Episode 130: Kevin Searle 🎤

Pipe-smoking songwriter Kevin Searle joins Travis Billy Ross & Sweet Kirbs for smoked Gentleman Jack, rat-pack cool, and a deep dive on whether you'd lip-sync for $500K — plus live heartbreak from a French novel title.

🎸 Duplex-church pastor → worship band → Nashville intimidation → guitar back for the hard seasons · mom's Beatlemania (Liverpool pen pal, Let It Be cutting-room LP, practice autographs on a 1964 desk calendar)

🎵 Live: "The Sweet Cheat Gone" (Proust → country infidelity; restart included) · "Tell the Neighbors" on air · Crooked Letter Blues with Melissa (Robert Johnson crossroads Sonic) · album sessions with John Haas / Ramona Music Center (Nov)

😂 A whiskey smoker (oak vs cherry) · premature smoculation · Reverend Stranger after the STD skit ("swallow or spit, just don't let it sit") · Crawdaddy's 4-hour Cookville gigs · KQ bathroom disorientation · balloon vs Travis

🎮 Name That Tune: 90s radio hits — Travis 15, Sweet Kirbs 10.5, Kevin 4 · Milli Vanilli, Gravitron at Del Mar Fair '89, and the lip-sync ethics trial

🏕️ Day job: facilities director, Camp Stevens (Julian) · open mic Smoking Cannon Fridays · Reds, Whites & Brews · SoundCloud / Audius: Kevin Searle

Listen weekly on your favorite podcast service. Find Kevin Searle: SoundCloud · Audius · around Ramona & Julian live rooms

Upcoming: recording at Ramona Music Center with John Haas (November)

Special thanks to Ramona Family Naturals, Dean's Outlaw BBQ, Smoking Cannon Brewery, and Ramona Radio