JoshOptical Podcast

Joshua Shelton
  • 5.0 (2)
  • Performing Arts

Welcome one & all to JoshOptical Podcast! This is your shotgun-seat ride-along with Josh and all his friends as we discuss songwriting, entrepreneurship, and GUITARS (along with dogs, coffee, mental health, diners, small towns, gluten-free pumpkin spice bacon and whatever crosses our minds). The ride starts here.

  1. UP(and)COMING!- Show, Podcasts, Collabs

    03/28/2025

    UP(and)COMING!- Show, Podcasts, Collabs

    -CONCERT: Stokes Co. Songwriter Showcase 4/10 - PODCAST appearances: Tone Nerds, Western NC Original Music Podcast -COLLAB: Stewart Macdonald instrument tools content -RECORDING: new stripped down EP in the works Shoutouts to musician Anna Mertson, ReString Appalachia org, and The “B” String guitar shop in Winston-Salem, NC

    10 min
  2. This instrument could get you Disappeared- Ken Bloom on Ukrainian music & its iconic Bandura

    11/02/2024

    This instrument could get you Disappeared- Ken Bloom on Ukrainian music & its iconic Bandura

    From the world’s capital of the Bowed Dulcimer, I interview Kenneth Bloom about the iterations of the Ukrainian Bandura, the legendary Kytasky musical family, imperial imposition through the redesign of the traditional instrument, and the failed Russianization of Ukraine. Ken is the world’s leading maker of Bowed Dulcimers and founder of the annual Pilot Mountain Bowed Dulcimer Festival. The honor of being in his rarefied headspace was made greater by our history together, Ken being my first formal guitar teacher and the builder of my fundamental understanding of music. I share this lineage with hundreds of thousands of viewers through today’s communication channels. Cover photo is one of Ken’s bowed dulcimers.

    2h 45m

  3. 06/30/2023

    IT IS SUMMER- what’s happening?

    Updates and downdates on upcoming content, projects, gigs and more.

    7 min

  4. 11/23/2022

    A Lotta Bit Country- Flatfooting, Imposter Accounts, & Taking Tradition to School with Mason Winfree

    JOP #19: In our new season’s second interview, Mason & I sit down to answer the age-old questions: Who gets to be Country? Do people really go flatfoot dancing in 2023? Where is the line between performance and just living? And how did we first meet? We can’t remember. The two of us talk representation in Country music & culture, Fiddlers Conventions (and his blue ribbons), Martha Spencer’s new album Wonderland whose videos Mason graced, and Mason’s work with American Highways and his own outlet Real Country Music. ~~~~~~~ Mason P. Winfree is a writer, radio personality, musician, scholar, and award-winning dancer with deep North Carolina roots in Stokes & Rockingham Counties. You know there’s something happening when Mason shows up, even if there wasn’t before he got there. ~~~~~~~~~~ If you haven’t subscribed on your favorite podcast spinning app, now is the time! You’ll enjoy it thoroughly.

    42 min

  5. 11/10/2022

    “A Strong & Particular Bond”— The Power of LOCAL with Miles Montgomery (JOP Episode 18)

    Daily Basket Co-Founder & Manager Miles Montgomery & partners take care of their own— and they’d love for you to be among them. Miles & Josh talk community, honoring tradition while pursuing innovation, the sustaining power of being neighbors, and how you’ll never survive without Bud Light.

    35 min

  6. 03/15/2022

    How Sweet it Is!: From Optical to Sweetwater

    Hey! Lemme tell you how I got from answering entitled contact lens wearer’s absurd requests to selling gear for the greatest music retailer on Earth, and the troubles in between.

    18 min

  7. 12/08/2021

    Your Ideology is Holding You Back as a Musician

    How much time and energy are you spending debating how the industry SHOULD be- that you could be putting into actually making the industry more like you want it to be?

    11 min

  8. 11/19/2021

    Podcasts, Poison, & Positivity

    This episode is for you if: 1) you love Winston-Salem, Stokes County & the arts 2) you’re into self-experimentation 3) you want to be happy.

    11 min
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Welcome one & all to JoshOptical Podcast! This is your shotgun-seat ride-along with Josh and all his friends as we discuss songwriting, entrepreneurship, and GUITARS (along with dogs, coffee, mental health, diners, small towns, gluten-free pumpkin spice bacon and whatever crosses our minds). The ride starts here.

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  • Creator
    Joshua Shelton
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2025
  • Episodes
    23
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Joshua Shelton
  • Show Website
    JoshOptical Podcast