Bourbon Turntable

Join us as we celebrate that most festive time of year: Alan Bishop Day.  The official holiday is October 20, but it has grown in popularity and influence to the point that it occupies our hearts and minds the entire month.

Kevin is joined by Mike Lisac and Pat Belongia of My Whiskey Den to toast / roast the man of honor: Colonel Alan Bishop.

We share some stories about Alan (and Jolee), drink some whiskey and discuss the importance of being "non-cooptable".

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Merry Alan Bishop Day to us, everyone!

We have Bourbon Women Cocktail Champion, Adina Ewaldz, with us this week.  She brought along her wonderful husband, Dave, who is an outstanding curator of cocktails in his own right.

We go through some incredible fall cocktail recipes with them and Drew and I offer up a cocktail recipe or our own, too.  

What goes better with a fall cocktail than some fall music...music that "feels" like fall.  We go through some really great music.  A playlist is included in the comment section of this post.

Please be sure to follow Dave and Adina on Instagram. They have some incredible cocktails that they share on their accounts.

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This week we welcome back Dusty Bo.  Dusty is a fantastic singer-songwriter and guitarist and he is releasing a new single and kicking off a 25-city tour this week.  

In this episode we talk with Dusty about the success of his debut album and the work he's done on new music this year.  We also get into the behind-the-scenes details of planning a tour and promoting his music.  

We also toast Dusty's tour with a pour of a bargain bourbon classic, JW Dant, and - since Dusty's tour is headed out west - a brandy from the great distillery in Denison, Texas, Ironroot Republic.

To see if Dusty will be playing near you, head over to his website https://dustybo.com/.  You can also follow him on Instagram at @DustyVox.

This show is not about Cousin Eddie from the Vacation movies.  It is about a band out of the Phoenix area that is as hot as the desert sun and their music is the gift that keeps on giving year round (side note: they have some really good Christmas songs, too).

The Deadbeat Cousins are Matt (vocals), Jaren (guitar), Jason (drums) and Matt (bass).  We talk with them about their personal beginnings in music and based on their responses we are left to wonder out loud if Drew isn't a long-lost cousin himself.  

Everything about this band comes together really well.   Each band member is excellent in their roles and they work hard to make sure that it all fits within the song itself.  The Deadbeat Cousins isn't a showplace for any one band mate to show off.  It is about the music and the song comes first.  And the songs...well, they are fantastic.  Be sure to check them out on Spotify after listening to our show with them.  

We bridge the distance between Kentucky and Arizona with whiskey, too.  Drew and Kevin share some Knob Creek (Kentucky bourbon) and Whiskey Del Bac (Arizona whiskey) with the Cousins.  

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If you are a child of the 80's or even if you're just a fan of good, fun music, then "Sports" by Huey Lewis & the News has to be an album you love.  

This album was everywhere when it came out 40 years ago this week.  It still holds up really well and is worth a fresh listen if you've been away from it for awhile.

There is a lot of good in the Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame.  It honors and preserves the legacies of many of the great men and women who cemented Kentucky as the center of the Bourbon Universe.

Like any Hall of Fame, there's some also some bad and some ugly.

In this episode Drew and Kevin touch on all three: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

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We all have bands or bourbons that we love that don't quite get the fame or notoriety that we think they deserve.  This week Drew and Kevin each discuss three bands and three bourbons they think need your attention (or maybe more of it).

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Austin Huff is a morning show DJ in Chicago, the largest country music market in the country.  He also runs an incredible sports humor site called, Korked Bats.  We talk with him about the state of country music including recent controversies with Jason Aldean and Tyler Childers.  

We sample some bourbon from (the appropriately named) Still Austin.  We have their oated bourbon and red corn bottled in bond.

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Parker Barrow is a band led by Megan Kane (vocals) and Dylan Turner (drums).  The band has an infection sound that is genre-defying.  And Megan and Dylan are fantastic people and really fun guests.  

Parker Barrow just released their first full-length album, Jukebox Gypsies, and we cannot recommend it enough.  

We follow the "Bonnie & Clyde" theme of their name in our whiskey tasting selections: Whiskey Thief high-rye bourbon and Larceny Barrel Proof.

You can listen to their music on all streaming services and check out more about them at https://www.weareparkerbarrow.com/.

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Drew and Kevin are joined this week by musician, song writer and host of Top Hill Recording podcast, Neil Johnstone.  

Neil has a great story to tell about living life and living the life of a musician.  He also shares with us the vision of Top Hill Recording podcast.  It is well worth your time.

Drew also takes us through a blind tasting of a couple of classic bourbons.