This Song

July 20, 2016

This Song: SOAK // Burgess Meredith

Bridie Monds-Watson, aka SOAK, explains how how Pink Floyd’s “Fearless” helped influence her songwriting and allowed her to envision how expansive recording and production could be. Then songwriting duo Josh King and Jesse Hester from the Austin band Burgess Meredith explore the depth and breadth of their Beatlemania from the early pre-Beatles recordings of the Quarrymen to the good heartbreak of “Yesterday.”

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July 6, 2016

This Song: Andra Day // Adia Victoria

Andra Day begins her This Song conversation by extolling the virtues of Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit,” Then Nashville-based singer-songwriter Adia Victoria talks of how her journey from a stifling small-town life to a life in the arts was inspired by Fiona Apple’s “Fast As You Can.”

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June 29, 2016

This Song: Tommy Grace of Django Django // Adrian Quesada

On this edition we talk with Austin’s own Adrian Quesada about 90s hip hop and Django Django’s Tommy Grace tells us about his first experience with Josh Wink’s “Higher State of Consciousness”.

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June 22, 2016

This Song: BØRNS // Calliope Musicals

BØRNS talk about Electric Light Orchestra’s “Turn To Stone,” Jeff Lynn’s writing style, guilty pleasures and how he approaches the songwriting process. Then Carrie Fussell from Austin’s own Calliope Musicals talks about “Tightrope” and gushes about the entire ELO album “A New World Record. Finally Calliope Musical’s co-founder and drummer Josh Bickley explains how the lyrics of a very non drum centric Blind Melon song won over his very drum centric heart.

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June 15, 2016

This Song: San Fermin // El Tule

San Fermin bandleader Ellis Ludwig-Leone first heard Paul Simon’s album Graceland when he was five years old. Listen as he describes why he loves the record and how it’s stuck with him throughout his musical journey.
Then John and Tracy Dell from the Austin band El Tule explain how music by bands like La Sonora Dinamita, Celso Piña, and Fruko y sus Tesos helped them find their sound as a band.

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June 8, 2016

This Song: Robert Delong // John Chao of Misha

Robert Delong explains how hearing “Stardust” on a a cassette taped version of Orson Wells “War of the Worlds” got him interested in harmony and songwriting. Then John Chao explains how inadequate record store categorization lead him to his hearing the album “Kiko” by Los Lobos and inspired some his best work.

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June 1, 2016

This Song: Eric Owen of Black Pistol Fire // Modern Outsider Records

Black Pistol Fire Drummer Eric Owen likes the simple grooves but he didn’t know it until he heard Nirvana’s “In Bloom.” Hear about this revelation and how the song lead him to finally learn to play the drums. Then the owners of Austin’s Modern Outsider Records, Erin and Chip Adams, talk about how Suede’s “Heroine” and The Cure’s “Close to Me” set them, in their own ways, on a course to loving songs that were off the beaten path, record collecting and finally starting their own record label.

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May 24, 2016

This Song: Zac Little of Saintseneca // Sons of Bill

Saintseneca’s Zac Little explains how Paul McCartney’s “Uncle Albert” showed him what how expansive making a recording could be. Then Sons of Bill explore how songs by Woody Guthrie, John Prine and Bill Evan’s Trio blew their minds and describe what it’s like to play in a band with your brothers.

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