Jennifer Jane Niceley: Episode 1

Blues • Ragtime • Country • Motor Homes!

Roy Book Binder, legendary ragtime blues guitar playing folksinger from New York has been on the road for 50 years. He talks about how that happened and how he made friends along the way and lots and lots of great music. There's lots to tell and it's (almost) all packed in here along with three songs including one he wrote about his friendship with Reverend Gary Davis. This is really a don't miss - can't miss episode.

Features the songs, "Preacher Picked the Guitar", "Travelin' Man", and "You'll Never Find Another Friend Like Me"

This episode was produced in part by Blac, Inc., Black Liberated Arts Center in Oklahoma and The Blue Door Listening Room in Oklahoma City and of course with the generous assistance of Roy Book Binder

Storytelling? African Storytelling? Storytelling!!

This episode makes a slight departure by moving into the subject of how (and why!) we tell stories and what we can learn by sharing. How is African storytelling different from European storytelling? Find out now, as we talk with Dylan Pritchett, who is one of the worlds best tellers (and teachers) as we sit down in the library and talk at FD Moon middle school in Oklahoma City. 

JAZZ GUITAR! WESTERN SWING! METAPHYSICS?
Joe Settlemires grew up in Oklahoma and played guitar with all the big jazz guitar players. He joined Bob Wills group in the sixties when he was still in his twenties. Because he was that good! He's kind of a Forest Gump of amazing music. In addition to being one of the world's hottest guitar players, it turns out that Joe has a phd in metaphysics! This conversation goes through the atomic level and challenges the theory of relativity!
This episode includes the songs Cherokee, Sweet Georgia Brown, Move, and Sugarfoot Rag (featuring Vince Gill and Harold Bradley)

Deja Vu! Dolphin Consciousness! Perambulatory Spontaneity!

Johanna and I talk about what it's like to find yourself in the world surrounded by strangers and then discovering that we are strangers in a strange land! But- we can change all that with a little acceptance and practicing at a sense of psychic awareness and being generous to others and ourselves.

Songs include, "Your Glow", "In Reverse", and other amazing reveries.

https://www.johannawarren.com/

Optimism!!!! LOVE??? SUNDAY VIBES!

Chris Trapper has been writing songs since he was a kid. Now he is getting somewhere. The optimism and determination you hear in his songs is real, and it's taking him places. He and I talk about songwriting, optimism, and love. He thinks all are these are good ideas- and we almost agree on everything.

Includes the songs Don't Let your Sunday (Own your Monday), Look What the Wind Blew In, and a couple of other great songs.

Phantom Power! Pathos! Disney! Ragtime! Bivalves!

100 years later, it’s pretty cool to be infatuated with the twenties, but in the fifties, being so hep wasn’t so cool. Brad talks about how he discovered the music that got into his bones, what it was like to be an original outsider, and the road less traveled.
Songs include Joseph Lamb's "Sensation Rag", "When the Bluebirds and the Blackbirds Got Together", and an improvisational tune by Brad Kay.

Cobainesque? Dylanesque? Ginsbergian? Lael Neale and I discuss the terms "straight coat vision", "white coat mistake", "white robed mystic" and other whipped delights.

In between clips from her live performance at the Los Angeles Troubadour in January 10, 2019, Lael and I talk about poetry and songwriting.
This episode includes the songs Beautiful Again, Third Floor Window, Black Boots, and Blue Vein from her forthcoming album.

For more information visit her website location online at www.laelneale.com or https://laelneale.bandcamp.com/releases

Assiduously, arduously, and ardently arranging alliteration, allusion and allegory,
Lael Neale anticipates, accomplishing amalgamated associations astonishingly.

Leadbelly? A Serial Killer? What is Blues? What is Folk?

We catch up with Todd Albright in Oklahoma City at The Blue Door listening room.

Todd and I discuss crazy Oklahoma weather, finger style guitar, twelve string guitar, the "folk vs blues" question , Jack White's Third Man Record Label, and Todd shares a theory that Leadbelly may have actually, (in addition to to writing children's songs) possibly have been a serial killer!

There is also lots of great live music from Todd's solo acoustic performance at The Blue Door including:
Frank Hutchison's The Train That Carried My Girl From Town, Leadbelly's Grasshoppers in My Pillow, and Blind Willie McTell's The Kill It Kid Rag.

For more information check out www.theprestonpoeshow.com and www.toddalbright.com

THE TEXAS MOTH MAN!!! EXISTENTIALISM!!! UFO'S!!!

Growing up in the country. Farm life. The nature of existential reality. The healing power of music. UFOs !! and THE TEXAS MOTH MAN.

Hold on to your hat things are about to get really really interesting. You might go away wondering what you really think about what you really think. Everything makes sense and then suddenly everything gets sort of turned upside down. In the midst of it all there are some pretty good laughs and some good time heart and soul real country music. You will have a blast. This show is guaranteed to blow your mind - or your money back.

This episode contains Dickie Lee Erwin's songs Barnyard Stomp, Farmboy, Elmo and Red, and Texas Midnight Highway.

For more information about Dickie Lee Erwin check out www.dickieleeerwin.com

Jennifer Jane Niceley and I talk about life, love, loneliness, Nashville, songwriting, growing up on a farm, the "Edgar Allan Poe" question, and living in a world that somehow combines phenomenal beauty with extraordinary sadness.

This podcast features Jennifer Jane Niceley's songs: Child of God, Higher Power, Wing to Wing, and Dogstar from her recent album, "Angels, Demons, and Red-tailed Hawks"

For more information about Jennifer Jane Niceley, her music and live performances, please visit her
website at www.jenniferniceleymusic.com