Fawkes and Friends

It gets real Appalachian today on Fawkes and Friends, when Black Guy Fawkes and his decidedly-not-a-professional-musician sidekick talk to Ol Whitetail. While her roots are in western Pennsylvania, she’s lived and done music all over the oldest mountain range on the continent–Nashville, Canada, and Pittsburgh. She talks about her influences, her travels, and the importance of mass transit options...

If you saw Black Guy Fawkes perform at Lost Evenings in Anaheim in September of 2023, you may have met today’s guest, as she offered to man his merch table while he played. Also, if you’ve played the video game “Clone Hero,” it’s highly likely you smashed buttons in time to her band Begin Again’s song “I Ws Nvr Yr Grlfrnd,” as that appearance helped that song up to 97k and counting streams on Spot...

Honestly, without Frank Turner, this episode’s guest, there wouldn’t even be a Fawkes and Friends. His music inspired Ian to make the kind of music he does as Black Guy Fawkes, and Ed’s music taste took a genuine shift the first time he heard Frank’s Love Ire & Song album. If you want to hear Frank talk about South America, Noel Coward, Ted Lasso, and the awfulness of Oasis fans, that’s all he...

Still so many tech issues but, hey, the show is bringing that punk rock/DIY aesthetic to one of the hosts favorite punk and DIY artists–MJ Bones. Bones joins Black Guy Fawkes and his very-under-the-weather pal Ed to discuss gigging with Kimya Dawson, casual racism in surprising places, why pizza in Connecticut is so damn good, and how they got started doing the whole ukulele thing in the first pla...

The first full episode of Fawkes and Friends couldn’t ask for a better guest than Johnny Marriott of PET NEEDS. Black Guy Fawkes and his pal did a very punk thing–released this episode despite the many, many tech issues they had during the interview (there’s a reason Ed talks so much this time). But they hope the content makes up for it–you’ll get to hear all about the creation of PET NEED’s third...

Here it is–the very first episode of Fawkes and Friends. Some have called him “the Wayne Brady of folk punk,” others have called him a “punk rock griot,” but here, folks simply call him Black Guy Fawkes (or Ian Robinson). He has brought his brand of Appalachian folk punk across America and, now, he’s bringing it to Spotify with this podcast, where he and his pal Ed talk to musicians and other crea...