Here are a couple of my favorite Holiday short stories...no I didn't write them, this is little break from the creative analysis of my songs to just say thank you for listening and I hope you have a wonderful Holiday Season

This episode examines the inspiration, creation, and production of the song 'Breathless, Alarmed, & Confused' from my 2024 album The Galahad Blues

This episode delves a bit deeper into How I began imagining The Galahad Blues as a musical and focuses in on how 'Take It On The Chin' was written and how it fits into the narrative.

Young Galahad steps into the picture as well as a whole Hell of a lot of trouble

The Galahad Narrative moves forward with a song of revolutionary catalyst...

What!? A Rees Shad album with a cover tune? Say it isn't so....

This episode of the podcast involves the origin story of 'Fool' that appears on my acoustic retrospective album ‘Six Strings & a Story’ which was released in October of 2023. 

What’s that?  You haven’t grabbed a copy of the album? Six Strings & a Story is now available along with the rest of my catalog at ⁠⁠⁠www.ReesShadMusic.com⁠⁠⁠! The album is available for purchase as CD as well as USB.  If you are one of my ⁠⁠⁠Patreon subscribers⁠⁠⁠, you can get a discount of up to 15% off of any purchases in the shop. Sure, you can stream the album on any of the many streaming services, but believe you me - becoming a Patreon patron is far more rewarding, and you’ll be helping me fund the next album.

Episode 8 of the podcast looks at the writing of 'Mercy Street Reflections' that appears on my acoustic retrospective album ‘Six Strings & a Story’ which was released in October of 2023. 

What’s that?  You haven’t grabbed a copy of the album? Six Strings & a Story is now available along with the rest of my catalog at ⁠⁠⁠www.ReesShadMusic.com⁠⁠⁠! The album is available for purchase as CD as well as USB.  If you are one of my ⁠⁠⁠Patreon subscribers⁠⁠⁠, you can get a discount of up to 15% off of any purchases in the shop. Sure, you can stream the album on any of the many streaming services, but believe you me - becoming a Patreon patron is far more rewarding, and you’ll be helping me fund the next album.

An oldie but a goodie, this episode of the podcast tells the origin story of 'Hero's Son,' the first of my songs to ever land on the charts - topping out at #6 on Gavin's fledgling Americana charts back when it initially came out in the mid 1990s. I recorded a solo acoustic version for my retrospective album ‘Six Strings & a Story’ which was released in October of 2023. 

What’s that?  You haven’t grabbed a copy of the album? Six Strings & a Story is now available along with the rest of my catalog at ⁠⁠⁠www.ReesShadMusic.com⁠⁠⁠! The album is available for purchase as CD as well as USB.  If you are one of my ⁠⁠⁠Patreon subscribers⁠⁠⁠, you can get a discount of up to 15% off of any purchases in the shop. Sure, you can stream the album on any of the many streaming services, but believe you me - becoming a Patreon patron is far more rewarding, and you’ll be helping me fund the next album.

ALSO:  If you would like one of the songs on ‘Six Strings & a Story’ as a personalized (from me to you) one-of-a-kind performance ON VINYL NO LESS…for a limited time the folks at Leesta Vall Records are taking pre-orders.  I’ll be walking into their studio on November 29th (2023) to record these so you need to order before then if you want one.  I’ll be thanksing you personally as I begin the recording and these will not be duplicated.  Also a great gift for any fan of Americana music.  ⁠Order here.⁠

This episode of the podcast involves the how and why of my song 'Down in the Bedrock.' It appears on my acoustic retrospective album ‘Six Strings & a Story’ which was released in October of 2023. 

What’s that?  You haven’t grabbed a copy of the album? Six Strings & a Story is now available along with the rest of my catalog at ⁠⁠⁠www.ReesShadMusic.com⁠⁠⁠! The album is available for purchase as CD as well as USB.  If you are one of my ⁠⁠⁠Patreon subscribers⁠⁠⁠, you can get a discount of up to 15% off of any purchases in the shop. Sure, you can stream the album on any of the many streaming services, but believe you me - becoming a Patreon patron is far more rewarding, and you’ll be helping me fund the next album.

ALSO:  If you would like one of the songs on ‘Six Strings & a Story’ as a personalized (from me to you) one-of-a-kind performance ON VINYL NO LESS…for a limited time the folks at Leesta Vall Records are taking pre-orders.  I’ll be walking into their studio on November 29th (2023) to record these so you need to order before then if you want one.  I’ll be thanksing you personally as I begin the recording and these will not be duplicated.  Also a great gift for any fan of Americana music.  ⁠Order here.⁠