Honest Jams Podcast

Check it out, my demo from episode #84 “zone” has gotten an upgrade with which is gonna be releasing a new single every other Friday all year!

Many of my honest jams tunes have become “brunchers” and I’m so ✨🥰✨ to share them with our inspiring HJP alumni 💖

I’m so thankful to the 100 guest songwriters who joined us in writing songs based on a prompt and it’s thrilling to see so many of those demos get a makeover and professional recording, like who’s releasing her track Dandelion on new album Even Still on May 10th✨

special episode alert! Ben Barnett joins us to share the first few songs of our 12hr songwriting frenzy in this creativity shake up exercise known as the 20 song game!

Episode #78 “Gasp” with - we share gasp-worthy songs and talk about Ear Trumpet Labs, having relentlessly supportive parents and singing 1920s pop songs to oneself in the attic

HJ presents yard show this sat!

Episode #77 “The Pilgrimage” - we share songs inspired by the newest novel from and talk about our collective high school experience in Ashland, OR, Josh’s taste for non-sustainable careers, bands as narrative devices and not waiting for permission to make your own culture

Episode #76 “Negotiation” with Dustin Dybvig aka - we talk about dj-ing middle school dances, having an octopus brain, negotiating with the puppet masters and embracing the matrix-esque screech sounds

Episode #75 “Luxury” with we talk about the 20 song game, learning to write songs in Nashville, taking a 30 day solo songwriting retreat in Sisters, OR and feeling really human and present

💖 so many incredibly talented Honest Jams alums, we can’t wait!

Episode #74 “Surprise” with Sam Mendoza - we share surprising songs and talk about peekaboo Bossanovas, playing De Colores in a cape, running a venue out of the one unoccupied bedroom and performing riff medleys of the bands you’re opening for

Episode #72 “project” with - we talk about the day the mics got turned on, having melody, being one of the wild kids at church and turning up the soul k**b

Extrasode #45 “Write a song with a Tres” We talk about trios and write songs on the newest guitar addition to - a Tres

Episode #71 “wrestle” with Lindsay Clark - we talk about classical beginnings, nonfiction writing, centering your life around creativity and the way babies experience sound