Susan Hickman is a Texas CMA Female Vocalist of the Year and a longtime songwriter. She joins us in the studio to talk about a subject we all know and love, country music. Our easy, breezy chat focuses on her busy performance schedule, her long career as a songwriter, her upcoming album and PB&J sandwiches.

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Chicagoland rap duo The Palmer Squares take a detour from a massive tour to visit the Vinyl Voices Studio for this ridiculously entertaining episode! P Squares discuss their devotion to skilled wordplay, touring with a punk band, the TPS Reports Podcast - their own podcast - and the Florida gig that ended just seconds into a song.

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Kim Barker, Samuel Barker and Michael Helfenstein - aka Brightwire - have us laughing, thinking about songwriting and digging tunes from their latest LP "Here, But Gone" in this episode. As folk rockers and fellow podcasters (check out Music in the Minor League on Spotify), they know how to weave a good yarn and are always entertaining. Give us all a listen and support live music and music podcasting!

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We want the funk and the legendary funk band Lettuce gives it to us in this very special Vinyl Voices episode, a road show from the beautiful Heights Theater in Houston! Adam "Shmeeans" Smirnoff and Erick "Jesus" Coomes have collaborated with some of music's biggest names - Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder to name a few. We focus on Lettuce and its 30-plus year commitment to "Keep That Funk Alive."

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Wild stories and kickass music from Segment 4, with Florida's Dial Drive, Fat Wreck's Escape From The Zoo and H-town's own Shame on Me.

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Grammy-nominated children's music artist Uncle Jumbo brightens our studio, this episode and our lives with posi vibes and music! He gets us dancing to songs from his wonderful album "Taste the Sky" and tells how family and friends influence his work. Listen to our chat now and catch Uncle Jumbo live this summer at Lollapalooza! Uncle Jumbo Loves You!!!

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Colorado folk punk band Doom Scroll left their yuckies at Buc-ee's and steered the tour van to the Hell N High Water Studio to discuss songs from their Bottles to the Ground debut release, Pyrrhic Victory. After some spirited conversation with guest host Gladys Fuentes and shenanigans involving hot dog wieners, Twinkies and squeeze cheese, the band performed live.

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The dynamic husband and wife duo Rebecca and John Stoll, better known as Grifters & Shills, join us to talk "Fireball," songwriting and the importance of cool album cover art over pizza and a few beers.

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