Acoustic Conversations » Episodes http://acousticconversations.com Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:02:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Acoustic Conversations with Tyler Stenson II http://acousticconversations.com/2010/08/acoustic-conversations-with-tyler-stenson-ii/ http://acousticconversations.com/2010/08/acoustic-conversations-with-tyler-stenson-ii/#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:11:59 +0000 Pete http://acousticconversations.com/?p=273 “Leave Oregon. It’s the first song I play when I hit the stage in Nashville … but it really is OH-re-gon,” Tyler Stenson tells us, noting with pride that even though he’s moved to Nashville, he remembers his roots. He’s in Portland for a CD release tour, giving us the honor of a drive-by catch-up session with five new songs and a raft of new experiences to share. Enjoy the show this week, and the live tracks we recorded with Tyler, all free to subscribers in iTunes or our newsletter. And of course, don’t forget to join our Fan Page on Facebook!

Exclusive Acoustic Conversations with Tyler Stenson tracks are available for free to anyone who subscribes to the show in iTunes or the Acoustic Conversations newsletter. Here’s what you’ll get:

  1. Welcome the Change
  2. Leave Oregon
  3. Blush
  4. That Moon
  5. Roderigo (Cover, Seven Mary Three)

As usual, all tracks are 256k AAC Mp4′s in the feed. We hope you enjoy them! You can learn more about Tyler on his site, www.tylerstenson.com.

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Exclusive Acoustic Conversations with Matthew Price tracks are available for free to anyone who subscribes to the show in iTunes or the Acoustic Conversations newsletter. Here’s what you’ll get:

  1. Revolution
  2. Idol
  3. Until Sunlight Touches the Ground
  4. One Hit Wonder
  5. My Jesus, I Love Thee (Cover, Trad.)
  6. Not Just On Valentine’s Day

As usual, all tracks are 256k AAC Mp4′s in the feed. We hope you enjoy them! You can learn more about Matt on his site, www.matthewpricemusic.com, and buy his music in Matthew Price - Stranded.

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Exclusive Acoustic Conversations with Jake Oken-Berg tracks are available for free to anyone who subscribes to the show in iTunes or the Acoustic Conversations newsletter. Here’s what you’ll get:

  1. Come Down
  2. Far From Home
  3. In Front of Me
  4. Out the Door
  5. End of the Innocence (Don Henley and Bruce Hornsby)
  6. Love Letter (The Retrofits)

As usual, all tracks are 256k AAC Mp4′s in the feed. We hope you enjoy them! You can learn more about Jake on his site, www.jakeokenberg.com, and buy his music in the iTunes Store.

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Exclusive Acoustic Conversations with James Jeffrey-West tracks available for free to anyone who subscribes to the show in iTunes (Click here to visit the show in the iTunes Store), ore the AcConvo Newsletter:

  1. Blessings
  2. Last Bus from the Old Market Square
  3. Ain’t No Good Gonna Come
  4. People Get Ready (Otis Redding cover)
  5. Sacramento International
  6. Half a World Away

As usual, all tracks are 256k AAC MP4′s. We hope you enjoy them! You can learn more about James on his site, www.jamesjeffreywest.com.

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Exclusive Acoustic Conversations with Lisa Forkish tracks available for free to anyone who subscribes to the show in iTunes (Click here to visit the show in the iTunes Store), ore the AcConvo Newsletter:

  1. Yesterday’s Leaves
  2. Oblivion
  3. Waiting
  4. Don’t Explain (Billie Holiday cover)
  5. The Same Moon
  6. Iceland Sky

As usual, all tracks are 256k AAC MP4′s. We hope you enjoy them!

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Exclusive Acoustic Conversations with Justin Jude tracks available for free to anyone who subscribes to the show in iTunes (Click here to visit the show in the iTunes Store), or the AcConvo Newsletter:

  1. Bad News
  2. Out of State
  3. Eat Sleep Dream
  4. Complain Lane
  5. I Won’t Save Your Life
  6. Running to Stand Still (U2)

As usual, all tracks are 256k AAC MP4′s. We hope you enjoy them!

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Exclusive Acoustic Conversations with Dustin Pattison tracks available for free to anyone who subscribes to the show in iTunes (Click here to visit the show in the iTunes Store):

  1. Peace With God
  2. No It Don’t
  3. In The Flames
  4. Give Us Peace
  5. Irish Lullaby
  6. The Ballad of the Carpenter (Ewan MacColl, 1954)
  7. One By One By One

As usual, all tracks are 256k AAC MP4′s. We hope you enjoy them!

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Exclusive Acoustic Conversations with Matt Vrba tracks available for free to anyone who subscribes to the show in iTunes (Click here to visit the show in the iTunes Store):

  1. Forever Bound
  2. Best Thing
  3. The Bridge
  4. Day I Died
  5. Ramblin Man (The Allman Brothers Cover)
  6. The Trucker Song

As usual, all tracks are 256k AAC MP4s. We hope you enjoy them!

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Exclusive Acoustic Conversations with Sam Wegman tracks available for free… to anyone who subscribes to the show in iTunes (Click here to visit the show in the iTunes Store):

  1. Room With Walls
  2. Gail
  3. That’s What Angels Can Do (Wood Brothers Cover)
  4. Things I did in June
  5. New Look Lovers
  6. Kings & Queens

As usual, all tracks are 256k AAC MP4s. We hope you enjoy them!

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Exclusive Acoustic Conversations with Tyler Stenson tracks available for free… to anyone who subscribes to the show in iTunes (Click here to visit the show in the iTunes Store):

  1. You Already Know
  2. Radiate
  3. Better Be Us All
  4. Wyoming
  5. The Road
  6. Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover)
  7. Push That River
  8. Explode

As usual, all tracks are 256k AAC MP4s. We hope you enjoy them!

]]> http://acousticconversations.com/2009/01/tyler-stenson/feed/ 4 Acoustic Conversations with outPost http://acousticconversations.com/2008/06/outpost/ http://acousticconversations.com/2008/06/outpost/#comments Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:58:22 +0000 Pete http://acousticconversations.com/?p=17 These guys have been playing as a together as a band for eight months and already have the tone and grist of seasoned pros. We caught up with them early the same evening they were due to pick up the gold master of their first album, Crack the Pavement.

They did their best to mask their nerves about the whole ordeal, unconvincingly as the night wore on, yet they still managed to turn out six tight living room tracks for A/C. These are jam tunes, rhythm and flow, that smack of Sublime, Blues Traveller, a hint of Jamiroquai, and more than healthy dash of Marley and Judge Roughneck. Beware of these tracks, people. There are bona fide hits hanging out in this show, ear-worms that’ll have you singing the outPost brand of reggae for days on end.

BUT — NO!!!

Alas, the tracks are gone. They’re not available. They have vanished. They are … no… more. 

The free tracks from A/C artists are available for 30 days after the show in the show feed in iTunes. If you haven’t subscribed, you’re missing out on some great music. Go ahead — crack open iTunes and get busy downloading the new stuff!

]]> http://acousticconversations.com/2008/06/outpost/feed/ 0 Acoustic Conversations with The Bart Ferguson Band http://acousticconversations.com/2008/05/the-bart-ferguson-band/ http://acousticconversations.com/2008/05/the-bart-ferguson-band/#comments Sat, 03 May 2008 06:15:18 +0000 Pete http://acousticconversations.com/?p=3 From “Nine Days Wonder” to “The Strangers” to “Kerosene Dream” to “The Bart Ferguson Band”, our guests this week have been making music. Over two decades, and a roller coaster of tours and dances with commercial success, the band is evolving once again. Success means something different than it did in the early days, but the band is still moving audiences. As for music, we’ve got five freebies for show subscribers — the list is after the jump.

BUT — NO!!!

Alas, the tracks are gone. They’re not available. They have vanished. They are … no… more.

The free tracks from A/C artists are available for 30 days after the show in the show feed in iTunes. If you haven’t subscribed, you’re missing out on some great music. Go ahead — crack open iTunes and get busy downloading the new stuff!

]]> http://acousticconversations.com/2008/05/the-bart-ferguson-band/feed/ 0 Acoustic Conversations with Dolorean http://acousticconversations.com/2008/03/dolorean/ http://acousticconversations.com/2008/03/dolorean/#comments Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:25:20 +0000 Pete http://acousticconversations.com/?p=1 This week we sit down with Al James from Dolorean to talk about the recent release of their fourth album, You Can’t Win which, conveniently, you can purchase from the AcConvo store. Al plays four tracks off the new album for us available for a short time in the main podcast feed.

BUT — NO!!!

Alas, the tracks are gone. They’re not available. They have vanished. They are … no… more. 

The free tracks from A/C artists are available for 30 days after the show in the show feed in iTunes. If you haven’t subscribed, you’re missing out on some great music. Go ahead — crack open iTunes and get busy downloading the new stuff!

]]> http://acousticconversations.com/2008/03/dolorean/feed/ 0 John Carlson http://acousticconversations.com/2008/01/john-carlson/ http://acousticconversations.com/2008/01/john-carlson/#comments Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:40:45 +0000 Pete http://acousticconversations.com/?p=52 Where’s John’s show, you ask? AWESOME QUESTION. Seriously. You should do something with that big bad brain. 

The show is gone. It’ll be back. Hang tight. And more importantly, check the podcast feed, subscribe, and then call your mother and pet your dog. They both miss you terribly.

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