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Tales From The Green Room by Mt. Tam Media Dennis Strazulo and Tami Larson host backstage conversations with artist from popular music venues!
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12/12/2025

"Most improvisers aren’t improvising… they’re just quoting their heroes.” – Reed Mathis 🔥

Reed’s podcast, “The Gifts of Improvising” is straight fire: 12 episodes including Joe Russo, Marco Benevento, Steve Kimock, Jay Lane + a Phil Lesh tribute that’ll break your heart open. We sat down with him to talk about it just before the series was released on Osiris in January!

Stop copying. Start playing YOU.

Full Green Room ep out now 🎧 → link in bio



@‌reedmathis @‌joerusso @‌stevekimock @‌grahame_lesh @‌billystrings @‌phil_lesh

12/10/2025

ONLY in the Green Room 🎸✨

Year in Review Special

Max Flansburg relives his jaw-dropping first time holding Jerry Garcia’s legendary Alligator Strat and what it felt like the moment it “spoke” to him.

Chris English takes us from growing up in a preacher family to the birth of Sam Grisman Project, then the heart-pounding moment Sam had to sprint from this very couch to the stage to fill in for Phil Lesh—minutes after we wrapped the interview.

Plus the unforgettable night Billy Strings and Alex Hargreaves jumped in with the band at Berkeley’s UC Theater.

Two of the warmest, most talented souls in the jam scene look back on an incredible year. Pull up a chair, press play, and come hang backstage with us.

Year in Review; episode 30 is live now 🎧

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Happy birthday to our friend  - one of our favorite musicians and biggest supporters. 🎂🎸🎤🎧Enjoy your day, Alex - we appr...
12/07/2025

Happy birthday to our friend - one of our favorite musicians and biggest supporters. 🎂🎸🎤🎧
Enjoy your day, Alex - we appreciate you!🙏🏻



Backstage at the Grateful Guitars Benefit was one of those episodes that didn’t need a studio or a perfect setup. It was...
12/05/2025

Backstage at the Grateful Guitars Benefit was one of those episodes that didn’t need a studio or a perfect setup. It was just real conversations squeezed between storage racks, shared stories, and a room full of people who genuinely love music.

Episode 27 ended up becoming one of our favorite moments of 2025 — the kind of energy you can’t fake and the reason we keep showing up to record.

Swipe through for the behind-the-scenes chaos, laughter, and everything that made this night unforgettable. 🎙️✨

Backstage at the Grateful Guitars Benefit was one of those episodes that didn’t need a studio or a perfect setup. It was...
12/05/2025

Backstage at the Grateful Guitars Benefit was one of those episodes that didn’t need a studio or a perfect setup. It was just real conversations squeezed between storage racks, shared stories, and a room full of people who genuinely love music.

Episode 27 ended up becoming one of our favorite moments of 2025 — the kind of energy you can’t fake and the reason we keep showing up to record.

Swipe through for the behind-the-scenes chaos, laughter, and everything that made this night unforgettable. 🎙️✨

12/04/2025

Jonathon McHugh has come to this festival as a fan for years.
But this year, he arrived with a film that uncovers an unbelievable musical journey.

The documentary follows Ismay — Avery Hellman of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass family — as she steps away from the family ranch to chase the voice that shaped her: Lucinda Williams.

McHugh captures her path through conversations with Mary Gauthier, Charlie Sexton, Buddy Miller, and more… ultimately landing at Malaco Studios in Mississippi, where Lucinda recorded her first album in 1978.

There, Ismay discovers something no one expected: three forgotten Lucinda Williams outtakes, lost to time until now.

McHugh’s film is a reminder of what happens when an artist follows a question all the way to its source — and the magic that reveals itself along the way.

12/04/2025

🎬 New episode just dropped — and it’s a masterclass in the music & film world.
This week on ONLY IN THE GREEN ROOM, we sit down with the legendary Jonathan McHugh — the definition of a slash-creator. Producer, director, music supervisor, soundtrack architect… the man behind 100+ films, Grammy nods, and an Academy Award nomination.
🎬 New episode just dropped — and it’s a masterclass in the music & film world.
This week on ONLY IN THE GREEN ROOM, we sit down with the legendary Jonathan McHugh — the definition of a slash-creator. Producer, director, music supervisor, soundtrack architect… the man behind 100+ films, Grammy nods, and an Academy Award nomination.

From packing up his life overnight to landing in LA, to the wild story of how he met his wife through the move — his journey is unreal, inspiring, and honestly, exactly the kind of behind-the-scenes storytelling we love here.

Tap in, get inspired, and hear how relationships, intuition, and a couple of “you should go for that job” moments shaped a 40-year career. 🎧✨

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From packing up his life overnight to landing in LA, to the wild story of how he met his wife through the move — his journey is unreal, inspiring, and honestly, exactly the kind of behind-the-scenes storytelling we love here.

Tap in, get inspired, and hear how relationships, intuition, and a couple of “you should go for that job” moments shaped a 40-year career. 🎧✨

supervisor

12/02/2025

Happy Birthday, Dennis McNally! Your support is cherished and much appreciated! Thanks for sharing your stories with us… This one from the 2024 Benefit …Only In The Green Room! 💚🗣️🎙️🎧🙏🏻
Your decades of work preserving the Dead’s story continue to inspire us.🫶♾️

Happy Thanksgiving from The Green Room! 💚💚💚  ❤️🙏
11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving from The Green Room! 💚💚💚

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11/20/2025

Sweetwater | Nov 21
Greg Loiacono & Stingray open for Jon Chi —
then sit down for ONLY IN THE GREEN ROOM, where the real stories come out. 👀💬

11/19/2025

Sweetwater is about to light up this Friday. 🔥
Jon Chi + the Pacific Syndicate - with special guests Elliott Peck, Stephanie Salva, Danny Luehring, Steve Pile, and the Bay Area funk machine Dave Shul — all in one night.

And yes — their full interview drops soon ONLY IN THE GREEN ROOM. 🎙️✨
See you 11/21. ❤️🎶

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