JPR Live Sessions

With a powerful, dynamic voice, Alice Di Micele's sound combines many aspects of Americana from folk to jazz to blues to rock. She plays solo, in duos and trios, and in this JPR Live Session she performs with her band Force of Nature featuring Matt Spencer on bass, Andy Casad on guitar, and Nick Kirby on drums. The full band will be performing at Pheasant Field Family Farm in Medford on September 14.

Alice Di Micele's songs combine powerful commentary on social and environmental issues as well as reflections on her personal journey. In the last few years she released Every Seed We Plant, an album of original tunes, the title of which refers to Grandma Aggie, a Native American leader from Southern Oregon who died a few years ago. She followed it up with an album over cover songs Interpretations Vol 1. - with songs originally written by Christine McVie, Abbey Lincoln, Grateful Dead, Neil Young and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Alice's appreciation of Tom Petty is also evident in one of her side projects, the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers tribute band, Petty Thievery.

Hear her play songs spanning her long career and a conversation with Danielle Kelly in this JPR Live Session. Find more about Alice Di Micele at her website.

JPR Live Sessions are engineered by Jon Griffin of Luna Zen Studios and made possible with support from the Talent Club in Talent serving cold drinks in an even cooler atmosphere in downtown Talent, OR. Find their live music schedule here.

Jason Dea West grew up in Wisconsin and left home early, busking and hopping trains across the country.

Eventually he fell in love with the Applegate Valley. There he continued to hone his skills and formed the band Intuitive Compass who joined us for a JPR Live Session in 2017. He's since moved to Arizona.

He just wrapped up several shows in our region including the Bend Folk Festival and dates on the Oregon Coast and Grants Pass.

Jason is working on a batch of new songs he's preparing to record in Nashville for a new album next month.

Hear him sing some brand new, unreleased songs played on a 1930 National guitar accompanied by his Samsonite suitcase fashioned with a kick pedal to keep time and and upright bassist Amy Astelle. West and Astelle recenlty met at one of his shows and he asked her to join him. She'll be working with him on the new album.

It's Jason Dea West in a JPR Live Session engineered by Jon Griffin and made possible with support from the Talent Club offering cold drinks in a casual atmosphere in downtown Talent, Oregon. Find their live music schedule at here

It's been a great few years to be Molly Tuttle. She and her band Golden Highway have won back to back Grammys for bluegrass album of the year and have been nominated for numerous IBMA awards. It's not just Molly getting all the critical acclaim, her bandmates, friends, and family have numerous IBMA nominations as well. In addition to being nominated for her work in Golden Highway, fiddle player Bronwyn Keith-Hynes (who released a solo album this year) was nominated for best new artist and fiddle player of the year, a category in which she's up against her fiancé, Jason Carter. AJ Lee who began her career with Molly Tuttle in The Tuttles and AJ Lee is nominated for best new artist with her band AJ Lee and Blue Summit which includes Sullivan Tuttle (Molly's brother) who is also a gifted guitarist. Like Bill Monroe and Flatt and Scruggs, Molly Tuttle and her circle of friends are poised to be the bluegrass players we're talking about later this century.

In this JPR Live Session, hear Molly perform live, talk about growing up in Palo Alto, her career, and her move to Nashville where she was a roommate of Billy Strings and the neighbor of Lindsay Lou just as they were all starting to break into the mainstream.

JPR Live Sessions are engineered by Joh Griffin and made possible with support from The Talent Club offering cold drinks and great music in a casual atmosphere in Talent. Find their live music schedule at talentclublive.com

Born in Nova Scotia and raised in Southern California, Steve Poltz has been a hard-touring musician since the 1980s, logging around 300 days on the road each year. During the pandemic pause, he took care of his parents and befriended the members of the Wood Brothers. In 2022, he released Stardust and Satellites with the help of Oliver Wood and Jano Rix of the Wood Brothers.

Poltz has a particular knack for writing amusing, poignant songs that tickle your funny bone but is equally adept at personal tunes that tug at your heart strings.

Hear about his career, his family, his numerous collaborations with folks like Jim Lauderdale, Imogen Clark, Billy Strings and Molly Tuttle, and an impromptu jingle* for our JPR Live Session sponsor, Talent Club - offering cold drinks and live music in a casual atmosphere. Find their live music schedule here.

JPR Live Sessions are engineered by Jon Griffin of Luna Zen Studios. Research provided by Danielle Kelly. Hosted by Dave Jackson.

* Some of the claims made in this jingle may not necessarily be true.

Oliver Wood and Jano Rix - of the Wood Brothers, and the Oliver Wood Trio are no strangers to JPR Live Sessions. The Wood Brothers have been our guests three times. They return as the Oliver Wood Trio with bassist Ted Pecchio rounding out the combo.

The new Oliver Wood solo album - Fat Cat Silhouette, features Oliver Woods signature vocal stylings and overdriven guitar sound. Jano Rix and Ted Pecchio provide great grooves as well as tasty keyboards and gorgeous harmonies providing a contrast to their gritty sound.

Hear the trio talk about making the album, their collaborations, the shuitar (a cheap guitar turned cajon that Jano uses for percussion) and three songs from Fat Cat Silhouette recorded live in the JPR Steve Nelson Performance Studio.

Hosted by: Dave Jackson
Engineered by: Jon Griffin
Thanks to: Alan Adleman for the use of his drum kit and Brian McKennon for the use of his keyboard.
This JPR Live Session was made possible with support from the Talent Club with live music and cold drinks in a casual setting in Talent, Oregon. Find their live music schedule at their website

Bart Budwig is a singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/producer from Enterprise Oregon. His home studio is the historic OK Theatre in Enterprise where he has recorded and worked with a lot of our favorite PNW artists like Sera Cahoone, Shook Twins and John Craigie and the Northern California band Rainbow Girls.

He dropped by on his west coast tour before performing at the Trail's End Music Festival in Aetna, California.

Bart Budwig's songs are insightful with a subtle wit that turn simple everyday occurrences like a lost sock into a metaphor for relationships. With a religious background, Budwig had a period of introspection in his 20s where he examined his relationship with religion writing songs sometimes called secular gospel and perhaps sacrilegious gospel. Hear his song Jesus has Entered Your Neighborhood inspired by the notifications from a meal delivery app, and a couple of songs about the pitfalls of alcohol use, all with a kind of tongue and cheek humor as if he's letting you in on the joke.

JPR Live Sessions are made possible with support from The Talent Club, with cold drinks and live music in a casual atmosphere in downtown Talent, OR.

This live session was produced by Jon Griffin of Luna Zen studios and hosted by Dave Jackson.

Now based in the Bay Area in California, Sean Hayes was born in New York City and raised in North Carolina. His musical beginnings were playing in a band that played Irish and Old Time tunes. His sound incorporates elements of folk and R&B all honed playing in clubs and stages around San Francisco.

In this JPR Live Session hosted by Danielle Kelly hear Sean talk about his career and play some tunes solo/acoustic including an unreleased new song from an upcoming recording.

JPR Live Sessions are engineered by Jon Griffin of Luna Zen Studios and made possible with support from The Talent Club with cold drinks and live music in a casual atmosphere in Talent, OR. Find their live music schedule here

Singer, songwriter and stand-up bassist Amy Lavere has performed on stages from St Andrew's Hall in London to the famous Memphis dive bar Earnestine and Hazel's, and festivals like Bonnaroo and the Beale Street Music Festival. NPR's Robert Seigel says that she "specializes in lyrics that are more barbed than her sweet soprano prepares you for."

Will Sexton is the younger brother of Charlie Sexton. As a kid he cut his guitar chops playing among Texas greats like Stevie Ray Vaughan. His producing credits include work with Waylon Jennings, Steve Earle, Bettysoo, and Al Green.

Hear them play live and talk about their craft and tell a time travel joke that Dave Jackson had to travel back in time to understand.

This JPR Live Session was made possible with support from the Talent Club with live music in a casual atmosphere in downtown Talent, Oregon. Their live music schedule is available here

Australian born, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, Imogen Clark just released a new full length album - The Art of Getting Through - moved from Australia to Nashville and went on a tour. She stopped by the JPR studio just before leaving to head back to Nashville.

The AIR (Australian Indepedent Record Label Associaton) nominated artist got her start in a musical family that allowed her to explore. She took opera and musical theater along the way. The early formal training is apparent in her dynamic voice.

Hear tunes from the live album in this JPR Live Session and hear her talk about her move, and recording The Art of Getting Through at famed studios around the world including Abbie Road.

JPR Live Sessions are made possible with support from Talent Club with live music and cold beverages in a casual environment. Fine their live music schedule at their website

Hosted by Dave Jackson
Engineered by Dave Young

Advance Base is the story-song synth-pop project of Chicago, IL singer/songwriter Owen Ashworth (formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone). Using a two-handed arsenal of electric piano, Omnichord, samplers, effect pedals & drum machines, Ashworth builds minimalist, heavy-hearted, & nostalgia-obsessed ballads around his conversational baritone. The warm, electronic sound of Advance Base has been described as "lo-fi," "depressed" & "weirdly uplifting."

Tucson, Arizona interdisciplinary artist Karima Walker walks a line between two worlds. Aside from her long resume of collaborative work with artists in the diverse fields of dance, sculpture, film, photography and creative non-fiction, Walker has long nurtured a duality within her work as a musician, developing her own sonic language as a sound designer in tandem with her craft as a singer/songwriter. The polarity within Walker’s music has never been so articulately explored, or graced with as much intention, as on her new album, Waking the Dreaming Body.

Hear them talk about their careers, the Omnichord - an electronic instrument similar to an autoharp - and perform live in this JPR Live Session.

This JPR Live Session is made possible with support from Talent Club offering live music and cold drinks in a casual atmsophere in downtown Talent Oregon. Their live music schedule is available at talentclublive.com