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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Norman Music Festival is returning this week after two years of a pandemic-spurred hiatus. Hear the festival's executive director talk about planning what she calls the 'best annual party in the state' in about 90 days.
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Sun Deep has only been making music for three years. But he has already produced songs for numerous hip hop artists in Oklahoma and is also part of the bilingual hip hop duo Finite Galaxy.
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Wilderado's self-titled debut album was largely written in an old church. After a couple of years struggling with writing, singer Max Rainer wrote songs there dealing with his struggles balancing being a father and touring musician.
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RC Edwards is probably best known as the bassist for the Turnpike Troubadours. However, this year he put out a new album under the name RC & the Ambers with long time friend Amber Watson and produced by fellow Troubadour Hank Early.
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Unwed Sailor is an instrumental rock band based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but also has its roots in the 90s music scene of Seattle, Washington. Johnathon Ford is the bassist and songwriter and lived in the famous music scene with his former band, Roadside Monument.
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Oklahoma singer-songwriter Parker Millsap combines new school way of writing songs with an old school style of recording on new album.
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Songwriters & Tour Riders features Madeline Kassen, a recent Berklee College of Music grad, who put out her debut album Threnody earlier this year under the moniker Pisha.
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School is just around the corner. So for the next pair of episodes, we interview two young musicians from Oklahoma. Both released new albums this year. And both are contemplating what the future will hold for them and other young musicians.
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Kitt Wakely is an Edmond, Oklahoma composer but he has worked with musicians and orchestras across the world. His latest album, Symphony of Sinners and Saints, features Joe Satriani, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Dallas All Star Choir and even more.
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Combining the talents of more than 40 different artists, rappers, poets, and singers, Fire in Little Africa hopes to shine on not just the Tulsa hip hop scene, but also a part of history that for many of the artists was never really taught to them in school.