//podcastplus.net/feed/podcast~184c497333f3ab0989af276e18414212f4635ce6d1b1eb47c2da158f1c1cd9ab The Show On The Road features interviews and exclusive acoustic performances with songwriters, bandleaders and musicians from around the world. Hosted by Dustbowl Revival's Z. Lupetin, each episode features an in-depth and playfully creative conversation about the real day to day lives of artists and their inspirations. Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:46:46 +0000 https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/f9a6eacd-9f78-4ccd-bc93-27fdf8593536/stream.mp3 This week, to help celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, we bring you conversation with a rising star in folklorico-pop hailing from Veracruz, Mexico: Silvana Estrada. Currently on her first tour of the United States opening for Rodrigo y Gabriela, Estrada has already made a name for herself in Mexico, renown for her deft finger-picking on the Cuatro, and her ever-bending, darting vocal mastery. Songs from her first EP including the soaring electronic-beat driven “El Guardo” have been listened to over twenty million times and counting - and a collaboration with Mexican roots-rock hero Natalie Lafourcade came last year too.  At only 24, Estrada, the daughter of two instrument makers, is just coming into her own as a songwriter, dipping into her love affairs and private passions with a true clear-eyed poet's pen. Singles off her debut album Marchita for Glassnote Records have already landed to great acclaim, and she’s the label's first Spanish-language signing ever. Look no further than the he... Thu, 14 Oct 2021 09:00:00 +0000 https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/f9a6eacd-9f78-4ccd-bc93-27fdf8593536/stream.mp3 https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/f9a6eacd-9f78-4ccd-bc93-27fdf8593536/stream.mp3 This week, to help celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, we bring you conversation with a rising star in folklorico-pop hailing from Veracruz, Mexico: Silvana Estrada. Currently on her first tour of the United States opening for Rodrigo y Gabriela, Estrada has already made a name for herself in Mexico, renown for her deft finger-picking on the Cuatro, and her ever-bending, darting vocal mastery. Songs from her first EP including the soaring electronic-beat driven “El Guardo” have been listened to over twenty million times and counting - and a collaboration with Mexican roots-rock hero Natalie Lafourcade came last year too.  At only 24, Estrada, the daughter of two instrument makers, is just coming into her own as a songwriter, dipping into her love affairs and private passions with a true clear-eyed poet's pen. Singles off her debut album Marchita for Glassnote Records have already landed to great acclaim, and she’s the label's first Spanish-language signing ever. Look no fur... Thu, 14 Oct 2021 09:00:00 +0000 https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/f9a6eacd-9f78-4ccd-bc93-27fdf8593536/stream.mp3 https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/c06be521-b185-4087-9a9b-14e1a36a0c9b/stream.mp3 This week, we bring you a half-century-spanning talk with the Grammy-winning ringleader of one of American roots music’s most durable and iconic bands, Ray Benson of Asleep at the Wheel. The episode is a celebration of their fifty years of diligent song collecting, Western swing camaraderie and epic genre-spanning collaboration - and features first listens of their new record Half a Hundred Years which drops on October 1. The record covers old classics and tells new stories, with spritely cameos from fellow Texans Lyle Lovett and Willie Nelson. Aligning behind Benson’s commanding, deep voice and impeccable song-historian’s taste, Ray has managed what few bandleaders in country music - or any genre - have: keeping a talented rotating band of mostly-acoustic players together from 1972 on, with little break from the road. Willie Nelson and others have long championed their work, and indeed the band had fans in even higher places: on September 11, 2001, the group was set to perform at The White House.Asleep... Thu, 30 Sep 2021 08:00:00 +0000 https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/c06be521-b185-4087-9a9b-14e1a36a0c9b/stream.mp3 https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/c06be521-b185-4087-9a9b-14e1a36a0c9b/stream.mp3 This week, we bring you a half-century-spanning talk with the Grammy-winning ringleader of one of American roots music’s most durable and iconic bands, Ray Benson of Asleep at the Wheel. The episode is a celebration of their fifty years of diligent song collecting, Western swing camaraderie and epic genre-spanning collaboration - and features first listens of their new record Half a Hundred Years which drops on October 1. The record covers old classics and tells new stories, with spritely cameos from fellow Texans Lyle Lovett and Willie Nelson. Aligning behind Benson’s commanding, deep voice and impeccable song-historian’s taste, Ray has managed what few bandleaders in country music - or any genre - have: keeping a talented rotating band of mostly-acoustic players together from 1972 on, with little break from the road. Willie Nelson and others have long championed their work, and indeed the band had fans in even higher places: on September 11, 2001, the group was set to perform at The White House.Asleep... Thu, 30 Sep 2021 08:00:00 +0000 https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/c06be521-b185-4087-9a9b-14e1a36a0c9b/stream.mp3 https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/6e7c0fd3-a219-4c18-af49-27b231096ac0/stream.mp3 This week, we talk to Brooklyn-based bandleader and jazz-roots singer extraordinaire Sammy Rae, who for the last four years has barnstormed the country with her kinetic octet The Friends. Look, when you’re young and inspired, you drop out of college, you’re waiting tables and you think about starting a jazzy pop band - most people (as well as common sense and basic economics) tell you to start small. Get a few like-minded musicians in a room, work and work your best songs, try packing out a few local shows, put some radio-ready singles on the internet, do a music video or two. See what happens. But Sammy Rae does her own thing and has done pretty much the opposite.Much like your host of this fine program (who went against all advice and began Dustbowl Revival as an 8-10 piece genre-bending New Orleans-string band mashup in 2008), Sammy has harnessed the open-minded, countercultural energy of Broadway musicals, the slinky funk-pop of the 1970s AM radio and her own rapid-fire poetic style to create a massiv... Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:00:00 +0000 https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/6e7c0fd3-a219-4c18-af49-27b231096ac0/stream.mp3 https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/6e7c0fd3-a219-4c18-af49-27b231096ac0/stream.mp3 This week, we talk to Brooklyn-based bandleader and jazz-roots singer extraordinaire Sammy Rae, who for the last four years has barnstormed the country with her kinetic octet The Friends. Look, when you’re young and inspired, you drop out of college, you’re waiting tables and you think about starting a jazzy pop band - most people (as well as common sense and basic economics) tell you to start small. Get a few like-minded musicians in a room, work and work your best songs, try packing out a few local shows, put some radio-ready singles on the internet, do a music video or two. See what happens. But Sammy Rae does her own thing and has done pretty much the opposite.Much like your host of this fine program (who went against all advice and began Dustbowl Revival as an 8-10 piece genre-bending New Orleans-string band mashup in 2008), Sammy has harnessed the open-minded, countercultural energy of Broadway musicals, the slinky funk-pop of the 1970s AM radio and her own rapid-fire poetic style to create a massiv... Thu, 16 Sep 2021 08:00:00 +0000 https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/6e7c0fd3-a219-4c18-af49-27b231096ac0/stream.mp3 https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/23db03b5-b4e4-4544-b71d-b60d4a889f6a/stream.mp3 This week, we go on a deep dive with Madi Diaz, a sought-after Nashville-based songwriter who may have dropped among the most devastating and powerful break-up albums of the decade with her newest LP History Of A Feeling, a searing debut on Anti- Records. If you’ve made it to the doldrums of your mid-thirties, you’ve probably had your heart broken once or thrice. Diaz is no exception, except unlike the rest of us who may try and forget all about those lost love affairs, Diaz does the opposite. She chronicles the destruction of her last relationship with a craftsman’s precision, creating a series of unvarnished, seething, diaristic songs about an ongoing and fractured grieving process. Diaz opens with the gut-puncher “Rage,” which says a lot even if it's under two minutes long. Is it ok to not be ready to move on? To hate that you HAVE to move on? Soon after she’s “Crying In Public” and immediately after that she’s baring her teeth in the standout acoustic single “Resentment” - which was ... Thu, 02 Sep 2021 08:00:00 +0000 https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/23db03b5-b4e4-4544-b71d-b60d4a889f6a/stream.mp3 https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/23db03b5-b4e4-4544-b71d-b60d4a889f6a/stream.mp3 This week, we go on a deep dive with Madi Diaz, a sought-after Nashville-based songwriter who may have dropped among the most devastating and powerful break-up albums of the decade with her newest LP History Of A Feeling, a searing debut on Anti- Records. If you’ve made it to the doldrums of your mid-thirties, you’ve probably had your heart broken once or thrice. Diaz is no exception, except unlike the rest of us who may try and forget all about those lost love affairs, Diaz does the opposite. She chronicles the destruction of her last relationship with a craftsman’s precision, creating a series of unvarnished, seething, diaristic songs about an ongoing and fractured grieving process. Diaz opens with the gut-puncher “Rage,” which says a lot even if it's under two minutes long. Is it ok to not be ready to move on? To hate that you HAVE to move on? Soon after she’s “Crying In Public” and immediately after that she’s baring her teeth in the standout acoustic single “Resentment” - wh... Thu, 02 Sep 2021 08:00:00 +0000 https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/23db03b5-b4e4-4544-b71d-b60d4a889f6a/stream.mp3 https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/29884d54-4955-4912-869b-5574fb3c678f/stream.mp3 This week, we dial into North Carolina for a comprehensive conversation with Grammy-nominated songwriter MC Taylor, who for the last decade and a half has created heart-wrenchingly personal and subtly political music fronting the acclaimed roots group Hiss Golden Messenger.With his newest release Quietly Blowing It, Taylor continues to tell stories that are at turns hopeful and devastating – as if deeply examining his own faults and features as a father, husband, citizen and artist can help us understand our own struggles during this deeply strange time. Despite the often delicate delivery of his vocal performances, it isn’t a shock to see that Taylor, who grew up in California before heading to the south, did start in the hardcore and punk worlds before he became one of the faces of the Americana resurgence. While a song like “Hardlytown” feels like a jangly lost Basement Tapes take from The Band, Taylor subtly mines his own confusion about how broken our once-ambitious country has become. Why can’... Thu, 19 Aug 2021 11:00:00 +0000 https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/29884d54-4955-4912-869b-5574fb3c678f/stream.mp3 https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/29884d54-4955-4912-869b-5574fb3c678f/stream.mp3 This week, we dial into North Carolina for a comprehensive conversation with Grammy-nominated songwriter MC Taylor, who for the last decade and a half has created heart-wrenchingly personal and subtly political music fronting the acclaimed roots group Hiss Golden Messenger.With his newest release Quietly Blowing It, Taylor continues to tell stories that are at turns hopeful and devastating – as if deeply examining his own faults and features as a father, husband, citizen and artist can help us understand our own struggles during this deeply strange time. Despite the often delicate delivery of his vocal performances, it isn’t a shock to see that Taylor, who grew up in California before heading to the south, did start in the hardcore and punk worlds before he became one of the faces of the Americana resurgence. While a song like “Hardlytown” feels like a jangly lost Basement Tapes take from The Band, Taylor subtly mines his own confusion about how broken our once-ambitious country has become. Why can’... Thu, 19 Aug 2021 11:00:00 +0000 https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/29884d54-4955-4912-869b-5574fb3c678f/stream.mp3