Rex-A-Vision:The Podcast

Keller Williams is the festival scene's Renaissance man and court jester rolled into one smiling package! As a multi-instrumentalist of the highest order he is equally at home on the guitar, bass, sequencing pedals and the always entertaining "Making horn noises with your mouth" thing. When you factor those skills in with his ability to effortlessly leapfrog from genre to genre Keller Williams is the perfect act to play at any festival. Whether with his funk band More Than A Little, his bluegrass partnership with recent Rex-A-Vision guests Larry & Jenny Keel, his willingness to work with anyone named Andy to occasionally fronting the entirety of the String Cheese Incident Keller Williams is a Swiss Army knife of awesome! On a personal note, Keller is one of the original reasons I fell into the Jam scene and my love for his quirky personality and positive energy knows no bounds! This is, to date, my favorite chat just out of sheer love for the subject! Enjoy!

Nov. 2 – Asbury Park, NJ – The Stone Pony (solo)

Nov. 4 – Broomfield, CO – 1^st Bank Center (Jeff Austin Benefit)

Nov. 7 – Edmonds, WA – Edmonds Center for the Arts (solo and PettyGrass ft. the Hillbenders)

Nov. 8 – Bremerton, WA – Admiral Theatre (PettyGrass ft. the Hillbenders)

Nov. 9 – Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom (PettyGrass ft. the Hillbenders)

Nov. 10 – Bend, OR – Tower Theatre (PettyGrass ft. the Hillbenders)

Nov. 14 – Pawtucket, RI – The Met (solo)

Nov. 15 – South Burlington, VT – Higher Ground Ballroom (solo)

Nov. 16 – Boston, MA – Paradise Rock Club (solo)

Nov. 22 – Santa Fe, NM – Meow Wolf (solo)

Nov. 23 – Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre (Keller & The Keels, Grateful Grass)

Nov. 29 – Richmond, VA – The National (Thanksforgrassgiving ft. Keller & the Keels)

Nov. 30 – Washington, DC – The Hamilton (Thanksforgrassgiving ft. Keller & the Keels)

Dec. 5 – Brevard, NC – 185 King Street (Keller Williams Trio ft. Jeff Sipe and Gibb Droll)

Dec. 6 – Carrboro, NC – The Arts Center (solo)

Dec. 7 – Lynchburg, VA – Joy & Lynch Christian Warehouse Theatre (solo)

Dec. 13 – Keystone, CO – Warren Station (“rock it” w/Keith Moseley, Gibb Droll & Jeff Sipe)

Dec. 14 – Keystone, CO – Warren Station (“funk it” w/More Than A Little)

Dec. 17 – Savannah, GA – Southbound Brewing (solo)

Dec. 28 – Atlanta, GA – Terminal West (solo)

Dec. 30 – St. Louis, MO – Old Rock House (Keller & the Keels)

Dec. 30 – St. Louis, MO – Old Rock House (Grateful Grass)

 

On today's episode our hots Freekbass and Rex-A-Vision talk about The Batman castings, Kevin Feige taking over the world and Joker box office! There's some fun theories and lil nugs of info sprinkled throughout along with the usual geek love! Dig it!

Larry & Jenny Keel have been on my guest wish list since before I even started the podcast and this fun and funny episode shows why I knew they would be awesome guests! They're a fiercely talented husband and wife jamgrass team that has left music fans shell shocked for more than a decade and there is no stopping them. Their new album, One, is a truly impressive disc and we have the title track embedded in the episode so you can see why you should buy it right now! Larry is one of the finest flat pickers alive and Jenny literally beams loving energy as she play and it is a true pleasure for them to stop by for a short chat on their way to my home, the Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park for a weekend of musical insanity at the Suwannee Roots Revival!

Joker was finally released to a psychotic clown starved audience and our hosts (Especially Freekbass!) couldn't be more excited to go all in with a SPOILER filled review. To help our hosts break down this amazing film the recruited Zaki Hasan, noted film reviewer for the San Francisco Chronicle, member of the San Francisco Film Critics Circle and co-host of the exception MovieFilm podcast to give them a lil boost of their bonafides! Joaquin Phoenix  gives an award worthy performance as the fabled title character and that, plus the rest of this challenging, gorgeously shot film, is given a thorough dissection in this excellent new episode! Dig it!

We return from hiatus with a returning guest, Andrew McConathy of The Drunken Hearts, as well as promoter of the awesome Yarmony Music Festival! Since we last spoke with him this years festival kicked all the ass and his band's new record, Wheels Of The City, is all ready to drop on October 18th worldwide on LoHi Records. We even have a track, "Unrest," for you to check out and a really uplifting story in the outro to boot! Dig it!

 

This episode ours hosts Freekbass and Rex-A-Vision react to the news the Disney and Sony fixed their Spider-Man sharing issues, the new Birds of Prey trailer that dropped, look at the news and rumors on the upcoming Marvel and DC movies and Rex shares a few thoughts on the series finale of Preacher. Dig it! 

Today Freekbass and Rex-A-Vision go through the casting and plot rumors around the upcoming Matt Reeves directed Robert Pattinson starring Batman movie before going on a deep dive into the Disney + Marvel live action shows like Falcon & The Winter Soldier, WandaVision, Loki, She Hulk, Moon Knight and more! Lots of fun theories and hopes for the future of this bold step in the MCU! Dig it!

In this issue our fearless hosts Freekbass and Rex-A-Vision talk some of the Marvel rumors like Robert Downey Jr. maybe not being done as Tony Stark & the Silver Surfer movie, the cast of the James Gunn written and directed Suicide Squad sequel and more before diving into the mess between Disney & Sony over Spider-Man and the social media blow back on the much anticipated Joker film! 

Today we're gonna talk with Dr. Charlie Kautz, a guy who specializes in keeping touring musicians and crew healthy and functional. Playing instruments and lifting gear, combined with all the perils of travel like cramped conditions, poor food choices and the ever present lack of water can wear the body down and make these folks waaaay more subject to stress and injuries so his work is ever so important. We chat about his move and new shingle in Nashville, his best tips for good health and the ever popular question for me..."How did we meet?" Dig it!

 

Today's guest, guitar playing living lightning bolt Jon Stickley leads the bluegrass/jazz/rock improvisational band The Jon Stickley Trio along with previous guest and fiddler extraordinaire Lyndsay Pruett and beat master Hunter Deacon through a wild array of songs and styles as they tour the country. We chatted about the power of trios, the definition of flat picking, his love for Suwannee and even manage to slip his band's latest single, Animate Object, into the episode! Dig it!