Blues • Ragtime • Country • Motor Homes!

Roy Book Binder, legendary ragtime blues guitar playing folksinger from New York has been on the road for 50 years. He talks about how that happened and how he made friends along the way and lots and lots of great music. There's lots to tell and it's (almost) all packed in here along with three songs including one he wrote about his friendship with Reverend Gary Davis. This is really a don't miss - can't miss episode.

This episode was produced in part by Blac, Inc., Black Liberated Arts Center in Oklahoma and The Blue Door Listening Room in Oklahoma City and of course with the generous assistance of Roy Book Binder

Storytelling? African Storytelling! Storytelling!

This episode makes a slight departure by moving into the subject of how (and why!) we tell stories and what we can learn by sharing. How is African storytelling different from European storytelling? Find out now, as we talk with Dylan Pritchett, who is one of the worlds best tellers (and teachers) as we sit down in the library and talk at FD Moon middle school in Oklahoma City.

JAZZ GUITAR! WESTERN SWING! METAPHYSICS?

Joe Settlemires grew up in Oklahoma and played guitar with all the big jazz guitar players. He joined Bob Wills group in the sixties when he was still in his twenties. Because he was that good! He's kind of a Forest Gump of amazing music. In addition to being one of the world's hottest guitar players, it turns out that Joe has a phd in metaphysics! This conversation goes through the atomic level and challenges the theory of relativity!

Deja Vu! Dolphin Consciousness! Perambulatory Spontaneity!

Johanna and I talk about what it's like to find yourself in the world surrounded by strangers and then discovering that we are strangers in a strange land! But- we can change all that with a little acceptance and practicing at a sense of psychic awareness and being generous to others and ourselves.

Songs include, "Your Glow", "In Reverse", and other amazing reveries.

Optimism!!!! LOVE??? SUNDAY VIBES!

Chris Trapper has been writing songs since he was a kid. Now he is getting somewhere. The optimism and determination you hear in his songs is real, and it's taking him places. He and I talk about songwriting, optimism, and love. He thinks all are these are good ideas- and we almost agree on everything.

Phantom Power! Pathos! Disney! Ragtime! Bivalves!

100 years later, it’s pretty cool to be infatuated with the twenties, but in the fifties, being so hep wasn’t so cool. Brad talks about how he discovered the music that got into his bones, what it was like to be an original outsider, and the road less traveled.

Songs include Joseph Lamb's "Sensation Rag", "When the Bluebirds and the Blackbirds Got Together", and an improvisational tune by Brad Kay.

COBAINESQUE? DYLANESQUE? Lael Neale and I discuss the terms "straight coat vision", "white coat mistake"," white robed mystic" and other whipped delights.

LEADBELLY - A SERIAL KILLER ? BlUES ? FOLK ? FOLK BLUES ?

Todd Albright burns down the Blue Door in Oklahoma City with his dazzling takes on Blind Willie McTell, Leadbelly, Paul Geremia and other 30's style twelve string guitar giants.

We talk about the nature of the origin of the music and ponder the question, "WAS LEADBELLY A SERIAL KILLER?

THE TEXAS MOTH MAN!!! EXISTENTIALISM!!! UFO'S!!!

Growing up in the country. Farm life. The nature of existential reality. The healing power of music. UFOs !! and THE TEXAS MOTH MAN.

WARNING: THIS SHOW IS GUARANTEED TO BLOW YOUR MIND!

LOVE ? LIFE ? NASHVILLE ?

Starting over? Living and following your dream?, The incredible mystery of fireflies!

What might the sound of fearless determination resemble? It's here in the sound Jennifer makes with her dad's old gibson guitar. Listen closely and you'll see.

It's all here for us to experience, the beauty, the sadness, the joy, the madness of life, and Jennifer Jane Niceley makes it all sound pretty darn good.