Dayton is privileged to have had a listening room for decades, a wonderful music venue called Canal Street Tavern.  Alas, both that venue and its visionary owner are no longer with us, and while it's surely impossible to replicate that…

I love to perform… I'm in my community and I'm talking to people and I'm connecting with people, and people are connected with my music… I love it, I never want to stop.

Eleanor Dakota is a multi-instrumentalist and songwriter…

For those of you who are new to this podcast (or as a friendly reminder), I'm Mike Bankhead, bass player and songwriter from Dayton, Ohio.  I'm an indie musician, not a journalist.  My two esteemed guests on this episode are …

You don't wanna waste time trying to impress people who aren't already into what you're doing…

Mery Steel is Canadian and Ohioan and pretty awesome. We cover a great deal of ground in this conversation. Some of the topics we…

For those of you who are new to this podcast (or as a friendly reminder), I'm Mike Bankhead, bass player and songwriter from Dayton, Ohio.  I'm an indie musician, not a journalist.  My two esteemed guests on this episode are …

…it's the most fun instrument to play with other people…

I still read music blogs, and that's a good thing because that's how I first discovered fellow bass player and songwriter Pictoria Vark, whose given name is Victoria Park.  In…

Alex Winters is a talented songwriter based in Texas. Her most recent album, Unexpected Trespasses, was released on February 27, 2024.  We had this conversation way back in April, and it's 100% my fault that I'm just now getting…

(photo by Fred Shank)

there's always gonna be a little darkness, there's always a little melancholy…

My conversation with Tod Weidner remains the highest listened-to episode of this podcast. This is clearly a testament to how much this gentleman means…

Valerie Vonn is in Germany. We did not have our conversation in German, though I imagine that she can surely hold her own in a German conversation, because, well, that's not a language that I speak.  However, I do speak…

Anthony Church is a fellow Ohioan.  He's a musician, producer, and podcaster.  We actually had this conversation way back in June 2023, and I owe him a thousand apologies for taking this long to get the episode up. Back when…