We welcome back friends of the show, Gary Hutchison and Austin Calvillo to discuss their methods of preparation for the upcoming Blues Fest in Fort Smith, AR. 

We welcome back friend of the show, Ben Hines. We're talking about practice. 

We continue our conversation from last week! Topics include JJ Cale, recording live albums, and another performance from the Eric Mathews Band. 

It's just us in the podcast factory this week. Us being Nick and Eric. We're here to talk about radioactive spiders, living in caves, Gibson, and that time outside an opera in Gotham. It's the Eric Mathews origin story!

Blues harpist and all around bluesman Brandon Santini stops by to discuss his musical influences and the evolving nature of the industry as a whole. 

All-around guitar man Jimmy Atchison speaks to his early influences, his first guitar, and a formative night he spent in a Catholic basement. 

Prolific songwriter and all-around astounding musician Tom Ware stops by to reminisce on the past 60 years, and shares his experience with a certain boozy higher education. 

Aural expert and mathematician Scott Bartholomew stops by to teach us how to add and subtract, we don't mention Gibson, and Nick has an aphasia attempting to remember a cable access channel where an old woman solved math problems. 

Aaron Durham of the blues and blues adjacent band Goodluck Slim stops by to chat, we talk about Gibson for the eighth week in a row, and Paul Stanley gets too excited about a certain dehydrated meat product. 

The Eric Mathews Band went on the road last weekend and recorded this episode live from their hotel room just for you!