This week we speak with Bree Scanlon, who is the lead singer for the band Cape Snow, which Dylan and Guy are also both a part of. We discuss the debut self-titled album from 2015.

We listen to the songs:

You can hear the entire "Cape Snow" album at https://burstandbloom.bandcamp.com/album/cape-snow

For this special episode, we check in with Guy as he's halfway through writing and recording his 8+ albums in the shortest month of the year.

We listen to works in progress from Guy Capecelatro III, Pumpkin Mouth, Ambermor, Guy Capecelatro & Ted Ehlers, the compilation "The Longest, Coldest Winter", and more.

Stay tuned for the finished versions of these songs and more in the coming months.

For this fourth installment from our second "Live at the Word Barn" show, we hear from the 2015 Tiger Saw lineup (Dylan & Guy with Djim Reynolds and Gregg Porter), who reunited for this one night only to play live and talk about their album "Horn Hill".

Tiger Saw plays the songs:

Originally recorded live in front of an audience at the ⁠Word Barn⁠ in Exeter, NH on September 22, 2024.

Listen to the original versions of the songs on the "Horn Hill" album, at https://burstandbloom.bandcamp.com/album/horn-hill

For this third installment from our second "Live at the Word Barn" show, we hear from Justin Carloni and their band (James Sophinos, Christopher Reeves and Thomas Carloni), who play live and talk about the Eastern Sleds album "There's No Place Left to Go".

The band plays the Eastern Sleds songs:

Originally recorded live in front of an audience at the ⁠Word Barn⁠ in Exeter, NH on September 22, 2024.

To hear the original versions of these songs listen to "There's No Place Left to Go" at https://burstandbloom.bandcamp.com/album/theres-no-place-left-to-go-2

This week we take a look at the 2004 compilation "The Chain Bridge, Vol. 1", which was released under the Burst & Bloom name, though it was five years before the official beginning of the label. At the time, Dylan was living in Newburyport, MA, and compiled these songs to document the disparate and exciting local music scene.

We listen to the songs:

And we hear from Gregory Moss, Sam Buck, and Jeff Morris (Zuni Fetish Experiment).

You can hear the entire compilation (and download for free) at https://burstandbloom.bandcamp.com/album/the-chain-bridge-volume-one

For this second installment from our second "Live at the Word Barn" show, we hear from poets Tom McCaffrey and Guy Capecelatro III, as they read from their poetry books and discuss their work.

Originally recorded live in front of an audience at the Word Barn in Exeter, NH on September 22, 2024.

This week, we talk with Christopher Holt, who played bass, arranged the strings, and produced much of the 2010 Tiger Saw album "Nightingales".

We play the songs

And we discuss songs from the unreleased "Nightingales" predecessor "The Sky and the Dirt".

Listen to "Nightingales" in its entirety at https://burstandbloom.bandcamp.com/album/nightingales

This week, we discuss the 2018 collection "Songs for Pam"- songs written for, around, or after Pam Raiford’s struggle with and ultimate demise from cancer. 

We play the songs:

And we hear from Jocelyn Mackenzie, Jim Rioux, Eric Schwann (The Orchards), and Mara Flynn.

To hear the complete album, go to https://burstandbloom.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-pam

Live from the Word Barn, in Exeter, NH, this is from our second live podcast taping, September 22, 2024.

Featuring music and discussion from the band Ambermor, who play songs from their album "Rooms of the House".

Hear the original album here: https://burstandbloom.bandcamp.com/album/rooms-of-the-house

This week we discuss Guy's new single "Symbols" which he recorded with producer Shane Leonard and musicians Paul Brandt, Joe Westerlund, and Pat Keen in Eau Claire, WI.

We listen to Guy's early phone demo of the song, his solo recording from Portsmouth's Electric Cave studio, and then the final full-band Wisconsin version.

Check out all these versions, plus an instrumental version at https://burstandbloom.bandcamp.com/album/symbols