. They analyze Nashville in a similar way - exploring everything from marketing, clubs, audiences/scenes, lessons learned, music history, gentrification, the south, and the music biz overall. Kam talks about growi...

Kam Franklin of the Houston band The Suffers is an award-winning singer-songwriter, a performance artist, an activist, a writer, and an orator - and as if that's not enough, she was a trade analyst at an investment bank before her band's national debut. After a producer from Late Show with David Letterman booked The Suffers on the show, she quit her day job and the rest is history. Kam and LG disc...

Soccer Mommy, a Swiss-born singer-songwriter, musician, and wunderkind who grew up in Nashville, chats with LG about her music journey. They discuss her younger years at rock camp, her experience with home recording, her tour setup, her music career rise (and signing a record deal with label Fat Possum Records), the new era of young women in music owning their process, some fun gear chat, and more...

LG continues her chat with Lizzie Powell of Land of Talk ( landoftalkmusic.com ) in part two of this episode. Lizzie and LG discuss recording, bandmates, guitars, navigating around the creepy, entitled men of the music industry (and sometimes just crushing them with a guitar), predictions on when musicians will get to tour again, their shared love of croissants, and more in this engaging episode....

This week, LG chats with singer, songwriter, and guitarist Lizzie Powell of the Canadian indie rock band Land of Talk, from Montreal, Quebec, in Queen of S-Mountain's first international episode! In part one, they discuss Canada's current and former arts funding (and the funding delegated to bands), recording a demo, songwriting, mental health, and the ever-persistent question "What's your song ab...

*Content Warning* - In this episode of Queen of S-Mountain, LG chats with musicians Alex White and Glenn Van Dyke about the allegations of sexual misconduct and toxic culture by men at the now-defunct Burger Records and some of its affiliated artists, the betrayal of those who operated under the guise of helping women only to prey upon them, and the path forward for women who relied on Burger Reco...

Host LG continues her chat with Memphis rocker Alicja Trout! They discuss home recording and demo making, her go-to gear, her creative partnerships, what her kids think of her music, her business acumen, and more. Huge thank you to EarthQuaker Devices for sponsoring this episode! Give them a follow on Instagram and visit them at earthquakerdevices.com. Support this podcast and women in audio at pa...

Alicja Trout is a Memphis-based rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, and member of many bands including Sweet Knives, Lost Sounds, River City Tanlines, The Clears, The Fitts, The CC Riders, Mouserocket, Destruction Unit, Black Sunday, and more. She's been featured on MTV, has done a solo project, and has operated her own indie label, all while raising a family, growing a garden, occasionally foster...

Part 2 of the Jenny Hoyston interview is here! Jenny talks with LG about her yearly event for women, called Fabulosa, her love of swimming pools, the loneliness of coming back from a world tour, her decision to stop playing with Erase Errata, and more, in this heartfelt and funny second installment of the interview. Enormous thanks to EarthQuaker Devices for sponsoring this episode. If you're able...

This week's episode features Austin-based producer, vocalist, guitarist, trumpeter, and supercomputer Jenny Hoyston of Erase Errata who joins host LG for this utterly charming episode. They talk about her time with the band, the sound production choices she made, the "gay old times" memories from the old days of SXSW, seeing Phil Collins play at the Parthenon in Athens, Greece from her hotel balco...

In this week's episode, LG interviews H.C. McEntire! After two years working all over the world as a backup singer in Angel Olsen's band, H.C. McEntire ( www.hcmcentire.com) came home to an old farmhouse in the woods in North Carolina, right on the Eno River, to create her forthcoming album Eno Axis (available August 21, 2020). LG and H.C. discuss the album, the significance of the river she refer...

LG continues her chat with Kate Pierson of The B52's in part two of this episode! They discuss the band's wild outfits, the resurgence of thrift culture, their experience being the band from The Flinstones movie, Kate's fantastic solo album, the importance of women supporting women in the music industry, fighting for important causes outside of social media, and so much more. Bonus clip at: www.pa...

LG interviews Kate Pierson of The B52's! In part one of this interview, they talk about how she is holding up during quarantine, the formation of the band and her library of The B52's tapes from recording, how the band shares equal ownership and stays together like a family, hanging out at a strip club with ZZ Top, traveling across the world on tour, the PSA that Fred Armisen recorded for them to...

Nashville-based singer-songwriter Lilly Hiatt chats with LG over the phone about the music biz, her songwriting process, her unique voice, and what it means to be a touring musician that cannot tour during the quarantine. Lilly has just put out a new album called Walking Proof and, despite the touring pause, it has been doing well. This episode also includes the segment "I Like This Band A Lot" wh...

In this special episode of Queen of S-Mountain podcast, host LG compiles audio interviews from music friends in quarantine and asks them how they're doing, what's keeping them busy, what music they are listening to, and what their hopes are for the future in a post-pandemic world. This uplifting episode features interviews from singer-songwriter Becca Mancari, Jordan Victoria of Heaven Honey, Caro...

Not only is genre-spanning musician Caroline Rose a singer-songwriter, but she's also a producer, AND she also has a degree in Architecture. Pre-quarantine, she was making her TV debut on Late Night with Seth Myers and she was coming up with hilarious promotional ideas like buying a vague billboard in the middle of nowhere, confusing a small town in Texas. Caroline was also getting ready to tour o...

Thrilled to present this week's guest...drummer from Babes in Toyland Lori Barbero! LG chats over the phone with Lori, who is hunkered down in Minneapolis during the quarantine. Lori talks about her time in the band, the business end of things, going on tour, playing huge festivals, and her enormous, recently-unearthed collection of photos (7 plastic tubs worth) from her touring days, and more. Lo...

QOSM's first quarantine episode is a big one - this episode features drummer extraordinaire Patty Schemel! Patty talks to host LG over the phone about her woodworking class that she teaches to young kids (and how they mostly have no idea she was the drummer for the band Hole), the difference between playing in a band in the 90s versus today, music Scenes, touring, and so much more. It's a freewhee...

EarthQuaker Devices' CEO Julie Robbins is this week's guest on Queen of S-Mountain podcast. Host LG sits down with Julie (pre-social distancing) in a sunny backyard in Nashville, TN to talk about her come-up, motherhood, and the creation of EarthQuaker Devices with her husband. Julie also dives into disrupting a misogynist industry and making it a better place for all women. If you are able, suppo...

Part 2 of the interview with the super talented singer-songwriter Margo Price. Host LG continues her chat with Margo about the music industry, the do's and don'ts of signing contracts, sticking to your guns, and more. This episode also includes a new segment called "Tour Stories" which you don't wanna miss. Support this podcast and women in audio at patreon.com/QOSM ! Big thanks to sponsor EarthQu...