We couldn't be more stoked to have J.M (Jonathan) Hart as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Jonathan is a musician, Host of 'The Brokedown Podcast', Co-Host of 'Undermine', avid record collector, Father, Husband, and the reason No Simple Road teamed up with Osiris Media! That's a lot of hats right there and we get into talking about most of them! We talk all about creating and releasing his first ever album 'Sunken Road', how he juggles all of his responsibilities, how he began doing The Br...
Mar 11, 2022•2 hr 8 min•Ep. 248
We are so excited to have the two creators of The Grateful Dead Tarot on No Simple Road this week! Elizabeth Jezorski is the mastermind behind Grateful Dead Tarot and the author of the guidebook. She dances through life sharing wisdom she pulls from the ancient arts of astrology, ceremony, and energy work. Erin Cadigan is the illustrator and product designer of Grateful Dead Tarot. She is a life long deadhead, occultist and creative soul constantly redefining her path through this lifetime. We s...
Mar 08, 2022•2 hr 17 min•Ep. 247
This week's guest on No Simple Road is the one and only Ken Babbs and we couldn't be more honored! Ken is one of the original band of Merry Pranksters who, along with best friend Ken Kesey, became some of the psychedelic leaders of the 1960's and hosted The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests. Without the psychedelic foundation that they created No Simple Road simply would not exist! Ken stops by to talk with us about his new book 'Cronies: Adventures with Ken Kesey, Neal Cassidy, The Merry Pranksters ...
Mar 03, 2022•2 hr 15 min•Ep. 246
We're super excited this week to have all the guys from Spunj as our guests on No Simple Road! Spunj is a high energy, multi-genre four-piece based out of Eugene, Oregon. Using their diverse musical backgrounds and tastes, Spunj sets to make their live shows not just a musical performance, but an experience. The band incorporates classic songwriting with sections of improvisation to seamlessly weave from genre to genre while keeping the energy high and always danceable. Since 2019, the band has ...
Feb 24, 2022•2 hr 42 min•Ep. 245
No Simple Road is stoked to have Mojohand returning to the show this week! Mojohand's modern take on Cosmic American Music blends together the Folk, Country, Blues, and Improvisation infused Rock n Roll of the late 60's and early 70's with the Neo-Psychedelic sounds of today. We hang out and talk all about the new album 'Songbook', everything that they have gone through in the past couple of years, how their community has thrived and grown, what the future has in store for them, and a whole lot ...
Feb 17, 2022•2 hr 20 min•Ep. 244
We are super excited to have Dogs In A Pile as our guests on No Simple Road 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 ...
Feb 10, 2022•2 hr 42 min•Ep. 243
We're extremely excited to have Reed Mathis as our guest on No Simple Road this week! After cutting his teeth in Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey and Tea Leaf Green, bassist extraordinaire Reed Mathis established himself in the Grateful Dead world with membership in Billy & The Kids, The Rhythm Devils, Mickey Hart Band, Steve Kimock Band and the Golden Gate Wingmen. We catch up with Reed to talk about his upcoming show at The Chapel in San Francisco where he'll be performing a one-night-only presenta...
Feb 03, 2022•2 hr 45 min•Ep. 242
We're super excited this week to have George Fetner of George Fetner & The Strays' as our guest on No Simple Road. “There’s a lot you could say about the varied pursuits of guitarist/bandleader/ composer George Fetner. But the most pressing takeaway here is that he and his merry band of pranksters in the Strays can burn down a stage with glee - less of a jam band than an omnivorous, chops-heavy rock outfit whose eclecticism is presented with uncommon acuity. Expect a blaze of a set from a gr...
Jan 27, 2022•2 hr 31 min•Ep. 241
We're honored this week to have Starfinder Stanley and Hawk from Owsley Stanley Foundation as our guests this week. While perhaps most widely known as the “Acid King” for his early role manufacturing the highest quality LSD to help fuel the psychedelic revolution of the 1960s, Owsley was a self-educated innovator, scientist, artist, and patron of the arts with wide-ranging interests. As such, he had a profound and well-documented influence on other artists, musicians, and sound engineers, among ...
Jan 20, 2022•2 hr 12 min•Ep. 240
No Simple Road is super stoked this week to have Jamel Aka Jamal back on the show! Jamel is a Deadhead, positive light in the world, and creator of the best YouTube reaction videos ever. We talked with Jamel back in 2021 and promised each other that we'd get back together after he saw his first Dead & Company show so we made good on that promise. We dissect his experience of walking onto Shakedown Street for the very first time, what it was like to feel the love from the community of heads, ...
Jan 13, 2022•2 hr 21 min•Ep. 239
No Simple Road starting 2022 strong with Karina Rykman as our guest ! In 2016, Karina joined Marco Benevento's band on bass, replacing Dave Dreiwitz (Ween /Joe Russo's Almost Dead). In the many U.S. tours, trips to Japan and the UK since then, Karina has developed a permanent and powerful presence in the band, playing headlining shows, festival sets, and opening for bands such as Vulfpeck, Dispatch, The Claypool Lennon Delirium, Guster, and many more. Aside from her gigs with Benevento, Karina’s...
Jan 06, 2022•2 hr 40 min•Ep. 238
This week you're getting two for the price of one! We start the episode with Lone Tree! Lone Tree is the rock band you never expected. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, this group of 5 international teens formed in 2016 to create a high-energy, powerful sound that is both contemporary while firmly rooted in their influences from classic rock, funk, reggae, and the legacy of great, live music. For the first 4 years, the band was named REFUGE which represented what they have always been about: an escape ...
Dec 31, 2021•2 hr 48 min•Ep. 237
Happy Holidaze No Simple Road Family! We are so stoked to have Paul Hoffman of Greensky Bluegrass as our guest on the show this week! Greensky has ushered us back into live music in 2021 and we thought there would be no better Holiday gift than to have one of them on the show for Christmas! Since their 2000 formation in Kalamazoo, MI, the quintet—Anders Beck [dobro], Michael Arlen Bont [banjo], Dave Bruzza [guitar], Mike Devol [upright bass], and Paul Hoffman [mandolin]—have unassumingly progres...
Dec 23, 2021•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 236
We're incredibly honored this week to Have Mark Johnson of Playing For Change as our guest on No Simple Road. Mark Johnson is a Grammy award-winning producer/engineer and award-winning film director. For the past 20 years, Mark has worked with some of the most renowned producers in the music, film, and television industries, and with such musical artists as Keith Richards, Paul Simon, Jackson Browne, Bono, Jimmy Buffett, Buddy Guy, Taj Mahal, Keb’ Mo’, Sara Bareilles, Los Lobos, Andrés Calamaro,...
Dec 14, 2021•2 hr 3 min•Ep. 235
We are extremely honored to have Bill Payne of Little Feat as our guest on No simple Road this week! Payne, who co-founded Little Feat with the late, great Lowell George 35 years ago, has been Little Feat’s keyboardist – and its pilot – throughout the band’s existence, writing and singing such beloved classics as "Oh Atlanta," "Day or Night," "Time Loves a Hero“ and ”Gringo,“ while ”steering a ship that was rudderless," as he puts it. He’s also contributed to hundreds of records as a sideman. Th...
Dec 09, 2021•2 hr 7 min•Ep. 234
We are so excited to have Damion "Yella P" Pearson from Memphissippi Sounds on No Simple Road this week! One fated summer night in 2017 the paths of two uniquely gifted and talented Memphis musicians aligned in a club on Beale Street. Cameron Kimbrough, grandson of Junior Kimbrough and native of the famed Mississippi hill country, brought his raw, stripped-down rhythms from the fresh, open air of Potts Camp, MS, to the crowded room. As the audience took in Kimbrough’s beats from the drums, they ...
Dec 01, 2021•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 233
This week we are extremely excited to have John Lee Shannon of Circles Around The Sun on No Simple Road! We sit down with John to discuss how he landed the gig with CATS, how synchronicity has become more commonplace, how he met Neal Casal and how Neal's musical frequencies found their way into his DNA before he even knew the man, what it was like to create his solo album 'In & Of', how it feels to take the wheel in the guitar slot in Circles Around The Sun, and a whole lot more! For more in...
Nov 24, 2021•2 hr 30 min•Ep. 232
We're honored this week to have Gary Waldman as our guest on No Simple Road. Gary is Neal Casal's long-time friend and manager as well as the executive producer of 'Highway Butterfly: The Songs Of Neal Casal' and the founder and Executive Director of the Neal Casal Music Foundation. With a list of titles like that you know this conversation goes deep quick. We talk with Gary about what went into the creation of 'Highway Butterfly', how he met Neal, what the common thread was that created such a ...
Nov 17, 2021•1 hr 31 min•Ep. 231
We're stoked this week to have Ethan Miller of Howlin Rain as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Over nearly 20 years, Howlin Rain may have become the quintessential independent American rock ’n roll band: a steam-spitting Hydra of cranked guitars, kicking asphalt dust through a kaleidoscoping travelogue of desert motels and dives, volleying forth transmissions of sci-fi poetry from the blacktop veins of this cracked and aching country. Now, in America 2021, capping these strangest and sores...
Nov 09, 2021•2 hr 45 min•Ep. 230
We’re so excited to have Andy Frasco on No Simple Road for his 3rd time and we're basically going to therapy together with this conversation! We jump right to the action this week and start digging into why Andy has such a hard time accepting his successes, why we struggle against our happiness, what makes us keep reaching for something bigger while being unable to enjoy the moment, how our past can haunt us even now, why Aaron forgets to eat, and a whole lot more! Frasco is not just a friend of...
Nov 02, 2021•2 hr 26 min•Ep. 229
Nic Clark had a fairly unconventional childhood, which is perhaps one reason why his first album, Love Your Life / Songs for the Whole Family, came out youth-centric. It wasn’t that he wasn’t supported— in fact, his mom got him the certificate that allowed him to play in bars at the tender age of twelve. It was the school thing. His school system in the Denver area had a truancy court, and he set up semi-permanent residency there around the 7th grade. You see, he had found the blues. Visiting a ...
Oct 27, 2021•2 hr 27 min•Ep. 228
The third album from Maggie Rose, Have a Seat is the work of a phenomenally gifted artist showing the full extent of her power. After years of honing her chops and making her name as a force-of-nature vocalist, the Nashville-based singer/songwriter has dreamed up her own unbridled collision of rock-and-roll, soul, folk, funk, and R&B: a fittingly eclectic sound for a musician whose live experience includes opening for Heart and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, touring as direct support for K...
Oct 19, 2021•2 hr 29 min•Ep. 227
We are so stoked to have Pat Ferguson as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Pat Ferguson is a nationally recognized guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist. His sound channels Americana, Bluegrass, and Folk and is deeply influenced by his Upper Mississippi River musical roots. He's got a new album coming out titled 'The Confidence Man' with appearances by Tim Carbone of Railroad Earth and Elliott Peck of Midnight North! Carbone and Peck also worked on Ferguson’s upcoming sophomore LP, set for re...
Oct 12, 2021•2 hr•Ep. 226
We're stoked to have Grant Livingston as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Grant Livingston is a singer/songwriter who delivers immersive grooves and contemplative lyricism in the form of transcendental folk music. His debut album, Grant & Friends, is a collection of heartfelt original songs that showcase Livingston’s timeless, yet innovative blend of folk, rock, funk, soul, bluegrass, and roots music. In a live setting, Livingston uses improvisation and energetic reciprocity to cater t...
Oct 05, 2021•1 hr 58 min•Ep. 225
We are extremely excited to Have Waynard Scheller of Rainbow Full Of Sound as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Waynard and Rainbow Full Of Sound are an east coast GD cover band, which in October will start a 21 show run in homage to the complete Europe ’72 tour. We talk with Waynard about how he knew what he wanted to be when he grew up, what his tour experience was like back in the day, why he decided to retrace the Europe '72 steps musically, and so much more! Tour kicks off today, the 2...
Sep 28, 2021•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 224
We are super excited to have Family Mystic on No Simple Road this week! Family Mystic is a local Portland, Oregon based collection of community cultivators, visionaries and some incredible musicians. Playing free shows in parks and local squares around the country, the guys just finished a West Coast tour and spend some time on The Porch with us talking about the inception of Family Mystic, the synchronicities that brought them together, how they work together as a collective, the importance of ...
Sep 24, 2021•2 hr 49 min•Ep. 223
We are extremely excited to have Vince Herman as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Things are just more fun when Vince Herman is around, and since helping co-found Leftover Salmon over a quarter century ago, Leftover Salmon shows have always been the most fun. Herman moved to Boulder, CO from Morgantown, West Virginia, where he was attending West Virginia University, in 1985. On his first night in town, he met his future bandmate Drew Emmitt at a show for Emmitt’s group at the time, the Lef...
Sep 17, 2021•1 hr 38 min•Ep. 222
We are super excited to have Michael Palmisano on No Simple Road this week! Michael Palmisano is an Award Winning GIT Grad, Founder of PRS Sponsored Guitargate, One Of The Largest Online Guitar Learning Communities In The World With 85k+ students. He has been playing guitar since he was 5, and gigging and teaching professionally for the last 15+ years. He genuinely loves to teach, and the goal of Guitargate is to help people learn the "why" behind the notes, and how to apply this to make Music! ...
Sep 10, 2021•2 hr 37 min•Ep. 221
This week on No Simple Road we are super excited to have Marcus Rezak as our guest! Known as a master of jazz improvisation and a seasoned artist of the sit-in, Rezak is a frequent call among bands and musicians. Rezak’s 2018 debut as a bandleader saw him collaborating alongside Kris Myers and Joel Cummins of Umphrey’s McGee, Arthur Barrow of Frank Zappa’s band, and legendary saxophonist Bill Evans. Since then he has toured across the US with eclectic lineups featuring the likes of Ike Willis, K...
Sep 03, 2021•2 hr 7 min•Ep. 220
It's been a long journey for the past 19 months. We all know it's true. This mid-week short drop is a few of The Conductor's thoughts and ideas on heading back out into the musical community and seeing our collective trip with some new lenses and renewed sense of gratitude. Also, he just wanted to ride in the car or plane with you as you travel to Phish's West Coast run! Travel safe and see you all soon! Please do us a solid and leave us a 5 star review on Apple Podcasts! Become a Patron of No S...
Aug 26, 2021•26 min•Ep. 219
