Best Daniel Donato Podcasts (2024)

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Billy Strings Renewal 2024 Recap at Cottonwood Meadows - Part 2 (S1.11) 41:29

4h ago41:29

41:29

Check out Ep.11 of the Music Festivals Podcast where share the week's music festival news, and even more footage of Billy Strings Renewal 2024 at Cottonwood Meadows in Buena Vista, Colorado. 🗞️ Music Festival News for the Week of Friday October 4th, 2024 🗞️ This week's news includes some updates on the upcoming benefit Concert for Carolina at Bank …

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S1.10 Billy Strings Renewal Recap at The Meadows in Buena Vista, CO (Part 1) 30:23

5d ago30:23

30:23

Check out Ep.10 of the Music Festivals Podcast where share the week's music festival news, and the first recap footage of Billy Strings Renewal 2024 at Cottonwood Meadows in Buena Vista, Colorado. 🗞️ Music Festival News for the Week of Friday October 4th, 2024 🗞️ Dive into the details of Strings and Soul festival in Mexico and the sold-out Baja Won…

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S1.09 - Music Festival Recap: Lazy Jam 6 at Lazy Acres in Hartsville, IN 33:09

12d ago33:09

33:09

Check out Ep.09 of the Music Festivals Podcast where share the week's music festival news on some crazy shit that happened at Legend Valley this past week at one of the largest U.S. music festivals around today. You'll also get the full recap from Lazy Jam 6 at Lazy Acres in Hartsville, IN where I'll show some performances and give you my reactions…

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S1.08 Music Festival Travel Planning to Cottonwood Meadows & Billy Strings Renewal 2024 25:28

19d ago25:28

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Check out Ep.08 of the Music Festivals Podcast where share the week's music festival news, planning tips and helpful tools that I've used to plan travel to Cottonwood Meadows for Billy Strongs Renewal 2024. 🗞️ Music Festival News for the Week of Friday September 20th, 2024 🗞️ Discover the latest on the highly anticipated Mepho Music Festival, inclu…

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S1.07 - Austin & the Syd Experience on Becoming a Music Festival Circuit Band 43:27

27d ago43:27

43:27

Check out Ep 07 of the Music Festivals Podcast where I talk with Austin Johnson and Syd Alexis about their band Austin & the Syd Experience and the path to becoming a festival band. They preformed at #musicfestivals like Ohio Dreamfest, Hookahville, Columbus's ComFest recently. Austin even shares his experience preforming on the blues circuit and a…

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S1.05 Recap of Grateful Fest & Grassfire Music Festivals 2024 at Nelson Ledges Quarry Park, Garrettsville OH 41:39

27d ago41:39

41:39

In Ep05 of the Music Festivals Podcast, I'm recapping two #musicfestivals held this summer at one of my favorite venues Nelson Ledges Quarry Park in Garrettsville, Ohio @nelsonledgesquarrypark4618 #nlqp. You'll also get some tips on how to prep your generator for #festivals so that it you'll have solid power all weekend and more importantly, you do…

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S1.04 Daniel Donato on his Camp Cosmic Music Festival at The Caverns 1:04:03

28d ago1:04:03

1:04:03

Join me, Neighbor N8, as I dive into a super interesting conversation with Daniel Donato. We get into his journey over the last 11 years, from busking in Nashville to one of the hottest up and coming musicians on the music festival scene. You'll also get some insider info on the 2nd Camp Cosmic music festival that will be hosted at The Caverns in P…

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S1.03 Dark Star Jubilee 2024 at Legend Valley, Ohio: Music Festival Reviews 30:05

1M ago30:05

30:05

Join me, Neighbor N8, as as I review the highlights, the scene and the vibe of Dark Star Jubilee 2024 at Legend Valley in Thornville, Ohio! Get to know this annual music festival and historic Ohio concert venue before you go so that you can be better prepared to have an amazing experience. Get the scoop on ticket prices, camping options, and stando…

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S1.02 Lazy Jam Music Festival Spotlight with Ed McGee of One Under 48:31

1M ago48:31

48:31

In this episode of the Music Festivals Podcast, I'm joined by singer-song writer Ed McGee to discuss his musical journey and the bands he's been a part of. From his early days in Columbus Ohio to his move back to Vermont and work on his current projects. Ed shares a lot of cool stories about his career in music. We also talk about his upcoming reun…

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S1.06 - Hookahville Music Festival Recap - Fall 2024 at J&M Ranch in Ansonia, Ohio 42:13

1M ago42:13

42:13

Check out Episode 6 of the Music Festivals Podcast where we recap the entire weekend at the 30th Year Anniversary of the Hookahville Music Festival, held at J&M Ranch in Ansonia, Ohio from August 30th to September 1st, 2024. Inside this Week's Episode 🗺️ Get a feel for the Music Festival Venue at J&M Ranch 🤔 Learn about Ekoostik Hookah and the othe…

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S1.01 Getting to Know CaveFest and The Caverns in with Founder, Todd Mayo 38:26

2M ago38:26

38:26

Hey there, Neighbors! In today’s episode of The Music Festivals Podcast, we’re kicking back with Todd Mayo, the creative force behind The Caverns and CaveFest in Pelham, Tennessee. Todd dives into his thrilling journey from dreaming up a music venue inside a cave to establishing it as a global attraction that draws Neighbors from every corner of th…

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The Future is Fine Tuned (with Dev Rishi, Predibase) 52:28

5M ago52:28

52:28

Dev Rishi is the founder and CEO of Predibase, the company behind Ludwig and LoRAX. Predibase just released LoRA Land, a technical report showing 310 models that can outcompete GPT-4 on specific tasks through fine-tuning. In this episode, Dev tries (pretty successfully) to convince me that fine-tuning is the future, while answering a bunch of inter…

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Pre-training LLMs: One Model To Rule Them All? with Talfan Evans, DeepMind 37:36

5M ago37:36

37:36

Talfan Evans is a research engineer at DeepMind, where he focuses on data curation and foundational research for pre-training LLMs and multimodal models like Gemini. I ask Talfan: Will one model rule them all? What does "high quality data" actually mean in the context of LLM training? Is language model pre-training becoming commoditized? Are compan…

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On Adversarial Training & Robustness with Bhavna Gopal 44:05

5M ago44:05

44:05

"Understanding what's going on in a model is important to fine-tune it for specific tasks and to build trust." Bhavna Gopal is a PhD candidate at Duke, research intern at Slingshot with experience at Apple, Amazon and Vellum. We discuss How adversarial robustness research impacts the field of AI explainability. How do you evaluate a model's ability…

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On Emotionally Intelligent AI (with Chris Gagne, Hume AI) 39:53

6M ago39:53

39:53

Chris Gagne manages AI research at Hume, which just released an expressive text-to-speech model in a super impressive demo. Chris and Daniel discuss AI and emotional understanding: How does “prosody” add a dimension to human communication? What is Hume hoping to gain by adding it to Human-AI communication? Do we want to interact with AI like we int…

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Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned (with Joel Lehman) 47:07

7M ago47:07

47:07

Former OpenAI Research Scientist Joel Lehman joins to discuss the non-linear nature of technological progress and the present day implications of his book, Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned. Joel co-authored the book with Kenneth Stanley back in 2015. The two did ML research at OpenAI, Uber, and the University of Central Florida and wrote the book ba…

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Where are the good AI products? (with Varun Shenoy) 46:54

7M ago46:54

46:54

“Where are the good AI products?” asks Varun Shenoy, ML engineer in his latest blog post. Varun and I talk through: What are the cool applications that exist? Why aren't there more of them? What do (the few) good AI application companies have in common? What technological or societal leaps are blocking the existence of more AI apps that matter? The…

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The End of RAG (with Donato Riccio) 40:13

8M ago40:13

40:13

ML Engineer and tech writer Donato Riccio wrote an article entitled "The End of RAG?" discussing what might replace Retrieval Augmented Generation in the near future. The article was received as highly controversial within the AI echo chamber, so I brought Donato on the podcast to discuss RAG, why people are so obsessed with vector databases, and t…

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GPUs and how the cloud is changing (with Cedana Founder, Neel Master) 42:48

9M ago42:48

42:48

What’s going on with GPUs? We talk through the GPU bottleneck/supply gut, Meta’s apparent 600,000 H100-equivalents and the future of the GPU cloud. Neel Master is the CEO and founder of Cedana, enabling pause/migrate/resume for compute jobs. Neel is a serial entrepreneur, former founder of Engooden and angel investor. He started his career in ML re…

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Live Video Translation with AI 28:37

9M ago28:37

28:37

Founders of Lingopal, Deven Orie and Casey Schneider, join to talk about their startup story, developing real-time translation software for enterprises. Topics include: Why is translation so hard? How are enterprise and consumer AI products different (e.g. Google Translate vs Lingopal)? Should AI product companies be doing AI research? Is it safe t…

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Is open-source AI safe? (with SafeLlama founder, Enoch Kan) 36:55

9M ago36:55

36:55

Founder of the SafeLlama community, Enoch Kan joins us today, to talk about safety in open source and medical AI. Enoch previously worked in AI for radiology, focused on mammography at Kheiron Medical. Enoch is an open source contributor, and his substack is called Cross Validated. Key topics they discuss include: New jailbreaks for LLMs appear eve…

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What is the future of AI-assisted or AI-driven software? 32:54

9M ago32:54

32:54

Join Daniel Cahn on another SlingTalk episode with Kristian Freed (ex-CTO at Pariti and Elder), discussing the past, present and future of AI-assisted or AI-driven software. They talked about: The Evolution of Coding Tools: From basic text editors to advanced IDEs and the integration of AI tools like Co-Pilot. The Impact of AI on Software Developme…

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Is the Turing Test Outdated? 45:17

10M ago45:17

45:17

In 1950, Alan Turing asked, “Can machines think?” He suggested the Imitation Game as a test to evaluate whether a machine can think, more commonly called the “Turing Test.” Today we ask, is the Turing Test outdated? Joining Slingtalks this week are Kristian Freed & Guilherme Freire, founding engineers at Slingshot. Guilherme argues against the Turi…

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Prompt Engineering 38:48

10M ago38:48

38:48

Join Daniel Cahn on SlingTalks as he welcomes Jonathan Pedoeem (Founder of PromptLayer) to talk through Prompt Engineering. This episode offers an in-depth look into the past, present, and future of prompt engineering and the intricacies of crafting effective AI prompts. Key topics they discuss include: Is prompt engineering more art or more scienc…

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AI for Investment Diligence 33:34

11M ago33:34

33:34

Adam Kirsh (Head of Product & Engineering, Stealth Startup) joins Slingshot to talk about how AI is transforming investment due diligence. Beyond AI in diligence, we discuss: “Horizontal” and “vertical” business models, that start from a point solution Building products vs. building relationships, and on being an AI partner for the enterprise AI-na…

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The Myth of Human-in-the-Loop 36:28

11M ago36:28

36:28

Ex-Datadog Founding PM, Ayush Kapur, joins Daniel Cahn on SlingTalks to talk through the overloaded term, "Human in the Loop". They hone in on the impact of both, emotional and philosophical aspects of human interactions, for instance, your interaction with a doctor, and how those services can be considered irreplaceable by AI. Key topics include: …

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AI-Generated Content and the Boring Apocalypse 39:34

11M ago39:34

39:34

AI is increasingly doing the heavy lifting in our communications and content generation. On this episode, Guilherme Freire, Founding ML Engineer at Slingshot, joins the podcast to discuss the impact of AI-generated content. Some of the topics discussed: “Proof of Work” for humans, when AI makes personalization and connection too easy Potential for …

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Programming for Machine Learning (Tech Talk) 33:11

12M ago33:11

33:11

Daniel hosts our machine learning research intern and Cambridge Masters student, Andy Lo, to talk about the present and future of ML programming. Topics include: PyTorch vs. TensorFlow vs. Jax vs MoJo No-code, low-code and pro-code for ML engineers The (frustrating) world of debugging ML code Have thoughts? We'd love to hear them! Drop an email at …

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AI's End of History Illusion 8:21

12M ago8:21

8:21

In this episode, Daniel shares his perspective on the opportunities for the next wave of AI-native startups. Machine Learning isn’t just about sentiment classification, churn prediction, and revenue forecasting anymore. Generative models can simulate real intelligence. But hard problems continue to require hard solutions, and prompt engineering wit…

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Design Driven Development at Slingshot 24:59

12M ago24:59

24:59

Daniel hosts our Founding Engineer, Edwin Zhang to unravel the balance in Design Driven Developments. Key things they cover: The conundrums faced when balancing user wants with real, valuable needs - showcasing our stance on "Doing what people need, not just what they want." A peek into the futuristic vision of browsers like Arc and how we regard t…

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LLM Inference Speed (Tech Deep Dive) 39:36

1y ago39:36

39:36

In this tech talk, we dive deep into the technical specifics around LLM inference. The big question is: Why are LLMs slow? How can they be faster? And might slow inference affect UX in the next generation of AI-powered software? We jump into: Is fast model inference the real moat for LLM companies? What are the implications of slow model inference …

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Why is Llama 2 Open Source? What is Meta up to? 28:10

1y ago28:10

28:10

This episode delves into the ongoing debate of the competitiveness between open-source and closed-source models and the reasons behind Meta's decision to publish Llama2 with a permissive open-source license We cover: How much bigger can closed-sourced models be, compared to open-source? Are new competitor foundation models doomed, if Meta enters th…

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Can AI be Creative? 13:41

1y ago13:41

13:41

Ever seen a piece of work and thought, "Wow, a machine did that?" In our very first Slingtalk episode, we unravel the broad world of AI and where creativity plays a part in the process. We cover: - AI models and consciousness - Poetry in language models - Algorithms, novelty, and where inspiration comes from - Creativity and the part randomness pla…

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Episode #67: The Kitchen Dwellers 1:33:45

2+ y ago1:33:45

1:33:45

The Kitchen Dwellers are one of the rising forces in the worlds of Jam, Bluegrass, JamGrass, and in a category all of their own, Alternative Americana. They've been touring for over 10 years together, and have just released a new album 'Wise River.' I sat down with Torrin Daniels and Shawn Swain at our AirBnB in Austin after Cosmic Country wrapped …

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Episode #66: Citizen Cope 59:50

2+ y ago59:50

59:50

Clarence Greenwood, Citizen Cope, has been a respected artist in the scenes of Jam, Pop, Singer/Songwriter, and Rock for over two decades. He has worked with Carlos Santana, Eric Clapton, and has had numerous placements in movies and televisions programming, along with dense releases of highly stylized music that span from acoustic minimalism to DI…

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Episode #65: LeAnn Phelan 1:30:45

2+ y ago1:30:45

1:30:45

LeAnn Phelan has immense experience in the music industry thanks to her 25+ year career in music publishing and A&R. She has led many songwriters and artists to success through her leadership at Sony Music, ASCAP, CMA, Combustion Music, and NSAI. LeAnn now runs her own creative management company, LP Creative Therapy. In this episode, she talks wit…

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Episode #64: Robert Edward Grant 1:34:38

3y ago1:34:38

1:34:38

Robert Edward Grant is an entrepreneur in healthcare, cybernetics, fintech, and blockchain technologies. Within the past decade he has shifted his focus to number theory, geometry, and cryptocurrency, and has published a book titled Philomath: The Geometric Unification of Science & Art Through Number. In this conversation, Robert and Daniel discuss…

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Episode #63: Dave Simonett (Trampled By Turtles) 58:54

3y ago58:54

58:54

Dave Simonett is a singer-songwriter, most famously known from his original band Trampled By Turtles, from Duluth, MN. Since they began creating music in 2004, the band has released 9 studio albums, sold out Red Rocks numerous times, and have performed at Bonnaroo, Coachella, and on many other historic stages including that of The David Letterman S…

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Episode #62: Holy Moly Mischief 1:27:12

3y ago1:27:12

1:27:12

Holy Moly Mischief is one of the preeminent streetwear brands. They rose to prominence from exposure on Instagram, and the Grateful Dead-inspired themes behind each piece in their collections make for some truly amazing products. In this episode the founder, simply known as 'Tony,' and I sit down and discuss the workflow of the modern e-commerce la…

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Episode #61: Pablo Morales and Ryan Giuliano 1:35:57

3y ago1:35:57

1:35:57

Pablo Morales and Ryan Giuliano each have PhDs in neuroscience from the University of Oregon. They both have accomplished careers in the field and are currently engaged in studies that will optimize the lives of many people. In this episode Pablo, Ryan, and Daniel discuss the aforementioned studies, relating music to neuroscience, tips from neurosc…

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Episode 60: Kyle Crownover 2:02:19

3y ago2:02:19

2:02:19

Kyle Crownover is a singer-songwriter, tour manager for country music stars, viral Instagram comedic music content creator, and the co-host of the podcast Keekers and Ferg. In this episode, Kyle and Daniel discuss the concepts of 'Myth Stories' in spiritual and religious contexts, how his work as a tour manager has taught him helpful life lessons, …

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Episode #59: Jude Smith 2:24:33

3y ago2:24:33

2:24:33

On this episode of The Lost Highway Jude Smith joins Daniel to discuss his approach and philosophy towards music, social media, and life through the framework of spirituality and religion. Jude is a producer, guitarist, and performer based out of Nashville, TN and he has garnered hundreds of thousands of followers of his music through viral success…

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Episode #58: Michael Palmisano 1:26:54

3y ago1:26:54

1:26:54

This week on The Lost Highway Michael Palmisano joins Daniel to talk about the organic growth of his popular Youtube channel, Guitargate, and how the Grateful Dead re-shaped his teaching philosophy. GuitarGate has been a bluechip source of inspiration for millions of musical minds, driving the collective advancement of our knowledge of the instrume…

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Episode #57: Joshua Ray Gooch 1:34:07

3y ago1:34:07

1:34:07

On this episode of The Lost Highway Joshua Ray Gooch joins Daniel to talk about the intricacies of guitar phrasing, and bringing the best out of your musical collaborators. Joshua is a guitarist, producer, writer, music clinician, and the guitarist for Shania Twain. He has performed with numerous legendary musicians, produced Grammy nominated film …

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Episode #56: Chris Turpin 1:12:41

3y ago1:12:41

1:12:41

This week on The Lost Highway, Daniel talks with Chris Turpin, who is one half of the husband and wife Americana duo Ida Mae, a Delta-blues inspired act who’s sonic palette spans from heartfelt acoustic songwriting, to riff-rocking blues, all the way to ambient chordal soundscapes. In this episode, Chris and Daniel discuss the origin of the band's …

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Episode #55: A Full Breakdown Of "Cosmic Country and Western Songs" 52:55

3y ago52:55

52:55

On this episode of The Lost Highway Daniel walks listeners through each track on his new Cosmic Country album. The stories, intentions, processes, and vision behind the album are all discussed in-depth, and Daniel talks about each of the 8 songs on the record as he plays along on his guitar. You’ll hear him talk about the production, songwriting, a…

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Episode #54: Ryan Maloney 1:05:21

3y ago1:05:21

1:05:21

On this episode of The Lost Highway Daniel sits down with visual creator and animator Ryan Maloney, who is well known in the digital media world for his unique and exciting artwork. Ryan creates music videos, graphic novels, and he’s also launched his own NFT collections which are now being traded on a global scale! In this conversation Ryan and Da…

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Episode #53: Vincent Neil Emerson 58:58

3y ago58:58

58:58

This week on The Lost Highway, Vincent Neil Emerson joins Daniel to discuss Vincent’s prolific songwriting methods, the creative processes of legends like John Prine in comparison with our own creative processes, taking music seriously but not taking oneself too seriously, and much more. Vincent Neil Emerson is a torchbearer of the Texas songwriter…

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Episode #52: Jon Radford 1:32:37

3y ago1:32:37

1:32:37

On this episode of The Lost Highway, Nashville-based drummer Jon Radford joins Daniel to talk about their upcoming release Cosmic Country and Western Songs, which John also co-produced. John is a Nashville session ace, having worked with the likes of Jonathan Wilson, Justin Townes Earle, Drew Holcomb, and many other talented artists. In this conver…

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Episode #51: Jim Pollock 55:39

3y ago55:39

55:39

This week on The Lost Highway, Daniel talks with poster artist Jim Pollock, who we know as the master illustrator behind many of our favorite Phish concert prints. From Phish's 1989 debut album Junta, to 2020's Beacon Jams, Jim Pollock has been the primary creator of a visual universe for Phish and their listeners to imagine themselves into, all in…

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