What's The Reason For This Podcast

🎧 This week on What’s the Reason for This?, Kodi sits down with guitarist, songwriter, and rock & roll torchbearer Duane Betts for a conversation about legacy, finding your own voice, overcoming addiction, and the deeply personal journey behind his new album, Isle of Hope . 🎸🔥 Fresh off the release of Isle of Hope , Duane opens up about growing up surrounded by one of the most iconic musica...

🎧 This week on What’s the Reason for This? , Kodi sits down in the dungeon with Randy Steele of High Cold Wind for one of the most honest, emotional, and inspiring conversations we've had yet. 🪕🔥❤️ Fresh off an unforgettable week at the 52nd Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Randy shares the story behind his journey from firefighter and EMT to award-winning songwriter, bluegrass frontman, and one o...

🎧 This week on What’s the Reason for This? , Kodi flies solo in the dungeon with Front Porch , the Northwest Arkansas bluegrass outfit that's quietly building one of the most unique sounds in the scene today. 🪕🔥🌲 What starts as a conversation about bluegrass quickly turns into a deep dive into community, creativity, festivals, and why music matters now more than ever. These guys may call Arkan...

🎶🔥 This week in the dungeon, Front Porch brings their Northwest Arkansas sound to Colorado for a session packed with heartfelt songwriting, rich harmonies, and the kind of road-worn authenticity that feels right at home in a late-night basement jam. 🪕✨ Fresh off a long drive through Kansas (and a highly recommended stop at Nafi's Pub 🍻), the band settles into the dungeon for a three-song sess...

🎧 This week on What’s the Reason for This? , Kodi and Shay welcome Broken Compass Bluegrass into the dungeon for a conversation packed with jamgrass philosophy, festival culture, improvisation, and the next generation of bluegrass absolutely ripping the torch forward. 🪕🔥🌲 Hailing from Grass Valley, California, Broken Compass Bluegrass might be one of the hottest young bands in the scene right...

🎶🔥 This week in the dungeon, Broken Compass Bluegrass rolls in from Grass Valley, California with a session full of haunting harmonies, cosmic storytelling, and the kind of emotionally driven bluegrass that sticks with you long after the last note fades out. 🌲🪕✨ Blending progressive bluegrass, rich vocal layering, and deeply cinematic songwriting, the band delivers a three-song set that feels...

🎶🔥 This week in the dungeon, Foggy Memory Boys bring the spirit of Taos, New Mexico straight into Morrison for a session packed with wildgrass energy, rich harmonies, and stories that feel like they were pulled straight from a late-night festival campsite. 🌵🪕✨ Blending bluegrass, jamgrass, folk storytelling, and outlaw country vibes, the Foggy crew delivers a three-song session that perfectly...

🎻🔥 This week on What’s the Reason for This?, Kodi and Shay sit down with New Mexico’s own Foggy Memory Boys for a conversation full of wildgrass chaos, festival lore, lamp camp philosophy, and the beautiful madness of building a band from the ground up. 🌵✨ What started as a trio of friends jamming in Taos turned into one of the most unique sounds in the Southwest scene… 🎶 Teaching themselves...

🎧 This week on What’s the Reason for This? , Kodi heads into the dungeon with Jon “Barber” Gutwillig of The Disco Biscuits for a deep dive into improvisation, originality, the evolution of the jam scene, and what it really means to create something completely your own. 🎸🔥 Fresh off a massive run of Vegas aftershows during Phish Sphere weekend, Barber opens up about the mindset behind improvisat...

🎶🔥 This week in the dungeon, Liver Down the River brings the full spirit of Colorado “Funkadeligrass” straight into the basement for a session that’s equal parts haunting, heartfelt, and wildly psychedelic. 🪕🌈🔥 Blending bluegrass roots with jam energy, dark storytelling, rich harmonies, and mountain-town weirdness, the band delivers a three-song set that perfectly captures why they’ve become...

🎧 This week on What’s the Reason for This? , Kodi and Shay welcome Liver Down the River into the dungeon for a conversation packed with psychedelic bluegrass chaos, festival stories, Colorado roots, and the beautiful weirdness that’s helped make them staples of the mountain music scene. 🪕🔥🐟 Fresh off a ripping dungeon session, the band dives into the story behind their self-created genre… 🌈 “...

🎧 This week on What’s the Reason for This? , Kodi goes solo in the dungeon with two absolute pillars of the Colorado scene — Joe and Matt from Head for the Hills — for a full-circle conversation that hits nostalgia, growth, and everything in between. 🪕🔥 What starts as a trip down memory lane quickly turns into something bigger… a story about how a college dorm jam session turned into a 20+ year...

🎧 This week on What’s the Reason for This? , Kodi and Shay are back in the dungeon with Dylan Flynn of Magoo — and this one goes way deeper than just the music. 🪕🔥 What starts as tour talk and band momentum quickly turns into something real… a conversation about creativity, anxiety, identity, and the voice in your head we’re all trying to figure out . 🧠✨ This one kicks off with the whirlwind…...

🎧 This week on What’s the Reason for This? , Kodi flies solo in the dungeon and sits down with one of the most exciting and boundary-pushing banjo players in the game right now — Tray Wellington . 🪕🔥 From a small town in North Carolina to carving out his own lane in Nashville, Tray’s story is all about finding your voice, trusting your instincts, and refusing to be put in a box . 🌄🎶 This one...

🎧 This week on What’s the Reason for This? , Kodi taps in with the Midwest heat — sitting down with Ben and Augie of Armchair Boogie to break down how a couple of Wisconsin pickers turned porch jams into a full-blown touring machine. 🪕🔥 What starts as a conversation about bluegrass roots quickly opens up into something bigger — the evolution of a band that refuses to stay in one lane. From trad...

🎧 This week on What’s the Reason for This?, Kodi and Shay are back in the dungeon breaking down an absolutely wild weekend — from ticket chaos to unforgettable shows, and a band that might’ve just leveled up right in front of our eyes. 🎶🔥 What started as a simple ticket drop turned into full-blown madness… 🎟️ The Billy Strings presale struggle virtual queues, lottery systems, and the reality of...

🎧 This week on What’s the Reason for This? , Kodi and Shay sit down in the dungeon with the one and only Mark “Huggy Bear” Lavengood , a walking vibe, a musical Swiss Army knife, and quite possibly the only man out here lifting Billy Strings off the ground mid-hug. 🐻🎶🔥 From kitchen shifts at Founders Brewing to festival stages, studio builds, and full-on freak show hosting… this episode is a d...

🎧 This week on What’s the Reason for This? , Kodi sits down in the dungeon with Will “Mustang” McGee the groove-driving backbone of Daniel Donato’s Cosmic Country for a deep dive into music, identity, and what it really takes to build your own sound. 🐎🎸🔥 From Memphis soul roots to sold-out festival stages, Mustang breaks down the journey balancing life on the road, developing his voice as a ba...

🎶🔥 Banshee Tree: Evolution, Experimentation & the Road to a New Album 🔥🎶 This week in the dungeon, the crew welcomes Colorado’s genre-bending powerhouse Banshee Tree for a wild and insightful conversation about the band’s evolution, their upcoming album, and the strange, beautiful road that got them here. 🌲✨ From the early days playing weekly gigs under the Boulderado Hotel—with unlimite...

🎧 This week on What’s the Reason for This? , Kodi hangs in the dungeon with none other than Cotter Ellis of Goose — and this one goes deep. 🥁🔥 From Vermont heady snowboard spots 🏂🌲 to driving 20 minute jam peaks in front of thousands, Cotter opens up about the journey, the grind, the growth, and the surreal full circle moments that brought him from Swimmer to the Goose drum throne. They dive...

🎧 This week on What’s the Reason for This? , Kodi sits down with Christopher Henry (Ol’ Clunky) and bluegrass phenom Wyatt Ellis to celebrate something truly special, the release of Wyatt’s brand-new recording of “West Dakota Rose” … and the official music video dropping on YouTube the very same day this episode airs. 🌹🎻🔥 Huge shout out to Joseph Cash (Yes, that’s Johnny’s grandson) of Weeping...

🎧 This week on What’s the Reason for This? , Kodi and Shay welcome the chaotic, brilliant, cello-slinging string sorcerers of High Horse into the dungeon and things go from bluegrass to banjo science to Narcan policy to glizzy marketing in about 12 minutes flat. 🪕🔥😂 Fresh off a high-energy Dungeon Session (yes, there was a cannon… no, they weren’t prepared), High Horse sits down to unpack how...

🎧 This week on What’s the Reason for This? , Kodi sits down in the dungeon with Torrin Daniels of The Kitchen Dwellers for a powerful, wide-ranging conversation that blends music, identity, politics, mental health, and what it really means to not “shut up and sing” when the moment demands more . 🪕🔥🗣️ The episode centers around Torrin’s now-viral onstage speech at the Mission Ballroom during the...

🎧 This week on What’s the Reason for This? , Kodi and Shay welcome David Weingarden , Vice President of Z2 Entertainment , into the dungeon (virtually) for one of the most important ticketing conversations we’ve ever had — breaking down the real forces behind ticket prices, scalpers, bots, and why fans keep getting screwed. 🎟️⚠️🔥 If you’ve ever been 19,000th in a virtual queue 🧍‍♂️🧍‍♀️📉, paid...

🎧 This week on What’s the Reason for This? , Kodi and Shay welcome Alabama-born bluegrass firestarters Mountain Grass Unit (MGU) into the dungeon for a long-overdue hang that dives deep into friendship, hustle, growing pains, and what it really looks like when a band is mid–rocket ship. 🚀🪕🔥 What starts with laughs about canceled Colorado shows, tooth pain from hell 🦷😖, and internet rumors qu...