Music Person

By Dylan Tupper Rupert & Talkhouse

A podcast about the music life and the people who live it, by Dylan Tupper Rupert.... more

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How many episodes does Music Person have?

The podcast currently has 28 episodes available.

Music Person episodes:

April 01, 2026 Buck Meek
Buck Meek of Big Thief from Los Angeles, CA.

Buck and Dylan discuss growing up in Texas Hill County amongst guitar legends, channeling youth with older legends, unpacking the mythology of Big Thief’s relational intelligence, working alongside your ex-wife, your current wife, and your brother, wearing suits, and regional BBQ.
+ Buck answers a listener advice question.

Artists we mentioned:
Big Theif, Slim Richey, Django Porter, Brandon Gist, Lucinda Williams, Laraaji, Tucker Zimmerman, Adrianne Lenker, James Krivchenia.

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1h 13min
March 25, 2026 Dry Cleaning (Florence Shaw)
Florence Shaw of Dry Cleaning from South London, England.
Florence and Dylan discuss the difficulties of international touring, what your brain feels like on art school, black plastics, wanting to become a horse, reaching an associative songwriting state, and riding the bus as an idea-generating machine.
+ Florence gets something off her chest.
Artists we mentioned:
Cate Le Bon, Ryan Davis, Black Midi, bar italia, Jeff Tweedy, Elton John.

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1h 24min
December 31, 2025 The 2026 New Years Eve Special
Join Dylan as she catches up with a hit parade of music friends from the 2025 season of Music Person! Cozy up by the fire (or whatever) for a warm chat as we take a fond look back at our best music memories of 2025, and look ahead to a very exciting 2026.
Featuring: Ryan Davis, Aaron Dowdy of Fust, Madi Diaz, Esther Rose, Georgia Maq, Merce Lemon, and a surprise holiday visit from Lily Seabird.
Happy New Year, Music People! Thank you for listening.
We’ll be back soon!

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1h 28min
December 24, 2025 A Postcard from the Hudson Valley, Part 3: The Littletons
The final installment of a 3-part travelogue mini-series exploring the music life in the Hudson Valley, New York.

For this very special Christmas Eve episode, Dylan sits down with Dan Littleton and Elizabeth Mitchell of the band Ida, and their daughter, singer-songwriter Storey Littleton have a wide-ranging discussion about the multigenerational experience of living the music life. Starting off in the DC punk scene of the 80s, to the indie rock scene in Brooklyn in the 90s and early aughts, to moving to Woodstock in the before times (pre-cell phone). They discuss how the lore of Woodstock drew Dan and Elizabeth there, how Storey found her own voice growing up in the shadow of musical giants, and the differences between growing up in an artist colony-style small town versus an industry city.
Artists referenced in this episode:
Ida, the Hated, The Band, Levon Helm, Amy Helm, Bad Brains, Michael Hurley, Happy Traum, Larry Campbell, Ronnie Spector, the McGarrigle Sisters, Tsunami, Simple Machine Records.

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1h 36min
December 18, 2025 A Postcard from the Hudson Valley, Part 2: Babehoven
Part 2 of a 3-part travelogue mini-series exploring the music life in the Hudson Valley, New York.
Maya Bon and Ryan Albert of Babehoven from Hudson, New York.
Maya, Ryan, and Dylan discuss the seasonality of creativity, moving from the West Coast to the Northeast, gardening, doing a ton of drugs in old age for fun, unconventional wedding brainstorming, Hilma af Klint, and water.
+ Music journalist Jenn Pelly takes Dylan to a sitar concert at a secret ashram.

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1h 17min
December 11, 2025 A Postcard from the Hudson Valley, Part 1: Hannah Cohen featuring Sam Evian at Flying Cloud
A 3-part travelogue mini-series exploring the music life in the Hudson Valley, New York.
Hannah Cohen of the Catskill Mountains, New York, featuring Sam Evian.
Hannah and Dylan discuss building the residential recording studio of your dreams, connecting to the seasons, small town living forcing you to grow up, and the music community in and around Woodstock today.
+ Dylan, Jenn Pelly, Olivia Bee, and friends take a swim at Colgate Lake, and visit Big Pink.

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1h 2min
November 26, 2025 Frog (Daniel Bateman)
Daniel Bateman of Frog from New Rochelle, New York.
Dylan and Daniel discuss fathering twins, working in film production, cult fandom, improvisation, and whether New Rochelle is the best city in the entire world.
Artists we referenced:
Uncles, Count Basie, Weirs, Ariel Pink, Holy Shit, Girls.

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1h 4min
November 19, 2025 S.G. Goodman
S.G. Goodman from Murray, Kentucky.
S.G. and Dylan discuss slow burn careers, connections between manual labor and songwriting, mental health and life on the road, how a Southern Baptist kid becomes a Calvinist teenager, and spreadin’ them toes out all across the nation.
Artists we referenced:
Tyler Childers, Erin Rae, the Savage Radleys, Fust.

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1h 16min
November 12, 2025 Ryan Davis
Ryan Davis of Ryan Davis and the Roadhouse Band from Louisville, Kentucky.
Dylan and Ryan discuss music life in the Southern Midwest, being a reluctant entrepreneur, Air Guitar by Dave Hickey, how much the UK loves literary songwriters, being embarrassed by your vision addiction, and cracking the case.
+ Ryan gives a letter of recommendation.
Music stuff we referenced:
Sophomore Lounge Records, Cropped Out Festival, State Champion, Fust, David Berman and Silver Jews, Greg Mendez, Elliot Smith, Townes Van Zandt.

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1h 16min
November 05, 2025 Dylanfest 2025
A scene report from Dylanfest 2025.
It was on August 2nd, on Orcas Island, in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. It was a weekend-long mini music festival produced by Dylan, in collaboration with Jay Blackington and Jocelyn Cecil of Houlme, and R.J. Myers and Ali Boe of Alder Vulture. Live sound was by Caleb Turner at Going Left Sound. Check out @dylanfest on Instagram for more.
(Dylanfest is the name of any show that Dylan produces, but, like, this one is the main one.)
Artists we referenced:
Bellflower, Lily Seabird, Thomas Dollbaum, Jeffrey Silverstein, Squirrel Flower, Dean Johnson, Gillian Welch, Lucinda Williams, the Replacements.

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