Joe K. Walsh Mandolinist

Conversations with Musicians, with Leah Roseman

09/02/24

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81m

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Joe K. Walsh is an acclaimed master of bluegrass mandolin and a professor at Berklee College, and in this episode you’ll hear about many of his inspiring collaborations including with Darol Anger, Mike Block, Grant Gordy, Alex Hargreaves and Mike Marshall. We are also featuring some music from some of his albums inluding “If Not Now, Who?” We talked about Joe’s approach as an educator, the challenges and joys of the touring life, the importance of innovation and taking chances musically. Joe’s love of music and the mandolin shines brightly in this candid conversation.

Like all my episodes, you can also watch this on my YouTube channel, and I’ve also linked the transcript to my website: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/joe-k-walsh

Albums featured in this episode: https://garrisongordyhargreaveswalsh.bandcamp.com/album/bluegrass-and-the-abstract-truth

https://joewalsh.bandcamp.com/album/if-not-now-who

https://joewalsh.bandcamp.com/album/borderland

Joe K. Walsh website: ⁠ https://joekwalsh.com/⁠

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Timestamps

(00:00) Intro

(02:28) Aaron Weinstein, Joe’s search for a different approach, “If Not Now, Who?” album

(07:23) Tom from “If Not Now, Who?”

(11:48) recording the album, Joe’s student days at Berklee, teaching approach

(19:01) songwriting

(20:41) Innisfree from “Borderland”

(24:10) Gibson Brothers, experience of touring

(28:40) mandolin family, David Grisman, Daryl Anger, Mr. Sun, Ger Mandolin Ensemble Mike Marshall

(36:12) Joy Kills Sorrow, maturing and working with different generations in the music business

(39:20) Daryl Anger, dangers of perfectionism in recordings

(41:43) please support this independent podcast

(42:35) healthy mindsets, Adam Hurt, creativity, teaching

(50:42) decision to pursue music professionally, early influences

(53:09) Grant Gordy, Mike Block, the value of music for community

(57:31) practicing the mandolin, transcribing, dealing with injuries

(01:02:07) mandolin demo Chinkapin Hunting

(01:04:02) Steve Gilchrist luthier, Bluegrass and mandolin community worldwide

(01:09:47) “Bluegrass and the Abstract Truth”, Alex Hargreaves, memorizing music

(01:15:07) Mahjong from “Bluegrass and the Abstract Truth”

(01:18:03) meeting Joe Walsh story

(01:19:18) reflecting on the mental game

Previous Episode

Bad Snacks

August 26, 2024

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88m

This episode features Bad Snacks, a producer and multi-instrumentalist known for the use of violin, with lofi and dance influences. We talked about her experience when she went viral on Andrew Huang’s “4 Producers Flip the Same Sample” challenge with over 4.5M views, dealing with online boundaries, with sexism, finding inspiration, and enjoying the learning process. Bad Snacks is also an educator; she coaches fellow producers privately, runs a successful YouTube channel where she posts content related to music technology and beat breakdowns. Due to her love for cutting-edge music tech, she has worked as a key demonstrator with several of the industry’s largest names like Ableton, Roland, and Moog. She has also taught as an Assistant Professor at Berklee College of Music for Electronic Production & Design. We talked about her unique educational path and choices she’s made along the way to carve out a successful career, and in fact what success really means. She spoke thoughtfully about important topics such as music education, developing creativity, imposter syndrome and keeping a healthy perspective. Video and transcript link: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/bad-snacks

Bad Snacks Website: https://www.lilbadsnacks.com/

Bad Snack’s My Pedals for Synth Violin video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2thGDywkg18&t=1s

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Newsletter sign-up: https://mailchi.mp/ebed4a237788/podcast-newsletter Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (03:01) Bad Snacks path into making beats, developing her sound with violin demo (10:49) Google Audio Library with excerpt (12:45) Andrew Huang’s 4 Producers Flip the Same Sample (19:36) name Bad Snacks, Home Music EP hybrid style (24:57) clip from iiwannabe (25:47) collaboration with chromonicci like u do with clip (31:38) decision not to go to Berklee college (35:06) different ways to support this independent podcast (35:58) making difficult life decisions, bathtub bumps clip, using different sequencers (43:11) cassette tapes (45:14) imposter syndrome, healthy mindsets, interacting with online community (51:35) finding her own path in music, early education (58:31) Brainfeeder’s The Hit, Flying Lotus (01:02:11) Dot mentorship, creativity exercise, dealing with sexism in the industry (01:09:34) teaching violin, teaching production (01:12:37) different ways of releasing and marketing music (01:16:57) neat tape 1, learning curve for each project, music clip (01:18:30) using the violin, sampling, festival circuit (01:26:42) expanding Home Music into a series, building community

photo of Bad Snacks: June Jameson

Next Episode

Ineke Vandoorn: Dancing on Water

September 5, 2024

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33m

This special Catch-Up episode with the Dutch singer Ineke Vandoorn focuses on her album with Jasper van ’t Hof, “Dancing on Water”, with lots of music from the album. You’ll also get to hear of her inspirational experience learning from Betty Carter.

When Ineke Vandoorn won the prestigous Edison Jazz Award for her album ‘Love is a Golden Glue’ the jury wrote:"Ineke Vandoorn distinguishes herself as a singer with her adventurous way of singing. First of all because of her exceptional, striking voice with an extreme range with which she can do anything. Her voice control enables her to cross her limits. Every note is placed at the right spot. Apart from that the singer has a huge amount of guts." I couldn’t agree more! It was such a pleasure to have this opportunity to speak with Ineke again. My 2023 episode with her is here, during which she sang live for the podcast: 2023 Interview https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/ineke-vandoorn

Like all my episodes, you can watch this on my YouTube channel or listen to the podcast, and I’ve also linked the transcript to my website, everything linked here: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/ineke-vandoorn-dancing-on-water

Ineke's website https://www.inekevandoorn.com/

Dancing on Water album https://baiximrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dancing-on-water

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro

(01:54) about the album “Dancing on Water” with Jasper van ’t Hof

(03:17) Paul Simon song “Quiet” with excerpt

(05:59) process of creating the album