Songwriters & Tour Riders
Songwriters & Tour Riders is a music podcast from KOSU, focusing on musicians coming from Oklahoma and those just passing through. Join host Matthew Viriyapah as musicians tell stories of recording, touring and living as artists.
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While difficult, the pandemic was an unexpected blessing for North Carolina musician Matt Heckler. With the unexpected time and rest, he was able to record his latest album, Blood, Water, Coal, which debuted at number three on the Bluegrass Billboard chart. But what he plays isn't exactly what you would call bluegrass.
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LCG & the X spent 18 months performing and working on their first album. But when they released their self-titled debut, it came out at the worst possible time — March 2020, right as the pandemic became a reality for many of us.
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Quese IMC is a Native American hip-hop artist and citizen of the Pawnee and Seminole Nations. He has been part of the hip-hop scene in Oklahoma for many years and helped organize Culture Shock Camp, one of the early hip-hop summits, to help establish what Oklahoma and Native American hip-hop looks like today.
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Chad Whitehead is the operating partner for Tower Theatre, and for like many in the music business, the past year has caused heavily reduced revenue and numerous layoffs for his business. But for 2021, Chad gives a possible timeline for when live indoor concerts could truly return to Oklahoma.
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Kyle Nix is best known as the fiddle player for the Oklahoma country band Turnpike Troubadours. But this summer marked the side-player's solo debut.
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Jabee says the idea of his latest album title, This World Is So Fragile and Cruel I'm Glad I Got You, "kind of floats throughout the climate we are living in."
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This is Songwriters & Tour Riders, a production of KOSU and Oklahoma State University and hosted by Matthew Viriyapah. On this episode is Oklahoma indie…
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This is Songwriters & Tour Riders, a production of KOSU and Oklahoma State University and hosted by Matthew Viriyapah. On this episode is Oklahoma City…
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John Moreland released his fifth album, LP5, in February. Teaming up with producer Matt Pence, he wanted to keep a small group on the record with only a few other musicians like John Calvin Abney.
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This is Songwriters & Tour Riders, a production of KOSU and Oklahoma State University and hosted by Matthew Viriyapah. On this episode is Johnny Manchild,…