Music In The Minor League

Welcome to Episode 78 of Music in the Minor League. As you can see, we've been a little slow on recording new episodes this season. We've been busy with full band practices, life obligations and tour planning. We hope to be back to a more regular schedule later in the summer. But, enough about us, let's talk about this episode's guest: Michael Isaak. Michael is a rising Egyptian-Am...

Welcome to Episode 77 of Music in the Minor League. This episode, we had a conversation with Emily Pennington and Oliver Franklin, who make up the creative centers of Trouble's Braids. Trouble’s Braids is a four-piece band from Boulder, Colorado that creates dynamic folk rock with teeth. Trouble’s Braids combines poignant lyricism, rich female and male harmonies, and great hooks with an unflin...

Season four of Music in the Minor League is here! For our episode of the season, we caught up with Masaya Tamegai of The Houston Collective. The Houston Collective is an umbrella for Long River Sessions, KPFT Sessions, The Cultivated Beat and a collection of local podcasts, including this one. Masaya is putting the final touches on his website https://www.thehoustoncollective.com which contains a...

Welcome to the episode 75 of Music in the Minor League! This episode brings us to the end of season 3! We hope you've enjoyed the ride so far. To close out the year, we went all the way to New Jersey for a conversation with Mourning Coffee. Mourning Coffee offers a look into the process of dealing with death through their singles and upcoming full-length album. Our conversation spanned from mu...

Welcome to episode 74 of Music in the Minor League! This week we are being joined by John and Rebecca Stoll, who make up the "high lonesome rock n' roll" duo: Grifters & Shills. The Stolls were our episode 2 guests and have returned to discuss their new album, Ghost Fleet, and their album release show THIS SATURDAY, December 6th at the Old Quarter in Galveston. We also took some...

Welcome to episode 73 of Music in the Minor League! This week we are joined by Nash Daniels. Nash is a singer-songwriter based in Bryan, TX. We met him back in 2020 when he was performing as Kerosene Pipedream. Last year, he started HowdyFest, which is a music festival on Thanksgiving weekend at The 101 in Bryan. This year, the festival is going two days with many great artists from Texas and beyo...

Welcome to episode 72 of Music in the Minor League! In an unprecedented turn of events, Rachel and Griffin are back for a second episode in the SAME SEASON!!! Crazy stuff, right? Well, Rachel and Griffin have combined into a single entity now entitled Rachel & Griffin. They have an album, Live at the Blue Door, coming out in December. They've rebranded everything and working on getting eve...

Welcome to episode 71 of Music in the Minor League! This week, we're joined by Jared McGovern. For nearly two decades Jared McGovern has been a staple of the roots world and a veteran of the highway, now he's set off on a solo journey. Jared got his start playing bass for Bob Wayne, Wayne Hancock and Jayke Orvis & the Broken Band. In 2014, he formed the high energy hillbilly swing trio...

It has been a while since we used an episode of our podcast to talk about our favorite thing: us! Alright, fine! We prefer talking with other folks, but it was a landmark episode, we just finished our new album, the year is winding down and just had some stuff to talk about, so it was podcast time! Thanks for tuning in and giving us enough listeners to justify 70 episodes! As a celebration, we&#39...

Welcome to episode 69 of Music in the Minor League! We're back after a break spent finishing up the album, playing some benefits and preparing for a month-long break from shows. It was good to get some time away, but we missed talking music with folks. To celebrate our landmark 69th episode, we could only think of one person to talk to. That person was Howell Windham (aka Howell Kuache) of Houston...

Welcome to Episode 68 of Music in the Minor League! This week, we're joined by Anna La Mare! Anna tours as a solo artist and also fronts her band, Damn Sam. She currently travels back and forth between Texas living and playing in both locales. Her bio reads: Singer-songwriter Anna La Mare has been described as "emotional honey," "folky Florence and the Machine," "indie...

Episode 67 of Music in the Minor League has arrived! This week, we are joined by Robert Johnson of Stars & Satellites! Robert started Stars & Satellites in the mid-2000s as a studio project, releasing 2007s Solutions before going on a hiatus due to work and life in general. He returned to recording a few years ago with a few singles before eventually transitioning to a live act around a ye...

Welcome to episode 66 of Music in the Minor League! This week, we're talking to Scott Schaafsma of Kerosene Stars. We first heard Kerosene Stars when they played with MiML alums, Junebird, last year. We've seen them quite a few times since then and even had the opportunity to play a show with them recently. So, it just made sense to hassle Scott about doing an episode of the podcast. Keros...

This week we return from our July break with episode 65 of Music in the Minor League. This episode brings us back to our near second home at this point: Fort Collins, CO. We'll be talking to Slp (pronounced 'slip') of Maudlyn Monroe. Classically trained, with a love for riot grrl and 70's NY punk, Maudlyn Monroe is a vocalist/guitarist/saxophonist/pianist with an up-tempo emo feel—...

Episode 64 of Music in the Minor League dropped at midnight! Our guest this week is David Fahl! David is a singer-songwriter currently based out of the Houston area. We've seen David's name all around Houston whether it be newsweeklies, show announcements or 'Fahl & Folk' stickers on guitar cases and venue walls. We finally got to meet him a few months back and hear some of his...

Welcome to episode 63 of Music in the Minor League! This episode, we are talking to Cory Todd & Kevin Marble of Oddtoddler. Oddtoddler is a local band that resides on the Gulf Coast and plays all around our area. We met them for the first time out at the League City Folk Association songwriter nights and really dug their tunes. They definitely aren't afraid to mix it up with the genres. Th...

Welcome to episode 62 of Music in the Minor League! This week we were joined by Celeste Marie Wilson! She's a 21 year old powerhouse vocalist and songwriter from the north side of Houston. We first met her in spring of 2024 when we shared a bill together for Sofar Sounds. She was an excellent live performer and blew us away. She's naturally driven, insightful and we enjoyed our conversatio...

For episode 61, we sat down with our friend, fellow songwriter and all around awesome person: Tex Renner. We've known Tex for as long as we can remember hanging around the Old Quarter scene. His harmonica playing made us pay attention and his songs made us stay. He has a new album called A .44 in an 88 and is having a release party THIS SATURDAY (May 17th) at the Old Quarter. Mark your calenda...

Welcome to the 60th episode of Music in the Minor League! On this episode, we are joined by Karen & Kevin Jordan who make up the Americana duo: Whiskey & Wine! Whiskey & Wine is an Americana duo from Austin, Texas, blending folk, rock, country, and blues into a captivating and timeless sound. Husband-and-wife multi-instrumentalists Kevin and Karen Jordan craft heartfelt songs that hono...

Welcome to episode 59 of Music in the Minor League! This week we were joined by Taylor Gwyn and Andi Hendricks of Blade Job! They just had their new EP entitled 'Pre-Op' come out earlier this month so we wanted to sit down and talk to them about the band, their new EP, being trans in the music scene and their other band Bayou City Kids! This was probably one of the best conversations we&#3...

Music in the Minor League makes its first trip across the pond to talk to our friend, Paul Grant about his band: Toy Hospital. Toy Hospital has a new live album they just released a few weeks ago entitled Changed Priorities Ahead and have been playing a lot around their hometown of Edinburgh, Scotland. We had a great time catching up with Paul and hearing about how similar the music scenes are in...

This week, Samuel and Kim celebrated their anniversary by sitting down with Griffin Wade and Rachel Lynch to discuss life as working musicians working locally around the Oklahoma City area while also mixing in touring around the country. They played 180+ shows in 2024 and are keeping the pace up so far in 2025. We have been trying to make the stars align for a couple of years now and finally made...

We're back with a new episode of Music in the Minor League! Our guest this episode is Carter Felker! Carter was an absolute blast to talk to. He's one of those people you meet and within 5 minutes, it's like you're best friends. His new album entitled Loser is out on Friday! Be sure to check it out! Carter hails from Calgary, AB! He's our second international guest and our seco...

Welcome to episode 55 of Music in the Minor League. AKA Episode 4 of season 3! For this episode, we had the privilege of talking with Jewelz Melody! You may recognize her from Shame On Me where she blows minds and melts hearts with season 2 guest Mel Gutierrez. She also is known to sit in with folks like Dem Roots Music and Opie Hendrix. Oh, and she's also working on solo material, some of whi...

Welcome to the 54th episode of Music in the Minor League! This week, we'll be venturing out to Colorado to talk with singer-songwriter Ben Garcia ! After some time away from music, Ben is back at it with a string of new singles. We were fortunate enough to catch him up in Spring back in December and had a blast catching the show. For more info on Ben, visit him online at: Facebook: https://www...