Music, Outdoors, Life
Q and A with prominent figure in music, outdoor recreation, environmental resilience.
“I'm a duck on a pond, just here having a good time.” That’s how Durham, NC guitarist and songwriter Spencer Thomas Smith describes himself to me with a smile, as we share our morning coffees over Zoom, with a fresh inch of snow outside. The weather had interrupted our plans to meet in person, but… Continue reading Boogixote Q&A: Spencer Thomas Smith
"Don't mess with our homes/Leave our waters alone/Shove that pipe up your b-u-t-T" It's a note for West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, signed and sealed by North Carolina native Joe Troop, delivered as a solo screed from the frets of his banjo, from one Joe to another, on Troop's song "We Don't Want The MVP… Continue reading Boogixote Q&A: STOP MVP Compilation Album
It’s April in the Piedmont and after a wet winter I’m ready for one thing to warm my bones, wake my soul, and get my ass on the dance floor: Festy season. It’s that beautiful time of the year when our bodies flow into a new equinoctial rhythm that manifests in communities throwing down together… Continue reading Boogixote Q&A: Empire Strikes Brass
Just to be near Willy Tea Taylor is to love him. He speaks with the warm embrace of a bed of coals in a fire. He resembles the warrior elf Gimli from Lord of the Rings, and laughs with the same rambunctious brawn. His songs are as intimate as a late night conversation with your… Continue reading Boogixote Q&A: Willy Tea Taylor
If there were someone I’d want to huck it off a powdery cliff with, it’d be Molly Armanino. For one, she has a knack for finding big features in out of the way spots. She rides with her brother and filmmaker Sam Armanino with a big crew of hucksters in Squid and Friends – which… Continue reading Q&A: Molly Armanino
Virginia City, Nevada has always been a place of hardtack women. Found in the desert mountains just to the east of Reno it was the site of the first large deposit of silver ore the Comstock Lode and became one of the biggest silver boom towns of the era, a swelling zeitgeist of danger, excitement… Continue reading Q&A: Caitlin Jemma
I don't know if I've ever listened to Will Johnson in the bright of the day. His music seems to live in the softer light of the dawn and dusk, where things aren't so clear and the quiet helps you tune into the parts of your soul you ignore in the daylight. From fronting the… Continue reading Q&A: Will Johnson
I knew Steve Griggs was ripe for adventure when I met him onsite at Lightning in a Bottle 2018. It was my first time working a music festival of that size and it was our job to herd 10,000 cats (people) into their camping spots for the weekend. Mini-bikes are the cavalry and scouts in… Continue reading Q&A: Steve Griggs
The newest, grandest and gnarliest mountain bike trail in Colorado is the Palisade Plunge. It ribbons along the Grand Mesa and cuts into the Grand Valley near Palisade, CO like barbed wire, taking mountain bike thrill seekers on a 33.8-mile semi-perilous journey through the desert in some of the most remote and exposed terrain one… Continue reading Q&A: Spencer Rugland of Singletrack Trails
In the Bible it is told that upon his birth, the baby Jesus, Son of God, was visited by three magi. These wise men had followed the North Star for 12 days all the way to the town of Bethlehem to pay their respects to the new king, bestowing upon him the gifts of gold,… Continue reading Q&A: Tri Magi
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