TMP308 ANDERS PARKER: HANDMADE MUSIC
Episode description
The songwriter, singer, and guitar player has been making records as a solo artist and with his band Varnaline for over two decades. His collaborations with Son Volt’s Jay Farrar include the “New Multitudes” project with Jim James of My Morning Jacket which paired unused Woody Guthrie lyrics with new music. With a show of his oil paintings currently running at Nola ’Nacular gallery and a summer tour with fellow troubadour Steve Earle coming up, Anders takes a detour into the Christmas Club for a couple rounds with the Troubled Men.
Topics include a backyard concert, Lynn Drury, good gigs, Newell Normand, porch parties, a cereal killer, milk and meat, a dead pope, the College of Cardinals, Morris Day and the Time, bad tenants, medical advice, open tunings, Hudson Valley, a farm, the circus, Donnie’s vs coyotes, writing songs, the Kentucky Derby, 4-track recording, Portland, strip clubs, a divided ballroom, moving to Alaska, immediacy in art, Anthony DelRosario, Gob Iron, moving to New Orleans, Miss Mae’s, French schools, Sarah Mailes, “Cisco Pike,” Karen Black, Kris Kristofferson, Doug Sahm, “Night Gallery,” psychedelics, flashbacks, a swimming moose, 24-hour daylight, and much more.
Intro music: "Just Keeps Raining" by Styler/Coman
Break Music: "Don't You Let Them Get You Down" from "The Black Flight" by Anders Parker
Outro Music: "Dogs and Horses" from "Wolf Reckoning" by Anders Parker
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