WS802: Martin Sexton and Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors




The Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour Podcast show

Summary: MARTIN SEXTON is well-known for his incendiary live shows and incredible success as an independent recording artist. In a career spanning over two decades, Martin has a reputation as a musician’s musician. Sexton, an upstate New Yorker, left home with seventy-five bucks and a Stratocaster to chase his musical dreams singing in the streets of Harvard Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, gradually and independently working his way to the premier venues of North America inspiring fans and musicians along the way. Sexton just released his 8th studio album Mixtape of the Open Road. http://martinsexton.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKGQbr1U4Vs DREW HOLCOMB AND THE NEIGHBORS have established themselves as a formidable indie act, selling more than 75,000 records, playing more than 1,500 live dates, selling-out headline shows. Drew, a Tennessee-born, duck hunting, French speaking, bourbon drinking, 1st edition book collecting, golf playing Eagle Scout with a Masters degree in Divinity from Scotland’s University of St Andrews (he wrote his dissertation on 'Springsteen and American Redemptive Imagination') who has spent the better part of the past decade as a professional musician recording, writing, and touring with his band Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors. The group are celebrating their new full-length studio album 'Medicine'. WoodSongs Kid: Reuben Hicks is 12 and from the Red River Gorge area in Slade, Kentucky. He started playing fiddle when he was 5 and recently played with cellist Ben Sollee.