We are stoked to bring you Chris Couch from World's Finest as our guest this week! This on is up close and personal in the studio and the No Simple Road crew and Chris spend some time talking about all the changes that have taken place in the last year for Chris including working on a kid's album, finding a new drummer, realizing it's time to make things happen, the beauty of the Pacific Northwest music scene, and a ton more. Chris Couch has been a staple of the Portland music scene for over a d...
Feb 23, 2021•2 hr 2 min•Ep. 188
We're honored to have Jeff Firewalker Schmitt on No Simple Road this week! It's not every day that No Simple Road can bring you an individual that at 14 had started college. By 15 he was running a research lab with a famous scientist and was being published in prestigious academic journals. Now, based in Asheville, NC, Jeff is a noted scientist, holds a PhD from Oxford, is a Chinese martial Arts expert, practices Peruvian Folk medicine and is one half of the new band Saint Disruption along with ...
Feb 19, 2021•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 187
No Simple Road is proud to have Hearty Har as our guest this week! Hearty Har is a psychedelic rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2012. Led by brothers Shane Fogerty (guitar/vocals) and Tyler Fogerty (guitar/vocals), Hearty Har has come to be known for their exciting and raucous live shows, which blend modern psychedelia with classic garage rock and roll. Imagine a neon lightning bolt extending from the stage and reaching deep into your heart, down to your feet, then through the g...
Feb 16, 2021•1 hr 55 min•Ep. 186
Get ready for a ride! No Simple Road is excited to bring you Arthur Lee Land of Blue Skye Barn Presents! Arthur takes us on a conversational journey in this episode! We talk with Arthur about the upcoming A Colorado Heart(h) Warming Valentine's Day Benefit (February 14th at 7pm) to provide assistance to L.E.A.F.(Lyons Emergency Action Fund). The free stream will include songs & conversations navigating relationships & matters of the heart, guests artists Mackenzie Page(of Gipsy Moon) &am...
Feb 11, 2021•1 hr 44 min•Ep. 185
You're in for a treat this week as No Simple Road brings you Diggin Dirt! The whole band joins us to talk about their humble beginnings in Norcal, channeling the muse in order find the sound, what "if you want the crowd to bleed, you gotta hemorrhage" means, what the road back to the stage looks like, and a whole lot more! Diggin Dirt began planting its roots back in 2011 in the town of Arcata, CA in Humboldt County. The original lineup was a peanut butter and jammed out quintet that consisted o...
Feb 09, 2021•1 hr 50 min•Ep. 184
This week on No Simple Road we're stoked to bring you Wes and Elizabeth from The Almost Familiar Podcast! Almost Familiar is a show that asks the questions... is Pretty Lights the Phish of EDM? Is it possible to love Dubstep and Bluegrass? Have you ever called someone a wook or been called a wook yourself? Elizabeth Dreeson and Wes Johnson discuss the evolving landscape of what they call "neo-hippie music festival culture." Wes and Elizabeth have witnessed firsthand this emergent subculture's ev...
Feb 02, 2021•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 183
No Simple Road is proud to have the one and only Duane Betts as our guest this week. Duane cut his teeth sitting-in regularly as a teen with Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Allman Brothers Band. A Sarasota, Florida native, Betts relocated to Southern California and led Malibu rock outfits such as Backbone69 and Whitestarr, then ascended to a near-decade stint playing guitar alongside his father, Dickey Betts, in his group, Great Southern. Whether as a touring guitarist for folk-rockers ...
Jan 27, 2021•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 182
No Simple Road is stoked to bring you Space Kamp as our guests this week! Space Kamp was founded circa 2017. Rooted in Pennsylvania, members Adoo and Oskee began a mission to break rules and spread love around the globe.Creating their full length LP 'Electric Lemoade', Space Kamp traveled to the legendary Hyde Street Studio in San Francisco and to Rob the Vikings own The Chamber Studio in Vancouver Island to record. What came out of that journey is a sonic mashup of good vibes and epic flow! Ele...
Jan 18, 2021•2 hr 26 min•Ep. 181
No Simple Road is stoked to bring you The Travers Brothership this week and a special surprise with Apple's Dad before the interview! Twin brothers Eric and Kyle Travers have been making music and stunning audiences since they started playing music together at 7 years old. In 2012 the brothers formed their latest project, Travers Brothership, a Soul/Funk/Rock/Jam ensemble based out of Asheville, NC with Ian McIsaac on keys and percussion. Eric and Ian join us for a conversation around their new ...
Jan 12, 2021•2 hr 22 min•Ep. 180
No Simple Road is back this week and we're doing our best to recap the year that will go down in history as a total stinker! Despite 2020's best efforts at silencing our voices we managed to come through with so many memorable moments! We take a walk down the perilous halls of memory lane and reminisce about the highs and the lows of the year of hindsight. Happy New Year No Simple Road Family! INTRO & SET BREAK MUSIC BY AND USED WITH OUR GRATITUDE AND THE PERMISSION OF: ESCAPER ANDREW HENDRY...
Jan 05, 2021•1 hr 57 min•Ep. 179
Happy Holidaze No Simple Road Family ! We are extremely excited to have Bill Nershi as our Christmas day guest this week! Bill "Hershey" Nershi is a founding member and acoustic guitarist for theString Cheese Incident. We sit down and talk with Bill about the humble beginnings of SCI, playing in a duo with Jillian, their new 'PartNERSHIp' live acoustic album, playing for lift passes, living the vida aloha, and a ton more! For more info on what Bill is up to head over to: stringcheeseincident.com...
Dec 25, 2020•2 hr 15 min•Ep. 178
A little something for your Christmas Eve! Michael Falzarano has been a working musician for over 45 years, most notably in Hot Tuna, the famed offspring of The Jefferson Airplane; The New Riders of the Purple Sage; The Memphis Pilgrims, a Memphis-style rock ‘n’ roll band he founded in NYC; and his current projects The Extended Family and The Englishtown Project. We're stoked to talk to Michael about his new album 'A Kaleidoscope Christmas', his years playing with Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Cassidy...
Dec 25, 2020•1 hr 33 min•Ep. 177
We are proud to have Matt Butler of everyone Orchestra as our guest this week! Everyone Orchestra is a blissful, masterfully conducted, fully spontaneous explosion of live music created by a rotating cast of world renowned musicians and led by conductor Matt Butler. Each show is 100% unique, as a carefully curated lineup of performers (from bands as preeminent as the Grateful Dead, Phish, The Meters, King Crimson, Ween, Widespread Panic, etc.) is guided through mostly up-tempo, danceable grooves...
Dec 18, 2020•2 hr 28 min•Ep. 176
No Simple Road is extremely honored to have Starfinder and Hawk from the Owsley Stanley Foundation as our guests this week. The Owsley Stanley Foundation is a 501c(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of “Bear’s Sonic Journals,” Owsley’s archive of more than 1,300 live concert soundboard recordings from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, including recordings by Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Fleetwood Mac, Janis Joplin, and more than 80 other artis...
Dec 11, 2020•2 hr 25 min•Ep. 175
This week we welcome Tony Kamel from Wood & Wire as our guest! To understand the musical entity known as Wood & Wire, it’s best to toss aside expectations regarding the sounds that might be created by four pickers holding assemblages of wood and wire — specifically acoustic guitar, bass, banjo and mandolin. Yes, this Austin-based quartet’s last album, 2018’s North of Despair, gave them a permanent new adjective — Grammy-nominated — and yes, the category was Best Bluegrass Album. And now ...
Dec 04, 2020•2 hr 40 min•Ep. 174
No Simple Road is proud to have the one and only Keller Williams as our guest this week! Keller is a dynamo of sounds and sonic amazingness and is often described as a one-man-jam-band! He joins the NSR crew for a conversation about handling our mental heath and how he keeps it together, the ever morphing landscape of live music in the time of Covid, how keeping our expectations low sets up our hearts for gladness, and a whole bunch more! For music, news, info, merch and more head over to: kelle...
Nov 25, 2020•1 hr 48 min•Ep. 173
Heads Talking is here this week to make you feel good about being you. The Conductor pops in to give you all an update on what NSR has in store for you, the guests we have coming your way, and a little insight into why Birthdays are cool. Like, the coolest. No Simple Road will be back this coming Monday with some amazing conversation! Please consider becoming a supporter of No Simple Road through https://www.patreon.com/nosimpleroad It's how we are able to continue bringing you connection and co...
Nov 20, 2020•21 min
This week on No Simple Road we are excited to bring you Sol Doc! Sol Doc's lyrics reflect his close ties with the land in which he was raised and his carefree yet conscious lifestyle. Growing up in West Marin County on the rolling hills of Mt. Tamalpais looking out at the curling waves of the coast and running around the offices of the Grateful Dead back in the day, Sol Doc shares this reality with his mindful lyrical content and positive messages. We talk to him about his early years and how th...
Nov 13, 2020•2 hr 1 min•Ep. 172
No Simple Road is back this week with another Heads Talking taking you on a journey through the hidden realms of other dimensions, rituals hidden and exposed, symbolism made manifest, the language of Magick, and leveling up your life. Or, a bunch ofHeads that are pretty baked talking about occult stuff... you decide! We welcome Jake Weaver from the Midnight, On Earth Podcast and Brynn Anderson from Vital Force Herbs as our round table (literally) discussion partners in this one! Please consider ...
Nov 07, 2020•1 hr 22 min
No Simple Road is proud to bring you Dogs in A Pile this week. Dogs in a Pile is the culmination of a love of music born from the deepest American roots of psychedelia, jazz, fusion, funk, traditional, and rock & roll. Sprung from the rich Asbury Park music scene in New Jersey, their serendipitous convergence has made for the kind of kindred intuition its members had only once dreamed of. Described as “listening to a single moving organism,” the sum of its five parts represents an original j...
Oct 30, 2020•2 hr 32 min•Ep. 171
Heads Talking is back this week with Aaron, Mel & Apple talking about everything from UTI's to being grateful for the little things. Think of this episode as a freeform jazz improv of conversation. We sit down, open the mics, and see where the muse leads us... where we seem to end up is almost as interesting as the journey getting there. Please consider becoming a supporter of No Simple Road through https://www.patreon.com/nosimpleroad It's how we are able to continue bringing you connection...
Oct 24, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Heads Talking is back for your Friday with some special guests joining the crew. Jake from The Midnight, On Earth Podcast and Brynn from Vital Force Herbs join us in the studio for a little session of blowing off steam through conversation. Love and Fear, illusions, hope, as well as mysteries, god, and oneness. It's all in this episode of Heads Talking! No Simple Road intro song by: The Higgs Outro Music by: Chilldrren Of Indigo Leave us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Spotify so...
Oct 09, 2020•1 hr 22 min
This week on No Simple Road we welcome Kate Wind and Mary Swick of the Mom & Me Astrology Podcast! This conversation completely blew our minds! Kate and Mary are a mother and daughter who have over 40+ years practicing Astrology and Feng Shui. In their podcast, they explore natal and celebrities charts, Feng Shui principles and current planetary aspects. Weekly, they share stories from their practice to teach Astrology and Feng Shui in easy-to-digest nuggets. Kate and Mary literally reach in...
Oct 06, 2020•2 hr 31 min•Ep. 169
This week on No Simple Road we welcome Jim Nunaly of the Jim & Nell Band.This band of genre-busting artists delivers original music and stories, startlingly fresh arrangements, delivered with virtuosic improvisation. Featuring Jim Nunally on guitar, banjo & vocals, Nell Robinson on flute & vocals, Jim Kerwin on bass fiddle, Alex Aspinall on percussion, and Rob Reich on accordion & keyboards.Jim has his roots deep in the Grateful Dead Family playing with the likes of David 'Dawg' ...
Sep 28, 2020•2 hr 32 min•Ep. 168
Heads Talking is back for your Monday morning with Aaron doing another solo. He talks to us about connection with reality, dealing with the diet that we take in through our eyes and ears, how we're a part of the world we see all around us, and more.... No Simple Road intro song by: Chilldrren Of Indigo Outro Music by: The Higgs Leave us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Spotify so more of us can find out about the show and you can feel good about supporting the NSR Family... No Sim...
Sep 21, 2020•30 min
Max Davies from Kitchen Dwellers is our guest this week on No Simple Road! Montana-bred bluegrass outfit Kitchen Dwellers are captivating fans across the country with their high-energy live performances and unique approach to traditional music that fans have dubbed Galaxy Grass. Max spends some time with the NSR Crew talking about the recent Cabin Sessions and recording in the middle of nowhere in a tiny cabin, the evolution of the Kitchen Dweller sound, what has influenced his journey in music,...
Sep 16, 2020•1 hr 51 min•Ep. 167
Heads Talking is back with a single Head talking this week. It's just Aaron this week sharing some love for those affected by the wildfires ravaging the West Coast right now and offers a little insight into how we can move forward through the pain and uncertainty to find healing. Leave us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or Spotify so more of us can find out about the show and you can feel good about supporting the NSR Family No Simple Road is part of Osiris Media. Osiris is creating...
Sep 11, 2020•27 min
This week on No Simple Road we welcome Kenny Roby! Kenny knew from the start there would be a lot to say for his first solo album in seven years, the emotionally and musically expansive The Reservoir. So much had changed in his world and the world at large since his stately 2013 LP, Memories & Birds, an exquisite reflection on the experiences and apprehensions of crossing over 40. He talks to the crew about the road leading up to creating this album, befriending and working with Neal Casal, ...
Sep 07, 2020•2 hr 33 min•Ep. 166
No Simple Road is extremely excited to have Scott Metzger as our guest this week! Scott is a full time member of the critically acclaimed, increasingly popular Joe Russo’s Almost Dead, and Circles Around The Sun. His various part time projects include the Gypsy Jazz influenced The Showdown Kids, and WOLF! (Royal Potato Family Records), an instrumental guitar trio whose music has been featured on the hit television series Z-Nation. In addition, Scott has made various appearances on national telev...
Aug 31, 2020•1 hr 53 min•Ep. 165
Our guest this week on No Simple Road is the one and only Alex Jordan! In 2014, Alex began touring regularly with Midnight North, playing with Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Peter Rowan, and many others. In the fall of 2017, he began working on his debut solo record "The Subtle Exhibitionist" which was released in Spring, 2020. Alex talks with us about writing all the music and playing most of the instruments on the new album, what it feels like to be "behind enemy lines" in a familiar space, how he ended...
Aug 24, 2020•2 hr 3 min•Ep. 164
