Latest Ferrillgibbs Podcast Episodes
Episode 1 - "Windows"
Life In A Song - October 01, 2020 10:32 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsFerrill Gibbs, Ivan Ruyle and Brent Busby are three songwriters. They collaborate remotely because they couldn't live farther apart. Ferrill podcasts for the Houston Chronicle, Brent makes fart noises for a living at Adult Swim in Atlanta... and Ivan? Well, he could be up to just about anything....
Episode 7: Danny Schmidt
Unhand the Monster - December 11, 2019 19:07 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsNamed by the Chicago Tribune as One of the 50 Most Significant Folk Artists of the Past 50 Years, Danny Schmidt has kept the sound of vintage folk music alive, and in a sprawling conversation right in the heart of Houston, Danny offers a series of candid, insightful comments concerning everythin...
Episode 6: John Nova Lomax
Unhand the Monster - August 28, 2019 14:34 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsA staggering lineage of folk music enthusiasts and documentarians have paved the way for Texas Monthly writer John Nova Lomax: a complicated, uncompromising, ball-peen hammer of a man. John gets passionate when discussing the legitimacy of certain pieces of music, so when he visits Ferrill's hou...
Episode 5: Oh Jeremiah
Unhand the Monster - August 20, 2019 22:49 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsHusband and wife duo Oh Jeremiah have clocked in with perhaps the latest birth years of all the comers, but they arrive at the interview with philosophies squarely in tact, as surefooted tackling big questions about government, society, generational wars, and particularly the field they are most...
Episode 4: Ordinary Elephant
Unhand the Monster - August 09, 2019 13:27 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsCrystal and Pete Damore (of the husband/wife duo Ordinary Elephant) won Artist of the Year at the 2017 International Folk Music Awards. Their road to it, however, was anything but typical. Crystal shunned a life of veterinary medicine (and all the training and education that comes with it), whil...
Episode 3: Jackson Emmer
Unhand the Monster - May 07, 2019 19:40 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsOn the heels of a killer writeup in Rolling Stone, mild-mannered Jackson Emmer, the smooth-sounding songwriter from Carbondale, CO, played an inaugural round at McGonigel's Mucky Duck in Houston and Ferrill was there to meet him. The two talk art, music, poetry - even talking to God on a golden ...
Episode 2: Matt Harlan
Unhand the Monster - April 23, 2019 22:41 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsEasy-as-the-breeze Matt Harlan - Singer/Songwriter of the Year at the 2013 Texas Music Awards (and also known as a "Houstonian Treasure" by journalists who have followed his career there) is armed with a soapy-warm voice that sweetly delivers machine-gun-blasts of tight, serrated lyrics. In this...
Episode 1: Songs From Ashes
Unhand the Monster - March 29, 2019 15:40 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIntro to Season 2... Spurred on by a series of tumultuous life-events that occurred off-the-mic in Season 1, Ferrill now finds himself moonlighting in a brand new city: Houston, Texas. With virtually the same climate, a historically rich place, and one that sits on a bustling bay just like Mobil...
Episode 13: Kristy Lee
Unhand the Monster - September 26, 2018 22:48 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsOn the season finale of Unhand The Monster, Ferrill interviews Kristy Lee – a Mobile songwriter whose career shot off like a rocket… before she was even ready! The big-voiced, soulful singer/songwriter also describes a medically-induced hiatus from music that left a reverent soul-search in its w...
Episode 12: Sugarcane Jane
Unhand the Monster - September 07, 2018 17:20 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsVeteran guitarist (of Neil Young fame) Anthony Crawford returns to Alabama to form a band with his wife Savana: the harmony-laden, sweet-sounding duo, "Sugarcane Jane." Together they tour relentlessly while raising their kids on the Alabama Gulf Coast...
Episode 11: Brent Busby
Unhand the Monster - August 28, 2018 12:44 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsBrent Busby is a guitar prodigy, recruited by grown-ups to play in bands around Mobile even in his mid-teens. Now, after parlaying his musical talents to become Sound Designer and Composer for Adult Swim in Atlanta, he still strives to write the perfect song with his faraway bandmates.
Episode 10: Lisa Mills
Unhand the Monster - August 16, 2018 15:47 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsEver since she was a child singing in her great-grandfather's church in rural Mississippi, Lisa Mills always knew she had a gift. But, over a sprawling career that has taken her to Los Angeles, around the world, and always back home to the Gulf Coast, this fine artist has finally processed her r...
Episode 9: Molly Thomas
Unhand the Monster - August 07, 2018 14:39 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsMolly Thomas has been a fixture of the Mobile music scene since the mid-90’s. Though classically trained on violin, Molly was eventually recruited by jam bands in the early days to supply fills for songs such as “Ants Marching” and "Porch Song." Now, after so many years playing in the background...
Episode 8: Ryan Balthrop
Unhand the Monster - July 24, 2018 01:48 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsSince the early 90's, Mobile's Ryan Balthrop has enchanted the flip-flop sensibilities of the Alabama Gulf Coast, crafting songs of beach life and carefree living. However, his journey as an entertainer led to a spiritual awakening of sorts, beginning in the Virgin Islands. Today, its aftereffec...
Episode 7: Eric Erdman
Unhand the Monster - July 15, 2018 18:12 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsThis week, the beloved Eric Erdman - a champion of the local arts scene and an unabashed fan of his hometown of Mobile - sits with Ferrill to discuss the state of education in Mobile, the "strange" and broken guitar chords he likes to forge and make melodic, and the eye-opening realities of his ...
Episode 6: Ross Newell
Unhand the Monster - July 05, 2018 15:34 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsRoss Newell is the lead singer and songwriter for Mobile's uber-popular band, The Mulligan Brothers. This week he sits down with Ferrill to discuss the biggest issues that a small, entrenched, southern town can face - and does it with the same sort of gentleness he uses when composing his belove...
Episode 5: Grayson Capps
Unhand the Monster - June 14, 2018 11:24 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsGrayson Capps, a cultural instigator from Mobile, travels the world taking the sounds of his hometown to a scattered but loyal fanbase. Sometimes he even takes it to the streets...
Episode 4: Rick Hirsch
Unhand the Monster - June 04, 2018 23:03 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsRick Hirsch first arrived on the scene in 1969 with the Mobile band Wet Willie, and soon after he found himself in Los Angeles and ultimately coveted as a guitarist and writer by acts such as Cher and Gregg Allman. Years later, when the dust would settle, Rick would return to his beloved city of...
Episode 3: Will Kimbrough
Unhand the Monster - May 21, 2018 12:39 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsIn the mid eighties, Will Kimbrough launched from Mobile with his much heralded, all-original band, "Will And The Bushmen." Ever since, he has made a strikingly normal (and highly successful) life of original music.
Episode 2: Abe Partridge
Unhand the Monster - April 25, 2018 12:31 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsThe soft-spoken - but distinctly outspoken - balladeer from Mobile, Alabama offers his thoughts on the state of the art scene, how it is improving, and what is left to improve.
Episode 1: Sound of Mobile
Unhand the Monster - April 25, 2018 12:30 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 19 ratingsLiftoff! Alabama songwriter Ferrill Gibbs outlines his plan: to interview all the songwriters responsible for Mobile, Alabama's original music renaissance...
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