http://shouldbefamous.com The best music you've never heard--very cool original music by people with REAL jobs. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:38:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en That is the question we seek to answer in this episode. We also try a little to get at the essence of LDS Music (music with an LDS (Mormon) theme, or even just any music by an LDS artist). We play some unfiltered examples. Joining our discussion as an ... http://shouldbefamous.com/2010/03/episode-10-lds-music-burn-it-or-build-it/ I'm too generous.  I really shouldn't be giving you all this great music for free.  I don't know how to justify it, except maybe that it's Thanksgiving and the recordings are pretty much one-takers.  (All done in one take.)  Five fun recordings here:  Breakfast at Tiffany's, Love Story (Taylor Swift), Abraham's Blood ... http://shouldbefamous.com/2009/11/21/ Front man to the famed 80's/90's band The Rainmakers, Bob is still a musical and creative genius pumping out catchy rootsy rock songs. He lives here in Kansas City and is an active performer and has a new album. Also has a lot of very loyal fans and friends. Get ... http://shouldbefamous.com/2009/10/episode-9-bob-walkenhorst/ Very possibly our most controversial and divisive podcast yet, we explore what to some (if there are any others like me) is beautiful and cool and to others may be absolutely hideous garbage: music played backwards and/or sped up just for the fun of it. I specifically request your ... http://shouldbefamous.com/2009/09/backwards-and-sped-up/ No, I'm not mad. I'm talking about the celtic-american-folk family group. I spoke with Dad Marco and one of the three daughters, Liz. Very interesting family and they've done some great things musically. And they're actually pretty good about getting their music out there (unlike some ... http://shouldbefamous.com/2009/08/episode-8-fiddlesticks/ R Ahrens, currently a family man and an attorney living in New Jersey, had a band in college called the Ahrens Band. As it turns out, he's the brother of my wife's former missionary companion, so I feel we're pretty close. Seriously, we've enjoyed his CD for many years and ... http://shouldbefamous.com/2009/07/episode-7-r-ahrens/ Me playing with a cassette tape deck, seeing what it does to the sound to overdrive it.  Some of the distortion is from overdriving the input, probably, and some from analog tape saturation.  Either way, it sounds coooool!  I explain what's going on in dumb-person terms. I really do have some ... http://shouldbefamous.com/2009/06/episode-685-tape-saturation/ ...for a real episode, here's a spontaneous recording of So Fine, an old Sibling Revelry classic, and one of the first songs I wrote, in a different feel than the original, which only exists on our first album, which was a tape, and which is a little hard to come ... http://shouldbefamous.com/2009/05/ahemuh-while-were-waiting/ It's been a little while but it's good to be back! This is another in-between episode where I basically play some neat music while playing with a toy I'm borrowing from the custodial manager guy I know from work called an Aural Exciter. I forgot to mention that ... http://shouldbefamous.com/2009/04/episode-65-aural-excitement/ On this day of love, we explore some great love songs, some well-known and some never before heard until today!  Have a great Valentine's Day! http://shouldbefamous.com/2009/02/episode-6-valentines-podcast/