The Preston Poe Show

Blues • Ragtime • Country • Motor Homes!

Roy Book Binder, legendary ragtime blues guitar playing folksinger from New York has been on the road for 50 years. He talks about how that happened and how he made friends along the way and lots and lots of great music. There's lots to tell and it's (almost) all packed in here along with three songs including one he wrote about his friendship with Reverend Gary Davis. This is really a don't miss - can't miss episode.

Features the songs, "Preacher Picked the Guitar", "Travelin' Man", and "You'll Never Find Another Friend Like Me"

This episode was produced in part by Blac, Inc., Black Liberated Arts Center in Oklahoma and The Blue Door Listening Room in Oklahoma City and of course with the generous assistance of Roy Book Binder

JAZZ GUITAR! WESTERN SWING! METAPHYSICS?
Joe Settlemires grew up in Oklahoma and played guitar with all the big jazz guitar players. He joined Bob Wills group in the sixties when he was still in his twenties. Because he was that good! He's kind of a Forest Gump of amazing music. In addition to being one of the world's hottest guitar players, it turns out that Joe has a phd in metaphysics! This conversation goes through the atomic level and challenges the theory of relativity!
This episode includes the songs Cherokee, Sweet Georgia Brown, Move, and Sugarfoot Rag (featuring Vince Gill and Harold Bradley)

Cobainesque? Dylanesque? Ginsbergian? Lael Neale and I discuss the terms "straight coat vision", "white coat mistake", "white robed mystic" and other whipped delights.

In between clips from her live performance at the Los Angeles Troubadour in January 10, 2019, Lael and I talk about poetry and songwriting.
This episode includes the songs Beautiful Again, Third Floor Window, Black Boots, and Blue Vein from her forthcoming album.

For more information visit her website location online at www.laelneale.com or https://laelneale.bandcamp.com/releases

Assiduously, arduously, and ardently arranging alliteration, allusion and allegory,
Lael Neale anticipates, accomplishing amalgamated associations astonishingly.

Leadbelly? A Serial Killer? What is Blues? What is Folk?

We catch up with Todd Albright in Oklahoma City at The Blue Door listening room.

Todd and I discuss crazy Oklahoma weather, finger style guitar, twelve string guitar, the "folk vs blues" question , Jack White's Third Man Record Label, and Todd shares a theory that Leadbelly may have actually, (in addition to to writing children's songs) possibly have been a serial killer!

There is also lots of great live music from Todd's solo acoustic performance at The Blue Door including:
Frank Hutchison's The Train That Carried My Girl From Town, Leadbelly's Grasshoppers in My Pillow, and Blind Willie McTell's The Kill It Kid Rag.

For more information check out www.theprestonpoeshow.com and www.toddalbright.com

Jennifer Jane Niceley and I talk about life, love, loneliness, Nashville, songwriting, growing up on a farm, the "Edgar Allan Poe" question, and living in a world that somehow combines phenomenal beauty with extraordinary sadness.

This podcast features Jennifer Jane Niceley's songs: Child of God, Higher Power, Wing to Wing, and Dogstar from her recent album, "Angels, Demons, and Red-tailed Hawks"

For more information about Jennifer Jane Niceley, her music and live performances, please visit her
website at www.jenniferniceleymusic.com