Nakedly Examined Music is a podcast about making music: Why do we do it? Why do we do it the way we do it? Mark Linsenmayer interviews songwriters and composers famous and otherwise about specific recordings, which are presented in full on the podcast. 
To celebrate the end of year #2 of the podcast, I talked to three previous guests about a song they've released since the episode. Bradley Skaught from the Bye-Bye Blackbirds (see #32) discusses "Duet" (co-written/sung by Lindsay Paige Garfield) from their new album Take Out the Poison. Visit byebyeblackbirds.com to see the video and learn more. Jeff Heiskell, formerly of Continue Reading …
NEM#5. Jeff Heiskell: Positive Vérité
Jeff was the voice of JudyBats until '94, and is now Heiskell. He sings with character, or characters, always articulate, overly introspective, with intimacy issues. We discuss his current status as happy, self-funded, free-styled, hands-off yet obsessive compulsive solo artist (with a very intuitive supporting group!), as contrasted with his high-pressure, compromise-filled Continue Reading …
NEM#5 Bonus: More Conversation and Tunes with Jeff Heiskell
In the pre-roll and post-roll conversation for Nakedly Examined Music ep. 5, we talk about his marketing (or not) himself as a gay artist and listen to "I Want the World to Change" from his 2008 album Clip-on Nose Ring. Also: being recognized, not sitting in front of a computer, band business chores, staying in the same town where you went to college and have many fans, who Continue Reading …