Episode 921: Grace Pettis

Hello friends! I hope you're all healthy and sane. Singer/songwriter, Grace Pettis is my guest for episode 921! Grace's latest single, "Landon" on MPress Records is available now where ever you stream or download your jams. Go to gracepettis.com for music, videos and more. We have a great conversation about staying prolific under quarantine, landing a record deal, publishing deal and booking agent in the last year, her band, Nobody's Girl with Rebecca Loebe and Betty Soo, growing up in a cabin on a mountain with her singer/songwriter dad, Pierce Pettis and much more! I had a great time getting to know Grace. I'm sure you will to. Let's get down!
Ciao! -JG
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Episode 900: Highlights From Live Shows!

Hello friends! I hope you are all safe and healthy. Welcome to episode 900!!!! I can't believe we're actually here. I can't believe it! First, I want to thank you and everyone who has listened to the show. I want to thank all of the artists who have come in and shared their story and made this show worth listening to. Thank you. I have loved doing this show. I have connected with so many artists and been inspired by their music and their stories. I hope you have too.
Since episode 400, we've done a live show for each hundred episodes. Obviously, this was not an option for episode 900, so I put together some snippets from other live shows. What Made Milwaukee Famous' Michael Kincaid explains himself from ep. 15 Live at Momo's, AJ Vallejo talks us through the Vallejo label shuffle from ep 182 Live at Strange Brew, Suzanna Choffel & Nakia talk about being on The Voice from ep. 400 Live from The Townsend, Kathy Valentine talks about the magic of being in a band and winning over an audience from ep. 415 Live at The Townsend, Suzanna Choffel talks about Jem and the Holograms with Nakia and AJ Vallejo from ep. 500 Live at The Townsend, AJ Vallejo and Nakia talk metal and Alabama from ep. 600 Live at The Townsend, Acey Monaro (Go Fever) tells a crazy story about El Paso while Ray Prim, Laurie Gallardo and Nöelle Hampton react to her bad decisions from ep. 800 Live at Cosmic Coffee + Beer.
Again, thank you so much for listening. I'm going to keep on bringing you stories from your favorite artists, introducing you to artists and spreading the word of music as long as I possible can. This show is, has and will always be available for free. However, if you would like to kick in a little something for all of the work, you can contribute here: Johnny's PayPal it is always appreciated. Let's get down!
Ciao! -JG

Episode 874: Pike and Sutton

Hello friends! Patrice Pike and Wayne Sutton from Pike and Sutton are my guests for episode 874! Their new album, Heart Is A Compass drops later this spring. They've put out a couple of singles, the title song from their new album, "Heart Is A Compass" and "New Year's Resolution" with John Popper from Blues Traveler available where ever you stream and download the jams. Go to pikeandsutton.com for music, tour dates and more. We have a great conversation about bringing it all back home after a 30 year partnership, Little Sister and Sister 7, hit songs and major label insanity, their solo projects, the One Step Onward Foundation, making Heart Is A Compass and much more! I had a blast catching up with my old friends. I'm sure you will too. Let's get down!
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Ciao! -JG

Episode 593: Wendy Colonna Returns Again!

Hey gang! I hope the week is treating you right and you're easing into your weekend. It's funny, when most people are gearing up to get off work on Friday and head home, or out of town to "have a weekend", I'm usually packing up my car to head out to a show and start my two-day intense work weekend. You can actually see me in action this weekend in Houston. SKYROCKET! is playing at Fitzgerald's in Houston tomorrow, Saturday, May 20th. Come out and say hi. Those shows are always a good time. 
My guest for episode 593 is the amazingly talented, always entertainging and now, extremely pregnant, Wendy Colonna! Wendy's brilliant new album, No Moment But Now comes out today, Friday, May 19th. Go to wendycolonna.com to find out where to get it and what her summer looks like. The first single off the album, "Every Second" was featured on Apple Music's "Hot Tracks" and Spotify's "Fresh Folk" Playlist. Wendy and I have a great conversation about living "home free", Scoring Coke and State of Louisiana commercials, Her partnership with producer, Mark Addison, falling in love, starting a family, being a 2016 Black Fret winner and getting $17,000 to finish her album and much, much more. I had a great time catching up with Wendy. I'm sure you will too. Let's get down!
ciao! -jg

Episode 590: Suzanna Choffel Is Back!

Hello friends! I hope you all had a good weekend doing weekend things and what not. I played all weekend. I played with SKYROCKET! on Friday and Saturday nights in Dripping Springs and San Antonio. Then Sunday i played at The Pecan Street Festival with my new band. It was a great time, but I hurt my back during the show. I'm on the mend. Gang, I want to remind you that we are celebrating our 600th episode with a live podcast recording at The Townsend in Austin, TX on Monday, May 5th at 8pm. My guests will be A.J. Vallejo, Nakia, Jaimee Harris and Jane Ellen Bryant. Find out more about it here!
My guest for episode 590 was our very first guest and has appeared on this show more times than I can count. The amazing Suzanna Choffel returns to the show! Her gorgeous new album, Hello Goodbye, comes out this Friday, May 12th. She'll be celebrating the release with a few special shows this weekend. She's playing Friday, May 12th at 3Ten Austin City Limits Live and Saturday, May 13th at The Mucky Duck in Houston. You can go to suzannachoffel.com for more info and to hear her new single, "Go Forth". Suzanna and I have a great conversation about making Hello Goodbye, motherhood, her years of travel and experience that led to Hello Goodbye and much, much more. I always love my conversations with Suzanna. I'm sure you will too. Let's get down!
ciao! -jg

574: Uncle Lucius / Continental Drift Stops By!

Hello friends! Today is the first day of SXSW 2017 Music. If you're here in Austin and participating in the festival, i wish you luck, strength and energy. If you're in town for the festival and have a badge, I want to invite you to a live podcast I'm doing at the SXSW Podcast Stage in The Brazos Room at the J.W. Marriot Hotel on Thursday, March 16th at 11 am. My guests will be Aaron Behrens and Jonas Wilson from The Midnight Stroll. For more info go to our Facebook event page. David Dalton from Continental Drift stopped by last week to talk about their new album, The Tide and their indiegogo campaign to raise money to release it on vinyl. Go to Continental Drift indiegogo to donate!
Austin's soul/country/jam band, Uncle Lucius are my guests for episode 574! They stopped by last week before their residency at The Continental Club and we had a great converstation about how they became a band, making their album, The Light with producer, George Reiff, having families and touring, the detremental effects of playing Dueling Piano Bar gigs, SXSW, Venezuela and much, much more! Find them at uncleluciusmusic.com I hope you enjoy our conversation. I sure did. Let's get down!
ciao! -jg

Episode 573: gum B

Hello friends! Well, it's official, SXSW is underway. Not the music part yet, but the whole thing is up and running. If you don't live in Austin, you don't have to deal with even more insisne traffic, no parking anywhere, people walkng into the streets looking at their phone and cursing you if you almost run over them. It gets nuts. having said that, if you're here for SXSW or you live here and you know how to do it, it can be a pretty fun time. I'll be going to a lot of events this year even though I'll only have a one-day badge for Thursday. Looking forward to the podcasts I have lined up. Should be fun.
My guest for episode 573 is my dear old friend, bassist/cellist, Mark Williams a.k.a. gum B! You might know gum B from his work with Kevin and Dustin Welch, Dan Dyer, Alejandro Escovedo, Stick People and many more. We have a fantastic conversation about baseball, growing up in South Florida, living in an Ashram, Stick People, fretless bass, playing 6th St and much, much more! I hope you enjoy our conversation. I sure did. Let's get down! 
ciao! -jg

Episode 500: Live at The Townsend w/ AJ Vallejo, Nakia, Kathy Valentine, Taylor Muse, Suzanna Choffel

hello friends! we did it! we hit 500 episodes and we did it in style. on monday, june 20th i was joined by aj vallejo, nakia, kathy valentine, taylor muse and suzanna choffel at the townsend here in austin, tx. we have a great and crazy conversation aj vallejo and i talk about our cooking show, "cooking/drinking w/ johnny & aj" and being producer of the year. we talk to nakia about his prince shows where he raised $15,000 for the sims foundation and haam. kathy tells about her new book, the movie she got to be in the new bluebonnet songs and videos. taylor muse and his love for chicken wings and star wars and suzanna choffel talks about jem & the holograms, her new album and much, much more! i want to thank juan alsina for recording the show, the townsend for having us and being so supportive of the show and last but not least, all of the people who came out and made it such a special night. let's get down!
ciao! -jg

Episode 486: Jeremy Nail

hello friends! i hope you all had a great weekend. i had a good one. photographer, todd wolfson came a shot some amazing photos of my dogs on saturday. the guys were extremely cooperative and at the end, my dog taylor acted all crazy and vicious for the todd. it was hilarious, i'll post some photos of it on the facebook page. then, saturday night skyrocket returned to our old haunt, cedar street courtyard. the show was really fun. people came and they were excited to see us at that venue again. we'll be back there soon. this weekend i finally got on periscope. i don't quite know what to make of it yet. i periscoped a bit, but i'm not sure what or when to periscope. i want to do some stuff with the podcast. i'll let you know when i do. 
my guest for episode 486 is amazing singer/songwriter and one of my favorite people in the world, jeremy nail! jeremy's profoundly powerful and gorgeous new album, my mountain, comes out tomorrow, tuesday, may 3rd. it was produced by the amazing alejandro escovedo, mixed by rock legend, jim scott. the album features the talents of chris searles, bobby daniel, chris masterson, eleanor whitmore, jazz mills, dana falconberry, stephen barber and me. jeremy and i have a great conversation about what it took to make my mountain, surviving cancer, how he couldn't cut it as a rancher, working with legends and much, much more. you can see jeremy perform my mountain at his record release show this friday, may 6th at strange brew in austin, tx. you can find out where and when he's performing by going to jeremynail.com. i hope you enjoy my conversation with jeremy as much as i did. let's get down!
ciao! -jg

Episode 464: Daniel Thomas Phipps

hello friends! i hope you are recovering from back-to-back holidays, valentine's day and president's day. the office in my apartments is closed for president's day so i guess that's a pretty big one. i hope you all have a great week this week. if you are in the austin or round rock area, skyrocket (the band i'm in) will be playing this weekend around austin. on friday we'll be at hanover's in pflugerville, then saturday, we'll be at the one-2-one bar in sunny south austin! go to skyrockettheband.com for times and directions. my guest for episode 464 is brilliantly talented singer/songwriter/frontman/sideman and good man, daniel thomas phipps! daniel came by a few weeks ago and we sat down, did the podcast then i accidentally deleted it, but he was nice enough to come by and do it again the next day. you might know daniel from his own band, daniel thomas phipps and the kinfolk or you may know him as a sideman with little brave, brandy zdan and most currently, he became a member of emily bell and the talkbacks. anyway, daniel and i have a great conversation about growing up in new braunfels, writing songs, solo vs. band, frontman vs. sideman and much, much more! i hope you enjoy getting to know daniel as much as i did. let's get down!ciao! -jg