Casita De Broomdust with Man No Sober

We decided to do Episode 20 without a guest.  Eric and Johny discuss the Santa Fe Farmers Market, backyard gardening, local agriculture, local music, community, water, environmentalism, conservation, population, the Santa Fe Music Alliance, hunting, animal husbandry, extreme veganism and the planet of the cows!, bull riding, childhood, warfare, knuckle balls, the Santa Fe Fuego, baseball,  . . . much, much more.

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Santa Fe's favorite local musician, the lovely, talented, and delightful Margaret Burke of Joe West and the Santa Fe Revue joined Eric and Johny to talk about local music, playing the bass, being a mom, the Santa Fe Music Alliance, the Santa Fe Plaza Bandstand, and much more.  Margaret is one of those people whose mere presence makes everything better.  She has been a major mover and shaker on the Santa Fe local music scene for many years.  Along with being a great bass player and singers, Margaret was on the committee that helped David Lescht run the Santa Fe Plaza Bandstand.

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Santa Fe drummer, producer, and man about town Cozy Ralston stopped by Casita de Broomdust this morning.  Wow.  Where to begin?  The pouring rain came shortly after his departure, as if we were not blessed enough by spending a very short couple of hours of discussion with this Santa Fe musical icon and impresario.  We talked about recording at Frogville, the magic of Bill Palmer, Joe West, the Rockets, Blues Traveler, Neil Young, and of course, Bruce Springsteen, Max Weinberg, and the rest of the E Street Band.  We also talked about time, drumming, practice techniques, consciousness, touring, Cozy's musical beginnings, and much much much much more.  This is a good 'un.  Don't miss it!

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Tattoo artist, harmonica player, and world traveler Prakash Spex stopped by, along with a mystery musical guest.  The discussion included tattoos, Walmart and other multi-national corporations, alternative spiritual practices, gardening, sustainability, the evil Susana Martinez, traveling the world, German and American politics, Santa Fe, and much, much more.

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Todd Lovato stopped by Casita de Broomdust this morning to talk about Santa Fe local music, the Santa Fe Bandstand, touring in South Korea, the youth and the music, growing up in Santa Fe and going from "freestyling at parties, holding forties of Olde English" to Felonious Groove Foundation to his current huge sounding and wildly popular power duo Todd and the Fox.  There is also talk about organizing musicians, the SFMA, when it is OK to play for free, whether we need to go to Austin or LA or Nashville to "make it," the importance of YouTube, and lots more.

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Longtime Santa Fe musician and Professor of Musicology Pete Williams joins Johny and Eric for another ribald and lively Monday morning at Casita de Broomdust.  Pete tells some great stories about his childhood, becoming a musician, working with autistic children, touring with Blues Traveler during the band's apex, working with Kevin Costner, church, sex, the importance of shaking your ass, ejaculation, and funk music.  He talks about being part of the first class of students in the Music Department at the College of Santa Fe, living in Kansas, California, and Texas in the 60's and 70's, growing up in a big family, and lots more.

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The Strange stopped by Casita de Broomdust this morning.  Justin Lindsey, Daniel Murphy, and Braden Anderson sat down with Johny and Eric to Strange's history of hardcore touring and unmitigated rock n roll.  The discussion includes stage punching and other craziness at past Strange shows, the impact of losing their bass player and best friend Andrew Davey, and what the future holds for this amazingly tough and resilient band.  As with most Casita de Broomdust podcasts, their is also talk about spirituality, altered states of consciousness, musicianship, local venues, pay and performance standards, the SFMA and much, much, much more

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Santa Fe shamanic teacher and psychotherapist Luisa Kolker joins Eric and Johny for a discussion of spiritual journeying, music, community, and many other topics.  The discussion ranges from Shamanic work to Jemez Pueblo dances to ceremonial gardening to the use of plant medicine to the role of music in spirituality and community consciousness.  There is some talk about the most recent Frogfest, the Strange, the Broomdust Caravan, the perils of an "open stage," the importance of boundaries, and the power of group consciousness. Luisa reveals what led her to leave the United States to become a student of a shamanic spiritual teacher in Spain.  She talks about her grandmother, Concepción Palacios, first female physician in Central America and a Sandanista hero in Central American liberation struggles; in her nineties, she still wore combat boots and cammies to work in the garden!   Luisa lives in Eldorado so how could there not be at least a brief discussion of the great Eldorado Chicken Fuster Cluck?!  Much of this week's podcast is about the power and beauty of spiritually connected communities.  "There's beer, there's marijuana, and then, there's also . . . what I think was the hidden allure of the Grateful Dead, which was the Theta brain wave state."

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Johny And Eric are joined by Santa Fe shredding rock 'n roll guitarist, music teacher, and former club owner Mikey Baker for another sweeping discussion at Casita de Broomdust.  Topics include practicing, teaching, Moby Dick, Love Gun, The Gluey Brothers, local venues, festivals, house parties, Sunday brunch (shhh . . .), and politics.  Special guest appearance by Johny's son Hunter Widell.

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Eric and I finally got around to doing a podcast without a guest . . . been meaning to do it for a while.  We had a great conversation ranging from musical inspiration to traveling through the desert to frat boys on Spring Break to strategies for revolution to current books . . . much, much more.

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