The Show On The Road with Z. Lupetin

In this episode, we get to know a little bit more about Dom personally by calling his mom to get the inside scoop on his upbringing in Phoenix, and Dom talks about his time in The Carolina Chocolate Drops. Be sure to listen to Part 1, which came out on May 1, before tuning into this episode.

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This week on the show, part one of Z's converstaion with Dom Flemons, the Grammy Award winning American songster who has made it his mission to reclaim and rejuvenate the lost acoustic music of the past and bring it whistling brightly into the future.

Born in Phoenix Arizona to parents of African American and Mexican heritage, the ever curious young Dominique Flemons went from playing drums in his school band and busking on the streets of Flagstaff with his fingerpicked guitar and neck rack harmonica, to taking a chance that would change his life completely. He scrounged enough money to make it to the Black Banjo gathering in North Carolina where he would meet Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson, and begin seven year run with their groundbreaking African American stringband The Carolina Chocolate Drops. They would go on win the Grammy for traditional folk album, headline festivals and theaters around the world, open for Bob Dylan play the Grand Ol Opry, and burst into the consciousness of young acoustic music hopefuls all around the world, who were tired of the same stoic, hillbilly bluegrass and white-washed old-time songs played over and over around the festival campfire.

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This week, a folk-pop shapeshifter who effervescently sings in four languages and has rocked stages on four continents, Gaby Moreno.

Born María Gabriela Moreno Bonilla in Guatemala City, she knew she wanted more as a teenager and journeyed to the USA with that big voice and an even bigger dream. She has since lived several lives inside the dark heart of the LA music business, getting signed to Warner Brothers at 18 and then dropped and signed by Epic Records, only to be dropped again by age 20.

Why didn’t she give up and go home? Because the dream was a bit bigger than that. Over the last decade and a half, Gaby has put out a series of sonically adventurous and politically fearless English and Spanish language albums that have created an international fanbase which takes her around the world each year. Hop scotching from early jazz to introspective folk to Dap-King assisted soul, Gaby has been filling concert halls from Berlin to Sydney, winning her a Latin Grammy in the process, setting up a dream collaboration on a new album with Van Dyke Parks, and getting her weekly appearances on NPR’s Live From Here as Chris Thile’s secret weapon. She even helped write the theme song to Parks and Recreation.

While she may be multi-talented, she is also among the kindest, sweetest souls to be featured on The Show On The Road. Make sure you stick around for a new song she plays at the end and a short story she wrote on the spot about UFO’s and time travel.

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This week on the show, Z. meets up with songwriter and rock n' roller Rayland Baxter on the road in Las Vegas.

Beyond Rayland Baxter's mellow, easy going demeanor, lies a deeply perceptive and sharp as a knife craftsman who takes his songwriting deadly serious. His newest record “Wide Awake” deepens his focus and finds him questioning the very existence of the American dream being bought and sold all around us. 

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Fiddler and banjo picker Rachel Baiman calls her mom on this week's episode of The Show On The Road with Z. Lupetin.

A Chicago native, Rachel became an Illinois state fiddling champion as a teenager and later went on to form Ten String Symphony with fellow fiddler Christian Sedelmyer.

Z talks with her about the gift and sacrifice of making music your life, and how her organization Folk Fights Back has given her and her fellow Nashville songwriters a way to directly challenge the policies of the current Presidential administration.

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At 85 years old, Bobby Rush has been playing his brand of lovably raunchy, acoustically crunchy and soulfully rowdy blues for over six decades.

Starting from his days as part of the Southern migration from his hometown of Homer, Louisiana, to the south side of Chicago where he used to have Muddy Waters himself sub in for him when he couldn’t do a gig, Bobby Rush, who just won his first Grammy at the humble age of 83, has no plans of slowing down.

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This week Z. speaks with the high priestess of Canadiana soul, Celeigh Cardinal.

Growing up without having much connection to her indigenous heritage, Celeigh recently reconnected to the vibrant native community in Edmonton and has become a role model for young singers who may never have had the courage to make a name for themselves in Canada’s rich festival and concert circuit. In 2018 she was named the Indigenous Artist of the Year in Western Canada, and she just became the first indigenous DJ to get her own show on CKUA radio which reaches far across the Canadian prairies.

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Z. speaks with multi-talented songwriter, singer, guitar slinger and activist Bhi Bhiman.

For nearly a decade Bhi Bhiman has been diligently crafting poetic protesty earworms with his masterful guitar work and fuzzed out harmony, and all along the way gaining some powerful friends and fans Like the late Chris Cornell who had Bhi sing with each night on tour a few years back. His newest project is called “Peace Of Mind”, and is being released week by week as an interactive political podcast album. He writes about our broken immigration policies, our abandoned mental health system, the continued fight for Women’s rights, voter suppression, and that’s just the first few songs off "Peace Of Mind". Somehow, he’s not preaching at you while he’s doing it. He’s simply putting a stunned smile on your face as you sing along with a renewed faith in the democratic process and freedom of speech.

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This week on the show, Z. speaks with Oakland’s soulful singing T Sisters. For this trio of sisters, singing harmony-rich songs isn't just their full time job, it's a way of life. It’s what they do - and damn do they do it well. Sisters Erika, Chloe and Rachel are harmonic masters. Whether it’s demonstrated in their sassy soulful originals accompanied by upright bass, guitar, banjo and mandolin, or with their delicious vocal-layer-cake covers of Kylie Monogue and Paul Simon hits, family runs deep through our music. T Sisters will be releasing their next EP, "We Are Bound", produced by Oliver Wood (The Wood Brothers) in March of 2019.

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This week Australian singer/songwriter Jordie Lane and his Aussie producing/harmonizing partner Clare Reynolds. Jordie has been making dark-hearted, voluptuously verbose folk music with a grinning rock ‘n roll spirit for nearly a decade. While he's just making a name for himself in the US, he's been playing huge venues all over Australia for years, as one of Melbourne's most beloved and respected roots music artists. Have a listen, and then tell your American amigos to give this Aussie kid a shot - you won't regret it.

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