Chicagoan Francesca Folinazzo (Frank) founded Roots Music Rambler as a music and travel blog in a pre-pandemic world. COVID killed events and travel plus her desire to play her banjo. Falls texted her in 2023 and said, 'Let's bring it back as a podcast!' He was raised on John Prine, babysat on Waylon Jennings and taught to drink and cuss the proper, mountain way. He hails from Pikeville, Ky., the birthplace of Dwight Yoakum, whose annual festival is Hillbilly Days.
Irish singer-songwriter Mark Geary joined Roots Music Rambler this week to talk about his latest album, songwriting and so much more. He gave a way a bit of his secrets in this clip, explaining the “knife” of Irish music is happy melody with dark, melancholy lyrics.
Hear more insights from the sonaBlast Records artist at rootsmusicrambler.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
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For Ireland’s Mark Geary, America was everything. He moved to New York in the 1990s and cut his teeth in the music business alongside legendary artists like Jeff Buckley. Thirty years later, his songs continue to paint pictures of the modern Irish experience, especially as it relates to America. Geary sat down with Roots Music…
A new episode of Roots Music Rambler comes your way tomorrow! This week, we sit in with Irish singer-songwriter Mark Geary. He bought a one-way ticket to New York in the 1990s and honed his craft in the same types of Greenwich Village clubs seen in “A Complete Unknown,” the recent Bob Dylan biography film.
Geary said they were all still there and that was a magical way to find your path as a new artist.
Hear the full interview plus Frank and Falls’s Pickin’ the Grinnin’ picks of the week at rootsmusicrambler.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
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A new episode of Roots Music Rambler drops Friday! This week, we sit in with Irish singer-songwriter Mark Geary to talk about songwriting, his most recent album, coming of age in New York in the 1990s and more.
In this clip, Mark talks about the notion of “finding your voice” as an artist which he says comes through lived experience.
Hear the full interview plus Frank and Falls’s Pickin’ the Grinnin’ picks of the week at rootsmusicrambler.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Over the last few years, no producer has risen in the ranks in Nashville more than @shooterjennings. This week on Roots Music Rambler, one of his produce-ees, @loganledger, talked about how Shooter came to work on his latest album, a gem called “Golden State.”
Frank and Falls also talk about a weird Jim Morrison documentary, westerns and share their Pickin’ the Grinnin’ picks of the week. Find the episode now at rootsmusicrambler.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
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