I’ve had some pretty great guests on my radio show (see bio at the bottom to listen) in the last week. Thought you would enjoy the interviews & live performances. Â Just click on the image to get the interview & live performances:Â
Me with the guys from NeedtoBreathe. They played “Washed by the Water” (in amazing 4 part harmony) as well as “Streets of Gold” live on Shine.FM. Wierd note: if you have their album “The Heat,” the song on there called “Yahweh” was actually inspired by an interview I did with Blue Like Jazz author Don Miller. Â
The guys from Seabird are good dudes. Â Because of some scheduling issues, they got into town without a place to stay. Â I invited them to crash at my house, since my roommates were gone and I had two spare bedrooms. Â They got there before I did, and were harrased by my elderly neighbor, who thought they were “digging in the yard.” (Actually, they were sitting on the porch tapping into the wireless internet).
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Jon Foreman (lead singer, Switchfoot) dropped by my show to talk about his 4 solo EP’s, and was gracious enough to lay down an acoustic version of “Your Love is Strong.” Â By the way, Shine.FM had Switchfoot in two months ago. Â After the show, Jon showed up at Moon Monkey Coffee Company in Bourbonnais, IL for an hour and a half. Â See the video here. After that, I he and I had a pretty long conversation about books, and I wound up giving him my out of print copy of “Nebraska” by Ron Hansen, because it reminded me of Jon’s lyrics (lots of trains & stars). Â
tower can be heard from 2-6pm weekdays on 89.7 Shine.FM in Chicago and streaming online, and from 6-10pm on 101.7 the Fuse in Saginaw, Michigan. Â In addition to his work with Relevant, he also contributes to Shore Magazine, which you can pick up in Chicago, Northwest Indiana, and Michigan. Â On August 2nd, he will compete in the first 2/3 of the Ironman race in Sonoma County, CA (2.4 mile swim/112 mile bike). Â He blogs, and is fiercly proud of his hometown of Fishhook, IL (population: 37).
