The Load Out Music Podcast

It's not uncommon to hear that rock is dead. But if you look, there are some great rock bands out there. Following in the footsteps of great Texas rock and roll acts like ZZ Top, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Ray Wylie Hubbard comes the Quaker City Night Hawks led by Sam Anderson. Since the band's founding some 10 years ago, QCNH has been road warriors across the U.S. and in Europe, sharing their unique...

In 2016, The Record Company released an album called Give It Back to You which spawned three Top 10 hits including the smash "Off the Ground." But if you weren't paying attention, you may have been just a bit confused. The Record company isn't a record company. It's a band – a funky, gritty, makes-you-want-to-boogie, thumping rock and roll band fronted by former Wisconsin farm boy Chris Vos. And t...

We all like to say we are busy - a lot going on at home, with family, pandemic lockdown - you know, that old chestnut. And then there is Sadler Vaden busy. The guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer has had just a tad going on. Over the past year, he's been in the studio with rising country rock artist Morgan Wade. In March, Vaden released a much-praised solo record that drew comparisons to To...

When one of the biggest music stars on the planet says your band is one of the last he'd want opening a show for him – you might be a bit upset. Unless, of course, he meant it as a compliment. And that is exactly what Rob Thomas (and other headliners) have said of Cowboy Mouth, one of the most electric live acts performing over the past 30 years. Founded in the early 1990s, Cowboy Mouth was (and r...

If you're a blues music fan, you know that Kenny Wayne Shepherd is one of a handful of standard bearers of the genre over the past quarter century. Not only is he helping to keep perhaps the most important and influential style of American music alive, but he's also helping to keep memories and appreciation alive of many of the greatest blues players ever. From his garage in Los Angeles with his c...

There are names that are stated which need no explanation. John Oates is one of them. It's a name you know as part of the legendary songwriting duo and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Hall & Oates. But in the pop culture lexicon, especially if you are over 35 years old, it's almost hard not to be aware of Hall and Oates' endless string of hits such as "She's Gone," "Sarah Smile," "Private Eye...

Led by stalwarts like the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Blackfoot, Marshall Tucker, and in the later years - bands like the Black Crowes - the southern rock genre was once a staple of radio airplay. But over the past two decades, the only place where you really find any semblance of it is on SiriusXM's Outlaw Country radio. And sadly, there's some remarkable music being made that fits into that...

There are not many rockers out there who were Texas state fiddle champions at age 11 and describe themselves as "southern gothic psycho blues revival punk."  But alas, meet my next guest who uses those words to describe himself. In episode 3 of the Load Out Music Podcast, we speak with Lincoln Durham, whose one-man-band performances are legendary at clubs not only across the U.S., but in Europe as...

Some say it's easier than ever to climb your way up the ladder in today's music industry thanks to digital technology and shows like "American Idol," but when you're an unknown from the southwest corner of Virginia -- maybe not so much. But Morgan Wade is doing it, clawing her way up with the help of her fans and influencers in the industry like Sadler Vaden of Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit. In Epis...

On the first installment of the Load Out Music Podcast, host Aaron Perlut speaks with outlaw country singer Mickey Lamantia. He's a Rhode Island prison guard by day who's reminding country music fans of the genre's heyday led by the likes of Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, Jr., and others.