Wils Bach's Song Pod

My guest today is a soul rock singer songwriter, from Schenectady County New York. He’s released six (?) albums since 2018 but to fully appreciate his artistry you’ll need to take a look at his YouTube channel where you’ll also see that he is not just a multi-instrumentalist and performer but a showman, an actor, a director a producer…truly a multiple-hyphenate artist. In 2023 he was featured and...

My guest today has been playing in various bands in Chicago, Portland and San Diego since the mid-90s, while consistently writing, recording & producing hundreds of songs on her own and In February 2021, she released her debut full-length album, The Restless Dreams of Youth which earned a nomination for Best Pop Album & Album of the Year in the San Diego Music Awards. She’s been hard at wo...

My guest today wears many hats. He’s a lawyer and Law Professor at Indiana University, has been a DJ at Bloomington, Indiana’s community radio station WFHB where his HopeDaddy moniker was born. He and I crossed paths during my time in Indianapolis, where I knew him as a fellow live-music lover as we were often in the audience of the same clubs. Then in 2021 he took the stage himself as a songwrite...

Holly Long is an actor turned singer songwriter from Los Angeles, CA by way of Evanston, IL who has released four albums since the early 2000s as a solo artist and three with her band “Bullyheart”. Her most recent release, 2023’s Land of the Living is a concept album filled with character studies around murder. Victims, detectives, mediums. That record came with a companion limited-series podcast...

Dominykas Bytautas is the singer, guitar player and primary songwriter for Ugly Side Up a 90s rock band stuck in the 21st century, featuring fast, dancey songs about life's glory and lack thereof. He’s an LA transplant, originally from Galveston Texas. We two “reasonable geniuses” have a very fun conversation that covers among other things his dislike of eggs, spreadsheets, Richard Pryor in Superm...

Mike Scully is a singer-songwriter from Southern California although his sound evokes Music Row in Nashville more than Sunset Strip in LA.  Mike doesn't hold back on the emotion he plants into his songs and before you even take note of the lyric you'll be taken in by his beautiful singing voice.  We discuss inspiration and process for a handful of the songs on his most recent release Som...

Jacqui Gaball, who releases music and performs as Joon Gloom, is a talented singer-songwriter born and raised in a small town just outside of Los Angeles. Renowned for her raw, honest, and emotionally charged songwriting style, Jacqui created the alias Joon Gloom to embody her unique musical persona. Since her debut as Joon Gloom in 2017, she has released five singles, captivating audiences with h...

My guest today is an award winning songwriter and recipient of the Lionel Richie Songwriting Scholarship and finalist in the Song of the Year, she was also named top a 10 artist by the Denver Daily News. She sang and played keyboard in a backup band on the show "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia," performed for a live Old Spice campaign, and has songs featured in shows like "Real World/Road Rules,...

Grew up in Richmond Virginia and started playing guitar and writing music at 9 released his first album, ‘Sounds Off,’ in 2000. He moved to Memphis, TN. in the summer of 2001 and from 2003-2009 worked as a tour guide at the famous Sun Studio, where he gave a private tour of Sun to Steve Jobs in the spring of ’09.  Jobs was so impressed with David that he hired him to come work for iTunes whic...

My guest today is a West Coast singer-songwriter an incredible guitar player and a graduate of Berklee College of Music. His recently released “How to Write a Pop Song” is a well crafted modern pop song that delivers some light-hearted, side-eyed shade about what hits with popular audiences these days. He followed that single up with a cover of a Beatles classic Norwegian Wood. We go down a songwr...

Originally from the East coast and following in the footsteps of rock and roll royalty like Bruce Springsteen or The Band. My guest today released his debut solo album Next Stop Bedford Avenue in 2003 and toured the US, Canada and Europe opening for acts like Norah Jones, Steve Earl, Ray LaMontagne and Cheap Trick. Early in his career he worked as an engineer’s assistant at the legendary Hit Facto...

Giovanny Blanco is a performing artists and songwriter from Los Angeles.  He's a force of nature connecting independent artists across Southern California and the world via his Truckstop Mixtape banner.  He produces and hosts live events, runs an online radio station, fronts a popular cover band and somehow also finds time to write and record his original music as well. We have a great c...