The Load Out Music Podcast

We pick up on episode 11 of season 5 of the Load Out Music Podcast with a unique episode when we welcome in Jake Neuman of Jake Neuman and the Jaybirds, along with producer and former guest Greg Griffith. Greg not only produced the new record by the Jaybirds -- "Little Bitty Town" -- but he also produced the new album by my own band, Atomic Junction. All in the last month or so. So the three of us...

Jason Bonham's name is synonymous with rock royalty. It started, of course, with his father—the late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, who is considered one of the most transformative rock drummers in rock 'n' roll history. But Jason is no lesser emulation of his father. He's a Grammy winner who has carved a different, yet highly influential path for himself, playing legendary shows with the livin...

He may not be the tallest musician going, but John Oates casts a immensely large shadow in music. One part of the most successful duo in music history— Daryl Hall & John Oates—he co-wrote a number of the band's legendary catalogue including "Sara Smile," "She's Gone," "Out of Touch," "You Make My Dreams," "I Can't Go for That," "Maneater" and more. In 2014, he was inducted into the Songwriters Hal...

Coreen Sheehan knows how to sing. It's how she's toured all over the world fronting powerhouse rock 'n' roll bands and why Sheehan's been employed by Grammy winners and helped countless singers prepare to compete in both U.S. and international versions of shows like NBC's The Voice and American Idol. In fact, the vocal technique curricula she developed is used by the Musician's Institute Hollywood...

Acclaimed international jazz artist Jose James has a composure about him that one might compare to James Bond.   The Minneapolis native claims he was one of the least talented artists in his music circles growing up, yet he ultimately attended  The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music. His first album,  The Dreamer , debuted in 2008. Since then, he's gone on to play at the Kennedy Center, Th...

Earnestness. Authenticity. These are the things Nashville-based guitarist Tobin Dale relates to when he considers his chosen craft as a guitarist and playing the music he loves. A true student of rock'n'roll guitar, Dale has been at it since discovering the Beatles and subsequently picking up the guitar around age 12, growing up in Orlando. In music circles, he's become known as a go-to sideman fo...

Like any other art form, rap music or hip-hop has a defined, ever-evolving legacy. There are names etched in the walls of the greats industry founders ranging from Curtis Blow to Grandmaster Flash, LL Cool J to Run DMC, the Beastie Boys, Will Smith, Doug E. Fresh, the Fat Boys and Queen Latifah. As the genre evolved, rap developed more of an edge, telling painful stories of street life from perfor...

Some guests need no introduction, especially when they've been a founding member of one of the most lendary rock bands in history, Traffic. But if you need more, Dave Mason has it. He's penned well over 100 songs, has three gold records, worked with the late Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartnery, George Harrison, Eric, Clapton, Rita Coolidge and the list goes on. The self-described "co...

You might recognize Caleb Lee Hutchinson from his short stint on NBC's The Voice, on American Idol, country music radio or your favorite streaming platform. But after dropping an EP and a few popular singles, as well as working with some renowned producers, he emerges with his first full-length album, Southern Galactic , and it's certainly not your run-of-the-mill country music fare. Indeed, it's...

Despite a rather decorated, 20-year history that includes accolades any band would relish, the GRAMMY-nominated, multi-platinum band NEEDTOBREATHE isn't satisfied. Indeed, the band came into their latest studio album feeling there was much to prove despite living in rare air in the modern genre landscape--having placed five Number One albums all across the  Billboard chart spectrum. In our most re...

If there's anything to be learned from the monumental successes of Beyonce and Taylor Swift, it's that music artists can do more than simply record and perform music. Certainly, each has established themselves as exceptional artists. But they have also cultivated remarkably strong seemingly interpersonal bonds with their fans ranging from Beyonce's "Bee Hive" to Taylor's "Swifties."  A few rungs d...

Singer-songwriter Susan Gibson  was born in Minnesota but spent most of her formative years in Amarillo, Texas. Growing up, she and her family would often drive between Amarillo and Missoula, Montana, where she drew comfort and inspiration from the wide open spaces along their route.  Ultimately, Gibson took to music and the continuum of movement through those scenic vistas would become an essenti...

Singer-songwriters Diane Gentile and Alejandro Escovedo seemingly could not be more different.   Gentile grew up as one of eight siblings in Flushing, Queens, and every morsel of her oozes New York City in a manner that evokes memories of the famed all-female band The Runaways .   While Gentile cut her teeth in the music business as a club booker in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Escovedo—the s...

Over the four seasons of The Load Out music podcast, we've had a variety of artists on the show that have ranged from Rock-and-Roll Hall-of-Fame inductees like John Oates, Steve Cropper and Chris Hillman; to Grammy winners, alt-country stars, longtime record executives and noted rap producers.  On the latest episode, we welcome an up-and-coming band from New York City that's a little bit rock, a l...

Let's start here. Cody Canada—our latest guest on The Load Out Music Podcast—is many things but he is most certainly  not some radio DJ in Canada, in the event you were curious.  No, he's a pioneering figure in red dirt music and one of the more respected musicians in songwriting circles today. But many casual music fans might be unfamiliar with his name, instead knowing his work from the legendar...

Singer-songwriter Joshua Radin didn't think he was going to be a musician. Certainly, he loved art and studied drawing and painting at Northwestern. But after college he worked as a teacher, screenwriter and other odd jobs.  In his late 20s, Radin's father bought him a guitar and things slowly came together. In 2004, actor Zach Braff—a friend since college—helped Radin get his song "Winter" on the...

When he was 12,  Joe Bonamassa started his career in blues-rock by opening for the legendary B.B. King. Somehow, things only got better for his career from there. Bonamassa has since been nominated for three Grammy Awards, had the number one position on the Billboard Music Blues Charts 26 times and been noted as one of the pre-eminent modern day blues-rock guitarists. But in reality, he is much mo...

The 1990s saw a host of new rock 'n' roll and adult-oriented roots come to the forefront on the American music scene. There was an understated, long-haired kid from Georgia in the mix with bands like the Black Crowes, Wilco, Sheryl Crow and the Counting Crows.  His name was Shawn Mullins and his brooding, lyrically-thoughtful style stood out, harkening back to the likes of Bob Dylan and Neil Young...

In 1994, I moved to New Orleans, where I lived until 1998. I loved my time there and still love the city today. Life in NOLA is hard to explain to those who've never been, or maybe only spent time partying in the French Quarter. It's unique in so many ways, and as my children grew up, we tried to expose them to it as often as we could.    Unlike most cities, communities in New Orleans are often ra...

If someone introduced themselves by saying they'd worked with historic music artists such as Neil Young, Robert Plant, the Allman Brothers —you probably think one of two things: Either this person's "completely full of shit" or "holy shit!" And in welcoming the relatively anonymous Tom Lipsky to the latest episode of The Load Out Music Podcast , we'll take that "holy shit" and then some, as I didn...

What do you get when you cross the movie  Sister Act 2 and Saddam Hussein? But of course, the Americana band The War and Treaty , led by the married couple, Tanya and Michael Trotter.   Tanya (formerly Blount) began building a music and entertainment career at 16, appearing in the 1993 Whoopi Goldberg sequel and then releasing a debut album,  Natural Thing . She went on to sign with Sean Comb's Ba...

In the fall of 2005, four musicians—Ed Jurdi, Gordy Quist, Brian Keen and Colin Brooks—all had residencies at Momo's, the since-shuttered music club on West 6 th Street in Austin, Texas. Ultimately, the four songwriters found themselves jamming each week, sharing a bill in what was lightly called "The Good Time Supper Club" on the Momo's stage.   It became a local staple of the thriving Austin mus...

We're back to kickoff Season 4 of The Load Out Music Podcast with Southern California-based up-and-comers Robert Jon & The Wreck, speaking with the band's understated founder and frontman, Robert Jon Burrison.   The Wreck , which has been together since 2011, has a tremendous new record out called "One of a Kind." It's the first of a series of singles and EPs to be released in 2023, and the songs...

We wrap up what has been a stellar Season 3 with the founding drummer of one of the world's most renowned bands: Ryan Dusick of Maroon 5.  In the 1990s, when Dusick and his buddies including some guy named Adam Levine, dreamt of making it big in music---they never imagined Maroon 5 would emerge as one of the biggest bands on the planet. But it happened, and along with that fame came expectations,...

If you're one of those people who says you like "all kinds of music," then Drew McManus and his band SatSang just might be for you. The entirety of SatSang's catalogue spans comparisons to Ben Harper, G-Love and Special Sauce and Jason Mraz among others. However, the band's new record "Flowers from the Fray" includes performances and arrangements that are broad and spacious, reflecting the wide-op...