Sugar Maple

Welcome to Sugar Maple, an eight-episode fiction podcast, with an original soundtrack. Starring Fred Savage. A Fender Telecaster, rebuilt using a scrap of mysterious wood—passes by amazing circumstances to eight different owners over the years and decades. Each owner discovers the guitar and writes a single song. Terrance, our narrator, is obsessed with finding this amazing guitar of legend, and wonders if maybe the guitar writes a song using each of them? What strange pattern do the songs form? What power do they hold? And what if Terrance can't find Sugar Maple in time?

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Episodes

Bonus Episode: Sugar Maple Live

In this special bonus episode, we share some live performances of Sugar Maple songs and some interviews that we conducted as part of the Osiris Live road show in May. We hope you enjoy. Please listen to the songs from this episode wherever you listen to music ( Apple , Spotify ). And check out the limited edition poster for this episode , and the limited NFT release of episode and series art . If you like what you hear, please give us a review wherever you listen to your podcasts. Special thanks...

Jun 02, 2022•26 min

Episode 8: Terrance Woodridge

In the season finale, the threads collide as Terrance finds himself drawn forward in time—along with every other Sugar Maple owner—to play a concert balanced on a tipping point of destruction or creation. Backstage at a music festival unlike any other, Terrance alone has a chance to prevent or fulfill Thread Tree's grand designs ... but he's afraid he doesn't know how. Please listen to the songs from this episode wherever you listen to music ( Apple , Spotify ). And check out the limited edition...

May 17, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 8

Episode 7: Fiona Blitzkrieg

It’s 1992, and a frantic Terrance tries desperately to get through to Sugar Maple's current owner: London's own Fiona Blitzkrieg, a former heavy metal darling, now a struggling addict in recovery, facing what looks like her last chance with her career, her exasperated bandmates, and her life. Terrance knows what Thread Tree wants Fiona to do with Sugar Maple when she plays her big comeback show at midnight on New Year's Eve. Can he stop her before it's too late? Please listen to the songs from t...

May 10, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 7

Episode 6: Quentin Gladstone

We pick up the story with Terrance chasing new leads, while he plays back the tale of a previously unknown Sugar Maple owner, Quentin Gladstone—an unhoused young man who found community and purpose with a welcoming church and its charismatic minister, Solomon Randolph. But when Randolph puts the untrained Quentin in charge of the gospel music for his grand revival, Sugar Maple unleashes a frightening higher power that forces Quentin away from his found family, in terror and shame. Please listen ...

May 03, 2022•45 min•Season 1Ep. 6

Episode 5: Belinda Rose

As Terrance drives to Atlanta to follow a new lead, he recounts the story of Belinda Rose, a Nashville country singer who delivered a single 70s hit, written on Sugar Maple, which her duplicitous boyfriend won in a poker game. Why did Belinda Rose leave the country just as her star was rising? Why do people close to Sugar Maple keep disappearing? And why is Terrance growing certain that the murdered Thread Tree is using Sugar Maple to end the world? Please listen to the songs from this episode w...

Apr 26, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Behind the Scenes || Director James Masciovecchio

We're bringing you a special conversation this week, a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Sugar Maple with the show's Director, James Masciovecchio. Enjoy, and we'll be back with another episode soon. CONTEST ALERT! Look for Fiddlehead cans with #SugarMaple on the bottom - post a photo of you and the bottom of your can on Instagram or Twitter and tag @osirispod and @fiddleheadbrewing to enter to win our grand prize. Stay tuned for the grand reveal. Visit SunsetLakeCBD.com and use promo code...

Apr 12, 2022•16 min

Episode 4: Stella “Doc” Osprey

It’s 1992, and our narrator Terrance Woodridge meets Sugar Maple's most enigmatic owner, and is pulled at last into Sugar Maple’s story. The New Orleans heroin dealer Stella "Doc" Osprey, who vanished in the 70s—after crafting a song that reverberated across the jazz scene and throughout the ages—explains her disappearance, and delivers an amazing vision about the Thread Tree: the murdered cosmic entity whose wood repaired Sugar Maple ... but whose death throes may doom the world. Please listen ...

Apr 05, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Episode 3: Ornate Williams

Episode 3 takes place in 1965. Trailblazing disco legend Ornate Williams recounts the early days of her career as a fiery and rising Motown hopeful. After she discovers Sugar Maple in a grisly scene, the song she plays on it catapults her to the top of the charts. But her new fame threatens to expose a secret that casts both her success and her love into danger. It’s a threat that tempts Ornate to let the guitar she found in a bloody place lead her to a bloody conclusion. Check out the song "Sug...

Mar 29, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Episode 2: Louis "Hambone" Butler

It’s 1958, and we meet Louis "Hambone" Butler, a Memphis railway porter who looks in a boxcar and discovers an abandoned Telecaster customized with unique wood. The skill Louis shows when playing Sugar Maple may give him his big break, if he can avoid the schemes of a rival who wants it for himself, and the seething anger that rises whenever he plays. Please listen to the song from this episode, “Lonesome Train,” on Spotify, Apple , or wherever you listen to music. And check out the limited edit...

Mar 22, 2022•47 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Episode 1: “Sweet Licks” Bobby Lindro

In the series premiere, we meet our narrator, Terrance Woodridge, who brings us a tale he’s chased down: the story of Sugar Maple, the guitar of legend with a timeless sound that's passed from hand to hand over the years. In this episode, we go back to 1951 and hear the story of "Sweet Licks" Bobby Lindro, an orphan from the farmlands outside Chicago. When his brand new Telecaster’s neck is destroyed, he's sure nothing can replace it, until his Aunt procures mysterious wood that seems to make Bo...

Mar 15, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 1

Introducing Sugar Maple

Welcome to Sugar Maple, an eight-episode dramatic fiction podcast that features an original soundtrack. Fred Savage stars as Terrance Woodridge, a diligent documentarian obsessed with finding an amazing guitar of legend—before it finds him. This podcast centers on a Fender Telecaster, rebuilt using a scrap of mysterious wood and dubbed Sugar Maple, which passes by strange circumstance to eight different owners over the years and decades. Each owner discovers the guitar and writes a single song o...

Feb 22, 2022•30 sec

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