A freight-train hopper and a Juilliard cellist on staying married by letting each other change.

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Dave and Andrea of Cicada Rhythm met when he stepped off a freight train in Athens, covered in soot. Fifteen years and a marriage later, they're still making music together, most recently on Magic State (2025), recorded in an old farmhouse in Madison, Georgia. They get into the mixtape that started it all, a proposal involving a metal detector, and why two people who came up from opposite worlds keep choosing the same hard things. What does it take to let the person you love keep changing?

🎵 Cicada Rhythm's latest: Magic State (2025)

⏱️ CHAPTERS
0:00 Changing Together
0:58 Podcast Intro
3:21 Meet Cicada Rhythm
4:25 Magic State Album
6:29 Genre-Free Sound
9:00 Train-Hop Love Story
13:14 The Mixtape Moment
15:35 Metal Detector Proposal
17:18 Music & Love Intertwined
17:57 Choosing Hard Together
20:02 60 Seconds of Curiosity
22:08 Ham Radio Rabbit Hole
26:14 Farm Shows & Community
27:16 Live Performance

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A music podcast about more than music. Inspired by Ted Lasso. I talk with singer-songwriters and bands in Americana, folk, roots, and country about the lives behind the songs: resilience, faith, marriage, the business of music, and what keeps an artist going. Every episode ends with the same question about curiosity, and no two answers are alike.

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