Meet Brooklyn, NY based Damn Tall Buildings. Band member Max Capistran shares the band's journey that includes meeting up in Boston at the Berklee school of music, busking on Newbury street, moving to Brooklyn opening a music academy ttimeo becoming a popular sought after act at many well known music festivals. Max and fellow band members Sasha Dubyk and Avery Ballotta (who we met S.1 Ep. 4) take traditional bluegrass music and mix in elements of blues, classical, old- time, and jazz to form their unique sound.

Meet Savanna Chestnut a small- town girl from Kansas who knew at an early age she wanted to be a singer. Song writing came first followed by performing on stages as small as the one in her grandparent’s bar to as grand as the stage on NBC’s The Voice. Like so many up- start country artists she follows her dream to Nashville where she makes important contacts and hones her songwriting and performance skills. Savanna returns home, staying true to herself, her roots and forging her career as a traditional country singer, songwriter, and performing artist. Savanna’s fourth, and newest album Scars and Stitches will be released May 2.

Meet the incomparable Suzie Brown! Suzie has "forged her own path" that is unlike any other. Canadian born, Boston raised she like her parents, heard a call to the medical field. Music became a refuge and outlet for Suzie while in medical school. Beginning her medical career and starting a family with husband Scot Sax in Philadelphia, Suzie felt the Nashville music community tugging at her in order to find a more balanced life. Suzie makes her home in Nashville where she is the mother of two daughters, a part time cardiologist that specializes in patients with heart failure and advanced heart transplants while at the same time is a successful recording and touring artist.

In this episode we meet Avery Ballotta a composer for film, dance, a music teacher, and one hot fiddle player. Avery’s trail starts in Montana’s Big Sky Country where at the age of 9 while attending a used music instrument swap he finds himself drawn to a half -sized fiddle and something inside him makes him put his hands on it. Classically trained he found solace in playing in school orchestra and quintet.  Avery describes his relationship with the fiddle as a roller coaster of such much like any other type of relationship but admits he and the fiddle have ended up in a really good place. Avery shares his experience in Boston where he studies at Berklee College under the tutelage of Bruce Molsky and hones his love for American fiddle tunes. Avery currently calls Brooklyn home where he pursues individual projects, and is in the bands Alice Valentine, and Damn Tall Buildings.

In this episode we meet Dan O’Rourke of the band The Woods based in Nashville, TN. Life is full of chances and circumstances and this certainly holds true for Dan and band mates Raquel Cole, and Leland Rooney. Who would know that a foot injury Dan experienced in high school just as he was moving out of state would expose him to the music of Bob Dylan and that exposure would make a lasting influence on his music career, to a chance meeting of a future band mate (Raquel Cole) on a shuttle bus of The Voice contestants headed to the airport or that being in a Covid lock down would present an opportunity for three musicians to form a band and create a unique sound that has been described as "something I’ve heard before but yet sounds brand new". https://www.getintothewoods.com/  

In this episode we will be talking to Scott Henson. Scott’s personal trail has taken a few interesting twists and turns and has included stops along the way as bartender, musician, poet, singer/song writer, teacher, principal, school administrator, music festival promoter, and has been referred to by friends and family as a true "Super Fan"

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In this episode we meet Nathan Bliss who is 1/2 of the poplar duo Barnaby Bright. Nathan will share his musical trail which started at an early age from grooving to the tunes on The Monkeys TV show to listening to his parent's vast record collection from Dylan to Black Sabbath. We will here about stops along the way from studying jazz at Berklee College of Music to rediscovering his musical past and finding a new and authentic way of connecting to his musical audience. We will hear how he and wife,(musical partner) Becky Bliss met and their stops in New York, Nashville, and coming home to Kansas City where they are building and finding a new musical community.