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No Simple Road is super stoked this week to bring you Lespecial! Lespecial carves their own sonic path in modern music, creating their signature blend of “heavy future groove”. The power of the trio's fresh synthesis of varied and divergent influences doesn't underestimate the listener, reflecting a post-modern cultural climate in which fans have the space on their aural palette for J Dilla, Radiohead, King Crimson and Fela Kuti. Veering from Hip-Hop to Metal, Prog to House, pensive Indie-Rock to apocalyptic Dub, leaving room for head banging and hip swaying alike, while still representing a unified sound and vision!

We talk with Luke, Rory, and Johnny about everything from the new album 'Ancient Homies', bands that have influenced their sound, diversity of interests, Horror movies, and our first concerts, to the news of their livestream this Friday 3/12 where they will be recreating Primus' 'Frizzle Fry'! This is a blast of a conversation!

SONG AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EPISODE IS: 'The Vessel' from the album Ancient Homies.

SONG AT THE END OF THE EPISODE IS: 'Snell's Fleet' from the album Ancient Homies.

For more on Lespecial including merch and news head over to: lespecial.net

Lespecial's 'Primus 'Frizzle Fry' Livestream on 3/12/21 @ 8pm Eastern/ 5pm Pacific can be found at:

youtube.com/lespecial

facebook.com/lespecial

and loudswell.com

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We are excited to bring you Rich Monroe, Author of 'The Conspiracy Diaries: The Light Beyond The Shadows'. Rich Monroe was a young JFK assassination truth activist back in the 1970s. Along with a small group of his trusted friends, he embarked on a quest to expose the cabal that orchestrated the event. His Kennedy assassination research and his involvement in the fledgling “ JFK Truther Community” provided him an opening to explore a secret world, a world filled with a myriad of carefully crafted deceptions, misinformation, and hoaxes. His experiences served as an initiation of sorts, which has helped him evolve his understanding of this strange realm in which we live.

We talk with Rich about writing his new book 'The Conspiracy Diaries', the nature of reality, finding synchronicities, staying clear of the frequencies of fear and finding a loving vibration, Rich's perspective of what happened in the 60's, and a whole lot more.

You can find his book HERE on Amazon.

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This week No Simple Road welcomes the incredible International Orange! International Orange (a.k.a. IO) is the brainchild of New York City veteran musicians and longtime friends Todd Isler and David Phelps. Leo Traversa provides the grooviest bass and Adam Morrison's keys are the perfect sauce. IO's innovative funky originals marry the slide guitar of the American South to the sensibilities of India, Africa, Brazil and beyond. The members of IO have played around the globe. Their genre-crossing resume stretches from Joe Lovano to Phish's Mike Gordon, Angelique Kidjo, Tania Maria, John Medeski, Abdoulaye Debate and Francis Mbappe, Ivan Neville, Melvin Sparks, Steve Kimock, Jack Mcduff, Betty Buckley and on and on...

We catch up with Adam first in this conversation and the other members join us one by one! We talk about the music scene in NYC, delving into the virtual world to play their tunes, losing a bandmate suddenly and what kept them going, what it means to be 'steeped' in Jazz, and a ton more!

For more on International orange head over to: www.internationalorangeband.com

SONG AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EPISODE IS: 'Strut Orange' from the album 'A Man And His Dog'.

SONG AT THE END OF THE EPISODE IS: 'Freight Liner' from the album 'A Man And His Dog'.

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We are stoked to bring you Chris Couch from World's Finest as our guest this week! This on is up close and personal in the studio and the No Simple Road crew and Chris spend some time talking about all the changes that have taken place in the last year for Chris including working on a kid's album, finding a new drummer, realizing it's time to make things happen, the beauty of the Pacific Northwest music scene, and a ton more.

Chris Couch has been a staple of the Portland music scene for over a decade now, first as a founding member of the reggae-rock group, Outpost, and more recently as the lead singer / songwriter / rhythm guitar player in the West Coast genre-jumping, touring and festival mainstay, World’s Finest. Recently, he has started to branch out in solo performances as well as a kids’ music project called Pajama Jam.

Equally at home on large stages with the full band, as he is in intimate settings all alone, Chris has found his voice to be one of honest reflection and hope for the future. His eclectic approach to songwriting has lead him to many different musical experiences with an audience as diverse as the music he writes.

SONG AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EPISODE IS: 'Postcards' from the album Chromatophores.

For more on Chris and World's Finest head over to: www.worldsfinestmusic.com

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We're honored to have Jeff Firewalker Schmitt on No Simple Road this week! It's not every day that No Simple Road can bring you an individual that at 14 had started college. By 15 he was running a research lab with a famous scientist and was being published in prestigious academic journals. Now, based in Asheville, NC, Jeff is a noted scientist, holds a PhD from Oxford, is a Chinese martial Arts expert, practices Peruvian Folk medicine and is one half of the new band Saint Disruption along with improvisational titan John Medeski (Medeski Martin & Wood). The two met in a chance encounter while both in the Amazon jungle. Jeff holds a long list of musical collaborators from the former King Crimson drummer Michael Giles to spoken-word poet Cactus to REM's producer Mitch Easter. Schmitt is also a founding member of the Wheel Theater Company led by Juilliard and Moscow Art Theater artist Felix Ivanov.

We get into his chance meeting with Medeski in the jungle, how synchronicity and connection played a huge part in the creation of Saint Disruption, how he started on his extremely incredible path of learning and mysticism, and so much more I can't even type it out! You have to just sit back and soak this one in. Headphones.. on and ready to have open ears!

For more on Saint Disruption head over to: www.saintdisruption.com

To find out more on Jeff Firewalker Schmitt and what he offers, head over to: www.eaglecondorcouncil.org

SONG AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EPISODE IS: 'Stories (the birth of Saint Disruption)' from the upcoming album.

SONG AT THE END OF THE EPISODE IS: 'Painstorms' form the upcoming album.

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No Simple Road is proud to have Hearty Har as our guest this week! Hearty Har is a psychedelic rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2012. Led by brothers Shane Fogerty (guitar/vocals) and Tyler Fogerty (guitar/vocals), Hearty Har has come to be known for their exciting and raucous live shows, which blend modern psychedelia with classic garage rock and roll. Imagine a neon lightning bolt extending from the stage and reaching deep into your heart, down to your feet, then through the ground to the Earth's core. Now you have an idea of Hearty Har's live show.

Shane and Tyler hang out and talk to us about creating their new album from the ground up, what it's like to have John Fogerty as a Dad and critiquing your music, what it's like to be cut loose to learn in a recording studio, and much, much more!

Head over to www.heartyhar.com for more And be sure to check out the new album 'Radio Astro' releasing on February 19th!

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Get ready for a ride! No Simple Road is excited to bring you Arthur Lee Land of Blue Skye Barn Presents! Arthur takes us on a conversational journey in this episode! We talk with Arthur about the upcoming A Colorado Heart(h) Warming Valentine's Day Benefit (February 14th at 7pm) to provide assistance to L.E.A.F.(Lyons Emergency Action Fund). The free stream will include songs & conversations navigating relationships & matters of the heart, guests artists Mackenzie Page(of Gipsy Moon) & Clay Rose (of Gasoline Lollipops), Arthur Lee Land & Friends, and guest facilitator Joseph Ferguson.

and for more on Blue Skye Barn go to:

FACEBOOK.COM/BLUESKYEBARN

The Blue Skye Barn was constructed in the spring of 2020 in response to the indefinite suspension of live performances and in-person gatherings. It was the venue for the first-ever virtual Northwest String Summit festival. The streamed event included performances by members of Greensky Bluegrass, The Infamous Stringdusters, Yonder Mountain String Band, and Leftover Salmon, as well as performances by Bonnie Sims, Daniel Rodriguez (Elephant Revival), Bonnie Paine & Friends (Elephant Revival), Tyler Grant (Grant Farm), and Burle Galloway. Additionally, the event included all-star collaboration sets led by Arthur Lee Land, the Co-Producer and Musical Director of Blue Skye Barn Presents.

Following the success of the streamed festival, Blue Skye Barn Presents held a virtual Rave to the Grave, an annual benefit that supports the Lyons Emergency & Assistance Fund (LEAF), a non-profit organization that provides a community food pantry, basic needs support, resource matching, mental health services, and grants to support musicians and artists who have incurred losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The streamed Rave to the Grave production included a short-form documentary that detailed how community members can access the various services provided by LEAF, a fundraising portion, and a two-hour long musical performance by Arthur Lee Land and Friends and various guest artists based in Lyons and the Front Range. The event raised over $30,000 for LEAF. The success of the event established Blue Skye Barn Presents’ model of providing a platform for safe, collaborative virtual performances that support participating artists and crew members and non-profit organizations that help those in need.

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Get ready for a ride! No Simple Road is excited to bring you Arthur Lee Land of Blue Skye Barn Presents! Arthur takes us on a conversational journey in this episode! We talk with Arthur about the upcoming A Colorado Heart(h) Warming Valentine's Day Benefit (February 14th at 7pm) to provide assistance to L.E.A.F.(Lyons Emergency Action Fund). The free stream will include songs & conversations navigating relationships & matters of the heart, guests artists Mackenzie Page(of Gipsy Moon) & Clay Rose (of Gasoline Lollipops), Arthur Lee Land & Friends, and guest facilitator Joseph Ferguson.

To watch the stream and donate to L.E.A.F. got to:

BLUE SKYE BARN PRESENTS YOU TUBE CHANNEL

and for more on Blue Skye Barn go to:

FACEBOOK.COM/BLUESKYEBARN

The Blue Skye Barn was constructed in the spring of 2020 in response to the indefinite suspension of live performances and in-person gatherings. It was the venue for the first-ever virtual Northwest String Summit festival. The streamed event included performances by members of Greensky Bluegrass, The Infamous Stringdusters, Yonder Mountain String Band, and Leftover Salmon, as well as performances by Bonnie Sims, Daniel Rodriguez (Elephant Revival), Bonnie Paine & Friends (Elephant Revival), Tyler Grant (Grant Farm), and Burle Galloway. Additionally, the event included all-star collaboration sets led by Arthur Lee Land, the Co-Producer and Musical Director of Blue Skye Barn Presents.

Following the success of the streamed festival, Blue Skye Barn Presents held a virtual Rave to the Grave, an annual benefit that supports the Lyons Emergency & Assistance Fund (LEAF), a non-profit organization that provides a community food pantry, basic needs support, resource matching, mental health services, and grants to support musicians and artists who have incurred losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The streamed Rave to the Grave production included a short-form documentary that detailed how community members can access the various services provided by LEAF, a fundraising portion, and a two-hour long musical performance by Arthur Lee Land and Friends and various guest artists based in Lyons and the Front Range. The event raised over $30,000 for LEAF. The success of the event established Blue Skye Barn Presents’ model of providing a platform for safe, collaborative virtual performances that support participating artists and crew members and non-profit organizations that help those in need.

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You're in for a treat this week as No Simple Road brings you Diggin Dirt! The whole band joins us to talk about their humble beginnings in Norcal, channeling the muse in order find the sound, what "if you want the crowd to bleed, you gotta hemorrhage" means, what the road back to the stage looks like, and a whole lot more!

Diggin Dirt began planting its roots back in 2011 in the town of Arcata, CA in Humboldt County. The original lineup was a peanut butter and jammed out quintet that consisted of a double guitar rhythm section like no other, and a tenor saxophone...like no other. The original five (Rory Urquhart, Joey Incorvaia, Drew Weitzel, John Callahan and Aaron Gottesman) had high hopes of getting house party gigs and maybe one day performing on a stage. Many, many dreams later, the quintet became seven. As the band took pieces from each chapter and kept moving forward, all the while staying anchored to the heavy groove element that Diggin Dirt has become known for, they began to search.​Dirt found its current form when it added a the soul man, Zach Alder, a Humboldt local. His commanding vocal element was a natural addition to the mix. The horn section rounded out its sound with the addition of Humboldt musician Tyler Martin on baritone saxophone.

Check out more on Diggin Dirt at: diggindirtband.com

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This week on No Simple Road we're stoked to bring you Wes and Elizabeth from The Almost Familiar Podcast! Almost Familiar is a show that asks the questions... is Pretty Lights the Phish of EDM? Is it possible to love Dubstep and Bluegrass? Have you ever called someone a wook or been called a wook yourself? Elizabeth Dreeson and Wes Johnson discuss the evolving landscape of what they call "neo-hippie music festival culture." Wes and Elizabeth have witnessed firsthand this emergent subculture's evolution over the last decade and are interested in looking at the past to make better sense of the present. In taking a look at the past they ran into No Simple Road and a friendship was born! We talk to these two amazing humans about the similarities and crossover between the Phish/Grateful Dead scene and the Pretty Lights Community, what their 'turn-on' moments were like for them, navigating the space of disconnection, and a whole lot more! Plus since this is a swapcast you'll get to hear about the NSR crew's 'aha' moment with Electronica at Summer Meltdown, the smell of burning shoes during a Tipper show, and what's kept us on the bus all these years!

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