Unhand the Monster
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Mobile, AL is currently experiencing a flourish of original music. As Southern Living Magazine selects one of its venues as "Best Venue In the South," Ferrill Gibbs - a songwriter and recently-published author - interviews his peers to uncover all the reasons why.

Episode 7: Danny Schmidt

Named 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 mus...
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Episode 6: John Nova Lomax

A staggering lineage of folk music enthusiasts and documentarians have paved the way for Texas Monthly writer John Nova Lomax: a complicated, uncompro...
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Episode 5: Oh Jeremiah

Husband 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 philosop...
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Episode 4: Ordinary Elephant

Crystal 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 ...
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Episode 3: Jackson Emmer

On the heels of a killer writeup in Rolling Stone, mild-mannered Jackson Emmer, the smooth-sounding songwriter from Carbondale, CO, played an inaugura...
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Episode 2: Matt Harlan

Easy-as-the-breeze Matt Harlan - Singer/Songwriter of the Year at the 2013 Texas Music Awards (and also known as a "Houstonian Treasure" by journalist...
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Episode 1: Songs From Ashes

Intro 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...
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Episode 13: Kristy Lee

On the season finale of Unhand The Monster, Ferrill interviews Kristy Lee – a Mobile songwriter whose career shot off like a rocket… before she was ev...
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Episode 12: Sugarcane Jane

Veteran guitarist (of Neil Young fame) Anthony Crawford returns to Alabama to form a band with his wife Savana: the harmony-laden, sweet-sounding duo,...
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Episode 11: Brent Busby

Brent 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...
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