Roadcase Podcast

Welcome to Roadcase!!  Madison Cunningham is a native of Southern California and a two-time Grammy nominated artist whose latest effort, "Wednesday," is in the running for Best Folk Album for the 2022 Grammys.  And to further solidify her genre-spanning artistry, she was nominated in the Best Americana Album category for her "Where Are We Now" album in 2019.  Her development as...

Welcome to Roadcase!!  Tré Burt is an exceptional folk artist -- new on the scene -- with a truly inspiring personal story of perseverance, struggle and determination.  His latest album and sophomore effort, "You, Yeah, You," was released back in August on Oh Boy Records, and is a wonderful collection of songs and stories not to be missed.  Tré was been picked up by Oh Boy in late 2019,...

Welcome to Roadcase!!  Mikaela Davis is a classically trained harpist with a gorgeous voice who performs with her band, Southern Star.  Her 2018 debut album, Delivery, was produced by Grammy-winner John Congleton and is a super-groovy collection of songs, and we're pleased to report that a new album is due for release later this year, along with a new live album as well.  Mikaela has also bee...

Welcome to Roadcase!!  Erika Wennerstrom has been performing in her band Heartless Bastards for close to 20 years now has recently released a gorgeous new album, A Beautiful Life, which she co-produced with Kevin Ratterman, in which confronts the challenges and nuances of the day within a truly innovative sonic landscape. A native of Ohio, Erika now calls Austin, TX home, and she talks about her e...

Welcome to Roadcase!!  Talya Elitzer is the co-founder of Godmode, a Grammy-nominated artist development company and label whose clients include Channel Tres, JPEGMAFIA and Yaeji.  Talya started out in the mailroom at William Morris and then moved on to Senior A&R at Capitol Records where she looked after artists such as Katy Perry, Sam Smith and Beck.  At Godmode, Talya takes young and fresh...

Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!!   For this first episode of Season 3, we are super-psyched to have on the show Faye Webster, an extraordinarily talented artist, songwriter and vocalist.  Her latest album, I Know I'm Funny haha, is a soulful and striking album of profound emotional content and gorgeously layered textures of sound.  Faye is a very private pe...

Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!!  Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!!  Please join us on this landmark 100th episode of Roadcase for an amazing interview with Tom Blankenship of My Morning Jacket to conclude our Season 2!!  We are so psyched to have had this awesome conversation with Tom, who plays rocking bass in one of the greatest live bands out there today. ...

Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!!  Join us for this expansive and in-depth chat with Travis Book of The Infamous Stringdusters, which has won a multitude of awards, including the Grammy in 2018 for Best Bluegrass Album, and is currently nominated for the Grammy for their album, A Tribute to Bill Monroe. Having just come off their mega-successful Fall tour, The St...

Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!!  Join us for this killer, rock-infused interview with Chris Vos, who is recently coming off The Record Company's Fall tour on the heels of their third album, Play Loud, released into the world on October 3.  Chris is an LA transplant and Wisconsin native with huge heart; his mega-passion for rock and roll runs deep and true,...

Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!!  Join us for this interview with the uber-fascinating Jay Sweet, who not only runs the Newport Festivals Foundation, but is also the Executive Producer of Newport Folk Festival, one of the country's premier music events.  Jay is a super-engaging personality whose love and enthusiasm for live music is legendary.  Newport Folk...

Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!!  Join us for this fun conversation with Ben Atkind, drummer of the band GOOSE, who is also celebrating the release of a new EP with his side-project Elephant Proof.  Ben attended the Berklee School of Music to study Drum Performance and has been on a continuous and determined pursuit of his musical dreams from very early on in hi...

Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!!  Join us for this fun conversation with Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz.  Sadie is celebrating the 10th anniversary of her first releases which became the foundation of Speedy Ortiz and has issued a new, re-mixed album entitled The Death of Speedy Ortiz & Cop Kicker... Forever. Available now on streaming services, the physical v...

Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!!  Join us for this wonderful conversation with Jenny Lee of the band Warpaint.  Jenny is releasing her first solo effort since 2015 in the form of three 7" singles, all adorned with original artwork by Jenny herself, who has also created Jenny Lee Singles Club, where she shares her thoughts on each song with fans who in turn...

Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!!  Join us for this fascinating conversation with Ethan Miller of Howlin' Rain.  Ethan is as prolific as he is talented and hardcore, and has a new album, The Dharma Wheel, released in October of this year.  Howlin' Rain has been together for upwards of 15 years and during that time, Ethan has also steered several other p...

Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!!  Join us for this special interview with blues rock superstars and Grammy nominated artists Rebecca and Megan Lovell of Larkin Poe.  This amazing musical team is truly a family effort; they love and nurture their sister bond both onstage and off and are currently winding down a nationwide Fall tour on the heels of several amazing...

Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!!  Join us for this special interview with Devon Allman.  Devon is fresh off a summer tour with Allman Betts Band and is primed and ready to talk about all things Allman, including the upcoming Allman Family Revival tour that kicks off in late November 2021.  Devon is an intriguing human with a super compelling story about his rela...

Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!!  Join us for this conversation with the amazing and extraordinarily talented guitarist, Yasmin Williams, whose unique fingerstyle and percussive techniques on guitar is a sight to behold.  Yasmin began playing guitar early in her young life, tapping and plucking the guitar strings while tapping her feet as well to keep the rhythm...

Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!!  Join us for this great conversation with Vaughn Hunt of Acid Dad, whose uber-cool neo-psych and post-punk vibes can be heard on their latest album, Take It From the Dead on Greenway Records and Levitation's The Reverberation Appreciation Society.  Acid Dad's sound nods to the great psychedelic bands of the 60s and 70s,...

Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!!  Join us for this stellar conversation with the amazing and talented Bette Smith, whose latest album, The Good, The Bad and The Bette is produced by Matt Patton of the Drive-By Truckers and has been massively lauded for its hard-driving soul sounds and soaring vocals.  Bette had recently been on tour with Kenny Wayne Shepherd and...

Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!!  Join us for this  conversation with Marc Myers, noted journalist and author of the new book, "Rock Concert: An Oral History as Told by the Artists, Backstage Insiders and Fans Who Were There," out now on Grove Press. Marc is a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal, where he writes about music and the arts.  He...

Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!!  Join us for this  intriguing conversation with the spectacular Holly Bowling!  Holly is a classically trained pianist whose improvisational work is legendary and well known in the jam band community, due to her painstakingly accurate transcription of Phish jams as well as her gorgeous piano renditions of Grateful Dead's mus...

Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!!   Join us for this  fascinating look into the life of Dori Freeman.  Her fourth album, Ten Thousand Roses, was just released on September 10 and shows Dori in an entirely new light. We explore the ways this album is a departure for her, what it means to raise a daughter as a touring musician and how Dori overcame her early battle...

Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!!  Join us for this in-depth interview with the always fascinating Tom Freeman of the band Covey.  With Covey's recently released album, Class of Cardinal Sin, Tom presents an extraordinarily personal view of his life, fears, triumphs and the issues he struggles with or on a more basic level, thing that just really, really ann...

Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!!  Join us for this informative conversation with Tara Perkins of Hard Line Management. Tara got her start in the DIY world of the Pacific Northwest by managing live festivals in the early 2000's then began managing her first tour with the band Gossip when she took them around as support on Cyndi Lauper's True Colors Tour...

Welcome to Roadcase, a podcast exploring the live music experience!!  Join us for this super chill conversation with Conor Murphy of Foxing whose fourth album, Draw Down the Moon, was released this summer. Conor is a gem of a human who really speaks from the heart about a variety of subjects: we cover the band's stellar live performances, the current and future direction of Foxing as well as...