No Simple Road

More than just a Grateful Dead Podcast, more than a music and culture show, something other than a family of cosmic wanderers.... Join the hosts of No Simple Road as they dive deep into the world of psychedelic exploration, music, art, and spirituality. Each week, they bring you captivating interviews with musicians, artists, authors, and visionaries from all walks of life. Join them on their long strange trip!

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Music Interviews
Music
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Gary Waldman - Sweetening The Distance
We're honored this week to have Gary Waldman as our guest on No Simple Road. Gary is Neal Casal's long-time friend and manager as well as the executive producer of 'Highway Butterfly: The Songs Of Neal Casal' and the founder and Exe...
89 min
302
Ethan Miller Of Howling Rain - Spinning The Dha...
We're stoked this week to have Ethan Miller of Howlin Rain as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Over nearly 20 years, Howlin Rain may have become the quintessential independent American rock ’n roll band: a steam-spitting Hydra of cranked gui...
163 min
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Andy Frasco - Sittin' In Therapy
We’re so excited to have Andy Frasco on No Simple Road for his 3rd time and we're basically going to therapy together with this conversation! We jump right to the action this week and start digging into why Andy has such a hard time accepting his ...
144 min
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Nic Clark - Loving Life
Nic Clark had a fairly unconventional childhood, which is perhaps one reason why his first album, Love Your Life / Songs for the Whole Family, came out youth-centric.  It wasn’t that he wasn’t supported— in fact, his mom got him the c...
145 min
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Maggie Rose - Let's Have A Seat
The third album from Maggie Rose, Have a Seat is the work of a phenomenally gifted artist showing the full extent of her power. After years of honing her chops and making her name as a force-of-nature vocalist, the Nashville-based singer/songwriter has...
147 min
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Pat Ferguson - The Confidence To Move Forward
We are so stoked to have Pat Ferguson as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Pat Ferguson is a nationally recognized guitarist, songwriter, and vocalist. His sound channels Americana, Bluegrass, and Folk and is deeply influenced by his Upper Mississ...
118 min
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Grant Livingston - Widening The Circle
We're stoked to have Grant Livingston as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Grant Livingston is a singer/songwriter who delivers immersive grooves and contemplative lyricism in the form of transcendental folk music. His debut album, Grant ...
116 min
308
Rainbow Full Of Sound - Recreating Greatness
We are extremely excited to Have Waynard Scheller of Rainbow Full Of Sound as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Waynard and Rainbow Full Of Sound are an east coast GD cover band, which in October will start a 21 show run in homage to the complete ...
98 min
309
Family Mystic - All The Love You Have
We are super excited to have Family Mystic on No Simple Road this week! Family Mystic is a local Portland, Oregon based collection of community cultivators, visionaries and some incredible musicians. Playing free shows in parks and local squares around...
167 min
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Vince Herman - On The Other Side
We are extremely excited to have Vince Herman as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Things are just more fun when Vince Herman is around, and since helping co-found Leftover Salmon over a quarter century ago, Leftover Salmon shows have always been ...
97 min
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Michael Palmisano - Grateful In The Moment
We are super excited to have Michael Palmisano on No Simple Road this week! Michael Palmisano is an Award Winning GIT Grad, Founder of PRS Sponsored Guitargate, One Of The Largest Online Guitar Learning Communities In The World With 85k+ students. He h...
155 min
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Marcus Rezak - Finding The Truth In Sound
This week on No Simple Road we are super excited to have Marcus Rezak as our guest! Known as a master of jazz improvisation and a seasoned artist of the sit-in, Rezak is a frequent call among bands and musicians. Rezak’s 2018 debut as a bandle...
125 min
313
It Is And It Always Will Be Love
It's been a long journey for the past 19 months. We all know it's true. This mid-week short drop is a few of The Conductor's thoughts and ideas on heading back out into the musical community and seeing our collective trip with some new l...
24 min
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Skerik - Less Hurt And More Future
We are super excited to have Skerik as our guest on No Simple Road this week! Decade upon decade, Skerik remains the tireless steward for one of modern music's most diverse, adventurous & passionate bodies of work. Skerik's world is one w...
156 min
315
A Two Fer: Kwabi Amoah-Forson of The Peace Bus...
We've got two for one this week on No Simple Road! We start off this week with a recap of our trip to Hershey, Pennsylvania to see Phish! Next, we welcome the founder of The Peace Bus, Kwabi Amoah-Forson, to the show for a discussion about his m...
171 min
316
The Owsley Stanley Foundation - Checking In Wit...
A mid-week special episode with Starfinder Stanley and Hawk from The Owsley Stanley Foundation. The Owsley Stanley Foundation is a 501c(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of “Bear’s Sonic Journals,” Owsley’s archive of more than 1...
96 min
317
Davvy Glab of the 'Toby & Davvy YouTube Channel...
This week we are stoked to have Davvy Glab as our guest on No Simple Road. This is a super fun and laughter filled episode! Davvy is a YouTube creator, guitarist, actor, and one-half of the 'Toby & Davvy' YouTube channel. Davvy teaches Gr...
175 min
318
Elliott Peck - The Harmony Of The Story
We are super excited this week to have Elliott Peck as our guest! As one of the most sought-after vocalists on the West Coast, Elliott Peck has made a name for herself lending harmonies to everyone from Phil Lesh and Bob Weir to Jackie Greene and Reid ...
136 min
319
Funk You - 'Precautious' And Beyond
This week No Simple Road is extremely excited to have Funk You as our guest! Friends, fun, and love comprise the ethos of Funk You, a nine-piece musical juggernaut from Augusta, Georgia. Motivated by a love of liver performance and armed with a captiva...
122 min
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Benny 'Burle' Galloway - Pickin' And Grinnin'
This week we are super honored and excited to bring you the one and only Benny 'Burle' Galloway! When Yonder Mountain String Band arrived in Colorado from Illinois, trying to make its name in the bluegrass world, they needed a friend who knew...
209 min
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Chris Pandolfi - Simulating The Zone
We are extremely stoked this week to have Chris Pandolfi of The Infamous Stringdusters as our guest! We get right down to business with Chris discussing some of the deeper aspects of being a musician and also a human being, like not letting your mistak...
149 min
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Lauren Murphy of The Psychedelics and Deb Grabi...
We are excited to bring you Lauren Murphy of The Psychedelics and Deb Grabein of The Sound Field this week on No Simple Road! Lauren Murphy shares more than a little with The Sound Field, not the least of which are the musicians David Salvia and Mark K...
125 min
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Greg Loiacono of The Mother Hips - Traces Of Th...
We are extremely excited to have Greg Loiacono of The Mother Hips as our guest on No Simple Road this week! From his first gigs with the legendary The Mother Hips all the way up to his most recent solo album Mystic T...
146 min
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Chad Staehly Of The High Hawks - A Bird's Eye View
We are super stoked to have Chad Staehly from The High Hawks as our guest on No Simple Road this week! In mythology, the hawk is often associated with intuition, healing, spiritual awareness, unification. They seem to appear when you need them most, ev...
123 min
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Marc Brownstein Of The Disco Biscuits - The Low...
We're super excited this week to bring you Marc Brownstein of The Disco Biscuits! While Marc is best known as the bass player of the Disco Biscuits, he has long been active as the co-founder of HeadCount.org, the preeminent voter registration grou...
174 min