Curious Goldfish

An indie songwriter on sobriety, self-forgiveness, and a debut called I Might Be Grown Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Mae Krell came up in New York's indie scene and writes st...

An Orlando songwriter making the case for joy when everyone else writes sad songs Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Cat Ridgeway, out of Orlando, makes a case for joy when everyo...

Two teachers who quit to tour full-time, on the road and the songs it makes. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Cousin Curtiss and Harrison B both left steady jobs to...

Inside a Muscle Shoals studio for Davin McCoy's first album in a decade Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) This one goes inside the studio at Ivy Manor in Muscle Shoals, where Dav...

He backed Patti Smith and Robert Plant for decades before making a record of his own Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) James Mastro spent a long career playing alongside Robert P...

A young hip-hop artist and a 60-something surgeon, making R&B together. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) EyeAM is a young hip-hop and R&B artist. Joel Hoffman is a ...

A SteelDrivers Grammy, then addiction nearly took everything, then the way back Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Gary Nichols won a Grammy with the SteelDrivers, the band he joi...

Part two: how one piece of odd feedback led him to write his saddest song. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Part two with Mike Kinnebrew gets into sentiment, the th...

A songwriter on quitting drinking, and the song he wrote two months later Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Mike Kinnebrew uses songwriting to face the things he'd rather not. In...

Part two: a tribute to Rich Mullins and the faith we both had to question Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Part two with Jacob Furr turns into a tribute to Rich Mullins, the Chr...

He lost his wife to brain cancer in his twenties, then kept writing through it Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Jacob Furr, a singer-songwriter out of Fort Worth, lost his wife ...

Part two: writing songs that hold sweetness and bluntness in the same breath Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Part two with Eliot Bronson digs into how he keeps a song honest wi...

A songwriter who says his own songs teach him who he is Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Eliot Bronson writes songs that he says end up teaching him about himself. In part one, ...

Part two: grief, a song called "The West," and a global following built by accident Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) In part two with We Are All Fossils, Deist goes deeper into ...

A South African musician who turns strangers' stories into songs, now in Britain Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) We Are All Fossils is the project of Deist, a South African mus...

From beauty pageants to a soul record about vanity and the labels put on women Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Cyrena Wages took the long way from beauty pageants to a solo car...

An Atlanta songwriter on making music raw enough to make you uncomfortable Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Davin McCoy doesn't smooth the edges off his songs. In part one of th...

An Atlanta songwriter on losing her brother and the music she's making after Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Grace Asbury, an Atlanta native now in Nashville, writes from what ...

She's not sure music can pay the bills, and she's freer in it than ever Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Vanessa Peters released "Flying on Instruments" in 2024, and she's clear...

She wrote a song to apologize to her best friend, and it brought him back. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Grace Pettis wrote a song called "Landon" as an apology ...

A Columbia deal, then releasing on her own, then stepping back for family Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Alice Peacock has seen the music business from both sides, signed to C...

A country veteran on saying yes more at 55, and enjoying the work more than she ever has. Get the stories behind the episodes → Subscribe to Chords of Curiosity ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Kelly Willis has been in country music a ...

A blind singer-songwriter on building a business and a brand the music industry didn't make room for Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Wyatt Edmondson has built an independent ca...

She wrote her album's title track from a true 1800s story, and now she's deep in her own family tree Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Amanda Donald builds songs out of other peo...

An Irish songwriter on the therapy that rebuilt her voice, and the silence she grew up in Get the stories behind the episodes → curiousgoldfish.com ( https://www.curiousgoldfish.com/?modal=signup ) Clare Cunningham grew up feeling silenced, and cogniti...