Season 5: A Not So Ordinary Quarter Century: Carbon Leaf Looks Back and Ahead
Release Date: 09/30/2024
Season 6: Evoking Memories of Janis Joplin, St. Louis Singer-Songwriter Mattie Schell is Having a Very Good Year
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Talk about a good year. St. Louis singer-songwriter Mattie Schell has certainly had one, touring with the Allman-Betts band, playing at Merlefest, signing with Nashville-based Compass Records and releasing a promising new album. At times evoking memories of the late Janis Joplin—particularly live—she’s forging ahead in new directions. In April, she dropped her first solo album—the rollicking Everything Means Nothing—for Compass, which also has artists including Leftover Salmon, Alison Brown, A.J. Croce, Colin Hay, Molly Tuttle, Kelly Hunt, Robbie Fulks and others. So yeah, it’s...
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Season 6: Road Warrior and Former Mötley Crüe Frontman John Corabi and The Dead Daisies Honor Blues Greats
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Success in popular music—yesterday and today—is often defined by a simple word: Perseverance. Indeed, it’s an endurance game steeped in paying dues, playing shows in front of minimal crowds over and again, gradually building a name and a sound, and finding an audience. Most successful musicians are lifers, and perhaps no one exemplifies that quite like John Corabi. He's fronted or played in bands ranging from SCREAM to The Union, Mötley Crüe, Ratt, and of course, one of his most enduring and successful projects—the critically acclaimed supergroup, The In 2022, Corabi...
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Season 6: Switchfoot's Jon Foreman Returns to Talk Buddy Guy Collaboration
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Throughout his career in rock ‘n’ roll, the great Jon Foreman of the band Switchfoot has soared to immense heights. A few years back he joined us to talk about his career and today he returns to discuss an exciting new project he’s embarked on with Blues legend Buddy Guy. Produced by Tom Hambridge—Buddy’s longtime collaborator and acclaimed Blues music producer—the new single “Last Man Standing” from Switchfoot and Guy is a smokin’ rocker that brings Jon back full circle as Buddy has long-been a major influence. The track marks a return to heavier guitar sounds for...
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Season 6: Old Soul Anna Wescoat Brings Back the Craft of True Country Music
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They say that true country music is dead these days. Well, that is with the exception of a select few artists, old souls, who remain dedicated to the craft. Anna Wescoat is one of those artists and her first studio album, WORLD FAMOUS, is a testament to that spirit. With a style reminiscent of country greats like Patsy Cline and George Jones, Wescoat bean playing piano and singing with her family at a very young age, and that grew into a career after she studied music in college, where she learned to play more than 20 instruments. A natural born storyteller, she brings her...
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Season 6: Electronic Jam Band 2Lot Brings Order to Thermodynamic Disorder
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Today we diverge from The Load’s Out’s typical menu of Americana and roots fare into something much more complex. is not your typical collection of musicians. Indeed, creating its own unique brand of electronic jam music—fusing electronic elements with inspiration from classic jam bands, hip hop, soul, funk, jazz and rock—2Lot teems with intellectual prowess. After all, the band’s name comes from the second law of thermodynamics, as its goal is to resist entropy, or a lack of order or predictability, gradually declining into disorder. Led by a beacon of...
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Season 6: Lilly Hyatt Returns to Trinity Lane with Her Latest Album “Forever” -- a Punk-Infused Americana Treat
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There has never been more high-quality music being made than there is today. However, unless you’re looking for sugar-coated, synth-driven pop sounds—the discovery of that music is often left to the mercy of streaming algorithms. Take, for example, punk-infused Americana (think The Clash meets Loretta Lynn). There’s a torrent of it, particularly a number of very good female artists such as , Lydia Loveless, Sarah Shook & the Disarmers, Jamie Wyatt and others. Arguably at the head of the line is our latest guest on The Load Out Music Podcast: the truly wonderful and...
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Season 6: DRAWING FROM THE STONES, ZEPPELIN AND CORNELL, THE BAND FEEL HAS SOMETHING “SPECIAL” GOING
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Some modern bands—ones like Jack White, Larkin Poe, Greta Van Fleet and Marcus King among others—they are beginning to standout for their exceptional musical talents while still holding onto what has become somewhat of a lost art form. “It’s not uncommon that young people are making music that nods to the past,” according to the lead guitarist of one of those bands, Tyler Armstrong of The Band Feel, during the first episode of Season 6 of The Load Out Music Podcast. Only about two years old, The Band Feel evolved out of the now-defunct Alton, Illinois-based band known...
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Season 5: Singer-Songwriter Jovin Webb Dishes the Sound of Barbecue Sauce
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Jovin Webb was first introduced to America through American Idol in 2020, but the Louisiana-native is much more than a reality show contestant. His gritty vocals and dynamic style promise to make him one of the world’s most exciting new blues and roots artists. His recent debut release album Drifter is a stunning 12-track collection that blends blues, soul, and Southern rock, showcasing his raw, powerful vocals and deeply personal storytelling. As Lionel Richie put it during his time on , “This is what barbecue sauce sounds like.” Get to know Jovin...
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Season 5: Jody White Unearths Treasures of His Late Father, Tony Joe White
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Dan Auerbach, the Black Keys frontman, had always been a big fan of the late Tony Joe White. The singer-songwriter—some knew him as “The Swamp Fox” had an unmistakably swampy baritone and down-home style. He was best known, of course, for songs like “Poke Salad Annie” and “Rainy Night in Georgia.” Over his career, White’s songs were recorded by the likes of Elvis Presley, Waylon Jennings, Ray Charles and Tina Turner, among others. In 2018, White passed away after suffering a heart attack in Tennessee. Afterward, his son and manager Jody White unearthed boxes of reel-to-reel...
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Season 5: Andrew Browning ‘Relapses’ into Music and it Gets Messy
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Andrew Browning, a gritty, California-born singer-songwriter whose new album (out 11/22) digs deep into the messy, raw truths of love and human connection. This is a record that stands out for its emotional honesty and layered narratives. The singer-songwriter delves into the complexities of love with a sound that is distinctly Californian—dark, irreverent, and pulsing with raw rock energy. The captures the dualities of passion and heartache, offering a personal reckoning, while songs like “” and “” channel the gritty, rebellious spirit of California’s rock...
info_outlineBest known for the 2004 hit “Life Less Ordinary,” the indie rock band Carbon Leaf has been at it since the early 1990s. That’s when they got their start in Richmond, Virginia, alongside the likes of the Dave Matthews Band, Cracker, GWAR, Fighting Gravity, the Pat McGee Band, and more. The band just released its much-anticipated new album, “Time is the Playground,” Carbon Leaf’s first full-length record in a decade. The album blends nostalgic storytelling with nuanced, folk-infused indie rock, and is a brilliant rumination on time, love and personal growth that features both rediscovered musical fragments and brand new material. We recently caught up with Carbon Leaf founder Barry Privett on The Load Out music podcast to discuss all that is Carbon Leaf.