Drinking Texas: Recent Episodes
Michael Cisneros and Chip Wray
We go live at the Second Annual East West Beer Fest - an Austin-exclusive event where 10 local breweries bring their best east coast and west coast style IPAs and drink them off in true Battle of the Network Stars fashion. We visit with more brewers than you can shake a stick at (stick shaking really wears out the old shoulder). Full disclosure, we sample a few too ...
It's Mike's birthday and he wants some Ransom Brothers! We talk to Sean and Sal about Texas' hottest new honky tonk band while drinking at The Tavern bar inside Williamson County's oldest honky tonk, the Old Coupland Inn and Dancehall.
Natalie Metcalf stops by with featured artist Auburn McCormick to talk about her first promotion: If I Was a Cowboy, I'd Be the Queen "Ladies Night" at the Black Sparrow Music Parlor.
After years of begging and pleading, we finally convince Ed Johns to join us on air just in time to celebrate National Tequila Day by drinking - you guessed it - whiskey ... which led to some good stories and great music.
Hunter Howell and Nyyles Robakiewicz of Shaker Hymn wander in to the show (eventually, right Nyles?) to talk about their newest single, "Weight of the World," and to try some Irish whiskies (both Catholic and Protestant).
Jack Nelson's path to the country music scene started, as many do, with church ... then diverted in all kinds of directions including Tejano dance and the United State Navy. Make sure to listed to the duet by Jack and his wife Meta Jane ...
College football linebacker turned The Voice contestant David Grace tells us about the best thing about both of his careers (spoiler alert: it's girls) and blesses us with a helping of his blue-eyed soul...
We spend time with Jake Waylon at the release of his first solo album, "Loads of Time."
We talk to Mike Valliere about his forays into Southern Rock, Texas Country and even a little Hokum, but were completely unprepared for his discourse on "kerndawgs" and "pocket mustard."
Matt Castillo makes good on his promise to visit the show one year after his first appearance and catch us up with what promised to be a busy year. And it was...
A challenge by Drew Fish to "drink Chip under the table" led us to this episode; once he realized Chip doesn't fit under our table, we turned our attention to Drew's unusual introduction to the Texas Music scene, his work on behalf of veterans, and drinking our way through three limited edition expressions of Treaty Oak whiskies.
Zack Day is a self-taught Texas Country musician who's originally from Mississippi, which explains why it sounds so Red Dirt/Delta Blues/Bluegrass. We talk to him about the unique sound and celebrate National Bourbon Heritage Month with some whiskey classics.
Just a small-town girl, living in a dive-bar world ... we talk to Briana about her music and her favorite dives while making her the first contestant on our new segment "Who Did It Better," the "Jolene" edition.
After a sub-par tequila experience on the June 30 show, we invite award-winning singer/songwriter Morgan Ashley to join us for an all-tequila episode; Amber does what she can to keep up with our quick-drinking guest ...
KOKE-FM on-air personality, erstwhile drummer, and Dallas Night Club DJ emeritus, Scotty Bennett joins our show with some of his staff who may actually be related to some of our staff ...