Diverse Radio for Minnesota’s Communities
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
17 Unique Stations from Border to Border
Echoes from Iron Ore is an upcoming album recorded in a tiny cabin at the edge of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness up the Gunflint Trail. The project is headed by Chris O’Brien, a St. Paul based guitarist with the band Enchanted Ape who sought the help of musicians from a number of Minnesota groups like Trampled by Turtles, Dead Man Winter, The May North, and many others to complete the album. O’Brien, along with the cabin’s owner Brady Barnstable, talk about the production of the record.
Sprig of That is a unique folk trio from the Twin Cities comprised of guitarist Ilan Blanck, fiddler Isabel Dammann, and tabla player Krissy Bergmark. For their latest record, they enlisted the help of eight different composers to write pieces for their unusual instrumentation. Blanck and Bergmark are joined by composer Zack Baltich to chat about how this album “Eight Threads” came together.
Smokin’ Joe Scarpellino is a longtime musician and event organizer in the Twin Cities music scene. He calls in to the Scenic Route to talk about the “Just Be Kind” online concert series in rememberance of his friend and Kind Country frontman Max Graham, who tragically passed away in early March.
Dan Israel is a longtime singer-songwriter from St. Louis Park with two new singles out, “Pandemic Blues” and “Late at Night” coming on the heels of his 2020 album Social Distance Anxiety Disorder. He chats with Will Moore about all the new songs and navigating a pandemic world as a musician over the last year.
Annie and the Bang Bang are a four-piece band from the Twin Cities who recently came out with an album called “Loveland”, full of loud and hard-hitting original songs. Will Moore speaks with Annie Enneking and Kari Tweiten about songwriting at sleepovers, the bands beloved mascot, and more.
You can find out more information about the album on the group’s Bandcamp.
Will Moore is joined by the trio of Julia Floberg, Isabel Damman, and Aubrey Weger known as Lady Spruce. The folk trio has at last released their debut, self-titled album full of both original and traditional songs and some pop standards interwoven with fiddle tunes of old. You can find more about the new record at their Bandcamp.
Dharma Hounds is a group from the Twin Cities whose sound ranges from “from Americana Psycho-Billy to Northern ‘Peat-Bog’ Boogie Rock”. Guitarist Drew Druckrey and keyboardist John Reinhart explain what that could possibly mean, and more about their self-titled debut album which came out in January.
Minnesota folk songwriter Chris Holm has teamed up with Minneapolis honky-tonk country band The Federales along with some other area musicians to comprise the Looneys, a new group born out of playing and writing music remotely during the 2020 pandemic. Holm, along with James Gould and Mark Larsen of the Federales, join Will Moore on the Scenic Route to talk about their new single “Days Crawl By”, along with each of their new records from earlier in the year, and some of their great new original Christmas songs.
