Listener's Guide

If you thought I overlooked these tracks in the first half of the season, let this be a lesson. 

Ever been to Los Angeles? You may be entitled to listen to this episode. 

I was singing this song to myself while mowing the lawn today and didn't realize it until I was done. It's that kind of tune. 

A good conversation about a good song. Period. 

Side B of Sam Weber's Shape Confused Cowboy Be You starts NOW.

We’re wrapping up side A of Sam Weber’s Shape Confused Cowboy Be You with this episode on the song Used, or used001.art — we’ve got some special guests appearing on this one too. 

In this episode, we’re talking about Bemoan, that’s short for the song’s true title: bemoan.me . Another nice piano intro on this one…something about these intros feel real classic and welcoming. We get into some good stuff in this one in my humble opinion.

In this episode, we’re keeping on the Shape Confused Cowboy Be You by Sam Weber path with a discussion of the tune “Back on the Ranch,” or it’s Christian name: back-on-the-ranch.com .

We’re out of the Deus Cowboy forest and back in the groove of episodic explorations of albums — and we’re starting here with a fav from the album, “Cowboy,” or if you’re a stickler for details, “cowboy-3.com.”

Welcome to part two of a discussion on Deus Cowboy just before the album’s release. We’re talking about technology in music, punk rock, and if this is Sam’s heavy metal album. Drop back in to Sam’s living room to find out the terrifying truth.

Sam Weber joins Big Secret Records for his sixth full length album, Deus Cowboy . We start the spelunking into the caves of wonder in this first episode of season 4. Keep your antennae up for part 2 soon….

Coconuts, Bob Wills, Van Dyke Parks - it's a regular variety show in this episode about the seventh track from Bob Cummins Jr.'s second album. 

Surprise, surprise: more Super Mario music talk. But you wouldn't guess we'd go there if you've heard this song, so it's actually really interesting if you think about it.  

Take a trip with us back to the heyday of pop music in the 1960s, but without all the racism! 

You're going to hear a lot about two things in this one: how beautiful and masterful this song is, and whirly tubes. 

This is a great closing track to wrap up the album AND the last season of Listener's Guide for 2023. Hope you've had fun! Now please leave. But come back soon!

Bob Cummins Jr.'s Good American Songbook isn't quite here yet, but that didn't stop Bob and a bunch of the band for the album from talking about what the album track b' track. In this episode, you'll hear about the shadow of Bob’s debut Shakewelle , Neil Hamburger, New York City saxophones, guitar synthesizers, and the flutes that almost weren’t. 

The episode about the album's lead single with the video everyone is probably going to associate with Bob for the next couple years. We recorded this a year before the video ever came together so, sorry, no puppet talk. But you WILL hear about Debussy, the band's favorite parts, what is to be desired on Neil Young’s Harvest , and making trap beats. 

Bob's second single! Lots of talk about it all captured here! Wow! We're talking the very traditional way this song came together, the merits of YouTube sample, and why Bob had to be convinced to put this one on the album. 

Synth heads take note: in this episode you'll hear about when a lot of synthesizers become too many and the art of arrangement. Mangia! 

Here's a beautiful discussion about a beautiful song from a beautiful boy. We get into how a song that didn’t make the Shakewelle cut reappeared on Good American Songbook . Get to it! Side B of the podcast picks up in a few weeks. See you then!

Thanks to Benjamin Spike Saunders for appearing on this song and also for not suing the label for all the bad British accents that appear in this episode. 

Learning about art schools late in life, losing close friends, and forming first bands — it's all here in this mid-season episode, folks! You’ll even hear some bad recordings of that first band from ol' Berkley. 

Explore the themes and images of a part of southern Colorado that is neither rocky nor mountainous—this is love and infatuation: farmland style. 

A double header! Those with the Pueblo LP get even more from this episode as we take a look at the interludes as well as the time warp(s) between the sound collage track Decade and the meta-album track Dark Energy.