Audio Tractor: Music and Creativity
Interviews with musicians, producers and industry professionals hosted by Alan Stricklin, a veteran broadcaster with 20+ years of experience in radio and recording.
Episodes
11 episodes
Charles Kelley - Founding Member of Lady A
Charles Kelley is a singer-songwriter and founding member of Lady A. In this episode he talks about his first job as an accountant working for a waste disposal company. His transition from sitting at a desk to performing on stage wa...
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23:48
Paul Worley - The Early Days in Nashville
Paul Worley is a Grammy Award winning producer who knows how to tell great stories. In this episode he recounts his early days in the music business.Highlight: Trying to get a job in an office supply store.
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28:25
Clarke Schleicher - Engineer of Award Winning Hit Music
Clarke has recorded and/or mixed more than twenty #1 singles and ten #1 albums. Winner of three Grammy awards, there is no doubt he's put together the music you've heard on the radio and online. Clarke's mixing style fr...
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29:27
Ira Wolf - Authenticity in Songwriting and Life
Ira Wolf is a singer-songwriter who makes music that engages the heart.Independent in every way, she is a free spirit who is authentic without hesitation.Highlight: Honest conversation about artistic collaboration and living...
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24:57
Evan Redwine - Springboard of Injury
Evan is a young producer and musician making his way in the Nashville music scene.In this episode he talks about an injury that changed his musical journey and set him on the track to success as a producer. We discuss the evolutio...
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27:02
Brian Newhouse - Broadcasting and Connecting
Brian is multi-talented and yet remains incredibly humble. He's a writer, an on-air classical music host, a manager, a singer, and someone you want to sit and talk with for hours and hours.In this episode he shares his discovery o...
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22:42
Clay Hess - Bluegrass Music and Good Humor
Clay's first introduction to many was as the lead guitarist for Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, winning a Grammy Award during his tenure there. After departing Skaggs, Hess toured and recorded with several of the top bands in the genre...
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18:54
Christine Sweet - Broadcasting As A Woman in the 1970s
Christine Sweet is a broadcaster who was one of the earliest women deejays in pop music and jazz and went on to a career in classical radio. A love for music of all kinds led her into both public and commercial radio formats as an announc...
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23:02
Paul Worley - In The Studio
Production tips and best practices.Highlight: Candid words about the ebb and flow of being a producer and “suck tapes.”
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23:48