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  1. 3d ago

    Lacy J. Dalton_Americana Singer-Songwriter_interview 2024-01-26 on KZSC's "The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club" with "Dangerous Dan" Orange & "Kaos" (Katrina Clugston)

    Lacy J. is into saving wild horses, & will be performing a benefit for Jimmy Jackson & his wife, Ellen O'Hanlon (both have cancer) - they have been artists for over 40 years. Ellen as a healer, artist, & painter. Jimmy got a lot of people started, & wrote a song for International Rotary about polio with Lacy J. - he also came up with the motto for Rotary; Radio Ranch Project. "Listen to the Wind" mentions Santa Cruz: it's the beginning, not the end. There was elemental magic of the 60s in Santa Cruz, where Lacy J. felt the magical energy of the Earth, getting a natural high! After 8 (long) years in Nashville, Lacy J. wanted to come back to Santa Cruz, but "couldn't buy an outhouse on a postage stamp for $450k!!" An interview on "The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club" with "Dangerous Dan" Orange, & "Kaos" (Katrina Clugston), airing Friday mornings on KZSC Santa Cruz, California. 2024 is Bushwhacker's 35th year on the air! Thanks for listening!  To support KZSC (& these podcasts), please go to KZSC.FM and click on the "Donate to KZSC" button in the upper right-hand corner. Thanks!

  2. 3d ago

    Scott Cooper_'Rosebud'_Singer, Songwriter_2026-10-23 interview on KZSC's "The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club" with "Dangerous Dan" Orange

    Back in the day, Scott was in a band, "Secret Chimp", with Jim Lewin & Bill Layman, Lachlan Kane & Mark Corsolini...they split up, with Jim & Bill going one way, & the rest forming Rosebud (because Lachlan Kane went by "Citizen Kane")...the band allows Scott to get his non-Grateful Dead ya-ya's out; Rosebud has a new CD, "Record of the Year!"; deep dive into how songs / CDs are recognized by Spotify (ISRC code & metadata); "The Money Question" (e.g.: "Have you been able to make a living with your art, &, if so, how?") A: Yes! It's a combination of things...booking music for a venue in Half Moon Bay, working for a label in New York City, teaching, running sound, gigging; discussion of originals, vs. covers, but making a cover your own by playing it diferently. An interview on "The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club" with "Dangerous Dan" Orange airing Friday mornings on KZSC Santa Cruz, California. 2026 is Bushwhacker's 37th year on the air! Thanks for listening! To support KZSC (& these podcasts), please go to KZSC.FM and click on the "Donate to KZSC" button in the upper right-hand corner. Thanks!

  3. 3d ago

    Lynn Robinson_ex-SC Mayor, ex-ED Valley Churches United_2026-10-23 interview on KZSC's "The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club" by 'Dangerous Dan' Orange & DJ Spark Plug (Dylan Estevez)

    Santa Cruz is the "only place that felt like home"...Lynn's grandfather built a 600 sq. ft. house on the East Side that Lynn would visit as a kid, having grown up off Camden Ave. in San Jose...she moved here in 1974 to help her grandparents as her grandmother was dealing with senility (what we now know as Alzheimer's) - she started gardening at around this time, launching a 49 year career in gardeining & landscaping; she started at Cabrillo Community College, majoring in photography (!)...she got a scholarship to the Art Institute in San Francisco, later coming to U.C. Santa Cruz to be a studio arts major (Porter College); she started the Santa Cruz Neighbors group to address the disconnect between people & services - it's non-partisan / non-political; in 2006 she ran for Santa Cruz City Council, winning 2 terms, & being mayor in 2014; her words of advice to the next mayor? "Be open to everybody!" When she was vice mayor in 2013 it was a difficult year, after Santa Cruz lost Butch & Elizabeth, 2 officers killed in the line of duty; after retiring as mayor, and a year off, Lynn started as Executive Director (ED) of Valley Churches United...this organization formed out of the storms of 1982 (El Niño!) when locals rallied to come together to take care of each other; Lynn was ED for a decade, overseeing a budget of ~$800k and 3 full-time employees - she had 2 floods, COVID-19, and the CZU fires on her watch; Lynn's super power is being calm in the face of disasters. An interview on "The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club" with "Dangerous Dan" Orange & "DJ Spark Plug" (Dylan Estevez) airing Friday mornings on KZSC Santa Cruz, California. 2026 is Bushwhacker's 37th year on the air! Thanks for listening! To support KZSC (& these podcasts), please go to KZSC.FM and click on the "Donate to KZSC" button in the upper right-hand corner. Thanks!

  4. 3d ago

    Andy Sydow_singer-songwriter_2026-10-09_interview on KZSC's "The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club" by 'Dangerous Dan' Orange

    A Bushwhacker's First!!!! A live, in-the-studio, interview at 6:30am!!! The show this weekend is a classic Nashville writer's round, where the singer / songwriters trade off songs; Andy grew up in Colorado, moved to Nashville with his wife with songwriting the impetus, & are now back in Colorado; songwriting comes to him in various ways, some like lightning, & some with hard work - he creates voice memos for himself, usually starting with a musical idea & a line, sometimes fighting with a riff & a line; songwriting came to him naturally - he's told that when he was 3 years old he re-wrote Giligan's Island about his family; one day in Colorado, when he was driving him, he heard Jackie Greene's "Gone Wanderin'", & loved it, deciding he wanted to try his hand at that kind of songwriting; for his "day job", he plays cover songs in lobbies, but he gigs 3 nights a week playing piano; "The Money Question" (e.g.: "Have you been able to make a living with your art, &, if so, how?") A: Yes! It's all music. Touring. Hotel lobbies/restaurants. Producing. Teaching. Anders Osborne, one of his biggest influences, produced his "Night Skin" album. There's a new promoter in town, "No Brainer Productions"! An interview on "The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club" with "Dangerous Dan" Orange airing Friday mornings on KZSC Santa Cruz, California. 2026 is Bushwhacker's 37th year on the air! Thanks for listening! To support KZSC (& these podcasts), please go to KZSC.FM and click on the "Donate to KZSC" button in the upper right-hand corner. Thanks!

  5. 3d ago

    Flagship Romance_Singers-Songwriters_2026-10-09_interview on KZSC's "The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club" by "Dangerous Dan" Orange

    "Flagship Romance" is the married duo Shawn Fisher & Jordyn Jackson; they have been touring with the duo "Rough & Tumble" on what they call the "Rough Romance Tour" for 5 months (they use their dual mailing lists to encourage each group's fans to come out to listen to their complimentary sounds), but they are not all in the same van - they start the show together, & then whichever duo booked the gig plays second; if they had tour T-shirts, they would be in the third column; the song "Ride the River" is in honor of a letter Johnny Cash sent Tom Petty on his 50th birthday; one of the first things Shawn did after he met Jordyn was make her watch a 5 hour documentary on Tom Petty to test her - she passed; Jordyn came from a background singing pop music (her earlier band, "Veronica's Veil", featured 2 drummers!!), and they landed a distribution deal with a record label in London & played on the BBC, but it didn't catch on, and the deal fizzled - Jordyn sang more bluesy / jazzy numbers at the Jacksonville Jazz Festival, which is where she met Shawn; Shawn''s earlier band, "Son of a Bad Man", was signed to a label, but had their dreams dashed in 2008-9: in this era, labels signed 30-50 acts per year, & threw them all against the wall to see if any caught on (vs. earlier A&R (Artists and Repertoire) men at labels discovering & nurturing a band); "The Money Question" (e.g.: "Have you been able to make a living with your art, &, if so, how?") A: Yes! There's a burgeoning house concert scene worldwide, plus Jordyn creates merch, such as jewelery from Shawn's used guitar strings, plus they sell USB drives with their entire catalog on them, plus they tour, and sites such as Patreon allow fans to support artists. An interview on "The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club" with "Dangerous Dan" Orange airing Friday mornings on KZSC Santa Cruz, California. 2026 is Bushwhacker's 37th year on the air! Thanks for listening! To support KZSC (& these podcasts), please go to KZSC.FM and click on the "Donate to KZSC" button in the upper right-hand corner. Thanks!

  6. 3d ago

    Bonny June & Ken Kraft_aka Countess June & Count Kraftula_Singers, Songwriters, Vaudville_2026-10-23 interview on KZSC's "The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club" by "Dangerous Dan" Orange & "DJ Spark Plug" (Dylan Estevez)

    The Countess & Count flew to the KZSC studio in in their coffins carried by bats, after a night of (blood) drinking & terrorizing! They are in town for their Hallowe'en show, which will be an original Vaudville-style show with songs, skits, & dumb jokes, accompanied by "Batman" Owens & "Devil-Maycare" (Cheryl Henson); they have their own YouTube channel!! ...a slghtly modified "Money Question" (e.g.: "Have you been able to make an (un)living with your music, &, if so, how?") A: Yes. "We come from old money!" (Castles...15th Century...); thanks from the Countess & Count to DJ Spark Plug for not lighting himself on fire; for Annabel Lee, the Edgar Allen Poe poem, the new version includes cello parts arranged by Barry Phillips (who spent decades working with Ravi Shankar, & lead the string section at the Concert for George Harrison); Bonny June & Ken Kraft join to talk about touring with the Countess & Count, & how to find them online. An interview on "The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club" with "Dangerous Dan" Orange & "DJ Spark Plug" (Dylan Estevez) airing Friday mornings on KZSC Santa Cruz, California. 2026 is Bushwhacker's 37th year on the air! Thanks for listening! To support KZSC (& these podcasts), please go to KZSC.FM and click on the "Donate to KZSC" button in the upper right-hand corner. Thanks!

  7. Sep 30

    Rita Hosking -Singer, Songwriter_2026-09-18 interview on KZSC's "Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club" by "Dangerous Dan" Orange & DJ "Spark Plug" (Dylan Estevez)

    Rita is calling in from Nevada City, California, in Grass Valley (shout out to KVMR!), & will be coming to Santa Cruz with her musical partner (& husband) Sean Feder, who accompanies her on Dobro (resophonic guitar) & banjo; Sean is a UCSC graduate (biology major), and a multi-instrumentalist who studied under Arthur Hull, legendary Santa Cruz drummer & widely considered the father of the modern drum circle movement; Sean taught drumming at U.C. Davis where he & Rita met, & they began performing together; during COVID, California had a budget surplus in 2022, & set aside money for the arts - they were looking for mostly visual arts, focusing on energy conservations, public health, etc.; Rita applied, and, much to her surprise, was funded - thus the EP "Climate Country Radio" was born; deep dive into songwriting - it runs the whole gamut, from songs arriving fully formed, to those that take a lot of effort & time...there's a great book "Songwriters on songwriting", with a wide variety; words first or melody? "Yes to both!" Rita is a goal-oriented person, who works best with a vision of where she's going; her song "Clean", about being a Merry Maid? No, she was not a Merry Maid, but she was a housekeeper during college; the "Money Question" (e.g.: "Have you been able to make a living with your art, &, if so, how?") A: Rita made a living as a musician for 10-15 years, but is now part time; yes, merch(andise) sales were a huge part of that, but touring has become much less affordable (due to fewer merch sales); Rita is still putting CDs out, even though she took some time off because of immense frustration - she's been writing a lot, and is planning a CD after this winter when she'll take a self-imposed residency in the North Star House, a Julia Morgan-designed historic estate in Grass Valley, CA. An interview on "The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club" with "Dangerous Dan" Orange & "DJ Spark Plug" (Dylan Estevez) airing Friday mornings on KZSC Santa Cruz, California. 2026 is Bushwhacker's 37th year on the air! Thanks for listening! To support KZSC (& these podcasts), please go to KZSC.FM and click on the "Donate to KZSC" button in the upper right-hand corner. Thanks!

  8. Sep 30

    Ian George - Singer / Songwriter; band leader of "The Knee Pockets"_2026-09-11_interview on KZSC's "Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club" by "Dangerous Dan" Orange

    They are calling from the road, after Ian & "the boys" loaded their 2013 Toyota Sienna "Tetris-style" in Oregon; Ian's boys are 15 & 9, but "the boys" in the van are Ethan Boardman on drums, & Grazer Bazer Phelps on electric bass; this trio, Ian George & the Knee Pockets, is more of a rocker, with Ian plugging in & "shredding" the electric guitar; Ian hails from Bob Dylan's hometown of Minneapolis, Minnesota (the bluest state in the mid-continent! "Hell, yeah! We take care of our own!"); when Ian writes songs, does he have a vision of where they'll end up, acoustic or electric, & what style? "That's a really good question!"...it's a function of the structure of the song...the riff...some songs come in 3 minutes (like "Gone"), some take longer (like "Grassy Knoll"); they've got a new CD coming out, "Milk of the Moonlit Sun", which is a line from one of the new songs; their Oregonians now (Grazer Bazer is from southern Oregon; Ethan originally Portland, Maine); "The Money Question?" (Are you able to make a living with music full time, & if so, how?") A: "That's subjective." Ian does odd jobs to fill in gaps, but music is the priority; one of the other guys is in school, and the other works at a sick bar; Ian is on the verge of completing a score for an independent film which will come out next year; Spotify? Maybe he makes enough money to buy a 20 oz. latte every 6 months! Q: "How do the economics work with an album, where other artists are choosing not to put out physical media?" A: "We'll put out both a vinyl album & a CD. People are re-introducing themselves to how cool physical media is." Albums are curated, with an intentional order; this album is in the can, songs aligned, album art done...it's ready to go, working on pressing soon, plus visuals to go with singles that they will post. Show is tomorrow night at The Crêpe Place, with Dead Nettle opening. An interview on "The Bushwhacker's Breakfast Club" with "Dangerous Dan" Orange airing Friday mornings on KZSC Santa Cruz, California. 2026 is Bushwhacker's 37th year on the air! Thanks for listening! To support KZSC (& these podcasts), please go to KZSC.FM and click on the "Donate to KZSC" button in the upper right-hand corner. Thanks!

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On-demand news, interviews, and live performances from KZSC 88.1 FM Santa Cruz - Non-commercial, educational, community radio for the Monterey Bay, California

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    KZSC 88.1 FM Santa Cruz: Noncommercial, educational radio for the Monterey
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2026
  • Episodes
    370
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