As a reminder, or as background if you're new to this podcast, Juliet Fromholt is Music Director at WYSO, and Taylor Ruckle is a freelance music journalist.  Both of them have a deep love for music, are discerning and careful listeners, and like to nerd out about songs and albums.

The three of us had this conversation back on December 26th.  Shame on me for taking so long to post it.  That said, anything here that you haven't heard is new to YOU, so if you are a music lover, this conversation is evergreen…

It's a people skill as well… trying to work with people to get the best out of them…

I released I Am Experienced on June 20th.  Now that it's six months old, I figured I'd like to reflect on this project a little here on my podcast. The gentleman you are seeing in the picture is Rizo, and his studio is The Dreamcatchers Recording Studio in Reynoldsburg, Ohio.  I knew that I wanted all of the creatives on this project to be Black, and Rizo came highly recommended by my favorite Dayton rapper.  That was key…

Meet the outrageously talented multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Cherimondis J.   She's a classically trained concert pianist among many other things.  We dig into her music background, her songwriting process, what it's like being a Black musician in the classical world, and the album she put out last year, Dove Archer.  You'll find that Cherimondis thinks very deeply about both music and life, and she has quite a lot of introspective things to say about how her art relates to her life. Why does she…