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 #32: Bradley Skaught’s The Bye-Bye Blackbirds: Crafting Power Pop
Bradley started as a drummer, graduated to front-guy, and in 2005 formed the Bay Area band, The Bye-Bye Blackbirds, which inhabits the niche of Byrds-influenced "power pop" even though Bradley really doesn't like that term or its sometimes very shallow connotations. We discuss the band's 2016 boogie single "Let Your Hair Fall Down," the country ballad "Hats" from Fixed Continue Reading …