Troubadour Collective

Apis Mellifera is named after the western honey bee and she bounces around the country as a self described music pollinator. I was lucky enough to catch up with her while she was in town for the Kerrville Folk Festival. While I am deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life that occurred in the region, I hope the festival comes back, I'd love to bring you some recordings from the campgrounds at the...

I was walking back to the car after recording Siim, it was almost 2 am. As I am approaching the corner of 6th and Congress I am hearing something but I can't make out what it is. It sounds like music so I cross the street to investigate. What I found was one of the coolest setup I've come across. Craig had a Hohner microphone plugged into a bluetooth adapter, with a speaker he was hauling in the t...

I met Siim (seem) the first night I was out recording. He was hanging out for a while when I was recording Alex, truth be told, I thought I'd upset him. He walked off in the middle of recording and I was worried I'd interrupted him and Alex. We ran into each other again a couple nights later when I was recording David Quick. Siim is a great dude, the kind of guy that's never met a stranger. We qui...

I had been out an hour or so, driving around Austin, when I saw a man walking down the drag (Guadalupe) with a guitar slung over his shoulder. I made a quick u-turn and met him in a parking lot. I asked if he was going to play that thing (the guitar) and he said he'd just broken a string but his name was Steve Stone and he played in a band call Quick and Stone on the corner of 6th and Red River, t...

I met Alex on the corner of Congress and 4th street in downtown Austin, it was the first performance recorded after I came up with the concept of Troubadour Collective. It was a new thing for both of us and I can't thank Alex for being gracious and allowing me to try something. Enjoy! The full episode is available on YouTube! https://youtu.be/cJRrh6A_-HE 00:00 - Alex busks in downtown Austin 00:25...