Curious Goldfish

An Episcopalian priest who waited a decade to release a rock record Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) John Francis O'Mara is an ordained Episcopalian priest and a rock-and-roll l...

From jazz to Americana, New York to Paris, a singer finally finding home Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Sweet Megg talks about her album "Never Been Home" and the move from ja...

A Kansas fossil museum sparked an album about digging up buried strength Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Lily Vakili built "Oceans of Kansas" around a visit to a fossil museum ...

At fifty, the parts of yourself you only meet in midlife Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Matthew Perryman Jones sits on a Nashville back porch and talks about turning fifty and...

Two North Georgia friends and a sound they call swamp grass Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Logan Simmons and Malachi Mills of The Band Loula talk about how the band came toget...

A Hall of Fame songwriter who set Emily Dickinson's poems to music Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Marcus Hummon wrote "Bless the Broken Road" and "Cowboy Take Me Away," and no...

Too Texan for Mexico, too Mexican for Texas, and finding a way back Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Louie TheSinger grew up in Fort Worth caught between two cultures, and his m...

Twenty years and nine albums in, the goal shifts from surviving to thriving Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Tony Dekker of Great Lake Swimmers opens up about the band's ninth a...

An Americana legend on aging, sobriety, gratitude, and a record called Hillbilly Speedball. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Webb Wilder has been an Americana fixtu...

A married duo on scheduling creativity, dodging AI, and maybe moving to New Zealand. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Dani and Nick of South for Winter make genre-b...

Memphis's pride returns with new confidence, a new album, and an engagement ring Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Cyrena Wages comes back to the show with more confidence than t...

He left the medical field for Nashville, and wrote about the veteran suicides nobody talks about Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Matt Rogers traded a medical career for a songw...

From American Idol to a Wrigley Field anthem on her own terms Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Gina Venier traces the road from Midwestern roots to Nashville, with a stop at the...

The voice and fiddle of Old Crow Medicine Show on trains, Dylan, and tending country's roots Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Ketch Secor, the voice and fiddle of Old Crow Medic...

Fourteen number-one hits, and he still calls a great song "magic" he can't fully explain. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Roger Murrah moved from an Alabama farm t...

She came back to her grandmother's piano during the pandemic, and the family songs started arriving. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Claire Holley sat down at the ...

Holding onto hope and love in dark times, written on a frozen Canadian coast. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Shayfer James called in from Calgary to talk about a ...

She wrote a song from inside her grandfather's Alzheimer's, in his voice Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Alaina Stacey built a trilogy of EPs, "Dawn, Day, and Dusk," out of the...

The instrument his grandfather was never allowed to play bookends Trent Wagler's new solo album. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Trent Wagler, frontman of The Stee...

An Americana artist on radical honesty, industry ageism, and teaching songwriting behind bars. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Caitlin Cannon doesn't soften much. ...

He lived in a van to chase Nashville. Now Shooter Jennings is producing his record. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Levi Foster moved to Nashville on a whim and ma...

Thirty years into Sister Hazel, and the fire's still lit. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Drew Copeland of Sister Hazel looks back on thirty years of the band, fro...

A queer, Black folk artist who records like she's casting a spell, on seasons, loss, and choosing optimism on purpose. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Naomi Westwa...

They once played a show nobody came to. Now they're selling out Europe. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Brothers Ocie and Wes Crowe grew up playing gospel in churc...

Thirty years in Americana, and his debut solo album almost became another record with his brother. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Mike Delevante spent the 1990s e...