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Hello friends. It's been a few weeks since I've a couple stones to throw into ye olde pod pond, but I'm back in the saddle. I thought I'd rap a bit about Finding The Why - which is a concept that is going to be important as we all make our way through the shifting sands of our current timeline. It's a two parter - so hang in there and grab some popcorn. I love you and appr...

Folks - hello. Welcome back to the Graventown jamboree. Grab your sonic picnic basket for a little auditory meadow-frolic. This episode was a great and golden flowing convo between myself and western Canadian Edmontonian music maker and multi-project collaborator Mallory Chipman. With 5 records to her name and successful tours across Canada, Europe, and Japan, and an official nominee for Country M...

Well hello, friends. We are back at it - yet again. I hope 2025 is finding you as well as it can so far and I thought I'd take a stab at some healthy ideals to help you on your way out the door into the wild blue yonder of the approaching (insert witty metaphor here). Some great guests coming soon so stay tuned and thanks for all the follows and likes - it means more than you know! Thanks for...

Graventowner non-frowners. Thanks for being here. On a dusty dark damp drive across highway 7, I thought I'd pop this two part series out into the mental ethersphere for y'all as I've been pushing my roughshod rickety heart-cart down the mucky and muddy road of self-work these days. I hope it finds you well and helps you realize that your dark pieces are also just parts of your whol...

Friends; hello. Happy almost 2025. I hope part 1 of this 2 part series helps you find that still small inner voice to do some work on the stormy darkness inside you (and inside all of us) in order to find your emotional blue sky. This was a bit of a personal one for me. I hope you all enjoy and start off your new year being alright with the definitive dark pieces of your beautiful bright selves. S...

Friends. Countryfolk. Lend me your auditory holes  (Good thing I never performed Shakespeare). Yahoo for being back in the pod saddle and I had a chance to chat with a very special mystical magical human being and music maker named Miranda Journey  (who I'm playing shows with this coming weekend Dec 13 at Meow That's Hot on Bank Street in Ottawa and on Sat Dec 14 at the fab Free Times Ca...

Friends. Been in the creative womb lately and just trying to listen to my inner quiet  during this loud oncoming holiday season. I also took a bit of a lookback in my existential rearview mirror to appreciate some hefty tour-highway highlights of 2024. Pull up a stoop and come on down to old memory oak tree, acorns. You're loved. My new album "Geographics" is out now on all platform...

Hello friends. Well it sure has been a few milliseconds since I popped out a sonic egg of truth into the mental incubator of the podcast ethersphere. This one was meant to be more of an encouragement and a note of hope after all of the strange ingredients were ground and sprinkled into the bizarro political stew of our southerly neighbours. I hope it finds you well. And remember; no one in politic...

Friends;  what a special episode indeed because as you hear this, I'll most likely be in the friendly Atlantic Canadian skies, drinking a morning beer on Porter Airlines, as I'm taking a little mental trip eastward to visit some friends in PEI and Halifax. Those two places will always have special meaning and emit warm glow sprinkles deep in the cockles of my heart - and I feel like that...

Hello Graventown residents. Sorry for the delay - I was fairly truculent with Tuesday uploads for a while and then some life stuff happened. You understand. At any rate, somehow we are here on the wild frontier of 70 episodes. Seventy. Sh*t. You don't know whether to laugh or cry. I hope you enjoy my post-tour unpacking and existential catching up. May you be comforted today! Stay tuned for a...

Friends. Sometimes you get the egg whites, and sometimes you get the meaty yolks. Christina Martin is my sister from another mister who I've never even met - a and a multi award winning music maker and singer-songwriter from the east coast of Canada (and you can read all about her awesome accolades here )  but I had the chance to have her back for round deux of Graventown -  and this time, he...

Friends - welcome back to the G-town get-down yet again. Musicians and comedians often feel like we are distant relatives; there's a correlation but we can't exactly put our finger on that common throughline. But also, with any performer, there's something beautiful about being out of the spotlight and just laughing. My guest today is one of the funniest people I follow online and h...

Friends, countryfolk and city scoundrels; hello. This was an extra special cake and ice cream episode of Graventown because I got to talk with someone I deeply respect and admire (and whom I have such a lovely conversational shorthand with)  - Ron Hawkins. He's not just a sweet musical pal, incredible painter and past touring partner of the Gravenator. No, no, friends. Don't box him in....

Friends! Here's one I ripped off into the universe from the municipal roads of Nepean. Just some post thoughts and ponderings. I hope they find you well in the continuation of this glorious fall weather. I'm just getting to a place where I'm trying to embrace the love in my life and not wanting that to wane. For a long time, I've had a blockage that would stop me from those fee...

Friends. I hope this G-man solo ear candy store visit finds you well. Adulting. Music. Gratitude. All these themes and more are in this episode. I hope it hits you in the heart cockles. You're loved. My new album "Geographics" is out now on all platforms. You can preorder the digital, cd and vinyl versions of the album on my bandcamp page , (which helps me greatly) but I understand...

Graventowners and Getdowners; welcome back. As I continue to pump these episodes out into the ethersphere, I'm so stunned and thankful to meet and connect with some pretty lovely and special folks in this space. Matt Beisner is no exception to that rule. I actually became friends with him on IG before I knew what he was all about and I appreciated his positive outlook and love for dogs - but...

Well hey friends. I'm trying to get back into the podcast fray and I always appreciate your ears and support. Starting in September, I'm gonna be riding roughshod across the rugged Ontario terrain with a great friend and an even greater music maker; Stephen Stanley. Wolfe Island-based singer-songwriter and guitarist Stephen Stanley may most immediately be known as a founding member, lead...

Hallo my d00dz. I've been summering. I hope you have done the same. Amidst the laking and cottaging, it was fun to fire off an August ember into the podfire. Jennifer Baranick is a stark and vivid music maker who is an explosion of art and song and golden guitar fuzz and super unique lyricism and vocalization - and she usually blends all of those elements majestically into her music project B...

Hello G town friends. It's been a nanosecond or two. But I'm rested and back in the pod saddle with some fresh rattle/out the box takes on the weird world of artistry right. Please join my Ko Fi. It's 8 bucks a month. For the love of all that is pure. Help me survive. In other news, I canceled a yard show and rescheduled it for later in August. Come if ya can! Have a listen. May you...

Friends. How do the seconds turn into days and hours and weeks?  What in the actual Axel Foley is going on around here? At any rate - here we are. Episode 60. Sixty. Wow. And what a way to celebrate with an interview featuring the magnanimous magnificent Dean and Kevin from the ever growing multi-faceted hilarious and friend podcast from Wisconsin: Cocktails with Dimples and The Beard. They are kn...

Friends. Hokey  Dinah. It's been another hot minute since I've been in and around the podsphere. I hope this  jargonesque episode wets the stone-saw of your content voracious mind. Thank you for being on this journey. More to come! My new album "Geographics" is out now on all platforms. You can preorder the digital, cd and vinyl versions of the album on my bandcamp page , (whic...

Hello friends - it's been a few buckets  of hot seconds since I've been in the podverse. I found some time between touring to get some shiznit uploaded for your lovely selves and I have a few more on the way. Today's theme is anxiety  - and how remembering a simple mantra  during times of heaviness and stress (and redirecting your focus and energy) can be helpful.  I hope it finds y...

Pals - I've had  this episode simmering slightly on the backburner for a while but  it's finally braised and ready to be plated for your mental pleasure. Dennis  Moseley-Williams  has been described as  dangerously funny and wickedly smart. He is not only an outstanding presenter, but he’s also an outstanding person as well (and I can attest to that as he has become a great friend).  He...

Friends - here we are YET again. I hope you're ready for three hot "Twenty Two-Four" pods in an oven of contentment that are spiced, fresh, ready, saucy and primed to slide  into your emotional gullet.  In this episode, the Gravenator talks about  ways to winterize your habits and keep your mental health primed through such a dark winter season. Stay you, always, m'dudes. Y&apo...

Hallo  my palllllzzzz. Welcome back to Graventown; Population - You. It's been way too long  since I sang  the podcast song. I've misssed you, you beautiful digital void. Happy 2024 and may this new year bring you new and great things. In this episode, I talk about some recent adventures of love and emotion and how taking the big swings have always helped me in life. I hope it finds you...