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The Garden Groove Podcast

By: Jackson Maddox and Taylor Friesth
  • Summary

  • Dive into some of the greatest minds in the Nashville music scene with Jackson Maddox, a rising Mixing Engineer and Guitarist, and Taylor Friesth, owner of Garden Groove Recording Space and Producer. Join us for insights into the thriving community at the core of Nashville's music, offering essential tips for independent musicians to thrive.
    Jackson Maddox and Taylor Friesth
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Episodes
  • Episode 17 | Tyler Boone - Founder of Artist Formula, Boones Bourbon, and Holy City Fest
    May 2 2024

    Tyler Boone everyone! This is one busy man! Tyler has started his own bourbon copany, Boones Bourbon, on top of writing his own music, starting a music festival, and founding a Major Label Music Services for artists.


    TYLER’S NEW SINGLE “RUNNING SIDEWAYS” RELEASED 3/3/2023 - NOW GOING TO RADIO (ADDED TO NPR)

    TYLER’S PREVIOUS SINGLE “WICKED GIRL” FEATURES PETER KEYS OF LYNYRD SKYNYRD - FEATURED IN FOX SPORTS NASCAR, MODERN BLUES ROCK ON SPOTIFY, NEW MUSIC BLUES ON PANDORA & SIRIUS XM ON BLUESVILLE!

    HE'S HAD THE PLEASURE OF OPENING UP FOR SUCH ACTS AS GRAMMY AWARD WINNING ARTIST SHERYL CROW, THE AVETT BROTHERS, SLIGHTLY STOOPID, SUBLIME WITH ROME, CHRISTOPHER CROSS, HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH, OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW, & OTHERS SUCH AS THE SILVERSUN PICKUPS, ROBERT RANDOLPH, WILL HOGE, CANADIAN SONGWRITER DONOVAN WOODS, PLATINUM SELLING ARTIST EDWIN MCCAIN, ZACH MYERS OF SHINEDOWN, THE REVIVALISTS, THE MARCUS KING BAND, BEN RECTOR, SEAN MCCONNELL, COREY HARPER, DR. JOHN, RAYLAND BAXTER & ALSO AMERICAN IDOL WINNERS DAVID COOK & LEE DEWYZE, JUST TO NAME A FEW.

    Tyler also is the co-founder of Artist Formula (record label, artist services) & his own Platinum award winning “Homegrown” Boone’s Bourbon (named Top 6 in the World in Forbes) & the “Homegrown” Holy City Festival & the Charleston Songwriter’s Festival in Charleston, SC


    Featured in Rolling Stone, Billboard, Forbes, American Songwriter, etc…

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    58 mins
  • Episode 16 | Jake Sommers - Drumming for Luke Combs, What Playing a Stadium Tour is Like, Tools for Success in the Music Industry
    Apr 26 2024

    Jake Sommers everyone! As the drummer for Luke Combs, Jake is the master of not only the drum kit but the master of building community and it's that kind of combo that can land you one of the biggest gigs in country music.


    Jake relocated from his hometown in New York to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue playing drums. Jake started drumming in the honky tonk scene on Broadway in downtown Nashville. Shortly after, he met singer-songwriter /artist by the name of Luke Combs. Jake became Luke Combs touring drummer in 2015. Over the course of Jake’s time touring with Combs, Jake has made appearances on The Grammys, Saturday Night Live, The Today Show, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Good Morning America, CMA Awards, ACM Awards, CMT Awards, and the IHeart Awards.


    When Jake is not on the road he’s teaching in person and remote drum lessons to students across the country. Jake also, does recording sessions in studio and remote.


    In the past year Jake has been nominated for Country Drummer of the Year in the 2022 Drumeo Awards and Country/Americana Drummer of the Year in Modern Drummer’s 2023 Reader’s Poll. With a break between the Australian and European leg of the “Luke Combs World Tour”, Jake is headed to Canada to film with Drumeo.


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    1 hr and 44 mins
  • Episode 15 | Carl Wockner - Live Looping, Nerding Out On Gear, Building a Groove
    Apr 19 2024

    It was an absolute honor to sit down with Carl and talk about Live Looping along with all the combined talents that are necessary for him to create the sound that he has made for him self.


    Go check out Carl on all of his Socials!

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    Carl started coming over to the States to write and record in 2011, resulting in the release of his debut album Crayon Days in 2013. Two years later, Wockner scored a global win at the International Acoustic Music Awards (IAMA,) becoming the first and only Australian to ever win top honors.

    The creative chameleon who recently signed deals with both Dream Big Dreams Management and Universal Attractions Agency (UAA) draws in a deep breath.

    “When you go to a music festival or a big show these days, everything is choreographed to an inch of its life. Bands play to tracks and there’s months and months of rehearsals and it’s the same guitar solo every time. (Pauses.) I will never sound as ‘polished’ as that, but I don’t think I want to. People want to hear what life is like, and life is sometimes a challenge.”

    And while Wockner loves himself a good challenge, he also has come to love the pristineness of the game of golf, a sport he learned to play under the watchful eye of his grandmother and a sport that he could easily have made his career.

    “I love shutting my brain off from everything else but what I’m doing in that moment,” explains Wockner, who happened to headline the Opening Ceremony of PGA Honda Classic earlier this year. “Anybody who legit meditates will roll their eyes at this, but for me, it’s a form of meditation. All I think is that I’m going to take this seven iron and draw this ball over the edge of that trap.

    And crazy enough, it usually does.

    Because he is Carl fri**in Wockner.

    “I want to send a message to people that you can follow through with your ambitions, even if you’re over 30 with a wife and kids. I want to give people strength for their aspirations so that it flows back to me when I need a little strength myself.”

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    1 hr and 34 mins

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