Crash and Ride

Tierney Tough was the second guest ever on Crash and Ride and she has released a new solo EP. Normally the phenomenally talented bassist, vocalist, and keyboardist for the band The Pauses, Tierney was inspired by the isolation and uncertainty of the Pandemic to create a new EP of haunting and powerful tunes, A Farce to Reckon With. In our most recent conversation, we talk about the Pandemic, her new music, and an absolutely infuriating encounter with an obstreperous soundman. You can hear A Farce to Reckon With here: https://tierneytough.bandcamp.com/ You can hear The Pauses here: https://thepauses.bandcamp.com/ You can find out more about Nuci's Space here: https://www.nuci.org/ You can donate to Access Point GA here: https://www.accesspointga.org/donate

Episode 88 is Part 2 of my conversation with Jes Skolnik. As I mentioned last week, Jes writes for Bandcamp Daily, the music journalism arm of the Greatest Music Distribution Platform of all time. Besides being an incredibly gifted music journalist, they are also a musician, a trauma survivor, former addict, and a sexual assault survivor. This week we talk about toxic jobs, the journey from freelancer to senior editor, their struggle with drugs and depression, and what they do for self-care! CONTENT WARNING: this episode contains frank and difficult discussions about sexual assault, drug use, and suicidal ideation. You can read Jes' work by going to their Bandcamp contributor profile here: https://daily.bandcamp.com/contributors/jes-skolnik

Episode 87 is my interview with Jes Skolnik! Jes writes for Bandcamp Daily, the music journalism arm of the Greatest Music Distribution Platform of all time. Besides being an incredibly gifted music journalist, they are also a musician, a trauma survivor, former addict, and a sexual assault survivor. Together, Jes and I talk about the pandemic, surviving in isolation, overcoming trauma, and how it all relates to playing, loving, and writing about music. CONTENT WARNING: this episode contains frank and difficult discussions about sexual assault, drug use, and suicidal ideation. You can read Jes' work by going to their Bandcamp contributor profile here: https://daily.bandcamp.com/contributors/jes-skolnik

photo: Jeff Shipman Adam Klein is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter from Athens, GA, though he currently lives in Atlanta. Adam has released seven albums, but has also traveled the world doing volunteer work and lived in West Africa for several years. In Mali, he had a radio show that was broadcast over a large swath of remote villages at the edge of the Sahara. He also has a budding acting career in the Atlanta film industry and an album on the way this Spring. We talk about growing up Orthodox in Athens, GA, living and working in Mali, and making records with his heroes. You can see portions of a documentary about making Adam's record of West African songs here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkJiJR7uz4I You can hear more of Adam's music here: https://adam-klein.com/ and finally, as I mentioned in the intro to the episode, you can donate to Access Point GA here: https://www.accesspointga.org/donate

Jolie Holland is an extraordinarily gifted singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist living in Los Angeles, California. She's possessed of an incredible insight and lyricism and she writes gorgeous and vivid songs that have been praised by luminaries such as Tom Waits. She escaped an abusive and toxic upbringing in a devout family of Jehovah's Witnesses and spent many years on the road, only to eventually settle down and create an enormous and stunning body of work. Jolie is currently collaborating with a group of activists and families to produce a benefit called "Abolition 2021," which will create a living space and activist space near the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola. In her words, "I've been helping produce this benefit to create a free hospitality house for family and lawyers of incarcerated people near Angola aka Louisiana State Penitentiary. It's out in the middle of nowhere like an ugly secret, difficult to get to, even for people with money. Reallocating city budgets from violence to community support, ending slave labor and abolishing the death penalty are the big goals. Creating this hospitality house is one important step we can take to improve people's lives. The house will serve as a hub for activists." The show will be online April 9th, 16th, 23rd, and 30th, and you can buy your tickets here: https://noonchorus.com/abolition-2021/ You can hear more of Jolie's music here: https://joliehollandmusic.com/ Also, as I mentioned in the intro, I've been working for a Harm Reduction organization here in Athens, and you can help us out here: https://www.accesspointga.org/donate

Eugene Willis is a hip hop artist who performs under the name Black Nerd Ninja. He's a rapper, promoter, IT consultant, father, husband, and also a stroke survivor. He's one of the hardest working men I've ever met, and is a relentlessly positive force for good in the world. We talk about his journey back from his stroke, how he sought to redefine himself in the world after his illness, and how he believes that emotional intelligence might save us all.   You can hear his work here: https://blacknerdninja.com/   His Instagram is here: https://www.instagram.com/blacknerdmonsta/   As promised, here's the Corona Virus Relief Fund set up by MusiCares: https://www.grammy.com/musicares/get-help/musicares-coronavirus-relief   And also here's a link to the Athens area musician's Covid 19 relief fund set up by Nuci's space here: https://www.nuci.org/get-help/

Pete Krebs has played guitar in so many influential Portland bands that it's hard to list them all: Hazel, Golden Delicious, The Stolen Sweets, The Portland Playboys, and Thee Catnip Brothers. He started his journey playing in punk bands and now he plays Western Swing at the rodeo every year in Pendleton, Oregon. He's a two-time inductee into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame, and he's survived cancer twice. I met Pete for the first time in 1992 when our bands played together in Virginia at a club called The Insect Club. It was his band, Hazel, my band, Five Eight, and the Spinanes. Someone got naked onstage and we almost got beat up and very nearly didn't get paid. The next time we played together was in Portland and that night I heard Pete play a song that has haunted me for 30 years. In this interview, I finally find out the name of it and the original artist. Wild. You can find the infamous photo that brought all of this together on the Crash and Ride Facebook page. You can read more about Pete and hear a bunch of his music here: https://www.heypetekrebs.com/ As promised, here's the Corona Virus Relief Fund set up by MusiCares:  https://www.grammy.com/musicares/get-help/musicares-coronavirus-relief And also here's a link to the Athens area musician's Covid 19 relief fund set up by Nuci's space here: https://www.nuci.org/get-help/

Che Arthur is a multi-instrumentalist, sound engineer, and tour manager based out of Chicago, IL. I've known Che for 30 years! I touched base to see how 2020 had gone for him, living alone in a pandemic and experiencing America as a Black man during the unrest that followed the murder of George Floyd and during the latter days of the Trump Administration. Che is an INCREDIBLY prolific musician and you can find links to much of his work here: http://www.chearthur.com/music/ Here is a link to his 7 hour New Years Day playlist! https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/nye-2021/pl.u-XkD0YYpIeBoyD As promised, here's the Corona Virus Relief Fund set up by MusiCares:  https://www.grammy.com/musicares/get-help/musicares-coronavirus-relief And also here's a link to the Athens area musician's Covid 19 relief fund set up by Nuci's space here: https://www.nuci.org/get-help/

Tad Doyle! TAD DOYLE of the band TAD! Before the explosion of bands out of the Pacific Northwest changed the entire face of rock music in the early '90s, TAD was crushing live shows and releasing huge sounding slabs of wax on Subpop records. Years later, Tad would struggle with drugs and depression as the "grunge" thing got mutated and commodified into an MTV-ready PRODUCT. Tad, though, is a survivor, and he is still making music "heavier than God's Balls."   I was super-stoked to talk to him and this is his story.   His current band is just as heavy as TAD and you can hear Brothers of the Sonic Cloth here: https://brothersofthesoniccloth.bandcamp.com/album/brothers-of-the-sonic-cloth   If you want to book time and record with Tad, you can find Witch Ape Studios here: https://www.taddoyle.com/witch-ape-studio-celebrating-four-years-from-our-basement-days-to-your-ears/   As promised, here's the Corona Virus Relief Fund set up by MusiCares:  https://www.grammy.com/musicares/get-help/musicares-coronavirus-relief   And also here's a link to the Athens area musician's Covid 19 relief fund set up by Nuci's space here:   https://www.nuci.org/get-help/

Travis Talbert is the lead guitar player for the band Frontier Folk Nebraska. He also has a solo project called Mavis Guitar where he plays pedal steel and guitar. He's a gifted and thoughtful player and a softspoken, gentle guy. He's also a man who has survived the death of his son. Tobin Talbert lived 7 months and never left the hospital. Travis and his beautiful wife Heather somehow managed to weather this tragedy and come out the other side stronger, braver, and still in love.   This was one of the hardest episodes ever for me to edit, because I kept having to stop and just sit in my sadness for a minute. On one hand, it seems far too sad to be the 2020 Christmas Episode of Crash and Ride, on the other... well, 2020 is what it is, and Travis helped me to remember to be grateful for everything I have.   Merry Christmas.   You can hear Frontier Folk Nebraska here: https://frontierfolknebraska.bandcamp.com/   You can hear Mavis Guitar here: https://mavisguitar.bandcamp.com/   As promised, here's the Corona Virus Relief Fund set up by MusiCares: https://www.grammy.com/musicares/get-help/musicares-coronavirus-relief   And also here's a link to the Athens area musician's Covid 19 relief fund set up by Nuci's space here: https://www.nuci.org/get-help/