The Mountain-Ear Podcast
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Alex Mackenzie-Low first put a band together in 2013, near the end of his time studying music business and recording arts at CU Denver. He put the band together in order to create an album of original songs, and the group grew from there.
The group was originally named A-Mac DZ, a nickname Alex received in high school. Ultimately, the band rebranded to A-Mac and The Height, a name more representative of the collaborati...
For many, music is a way of coping with difficult feelings. The joy and comfort that music brings is generational, and Jeremy Garrett knows that intimately. That’s mainly thanks to his father, Glen, the first president of the Idaho Bluegrass Association.
Around the age of 12, Glen’s parents bought him a guitar after their dog passed away. He found solace in this guitar, embracing bluegrass music and establishing a repu...
Join regular correspondent Maryann Rosen as she continues her journey through the Peak-to-Peak area! In this segment, she discusses the history and stories of Idaho Springs, Allenspark, Raymond, Lily Lake, and Estes Park!
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This segment of The Mountain-Ear Podcast contains a complete audiobook recording of the book Moonsongs, written by Jane Wodening as a way to let her "keep in touch with a big world while living in that narrow canyon" in Fraser, Colorado (quote from a Conversations.org interview). The book is read by Wodening herself in a recording that has never been heard before.
Special thanks to Janette Taylor and Desirae ...
Brent Warren could be considered a modern-day Renaissance man. He’s a singer-songwriter, an author, an illustrator, a magician, a comedian, and a filmmaker.
One of his projects spawned from a dual love – the shared love between two locals of a historical aircraft. That dual love culminated in Warren’s major undertaking as a filmmaker, the hour-long documentary Marvin’s Fly’n Boat.
Warren and Nederland local Marvin Lewis...
Alex Randall and Theo Snead have been close friends since college. They’ve always played music together, but they initially didn’t perform as a band.
That all changed when Randall decided to sell his Fender Deluxe amp after he settled in Boulder. The first person to pick it up was Casey Romeo, and the two started to jam together.
Snead moved from living alone in Austin, Texas, to living with Randall in Boulder, and the ...
In this Audio Library segment of The Mountain-Ear Podcast, journalist Christopher Kelley reads the second part of his account of the mining history of Nederland, Colorado!
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During his time at Colorado State University, now having experience on the bass and on acoustic guitar, Graham Good wrote songs in his dorm room. Meeting a few friends at a local funk jam, they invited him over to jam with them on his bass.
Good told his friends he had some acoustic songs and suggested playing them with the group. Once they played the songs together, Good felt an instant connection to the group, realiz...
In this Audio Library segment of The Mountain-Ear Podcast, journalist Christopher Kelley reads the first part of his account of the mining history of Nederland, Colorado!
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In this segment of The Mountain-Ear Podcast, host Jamie Lammers brings you Some Words for the Week, written by Alexander Shalom Joseph during the month of August 2025.
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In the first podcast segment for this September, Maryann Rosen brings us local culture and history to celebrate the upcoming start of Hispanic Heritage Month!
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Lindsey Wall has particularly connected with the dead nettle. Having worked with flowers since she was in high school, she saw a dead nettle growing out of the concrete during a winter walk in Nashville.
Fascinated by its fierce and strong yet soft qualities, along with realizing that the name “dead nettle” sounds almost like “death metal,” Wall has since embraced Dead Nettle as her stage name.
Paul Dyer has lived in an...
In this episode, we celebrate the Nederland Jazz and Wine Festival 2025 by talking to vendor manager Sarah Bishop, Vendor Ken Slaymaker of Slaymaker Cellars Mead, and musician Mark Diamond about their excitement for the festival!
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Jeffrey James Franca started his musical trajectory playing guitar, taking lessons around the age of five. He found himself invested in playing music, although he didn’t realize how invested at the time.
Joining his band program in elementary school, he started playing the snare drum. Playing a drum set from his uncle, he completely embraced the instrument, finding the transition from guitar to snare natural.
He studied...
Just before the pandemic started, Bevin Foley of Trout Steak Revival invited Melly Frances and Keenan Leigh to her house to share music and original songs. Both of the latter two had recently left their previous bands and had songs with the same obscure pre-World War II blues sound.
Neither of them had ever met anyone else, let alone another female, interested in the same style of music, and the two clicked immediately...
The Peak to Peak area has a storied history, and among those stories are towns steeped in mystery and filled with legends. In today's episode, regular correspondent Maryann Rosen discusses the ghost towns of this mountain area.
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The man now known as Chicken Coop Willaye moved from his home state of North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia, after graduating from Appalachian State University in Boone. During the decade he lived in Atlanta, he was known as Washboard Willaye.
In Atlanta, Willaye met local legends who gathered for performances in Northside Tavern, eventually sitting in with Danny “Mudcat” Dudeck on his Wednesday night performances there....
This segment of the podcast is a complete audiobook reading of From the Book of Legends, an out-of-print storybook from artist and writer Jane Wodening, sharing the stories she's heard of three individuals and reflecting on what it means to be a hero and a legend.
Special thanks to Janette Taylor and Desirae Brakhage.
To learn more about Jane and find her books, head to her website or to Blue Owl Books and Boutique...
In this segment, the host reads the poems published in the It's Your Turn edition of The Mountain-Ear published on July 31, 2025.
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In this episode of The Mountain-Ear Podcast, the host reads the poems from Some Words for the Week written by Alexander Shalom Joseph for the month of July 2025 (excluding the July 3 poem, read in the previous segment of the series).
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