Robby Grant is a Memphis indie rock icon. I suspect Robby will find that description a bit jarring, but it’s true. For the past twenty years, Robby has been one of rock music’s backbones in the city that first gave it life. I have enjoyed Robby’s music in every form that it’s taken, from his [...]
Welcome back to another episode of the inconsistent People I Know podcast. Our guest this week is the king of Memphis thrift, David Nielsen. . We talked about thrift (of course), the dominance of retro style and eating a goat head. David has two great blog that you should check out. The first is his [...]
Katrina is a comic, a mom and a malcontent. She’s among the organizers of the Memphis Roast Club and in turn, the first Memphis Comedy Festival happening February 16th through the 19th at Theater Works. We talked about her early days rocking open mics, live tweeting the birth of her second child and being a [...]
Holy smokes, we’re back! After a three-month hiatus the show you totally forgot about has returned with slightly more professionalism! We’ve got a new recording rig, legal music courtesy of former guests Bill Perry and old friend Andy Boston and a great guest to start of version 2.0 of the People I Know. My guest [...]
Eric Tate makes movies. Memphians and film buffs will probably remember him from Craig Brewer’s first film, The Poor and the Hungry. Back in 2000, the debut was a local sensation. If you haven’t seen the film, Eric turned a hell of a performance for someone who hadn’t really been in a feature length film [...]
Lou Goggans is coming up. He’s a student journalist and the current intern at the Memphis Flyer. He’s confident, talented and full of positive energy. Lou is an incredibly earnest person. He knows that he wants to write and he knows that future for someone who works hard and stays positive is always sunny and [...]
Richard Alley is a writer. He writes the “Because I Said So” parenting column for the Memphis Commercial Appeal and has written for pretty much every publication of note in the area. You should check out his stuff in the River Times insert in the current issue of Memphis magazine, it’s really good. We talked about how he [...]
Mo Alexander is funny. That is, in fact, his job. For the last sixteen years Mo has paid the rent as a standup comic. We passed the time talking about being a comic without a comedy club, the skills of performance and the moment when a performer lets go. It sounds heady but we swear [...]
Steve Ross is a blogger. He is the local political writer behind the impressively deep Vibinc site. Recently the local daily announced a paywall and Steve wrote up one of the best local pieces about it. I thought that was as good an excuse as any to haul him in, mic him up and make [...]
Things have not gone smoothly for the podcast the last couple of weeks. I taped an episode with Gary Bridgman and my lack of foresight and preplanning really bit me on the ass. Gary and I talked primarily about nature conservation, his Memphis Flyer cover story on the Nonconnah Creek and Memphis in general. It [...]
