Honus Honus hates writing songs and call his process “completely inefficient,” so Dino is fascinated to figure out how Ryan Kattner creates music. They get into the repetition of writing, cannibalizing one song into another, the musicality of words, an...

Storyteller and singsonger Steve Poltz opens with “Ballin’ On A Wednesday” before he and Dino talk about wrangling an audience, how a random interaction turns into a song, and Church joins to sing Steve’s and Jewel’s huge hit, “You Were Meant For Me.” ...

Andras Jones join Dino to write a song on the spot, talk about working with his muse Andy Dick, how he takes criticism, and then he plays some originals. Check out his music tarot site: http://radio8ball.com/

Sitting in and strumming along, Patrick Park enters Singsongers. He helps Dino with some picking and they get into Patrick’s history, early songs, fatherly influence, beginning the writing process, and how song-writing has changed. His new single “Five...

Fresh from Portland, Makenzie Mizell talks about collaborative writing, touring, and on how outside forces influence her writing, for better or worse. Then she and Dino trade off on the guitar. Find more of her music at https://www.makenziemizell.com.

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Dino’s back, again with the barre chords, and sits down to ask Colleen Green about different types of chords, is he more folky knowing less?, growing up writing, her process and more, as Dino asks for some advice on a song he’s writing and explains why...

Dino and Dean, the Godfather Of Dream Pop, talk about writing in the rain, cowboy music, Dean’s history, the importance of mistakes, and more as Dean holds the guitar and sometimes strums along. Dean helped form Galaxie 500 in 1987, releasing three alb...

Britta Phillips and Dino sit down after some drinks to talk about lyrics and inflection and her 30 plus year career in music and acting. She sang as Jem on the 1980s TV show, voiced characters for Moral Orel and Trent (Dino’s Trent!) and lastly, but ce...

Jonny joins Dino to talk about his career and help Dino figure out how to write as they play a few songs back and forth. Jonny’s first solo album, Hi My Name Is Jonny, was released to rave reviews in 1996. Since then has worked with Johnny Cash and Nei...

Robbie sits down with Dino to talk song writing and, in the process, critiques one of Dino’s new songs. Robbie has released thirteen albums over his thirty-plus year career. His 2016 album, Upland Stories, was nominated for a Grammy for Best Folk Album...