Desolation Angel Radio

This episode is continuing the series of conversations with artists who are playing the 2026 Great Blue Heron Music Festival. This one finds me having a great conversation with Sampson Hellerman and Robbie Wulfsohn of Ripe in a delightful, fun conversation. They've never been to the Heron before this are one of the main acts hitting the stage, and a conversation with Jim Donovan of Jim Donovan & The Sun King Warriors, who's a l...

This episode of the podcast finds me talking to and having some pretty good conversations with Katia, who is Pixie, of Pixie & The Partygrass Boys, and Nate from Moontricks. It's engaging, warm, and a lot of fun, both sets of conversations, and some music from both, with a new track being debuted by Pixie right here on the podcast to take her segment out. And of course, information about The Great Blue Heron Music Festival, Jul...

This episode of the podcast has me turning my eyes (and ears) as I do yearly to this year's 2026 Great Blue Heron Music Festival with interviews with James Searl of Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, and Bombargo with Anthony Thoen and Spencer Chilliak talking about them. We talk about the festival, especially James, who's a veteran of it and what it means to him; the atmosphere, the community and the feel and why he loves it, and abo...

It's the 2026 Heron kick-off episode of Desolation Angel Radio. This ep of the podcast has a conversation with Julie about this year's Great Blue Heron Music Festival and Blind Faith ticket sales. Conversations with Payge and Jen about volunteering straight from the volunteer coordinators. Even if you've volunteered before, listen closely to it. They lay out the crews, process, exactly how everything works. They're the source. A co...

This episode, published the week I observe and mark 45 years sober, serves as a marker. The episodes in October, November, early December all were leading up to this one. It's free, just click the link. This episode, I'm going to ask you to listen, and to share, there's lots of ways to do that, and share buttons, with others. If someone you know, or even someone you don't know, is struggling, is questioning, about their own or some...

The annual Christmas show! Really cool Christmas music, and talking about what Christmas means to me, and how some of you have saved it over the years for me. Where the Nomad Project came from (it started out as a Christmas thing), some really big personal news from me concerning the immediate future, some thanks to all of you, and if you're a friend of mine, you're probably name checked on a national podcast with some Christmas wi...

Every year, come Winter, right around my birthday and the holidays, I take a journey, because now is the time to turn inward and reflect. Yes, there will be Heron episodes come later Winter, after the first of the year. Yes, the Comstock gang will get back together and check in with one another and we'll talk and make y'all part of that. But now? Now is the time for looking at my journey, which, though it's mine and individual, and...

Whew, it's been a long year. Between the Comstock Breakfast Club 75 Reunion planning and those meetings, and the Heron, and the various events there. . it's been literally all year since I could do an episode like this, a personal one. And it's personal, the music, what I have to say, and this last year had an effect. The music? It's a complete mix. I've always loved music and it shows, half the tunes are from the 70's, cuts I love...

This episode is the last one before 1975 50th Class Reunion. There's details in here that you'll want to know if you're coming, and even if you're not coming, there's things in here for you too. We talk about things like tickets and sponsorship (Sponsorship is an umbrella term we use to talk about money for the scholarship to a 2025 Comstock grad, and covering the dinner for former teachers and admins that are coming). There's deta...

One of my favorite episodes of the year - the week before Memorial Day Weekend. This episode features a really good conversation with Julie Rockcastle, Jen Raines, Payge Olson, Isa Cardenas and Steve Rockcastle about the upcoming Great Blue Heron Music Festival on July 4th, 5th and 6th at the Heron and all the different activities, features and music that will be there that weekend; volunteering opportunities so you can be part of ...

This week is always an exciting week for the podcast. The lineup announcement for the Great Blue Heron Music Festival, July 4th, 5th, 6th at the Heron in Sherman New York. There's a conversation with Julie and Steve Rockcastle, and cuts from 11 of the 34 bands and musicians that are going to be on the stages there: Andy Frasco & The U.N. Project, Cool Cool Cool, The Rumble feat. Chief Joseph Boudreaux Jr., Shadowgrass, The Dust...

This episode of the Desolation Angel Radio podcast, as I head into the 14th year with it, has everything, the whole nine yards, all of it and the kitchen sink. Everything.  Heron folks, listen up          In the first hour, you're going to hear Julie Rockcastle with a quick announcement about big happenings here at the end of January around the Great Blue Heron Music Festival, this summer. When the bli...

Another one of my traditions. The last show of the year is always, as is this one, music that I listen to; at home, in the truck, at work, my own personal soundtrack of what gets me through the day, and is also a pretty good audio record of some great music in 2024.  There's some thanks from me, and some notes about the Comstock 75 bunch, and what we can look forward to there, and what we can look forward to with shows about t...

The annual Desolation Angel Christmas show episode is up. Some really cool Christmas music, some old classics, and some versions of Christmas songs you've never heard before. In the first hour, a Christmas greeting from Julie and Steve Rockcastle, and big shoutout from the entire Heron Crew, and in the second hour, a Christmas greeting from some members of the Comstock Class of 75, with some words and updates about the 50th class r...

This episode, one of the last ones of the year, before the Christmas episode, covers some territory. In the first half, you'll find a discussion with John, Karen, Gina and Steve  about the upcoming 50th Class Reunion for the Class of '75, and some details about what's happening, what's coming and how to stay in the loop. If you're a class of 75 member and never listened before, tune in.

The second half finds me playing some of...

This episode of the Desolation Angel Radio podcast finds me talking with Jim Donovan, of Jim Donovan & The Sun King Warrors about their upcoming album release party this coming Saturday, the 19th in Pittsburgh. We're friends, it's a fun conversation and all the info you need to buy the album, the attend the album release and to support independent music. Cuts from the new album, and older Sun King Warriors favorites, and a Rust...