Alaska Podshow Podcast number 45!

Wowsers, ya'll,

Scott Slone of the Alaska Podshow Podcast features two more Last Frontier Band songs in his show number 45, "Celia's Alaska." This show features a fabulous bit of oral history that are to be found on Pioneer Stories of Denali, in turn available at CDBaby.com. It's the first podcast airplay of "Where I'm Bound," a song I wrote about leaving folks behind in Tennessee to move to Alaska back in the mid-seventies. This episode is REALLY worth a listen, not only because he plays my music (heheheee) but also because it's an excellent example of how audio can enhance our lives by preserving history. Listen up.

Cheers,
Scott

Podcast Radio Play!

Been getting some airplay on podcasts recently, including being the first Podsafe music of the year on the Financial Aid podcast and play on the Alaska Podshow podcast. Scott Slone at the latter took "Alaska Song" as the sole audio content for the fantastic video he put together encouraging people to mind the environment of his home state, and that video is his show number 39. Check that out!!!

JeffreyT at the Good Beer Show has made it easy to hear the shows I've guested on, by adding a link to Yazoo shows on his mainpage. Visit goodbeershow.com to see that, and for your convenience here's the link here: Yazoo.

Oh, and Happy New Year!!!

CraftbrewerRadio

Graham Sanders of CraftbrewerRadio in Australia emailed me awhile ago (see an earlier post) to let me know that he'd be playing "Elf" in his podcast. He did, closing his Dec. part2 show with the song after a whole bunch of rubbish-talk about how I fancied myself a budding star. Oops, Grah, not enough understanding there: T he song's from 1982 fr gosh sakes; but fun anyway, and I thank him profusely. 'Owsomever, the link above is the best link to the show!

NPR : Lucinda Williams Previews New Music in Concert

Just came across this NPR page that contains an entire live concert by Lucinda Williams. Great stuff...

And here's the link to "The Elf Who's King of Country!"

Funny how that works...

like you are just thinking about something you haven't thought about in years, probably, like a movie--like this happened just today, when I took my teenage daughter to Blockbuster to get a Gilmore Girls DVD for the weekend and we looked in the sale bin and I saw "As Good As It Gets" on sale for 7.99 and we had a conversation about it. Now, I haven't had a conversation about "As Good As It Gets" with anyone for years, I'm sure. Then my brother-in-law calls me tonight while I'm in the Tennessee Performing Arts dressing room chaperoning my son and his fellow "Party Boys" in the Nashville Ballet's "Nutcracker," and I thank him for the wonderful song he sent me recently via iTunes. It was "The Trapeze Swinger," by Iron & Wine (WOW) and I said I'd never heard of the band and he said well they did something for the movie soundtrack for "As Good As It Gets."

That's what I mean: a coinkidink.

Here's the funny part, though: It wasn't "As Good As It Gets" that my brother-in-law meant at all. It was "In Good Company," the Dennis Quaide movie for whose soundtrack Iron & Wine's key entity Sam Beam wrote some songs. Whacky, huh?

Anyway, the other coinkidink is that I just posted something here this a.m. thinking that this blog was going to blow away into the night with the other tumbleweeds and now I actually have something to post:

Graham Sanders, host of Craftbrewer Radio podcast, just emailed me today and said:

Scott

Just letting you know I will be playing the elf song and plugging you on the next beer program.

Have a Good Christmas and New Year.

Graham Sanders
OZ Craftbrewers

http://radio.craftbrewer.org/ -- Download December Show #2!

The "elf song" he mentions is my "The Elf Who's King of Country" and it's pretty funny, ya'll. Check out the Craftbrewer Radio link above in the next week or so to see what I mean!

Cheers,
Scott

Just haven't posted for a while on this 'un and thought it might be useful to point ya'll to the Snacks4theBrain! podcast site. Go to it! to learn about the bird flu, about work on an AIDS cure from frog sweat, and if for no other reason to listen to the ravings of an educator passioniate about students having access to the best of the best when it comes to science.

Big HeeeHeeee, Ya'll

Just to note that I got an email from my pal Jeffrey T. Meyer at the Good Beer Show letting me know that the Last Frontier Band's version of my song "Moose Nuggets for Christmas" was picked up and played in episode 19 of the Norwegian (heyhey, international, yeah!) "Hoo Hoo Nick" podcast. Hoo Hoo!!!

And...THEGOODBEERSHOW: Scottmerrick2!

Yep. I drove up to Muncie one night. It was worth the drive. See the Good Beer Show for the October 4 "Return of Scott Merrick" show, featuring my nephew Bryce's band, Darla Farmer, jabber about my novel, and beers by Yazoo Brewery as well as Lion Brewery out of Sri Lanka.

First Soundseeing Tour--Indy Canal Jog!

This past week I was up in Indianapolis at the Keystone Conference, a really productive meeting of some wonderful people who share a commitment to bringing Interactive Videoconferencing to K12 students and teachers worldwide. It was the cat's pajamas.

I jogged every morning, but the last morning I decided to take my Dell Axim out with me and try a soundseeing tour whilst moving. Aside from a lot of heavy breathing, there's some neat description and it was fun doing. The podcast soundseeing file is HERE. It's as raw as it can be, tagwise and all that other stuff, but fun. I will clean up all that tagging stuff soon. I promise. Really. Meanwhile, enjoy it! Here's a little quicktime movie I made at the end of the experience!