Tornado Radio

This is the 2nd half of Sara Seven's chat with two musical water critters, Catfish, and Curtis 'Crawdad' Brayfield. More songs and silliness are in store as they chat about songwriting.

Curtis 'Crawdad' Brayfield introduces Sara Seven to friend and fellow musical water critter, 'Catfiah'.

Angelo Gomez invites Sara Seven out for an afternoon of pizza, wine, and song at Scores in downtown Belton. Sara chats with Jon Austin about balancing music, work and family. Angelo and Sara attempt to outdo each other in multilingual mayhem.

Sara Seven drinks a bottle of wine and meets with friend Raven Raz, who gives a lecture on the history of jazz. This post has a 'Drunk History' vibe.  Trigger warning: music theory is discussed, as well as religion.

Sara Seven chats with Cedryl Ballou of the Zydeco Trendsetters before soundcheck at their Texas Music Cafe performance.The conversation is fun, and music is high energy.

Sara Seven chats with friend and fellow songwriter, Curtis 'Crawdad' Brayfield about day jobs, psy ops, chord progressions, critters, a soldier who bled for Texas, and how to live life as Country song.

 Sara chats with friend and aspiring producer Raven about 'Heat Death of the Universe', both the song -  Rave's attempt at the Punk genre - and the scientific idea that inspired the song. Somehow, coffee and cats work their way into the conversation.

KCD Band's keyboardist Jadan Oliver, and friend Angelo Gomez drop in on Sara Seven for a jam session. Musical mayhem ensues. Names are dropped.

This is the second half of Sara Seven's chat with Gabrielle Kauri and George Spielbauer of the eastern Iowa band Big Begonias.

Sara Seven visits Iowa to escape the Texas summer heat. She interviews members of the band Big Begonias.

Sara Seven reintroduces Tornado Radio, explains the long absence, and shares a few recent songs.

Sara Seven chats with Casey Stanislaw, Jadan Oliver, Frank Exum, and Luis Ramos of the KCD Band before their show at the Texas Music Cafe.

Sara Seven and fellow songwriter, 'Rain' venture out to the Texas Music Cafe to chat with Jonna Mae and Robert Cline Jr. before they open for headliner, Willis Alan Ramsey.

Show host Sara Seven goes 'out and about' to downtown Waco in search of fun. She finds the Texas Music Cafe and interviews Shadowlyn and Garden Party,  two very new bands from the Houston area.

Show hot, and singer-songwriter Sara Seven reintroduces Tornado Radio after a long break. She shares some thoughts on music, local music scenes, and Tornado Radio's role, past, present and future as part of the vibrant central Texas music scene.

Sara Seven checks out an event at the Texas Music Ranch. She talks with artist, show goers, show organizers, and other creative folks involved in the scene. She meets some cool folks. A fire is started, and a few 'F-bombs' are dropped, but they're good-natured.

Sara Seven and the crew hit O'Brien's Irish pub during Temple's First Friday. She has some good conversations, records some good music, discovers how music can bridge the generations. 

Sara Seven and guest songwriter Rain Ellis chat with local favorite, singer songwriter Jonna Mae and guitarist Dana Spigener. They discuss how music fits into  family, and the importance of maintaining a sense of humor. And as always, there's no shortage of great songs in this episode

Sara Seven chats with festival goers about the central Texas music scene while at M.A.C.T.'s Fall Festival at Barrow Brewing Co. and captures lots of great live music. She really captures the vibe of this fun event. Let's hope M.AcC.T. does more of these.

Sara Seven chats with M.A.C.T. board members about their upcoming music event - the Fall Festival and Artists Market - but still manages to shoe-horn some really awesome music into this episode.

Sara Seven chats with Beth Lee and Chris Duarte about songwriting, being in bands, making a living, touring, and Beth's album, 'Waiting On You Tonight'.

DJ Shanti Anne and Sara Seven chat with Temple singer songwriter Lilly Milford about family, being in a band and collaboration over a couple beers at Barrow Brewing in Salado. 

DJ Shanti Anne interviews singer/songwriter and Waco music hero, Holly Tucker. Holly performs an acoustic set for us, including her new unreleased song "Rose in Red Dirt". Host Sara Seven researches the widespread impacts of Zoom fatigue.

DJ Shanti Anne interviews Dustin Brown, we share some of Dustin's brilliantly moving songs, and the Tornado Radio crew reflects on the first complete season of the podcast.

DJ Shanti Anne interviews local favorite, Martian Folk (Garrett Askins & Joseph Turner), they play an awesome acoustic set for us, and host Sara Seven gets some cold weather pointers for Texans from actual northerners.

DJ Shanti Anne interviews opera virtuoso, master teacher, and voiceover professional, George Hogan. We share some tremendous performances from George's exceptional career, and host Sara Seven presents a personal challenge to musical performers and music lovers alike.http://thegeorgehogan.com

DJ Shanti Anne interviews Scott Taylor of The Storm's I, we share some never heard before music from the band, a live studio performance by Scott himself, and Host Sara Seven quizzes the public on the benefits and costs of social media.

Rodney spills the beans to DJ Shanti Anne about Selena Quintanilla-Perez, his time with her, her family and her tragic death. Host Sara Seven reflects on Selena's life and accomplishments, and we share some of Rodney Pyeatt's original songs.

Shanti Anne interviews Rodney Pyeatt, former guitarist for Selena Quintanilla-Perez, Sara Seven asks the public about their new years predictions and resolutions, and we share some of Rodney's awesome solo works.

Shanti Anne interviews James Stone, Tom Jones, and Joshua Spurling of Madstone, and Sara Seven quizzes the public on musician economics.

In this episode, DJ Shanti Anne interviews Richard Paul Thomas, we play a number of awesome RPT songs, and host Sara Seven highlights everything cool and weird about Salado, Texas, a hub of the Central Texas music scene.

Shanti Anne interviews Casey Dee Stanislaw, Casey performs a number of songs, and host Sara Seven shares about what makes the Central Texas music scene so special.

The debut (pilot) episode of Tornado Radio, featuring an interview with special musical guest Cedar Branches, with special in-studio performances!