Talking with myself - or sometimes a guest - about the things that keep us up at night. New episodes released whenever there's something to talk about. As of late 2023, this podcast is still under construction. I'm building the plane while flying. You've been warned.
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A podcast about a business that produces podcasts. Not lemons.
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Jameson Foster is an ethnomusicology PhD student (University of Colorado Boulder, Peabody Conservatory) and journalist with specialized knowledge in the music history and culture of the Scandinavian countries. The Nordic Sound Channel is a platform for sharing his knowledge and passion for the education and promotion of Nordic music, both past and present.
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Share a dram with the hospitality industry’s top global talents: bartenders, venue owners, distillers and industry aficionados. Shawn Soole has lived, breathed, and imbibed hospitality for decades. Now, he delves into the advice, opinions, and provocative stories that are helping to define the creative, culturally-necessary space of ‘modern hospitality’—covering topics from front-of-house service, to back-end business operations, and every inch between. “Tales of the Cocktail” - Top 10 Best ...
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Raised along Route 66 in Kingman, Arizona, Old West historian and artist Bob Boze Bell and Western historian and travel writer Stuart Rosebrook team up from Cave Creek and Prescott, Arizona, to discuss the legendary “Mother Road,” Western travel and Old West history. They'll share and debate Route 66 and Two-Lane Tales with a great cast of characters, Western writers, artists, film makers, chroniclers, researchers and lovers of the American West from around the world.
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Album Review: Floating Sofa Quartet, "Kystnaert"
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Send us a Text Message. One of my favorite groups in the Nordic folk scene today is finally back, joined by the wonderful Norwegian hardanger fiddler Gura Kvifte Neisheim for the new maritime record "Kystnaert" This has been my most anticipated album of the summer, and for good reason. I fell deeply in love with this group back in 2016 with their i…
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Bülows Kvartett - "Vad än som i världen händer" [Album Review]
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Send us a Text Message. Let's dive into the debut album from a daring new folk/jazz quartet from Sweden. Support the Show.By Jameson Foster
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Send us a Text Message. A new kind of album review on the Nordic Sound Channel. And what better way to return to the grind than with a new release from one of my favorite Nordic singers, Eivør. Patreon.com/nordicsoundchannel "Eivør calls her Nordic home in the remote Faroe Islands a landscape of extremes. Sitting in the North Atlantic Ocean just ab…
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#33 - Chris Welch (Sun and Moon Dance
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An Example of How Conversations With My Night Brain Will Sound
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In this example episode of Conversations with My Night Brain, I introduce Monica, an AI voice generated by Descript, as my first guest. Monica shares insights into the unique concerns an AI might have, such as data integrity, ethical implications, and continuous learning. The conversation also delves into Monica’s interests outside of AI concerns, …
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Do you have to be a road warrior to drive on route 66? No but it often helps!
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This week join Stuart Rosebrook and Bob Boze Bell with Route 66 historian and former resident of Flagstaff, where the Ohio native lived right on The Mother Road while going to Northern Arizona University in the 1970s. He is a veteran road warrior of Route 66 and loves to write and share stories about the best places to visit and enjoy along Arizona…
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Send us a Text Message. Join me in welcoming Jonathan Barendsma of Gealdyr, a rising star in the dark folk scene. In this conversation, Jonathan and I discuss the importance of music and art as escape and vicarious living for those in difficult situations, a mutual love of soundtracks, and dancing the line between Nordic and Celtic soundworlds. Sup…
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#31 - Heathen Musicology and the Ancestral North with Ross Hagen
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Send us a Text Message. In this very special episode I'm joined by fellow musicologist and mentor Ross Hagen to talk heathen musicology and how he and Mathias Nordvig went about approaching "Ancestral North: Spirituality and Cultural Imagination in Nordic Ritual Folk Music" - a musicological book on the nordic pagan music scene. Thanks for the good…
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On this week's episode of "Two-Lane Tales," hosts Bob Boze Bell and Stuart Rosebrook visit with son of The Mother Road Max McCoy. Emporia, Kansas, resident McCoy was raised just off Old Route 66 in Baxter Springs, Kansas. An award-winning fiction and nonfiction author, McCoy is the current executive director of Western Writers of America. He is a l…
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Send us a Text Message. https://seidrblot.bandcamp.com In this interview, I'm happy to be joined by Visy Bloodaxe of Seidrblot to talk about a range of topics including the music he makes with the band, working with wood, how a love of medieval music led to him learning how to build his own instruments, and finding escape through music in a world f…
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Bob Boze Bell and Stuart Rosebrook welcome back Kingman, Arizona's King of the Mother Road Jim Hinckley to this week's episode of "Two-Lane Tales" for a raucous conversation about rock 'n roll, country music, dive bars, cars, celebrities and the 2024 "Fun Run" from Seligman to Kingman, Arizona.By Bob Boze Bell & Stuart Rosebrook
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A test re-broadcast of the great program with Chris Enss --- the comedian who became a Road Star
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Take a ride back into time on Old Route 66 and I-40 when author Chris Enss was pursuing her dreams of being the next primetime comedian! Bob Boze Bell and Stuart Rosebrook go along for the ride as Chris keeps the one-liners going all way from Santa Monica to Chicago, with a couple of side trips back to high school prom and earning laughs at the tou…
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Take a ride back into time on Old Route 66 and I-40 when author Chris Enss was pursuing her dreams of being the next primetime comedian! Bob Boze Bell and Stuart Rosebrook go along for the ride as Chris keeps the one-liners going all way from Santa Monica to Chicago, with a couple of side trips back to high school prom and earning laughs at the tou…
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Send us a Text Message. Do musicians get the final say in what their music is called, and is genre meant to be a literal descriptor of the music we hear? In the 3 years I’ve been running this channel, covering the music of Wardruna, Heilung, and almost everything in that sphere, I have had endless conversation over what to call this music with many…
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Ever wondered about the history of cars, music and beehive hairdos on Route 66? Hosts Bob Boze Bell and Stuart Rosebrook have a rumble with the King of the Road himself Jim Hinckley about growing up beside The Mother Road, the best versions of "Route 66," Elvis sightings, AM radio, Perfume Pass, hot rods and the best pie in Mohave County!…
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Send us a Text Message. Long have I been enchanted by the music of Ævestaden. The way these captivating musicians utilize instruments typically associated with dark folk (such as the lyre and bukkehorn), but instead put it in a folktronica setting where it somehow just fits so organically is a feat within itself. Solen var bättre där was on my top …
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Raised on The Mother Road in Kingman, Arizona, Two-Lane Tales' cohost Bob Boze Bell recounts the history of rock 'n roll, cars and high school bands during his storied childhood in the 1950s and 1960s. Learn how he joined a famous rock act in Las Vegas and was inspired to be a drummer just like Ringo Starr. The stories never end and the road goes o…
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Send us a Text Message. In this installment of the Nordic Sound Channel, I sit down with pagan folk veteran Kati Rán to talk about her two decades in the nordic dark folk scene, the changes she's seen take place over time, and of course, her new album Sála and her approach to the feminine skaldic perspective. Thanks for joining Kati, I'm really gla…
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Send us a Text Message. A very different interview this time around talking to a fellow academic! Join me in picking Ruben's brain about his archaeology scholarship on immersive sound in museums and music's ability to cultivate affective attachment to our world and history. Support the Show.By Jameson Foster
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Ever dreamed of growing up on Route 66? Well, "Two-Lane Tale's" cohost Bob Boze Bell did in Kingman, Arizona, but it wasn't until he was in his 60s that he realized that his childhood along the "Mother Road" in the 1950s and 1960s was a story that needed to be told. In this episode of "Two-Lane Tales," we learn from Bob how he was inspired to write…
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This Month in Nordic Music - Hamferd, Lindy-Fay Hella, Nils Økland, and more! [March 2024]
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Send us a Text Message. What a crazy, eclectic month for Nordic music! As good a time as any to try out recording in 4k ;) All of the new music this month (including singles and others not included in the video) are now featured in the Nordic Sound Channel's Discovery playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3LMGZolMTYQgLu0uFbEHgO?si=…
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On this weeks episode of Two-Lane tails, join Bob Bose Bell and Stuart Rosebrook in a lively conversation with Spur Award winning author Candy Moulton about her adventures trailing and writing about the heroine of the Lewis and Clark expedition, Sacajawea.By Bob Boze Bell & Stuart Rosebrook
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#26 - Lindy-Fay Hella (Dei Farne & Wardruna)
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Send us a Text Message. In this interview, I’m humbled to be joined by Lindy-Fay Hella of both Wardruna and Dei Farne to talk about her new album “Islet”, her undying love for Depeche Mode, and the mysteries of the sea. Thank you for joining, Lindy. As a long time fan, you have no idea how starstruck I am by the opportunity to chat with you about y…
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S1E5 The Legendary Western Artist Allen T. True
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When visitors stay at Russell True's White Stallion Ranch in Tucson, Arizona, they will discover a hidden gem: the private Western art gallery of legendary artist Allen T. True. Bob Boze Bell and Stuart Rosebrook have a rollicking discussion with Russell about his famous Uncle Allen True, a student of Howard Pyle and contemporary of N.C. Wyeth, May…
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Send us a Text Message. Hailing from beautiful Värmland in Sweden, Andreas Axelsson of the project Nattramn joins Jameson to talk about his latest album Gravmarken, his inspiration, and what brought him to the Dark Folk scene. Like myself, he's of the mind that "less is more" and we dive into our philosophies around writing and performing dark folk…
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The King of the Road is Back ... Jim Hinckley is here with more stories on the mother Road
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With 22 books under his belt, most of them on Route 66, Jim Hinckley is known far and wide as the world's expert on the Mother Road. A never-ending source of true and legendary tales of Route 66, Hinckley has lived most of his life in Kingman, Arizona, since the summer of 1966. In a rollicking showcase of everything 66, Hinckley shares in this epis…
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Join Two-Lane Tales' hosts Bob Boze Bell and Stuart Rosebrook from Tucson's White Stallion Ranch as they talk blue highway adventures across the West with the one of America's preeminent travel writers, Johnny D. Boggs.By Bob Boze Bell & Stuart Rosebrook
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#24 - Jacob Hee Lund (Heilung, Virelai, Asynje)
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Send us a Text Message. In this interview, I am humbled to invite Jacob Hee Lund for his first appearance on the Nordic Sound Channel. Mostly known as a member of Heilung, Jacob is actually a man of many, many hats and is a seasoned performer in the medieval reenactment scene in Denmark. In this interview, he walks us through his background, his co…
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This Month(ish) in Nordic Music - February 2024
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Send us a Text Message. PLEASE READ: This audio was stripped straight from Youtube, so I want to clarify for podcast listeners: I will be keeping up with reviews dedicated to podcast listeners even though this format will be leaving youtube. What this means for you all is, instead of getting audio from youtube videos for the podcasts, I will from h…
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When Ash Fork Arizona was the Center of the World
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Arizona's historian Marshall Trimble regales fellow 66 Kid Bob Boze Bell and road warrior-travel writer Stuart Rosebrook with Trimble's legendary tales of moving with his brother and parents to Ash Fork after World War II and what it was like growing up in a small town as the son of a Santa Fe Railway engineer.…
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With 22 books under his belt, most of them on Route 66, Jim Hinckley is known far and wide as the world's expert on the Mother Road. A never-ending source of true and legendary tales of Route 66, Hinckley has lived most of his life in Kingman, Arizona, since the summer of 1966. In a rollicking showcase of everything 66, Hinckley shares in this epis…
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Send us a Text Message. Live from University of Colorado Boulder, I sit down with the one and only Nicolas Schipper of Heilung after the last stop on their U.S. tour. In this conversation, Nic tells us about his journey in Heilung as an immigrant from Ecuador, shares his thoughts on the ever-contentious conversation of cultural appropriation, and w…
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Hot singles in your area! This Month(ish) in Nordic Music - January 2024
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Send us a Text Message. January is usually a slow month for music in the post-holidays hangover. In spite of this, we've been given some pretty awesome singles from a wide range of bands and musicians since the new year. Let's get into the awesome singles Nordic musicians revealed to us so far in 2024, teasing some highly anticipated new albums fro…
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Send us a Text Message. And I thought it was hard coming up with a top 5 list in 2022! Little did I know that in 2023, Nordic musicians - Norwegians in particular - would go so hard that I'd be forced to expand it to a list of 10 this year just to feel like I can paint a meaningful picture of this year's Nordic music scene. 2023 was an incredible y…
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Draumkvedet - A Very Pagan Christmas Story
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Send us a Text Message. To offer at least something festive to the channel, the holiday season gives me the perfect excuse to talk about the legendary Norwegian vision poem Draumkvedet, which has inspired so much music for such an old poem. This is also a little experiment for testing out content that ties folklore and music together because the re…
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November 2023 - This Monthish in Nordic Music
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Send us a Text Message. The November 2023 installment of "this monthish in Nordic music" is here with great music from Gåte, Mari Boine, Sigrid Moldestad, Sowulo, and Kalandra! Also, some more band announcements for Midgardsblot 2024! Patreon.com/Nordicsoundchannel Support the Show.By Jameson Foster
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Send us a Text Message. Patreon.com/nordicsoundchannel With this interview, I'm excited to introduce Noiduin as the first Finnish band to come onto the podcast! In this chat, Noiduin discusses their background as musicians, how Noiduin came to be (more romantic than one would expect!), and how Finnish folklore, rune singers, and witchcraft feed int…
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This Month(ish) in Nordic Music - New Music Reviews
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Send us a Text Message. Reviews of new nordic music that came out in the last month (or a little bit more!) Let me know if this is a format to keep! Featuring: Myrkur, Mari Boine, Gjermund Larsen Trio, Tonskalv, and more! Support the Show.By Jameson Foster
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In the Face of an AI Future, Do I Sell My Knowledge or Keep it All to Myself?
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It's almost impossible not to have AI on your brain these days. In this episode I relate a conversation I had with my night brain about whether I should try selling my knowledge and experience, or keep it all to myself. Colophon Recorded 2023-11-01 using: Heil PR40 Descript Transistor.fm Thanks to our monthly supporters Transistor.fm Abbey Fisher e…
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Remembering to remember that you've talked about things on previous episodes like celebrating your wins. Check out the full tutorial on my YouTube channel for how I recorded, edited, and published this episode. Colophon Recorded 2023-10-03 using: Heil PR40 Descript Transistor.fm Thanks to our monthly supporters Transistor.fm Abbey Fisher eileen sme…
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A Conversation About Remembering Your Personal Wins
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I'm not sure who needs to hear this one (hi. it's me. I'm the problem. it's me.) but remember to celebrate and journal your personal and work victories. Colophon Recorded 2023-09-22 using: Heil PR40 Descript Transistor.fm Thanks to our monthly supporters Transistor.fm Abbey Fisher eileen smee 3 Guys 3 Questions Marie Cee ★ Support this podcast on P…
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It's not that I hate it exactly, it's just that I can't stand listening to it anymore. My usual bit of swirling around on what this podcast is, isn't, and how I want to use it. Colophon Recorded 2023-09-20 using: iPhone 13 Pro Descript Transistor.fm Thanks to our monthly supporters Transistor.fm Abbey Fisher eileen smee 3 Guys 3 Questions Marie Cee…
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Send us a Text Message. patreon.com/nordicsoundchannel Jameson had the opportunity at Midgardsblot to sit down with the wonderful witches of Mio to talk about how the band came to be how the magic happens with their music. Please go support this gem of Oslo's underground scene at mioofficial.bandcamp.com This podcast is brought to you by the channe…
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Send us a Text Message. Let's talk about vikings, heritage, modernity, and spirituality. Support the Show.By Jameson Foster
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Send us a Text Message. Patreon.com/baldskald Jonas Lorentzen of Nebala joins the channel for an interview all the way from India to talk about Nebala's latest "Live at the Blot" production, the beauty of cultural appropriation, how downtime can be productive for musicians, and of course, what Nebala has cooking up for us next. Support the Show.…
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Send us a Text Message. Patreon.com/baldskald In this particularly explicit and rowdy interview, I'm joined by Daniel and Lancelot of Budapest's Aftenstorm who let off some steam about Brosatru and talk about what it takes to set yourself apart starting out in the dark folk scene. Have you checked out their debut album Ondt Blod? Support the Show.…
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#17 - Midgardsblot Opening Ceremony (Benny Braaten and Gustav Holberg)
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Send us a Text Message. Benny Braaten and Gustav Holberg of Folket Bortafor Nordavinden join me in this very special interview to talk about the origins of the Midgardsblot opening ritual and what to expect from it if it's your first time going. More importantly, though, Benny and Gustav open up about what they believe makes drumming so special com…
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Cascadian Midsummer 2023 - Thoughts, Impressions, and Reflections
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Send us a Text Message. [This episode is a test for putting other types of content from youtube onto the podcast beyond interviews.] Support the Show.By Jameson Foster
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Send us a Text Message. Patreon.com/baldskald Jesper Gräs, guitarist of IOTUNN joined the channel to talk about the importance of being open to different styles of music, not boxing yourself in as a musician, and of course, the story of Iotunn and how the band came to be. Support the Show.By Jameson Foster
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Send us a Text Message. Support the show: patreon.com/baldskald Join me in hanging out with Gangar's fiddler Mathias and drummer Dullum to learn more about making audacious folk rock while respecting the tradition that inspires them. Looking forward to seeing them at Midgardsblot 2023! Support the Show.…
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