Music In The Minor League
Houston-area Folk-rock band, Brightwire, takes the time to talk to fellow bands and artists still playing down in the "minor league" of the music world. No stadium tours or sold-out sheds here, we're talking to those bands that burn up the stage in your local dive bars, coffee shops and living rooms.
Episodes
Episode 64 of Music in the Minor League dropped at midnight! Our guest this week is David Fahl! David is a singer-songwriter currently based out of the Houston area.
We've seen David's name all around Houston whether it be newsweeklies, show announcements or 'Fahl & Folk' stickers on guitar cases and venue walls. We finally got to meet him a few months back and hear some of his songs. When he asked if we wou...
Welcome to episode 63 of Music in the Minor League! This episode, we are talking to Cory Todd & Kevin Marble of Oddtoddler. Oddtoddler is a local band that resides on the Gulf Coast and plays all around our area.
We met them for the first time out at the League City Folk Association songwriter nights and really dug their tunes. They definitely aren't afraid to mix it up with the genres. Their self-titled debut album came ou...
Welcome to episode 62 of Music in the Minor League!
This week we were joined by Celeste Marie Wilson! She's a 21 year old powerhouse vocalist and songwriter from the north side of Houston.
We first met her in spring of 2024 when we shared a bill together for Sofar Sounds. She was an excellent live performer and blew us away. She's naturally driven, insightful and we enjoyed our conversation with her greatly.
For episode 61, we sat down with our friend, fellow songwriter and all around awesome person: Tex Renner. We've known Tex for as long as we can remember hanging around the Old Quarter scene. His harmonica playing made us pay attention and his songs made us stay.
He has a new album called A .44 in an 88 and is having a release party THIS SATURDAY (May 17th) at the Old Quarter. Mark your calendars and come hang out!
Welcome to the 60th episode of Music in the Minor League! On this episode, we are joined by Karen & Kevin Jordan who make up the Americana duo: Whiskey & Wine!
Whiskey & Wine is an Americana duo from Austin, Texas, blending folk, rock, country, and blues into a captivating and timeless sound. Husband-and-wife multi-instrumentalists Kevin and Karen Jordan craft heartfelt songs that honor the legacy of artists like Bob Dyl...
Welcome to episode 59 of Music in the Minor League! This week we were joined by Taylor Gwyn and Andi Hendricks of Blade Job! They just had their new EP entitled 'Pre-Op' come out earlier this month so we wanted to sit down and talk to them about the band, their new EP, being trans in the music scene and their other band Bayou City Kids!
This was probably one of the best conversations we've had with a band and actuall...
Music in the Minor League makes its first trip across the pond to talk to our friend, Paul Grant about his band: Toy Hospital.
Toy Hospital has a new live album they just released a few weeks ago entitled Changed Priorities Ahead and have been playing a lot around their hometown of Edinburgh, Scotland.
We had a great time catching up with Paul and hearing about how similar the music scenes are in the US and the UK. We also enjoyed h...
This week, Samuel and Kim celebrated their anniversary by sitting down with Griffin Wade and Rachel Lynch to discuss life as working musicians working locally around the Oklahoma City area while also mixing in touring around the country. They played 180+ shows in 2024 and are keeping the pace up so far in 2025.
We have been trying to make the stars align for a couple of years now and finally made it happen! We had a blast talking t...
We're back with a new episode of Music in the Minor League!
Our guest this episode is Carter Felker! Carter was an absolute blast to talk to. He's one of those people you meet and within 5 minutes, it's like you're best friends. His new album entitled Loser is out on Friday! Be sure to check it out!
Carter hails from Calgary, AB! He's our second international guest and our second from Canada. It's also worth ...
Welcome to episode 55 of Music in the Minor League. AKA Episode 4 of season 3! For this episode, we had the privilege of talking with Jewelz Melody! You may recognize her from Shame On Me where she blows minds and melts hearts with season 2 guest Mel Gutierrez. She also is known to sit in with folks like Dem Roots Music and Opie Hendrix. Oh, and she's also working on solo material, some of which she performed on a recent episod...
Welcome to the 54th episode of Music in the Minor League! This week, we'll be venturing out to Colorado to talk with singer-songwriter Ben Garcia! After some time away from music, Ben is back at it with a string of new singles. We were fortunate enough to catch him up in Spring back in December and had a blast catching the show.
For more info on Ben, visit him online at:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=6155750...
And we're back! Season 3 of Music in the Minor League has officially started! To kick things off, we had a conversation with Liz Sloan McGovern of Urban Pioneers and Mack Dart of Rock Bottom String Band! They discussed the upcoming Walk This Earth Music Festival that they're putting on, how they got into music, tour life, fiddle life and much, much more!
We hope y'all enjoy this week's episode! We'll return in 2 weeks with Matt a...
We made it to the end of our second season of Music in the Minor League! It's wild that we're 2 years into this since it feels like we just got started. There's no music for this episode, no intro or outro. It's just us discussing this last year, car theft, our best shows of the year and what we were trying to accomplish with this season. We also spend the first 15 minutes talking about pizza and other food we came ...
Episode 50 of Music in the Minor League is here with Jessica Murillo of Cactus Flowers! That's right! 50 episodes of the podcast! We really didn't know how far it would go and if people would be interested
Jessica has been on our list of folks we wanted to interview since we started the podcast and we finally got to catch up with her.
Jessica's path to and through music saw a Shania Twain appearance, time worki...
Welcome to episode 49 of Music in the Minor League! This week, our guest is Ryan Doyon, who hosts the Music Savage show on WMFO 91.5FM in Boston, MA. The show is also available online at https://musicsavage.com and via Soundcloud
We first became aware of his show back in 2022, when he featured one of our songs on his Summer Roadtrip, which sees one segment per show dedicated to bands along the route from Boston to the west coast an...
This week, we sat down with Connecticut-based folks musician Matt Nilsen. As the story goes with many folks in our orbit, Matt started out as a guitarist in various rock and punk bands before picking up an acoustic and writing his own songs.
His songs have a dreamy vibe to them and will really resonate with folks who like Elliot Smith, early Songs: Ohia and similar artists.
We enjoyed getting to catch up with Matt and learning qu...
Afton Wolfe's bio on his website opens with a quote from Americana Highways: "If you’re tired of wimpy mainstream vocals of pimply vocalists who haven’t lived yet — this is the cure. Wolfe sings with authority, experience & realism. He pours it dramatically but never artificially."
It definitely encapsulates the vibe of Afton's music. When he reached out about being on the podcast and mentioned Nashville, som...
This week on Music in the Minor League, we were joined by Todd Farrell, Jr.! We first became aware of Todd's music way back in like 2013 when he posted some awesome videos on YouTube for the annual CXCW (Couch by Couchwest) Online Music Festival. Dude did Run to the Hills acoustically!
Over the years, our paths crossed many times and we continued to be fans of his music. Todd has played with so many bands including Benchmarks...
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