No Simple Road

We are super excited to have Raina Mullen of Ghost Light as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Raina Mullen is a Philadelphia based guitar player and singer in the band "Ghost Light" with Tom Hamilton, Holly Bowling, Dan Africano and Scotty Zwang.  We catch up with Raina about the new album 'The Healing', what it looks like when Tommy and her sit down to start writing songs, where the inspirat...

This episode is presented exclusively by our friends over at SMARTWOOL!! Check out the exclusive, limited edition SMARTWOOL / GRATEFUL DEAD collaboration HERE!!! Just in time for the holidaze! Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! This week's rewind we talk ab...

We're so stoked to have Comedian Phil Hanley as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Phil began standup comedy by performing at open mics around Vancouver, often in between bands at music venues. In these establishments he discovered and honed his unique blending of material and crowd interaction that makes no two of his performances the same. Phil’s style can best be described as unpredictably...

This episode is presented exclusively by our friends over at SMARTWOOL!! Check out the exclusive, limited edition SMARTWOOL / GRATEFUL DEAD collaboration HERE!!! Just in time for the holidaze! Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! This week's rewind we talk al...

We're so stoked to have Nick Millevoi of Grassy Sound as our guest on No Simple Road this week! For guitarist Nick Millevoi, all manner of music can be a source of inspiration, including bachelor-pad “exotica” albums of the 1950s, surf-rock records of the ’60s or even old Hollywood cowboy tunes – at least if those influences are put into a modernist compositional and improvisational blender. Mille...

Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! This week's rewind is filled with Holiday goodness. We get into what our favorite holidays are and why, how our live's growing up inform our adult perspectives, what foods flood us with memories, how we're feeling gratitud...

We are so excited to have Justin Cucci, restauranteur, entrepreneur, and chef, as our guest on No Simple Road this week. Raised in NYC where his family owned and ran the beloved Waverly Inn, Justin was born immersed in the restaurant scene. Today, as the owner and executive chef of the renowned Edible Beats Group, Cucci has reinvigorated Denver’s restaurant culture. His six award-winning eateries...

Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! Taking things back to the old school days of show recaps we break down each of our experiences at last night's Greensky Bluegrass show. We discover that though we were all in the same place, we may have very different pers...

We're extremely excited to have Author Paul Justison on No Simple Road this week! Paul is the author of the new book 'Lost And Found In The 60's' coming out on November 8th, 2022! James Fadiman, microdose researcher and Author wrote, "This novel is excruciatingly accurate and totally outrageous. Justison has captured the extravagance of the time: the interplay of sexual liberation, psychedelic exp...

Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! Happy Halloween NSR Family! We've got a special TREAT for you this week! The first ever NSR Quiz Show hosted by Sky Dog! This was the most fun we've had on a Sunday afternoon in a very long time! A 4 round quiz show with 9...

We're super excited to bring you Billy Failing this week as our guest on No Simple Road. Billy is an incredible banjo player, guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He's best known as the hard hittin' banjo player in the Billy Strings band and his own side project The Billiy Failing Band. With the meteoric rise in success we've witnessed of Billy and his bandmates we're honored and excited that Billy...

Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! In this episode we get heady with a conversation about what we would do with unlimited resources, the nature of reality, trading time for money, doing things we'd rather not do most of the time, shifting perspectives to ca...

We're so excited to have Alex and Will from Sicard Hollow as our guests on No Simple Road this week! Sicard Hollow is a four-piece progressive bluegrass band who formed with a mutual passion for pushing the boundaries of genre. Heavily influenced by the Grateful Dead and New Grass Revival, these young pickers bring new energy to a timeless style with a combination of fearless improvisation and ins...

Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! In this episode we talk about how being single as an older human can pose some real challenges, how some of us use out loud self-talk to sooth our troubled minds and how psychedelics have either helped us or hurt us and ho...

We're headed back to Dick's lot this week for a conversation with Boomerang Sky and No Simple Road Family member Joe Atkinson. Some of you may know Joe & Jordan from Phish tour Grilled Cheese and Crab Rangoon fame while others may know them from old school NSR. Either way we're back live from the lot at Dick's for a conversation about Joe's band Boomerang Sky, lessons learned on the lot and the ro...

Catch up with the No Simple Road crew as they discuss everything from the music scene, family life, show recaps & reviews, spirituality, psychedelics, and everything in-between! In this episode we sit down with Danae of 'The Conscious Conversations' Podcast and talk about kindness and how it starts with the self, we discuss the weight of moving quickly now that we are all back at it, we recap the...

We are extremely excited to have Tim Carbone as our guest on No Simple Road this week! After 34 years of experience creating music as an artist, songwriter, session musician and producer Tim says he may not be up to playing music live for the rest of his life but you will have to pry his dead, clammy hands off the mixing console. Safe to say producing records is his passion. Mostly known nowadays...

This episode of No Simple Road is dedicated to our Brother David A. Kasakove... in loving memory. NFA We are extremely excited to have Roger McNamee of Moonalice as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Roger is also a touring musician, first as a founding member of the Flying Other Brothers, and more recently in that group's follow-on band, Moonalice. Honestly, Roger could own the title of 'The...

We are so excited to have Bluphoria's guitarist Reign LaFreniere as our guest on No Simple Road This week! Bluphoria is a pop-rock/alternative band, with psychedelic and southern rock influences originally based out of Eugene, Oregon but now hailing from Nashville, Tennessee! LaFreniere, 22, along with Dakota Landrum [19, rhythm guitar, background vocals], Dani Janae [20, drums, background vocals]...

This week is something special! We're going back to the beginning...no famous musician, no artist, author, or comedian. This is back to basics No Simple Road with our brother Nathaniel leading the way. Out of all the episodes that we have done in the past I am sure the three of us would agree that this is the most important one to date. On a back porch in Denver over Labor Day weekend Aaron and Me...

We are super stoked to have the one and only Steve Kimock as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Steve Kimock has proved himself a master of fluid improvisation for over four decades, in the process inspiring music fans with his transcendent guitar speak voiced through electric, acoustic, lap and pedal steel guitars. With his multi-decade reputation as a blazing psychedelic guitarist versatile...

Our friends Starfinder Stanley, Hawk Semins, and Pete Bell from the Owsley Stanley Foundation join us for a special extra episode of No Simple Road this week! This is a true musical history lesson contained in this episode. We travel all the way to Ireland to find the roots of Bluegrass music waiting and find out why Jerry Garcia invited The Chieftains to Open for Old And In The Way in 1973! The O...

This week on No Simple Road we are stoked to bring you Patrick Harvey of Cycles as our guest on the show! The current incarnation of the ever-developing sound of Cycles reveals itself today as a speeding freight train of sound and rhythm. Screaming peaks and balanced grooves find their way out of the chaos of a jam while samples ripped from the likes of Madonna, Lil Nas X and many more ring out an...

We're extremely excited to have David Gans as our guest on No Simple Road this week! David is a musician, songwriter, guitarist, and music-journalist. He is the co-author of the book 'Playin In The Band: An Oral and Visual Portrait of the Grateful Dead', 'This Is All A Dream We Dream: An Oral History of the Grateful Dead' and hosts the weekly syndicated show The Grateful Dead Hour. He also co-host...

For 20 years Northwest String Summit has been a mainstay in the festival scene of the Pacific Northwest. Yonder Mountain String Band started the festival all those years ago and saw fit to move it here to Horning's Hideout. In the years that followed many now famous (and infamous) bluegrass acts cut their teeth at this festival and year after year fans came back for more creating a tight knit comm...