Rainy Days Podcast

Rainy Days Podcast episode five features a conversation between host Danny Newcomb and Shelby Earl, a Seattle-based songwriter and singer. Shelby Earl’s first two albums earned the kind of raves any musician would kill for. Upon hearing her 2011 debut, Burn the Boats, NPR’s Ann Powers called Earl her “new favorite songwriter,” and she wasn’t alone. Accolades followed from Rolling Stone to the Wall Street Journal and a million music sites in between that positioned her somewhere to the left of Neko Case, a few blocks from Sharon Van Etten, catercorner to Angel Olsen. She toured everywhere, playing with the likes of Loudon Wainwright, Rhett Miller, and Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, who spoke for many people when he said Earl had “the most heartbreakingly beautiful voice in Seattle.”

Rainy Days Podcast episode four features a conversation between host Danny Newcomb and Ann powers a music critic for NPR, a Seattle-grown music writer with two books, a myriad of essays and articles to her name, and a kind, sweet person who is a fierce advocate for new music and a challenger (in the best rock and roll spirit) of convention and limitations in the voicing of the American soul.

Rainy Days episode two features a conversation between friends, Danny Newcomb and Nancy Wilson of Heart. They discuss the early days of Heart and their grueling touring schedule, scoring films, her first solo record, and what makes Seattle’s music scene so unique.

Head to The Homestead, Newcomb’s members-only site for bonus clips and content from this conversation.

Rainy Days episode two features a conversation between friends, Danny Newcomb and Easy Street Records owner, Matt Vaughan. They discuss, how he grew up in town with a single mom who was an independent radio promoter, how he went on tour with Alice In Chains, started his independent record store, and fostered and encouraged local acts like Brandi Carlile and Macklemore since the 1990s. Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, and Woody Guthrie’s visits to Seattle get tossed in the hopper as they further discuss the epic myth of the far north. Head to The Homestead, Newcomb’s members-only site for bonus clips and content from this conversation.