ClifTones w/ JC Denison

Mar 10 2025 92 ep. 67 mins 14

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Host JC Denison sits down with Louisville musicians, bartenders, artists, food folks, and more for in-depth and candid conversations.

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Episode 73: Brian Schreck

Mar 10 2025 78 mins

Brian Schreck is a saxophonist, music therapist, future funeral director, and damn fine human. His groundbreaking work recording the heartbeats of dying patients has helped open up conversations around expanding the connections between deceased people and the bereaved. Through music and audio, he strives to make dealing with loss and pain just a little easier. And maybe joyful. Bri

Episode 72: Mandy Keathley

Mar 03 2025 107 mins

Mandy Keathley screams and dances and flails and sings with style and fury as she commands the stage as the frontwoman for local punks DEADY. Which makes it all the harder to believe that this is her first gig in the driver's seat! A later bloomer than most band folks, she's wasted no time making up for lost time, and DEADY has become a Louisville music fixture. And before all that

Episode 71: Todd Hildreth

Feb 24 2025 72 mins

Todd Hildreth is a lynchpin in the Louisville jazz and indie rock scenes, having helped fuse the two together by way of his long and legendary stints in bands like Java Men, King Kong, and Squeezebot. All of which are still performing! His instrumental prowess knows no bounds, and he's just as likely to play a steel drum or keytar as he is a keyboard or Hammond organ. And as an edu

Episode 70: Kathryn Brooks

Jun 24 2024 76 mins

Kathryn Brooks is a Louisville singer-songwriter whose lived experiences in places like California, Pennsylvania, and New York City have informed her lyrics and music. She inserted herself into the local music scene in 2020 after moving back here because of the Covid-19 pandemic, and very quickly surrounded herself with supportive friends and musicians. Since then, she's put a hand

Episode 69: Jon Cherry

Jun 10 2024 86 mins

Jon Cherry is a Pulitzer Prize winning photographer with a gift of gab and a sense of adventure. He landed in Louisville after being brought up on various Air Force bases and experienced a rather atypical educational situation through his teenage and college years before diving into music and finally photojournalism. Oh and hey he and JC both worked at video game stores in high sch

Episode 68: Noam Blitzer

Jun 03 2024 77 mins

Noam Blitzer is the chef/owner of Meesh Meesh Mediterranean restaurant in Louisville's NULU neighborhood. He's also contributed his culinary talents to local places like Red Hog and Wiltshire on Market as well as restaurants in Boston, South Carolina, and more. As far as we can tell, he's the first professional chef to ever appear on this very podcast! Noam sat down with JC to talk

Episode 67: Mark Evans

May 27 2024 77 mins

Mark Evans is the co-owner of Louisville music venue Whirling Tiger and produces concerts around town with his promotional company Pretty Good Concerts. Originally from Owensboro, KY, Mark eventually landed in Louisville by way of Lexington's music scene, and he's been bringing top notch bands here ever since. His dog Bobby Sparkles came along for the podcast and frankly made JC a

Episode 66: Alex Rickel

May 07 2024 99 mins

Alex Rickel is a mad scientist and plays one on T.V. Or Some Thing like that. He currently fronts the psychedelic rock quartet Future Killer, and JC wonders if that was a good enough description of the band. A great bass player, song writer, visual artist, and forward thinker, Alex has had a huge impact on the Louisville arts and music scenes in his relatively short time here in to

Episode 65: Jeff Komara

Apr 29 2024 94 mins

Jeff Komara is the proprietor of one of the coolest vintage shops in town, or really anywhere: Fat Rabbit! He also beats the hell out of the drums in the experimental noise rock ensemble Copiers. And he drums left-handed, which is a far bigger deal to JC than it really should be. He sat down with JC to talk about Shawn Kemp, Kurt Vonnegut, chairs, journalism, Battles, prog rock, Br

Episode 64: Kiana Del

Apr 22 2024 67 mins

Kiana Del fronts the soulful septet Kiana & the Sun Kings, singing songs with a vocal style inspired by Erykah Badu, Aretha Franklin, Etta James, and more, but one that is uniquely her own. A Carolton, KY, transplant, she found a path to music through college, and quickly inserted herself into the Louisville music scene. And hey! She's also an educator and radio host, and she co-ho