Curious Goldfish

A Zac Brown Band founder on living, and fighting, with ALS Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) John Driskell Hopkins helped found the Zac Brown Band, and he is facing ALS with a cl...

No following, no venues, so she booked her first tour playing for shelter cats. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Rachel McIntyre Smith passed out cold when her keyb...

She has the following most musicians chase. She would rather you listen to the songs. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Erin Gibney moved from Connecticut to Nashvil...

Thirty years in, Julian Taylor says the biggest obstacle he has ever faced is himself. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Julian Taylor sat down with Jason English in...

He built a fake album cover in 1974. Decades later, he'd worked with almost everyone he listed on it. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Phil Madeira has spent thirty...

A combat medic who lost three friends, now chasing country music in Nashville. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Omer Netzer left Israel for Nashville on what was su...

An album written from anger, by an artist who calls anger a sign of care Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Humbird, the project of Minnesota's Siri Undlin, made Righ...

A Tony nomination, a Belmont classroom, and motherhood: a working songwriter's many lives Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Lauren Lucas has done a lot of music's jobs: performer...

Faulty in-ear monitors nearly ended her voice, and this is how she found it again Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Lindi Ortega stepped away from performing after faulty in-ear ...

She hid in a closet with a keyboard as a kid. Now she sings four nights a week on Broadway. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Taydee Marie grew up moving almost ever...

A songwriter who finds the funny and the painful in the same line Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Andy Gullahorn writes songs that sit in life's complexity, the parts that aren...

Ten years sober, a new baby, a father lost, and an album about letting go of control. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Lucy Isabel wrote most of All the Light while...

A Christian-music star who came out, walked away, and came back to the songs on her own terms Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Jennifer Knapp built a career in contemporary Chri...

Half of Thompson Square waited almost 30 years to make the country record she always wanted. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Shawna Thompson sat down at Americana ...

He traded a Vanderbilt economics degree for midnight cover sets on Broadway. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Jason first heard Noah Silver at The Row in Nashville,...

Johnny Cash's old producer cut nine songs with her at sixteen, then vanished. She kept going. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Sarah Mootz was sixteen when Johnny C...

A Cape Cod carpenter who writes his best songs before 8 a.m., one line at a time. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Greg Loftus sat down with Jason on a Saturday mor...

Ten years producing for other people. Now he is learning to be the artist. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Elis Cole grew up just outside Nashville, grandson of Do...

His angsty breakup songs aren't about a person. They're about leaving the religion he grew up in. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Tawnted spent a year sidelined by...

She went viral with one song, then chose to build a career with no backup plan. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Kaia Jette dropped a single called "Medusa," watche...

He has a million followers. The break that mattered most was a call he nearly ignored. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Philip Bowen sat down at Eddie's Attic in At...

He's an introvert who built an extrovert to do the job. The album is his argument with himself. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Axel Flóvent still lives in Husavik...

He left Knoxville for a Mexico City commune, chasing a different kind of faith Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Tyler Anthony, who records as Cereus Bright, moved from Knoxville...

A label founder and lifelong artist on taking her own album apart and building it again. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Rachael Sage has built a whole life in mus...

The Jackopierce frontman on sobriety, a 35-year partnership, and finally calling himself a songwriter Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Jack O'Neill of Jackopierce talks about ge...