Neal Casal was a brilliant musician, singer, songwriter, and music aficionado who we lost way to early back in 2019. Like everyone else who crossed his path, I was devastated to hear that Neal sadly took his own life, just days after performing at the Lockn’ Festival. He was such a kind and gentle soul who was always ready to share his time talking about his own music, the music he collaborated on, and music more generally. I had the great pleasure of welcoming him to this show a couple of times and met him just a few months prior to his passing. 


Gary Waldman, Neal’s manager, wanted to extend his close friend’s legacy and organized a benefit show just a month after Neal’s death where various artists performed at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY. That show brought in a sizeable amount of money to the Neal Casal Music Foundation, which distributes instruments and lessons to students in the New Jersey and New York schools. 


Realizing the impact of that show, and wanting to further Neal’s legacy, Waldman decided he’d draw up plans for an ambitious recording project that would see artists contribute recordings of Casal’s music. That project, Highway Butterfly: The Songs of Neal Casal was co-produced by his old pal Dave Schools of Widespread Panic and Neal’s band mate in Hard Working Americans and legendary rock producer Jim Scott. The five LP/3 CD box set was just recently released. The proceeds from the project will of course rest with the Neal Casal Music Foundation and a portion of which have already been earmarked for MusicCares and Backline a mental health organization for musicians. 


To do our part, we sat down with the great Jim Scott to talk about this project, and of course Neal Casal whom Jim had worked with.
To learn more about Neal Casal, Highway Butterfly or the Neal Casal Music Foundation, please visit nealcasalmusicfoundation.com. 

 

First song: All The Luck in the World

Second song: Bird with no Name

Neal Casal was a brilliant musician, singer, songwriter, and music aficionado who we lost way to early back in 2019. Like everyone else who crossed his path, I was devastated to hear that Neal sadly took his own life, just days after performing at the Lockn&rsquo; Festival. He was such a kind and gentle soul who was always ready to share his time talking about his own music, the music he collaborated on, and music more generally. I had the great pleasure of welcoming him to this show a couple of times and met him just a few months prior to his passing.&nbsp;
 Gary Waldman, Neal&rsquo;s manager, wanted to extend his close friend&rsquo;s legacy and organized a benefit show just a month after Neal&rsquo;s death where various artists performed at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY. That show brought in a sizeable amount of money to the Neal Casal Music Foundation, which distributes instruments and lessons to students in the New Jersey and New York schools.&nbsp;
 Realizing the impact of that show, and wanting to further Neal&rsquo;s legacy, Waldman decided he&rsquo;d draw up plans for an ambitious recording project that would see artists contribute recordings of Casal&rsquo;s music. That project, Highway Butterfly: The Songs of Neal Casal was co-produced by his old pal Dave Schools of Widespread Panic and Neal&rsquo;s band mate in Hard Working Americans and legendary rock producer Jim Scott. The five LP/3 CD box set was just recently released. The proceeds from the project will of course rest with the Neal Casal Music Foundation and a portion of which have already been earmarked for MusicCares and Backline a mental health organization for musicians.&nbsp;
 To do our part, we sat down with the great Jim Scott to talk about this project, and of course Neal Casal whom Jim had worked with. To learn more about Neal Casal, Highway Butterfly or the Neal Casal Music Foundation, please visit <a href="http://nealcasalmusicfoundation.com/">nealcasalmusicfoundation.com</a>.&nbsp;
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First song: All The Luck in the World
Second song: Bird with no Name

Geared towards Deadheads, Phishheads and the jam band community, The Sound Podcast is a music discovery interview style podcast, hosted by Ira Haberman. Featuring Jam Bands and more... much more. Rooted in Americana, Blues, Bluegrass, Country, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Reggae, Rock, Soul but mostly Jam Band music.

Here is a small sample of the guests that have been on The Sound Podcast to date: ALO, Anders Osborne, Antibalas, Aqueous, Band of Heathens, Barr Brothers, Blackberry Smoke, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Col. Bruce Hampton, Dark Star Orchestra, David Gans, Dennis McNally, Devon Allman, Dopapod, Duane Betts, Dwayne Gretzky, Eric Krasno, Everyone Orchestra, Fruition, G.Love, Ghost Light, Grateful Dead, Goose, Hard Working Americans, Hannah Wikclund, Hayley Jane and the Primates, Holly Bowling, Horseshoes and Hand Grenades, Infamous Stringdusters, Jackie Greene, Jason Crosby, Jazz is Phish, JD Simo, Jim Cuddy, John Kadlecik, Karina Rykman, Karl Denson, Kevin Kendrick, Leslie Mendelson, Lettuce, Living Colour, Lizards, Mapache, Marco Benevento, Marcus King, Mark Karan, Mars Hotel, Midnight North, The Mother Hips, Mungion, Natalie Cressman, Nicole Atkins, Organ Freeman, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Pink Talking Fish, Railroad Earth, Ratdog, Reed Mathis, Reid Genauer, Ross James, Sam Bush, Samantha Fish, Scott Sharrard, SOJA, Southern Avenue, Soulive, Spafford, Steve Kimock, Tauk, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Lizards, the New Deal, The Sheep Dogs, Tom Hamilton Jr., Turkuaz, Twiddle, Umphrey’s McGee, Vulfpeck, Warren Haynes, Widespread Panic, Wood Brothers, Yonder Mountain String Band, and many many more. 

Geared towards Deadheads, Phishheads and the jam band community, <a href="thesoundpodcast.com">The Sound Podcast</a> is a music discovery interview style podcast, hosted by Ira Haberman. Featuring Jam Bands and more... much more. Rooted in Americana, Blues, Bluegrass, Country, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Reggae, Rock, Soul but mostly Jam Band music.
Here is a small sample of the guests that have been on The Sound Podcast to date: ALO, Anders Osborne, Antibalas, Aqueous, Band of Heathens, Barr Brothers, Blackberry Smoke, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Col. Bruce Hampton, Dark Star Orchestra, David Gans, Dennis McNally, Devon Allman, Dopapod, Duane Betts, Dwayne Gretzky, Eric Krasno, Everyone Orchestra, Fruition, G.Love, Ghost Light, Grateful Dead, Goose, Hard Working Americans, Hannah Wikclund, Hayley Jane and the Primates, Holly Bowling, Horseshoes and Hand Grenades, Infamous Stringdusters, Jackie Greene, Jason Crosby, Jazz is Phish, JD Simo, Jim Cuddy, John Kadlecik, Karina Rykman, Karl Denson, Kevin Kendrick, Leslie Mendelson, Lettuce, Living Colour, Lizards, Mapache, Marco Benevento, Marcus King, Mark Karan, Mars Hotel, Midnight North, The Mother Hips, Mungion, Natalie Cressman, Nicole Atkins, Organ Freeman, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Pink Talking Fish, Railroad Earth, Ratdog, Reed Mathis, Reid Genauer, Ross James, Sam Bush, Samantha Fish, Scott Sharrard, SOJA, Southern Avenue, Soulive, Spafford, Steve Kimock, Tauk, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Lizards, the New Deal, The Sheep Dogs, Tom Hamilton Jr., Turkuaz, Twiddle, Umphrey’s McGee, Vulfpeck, Warren Haynes, Widespread Panic, Wood Brothers, Yonder Mountain String Band, and many many more.

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Geared towards Deadheads, Phishheads and the Jam Band community, The Sound Podcast is all about tunes and interviews and is hosted by Ira Haberman. 

Featuring Jam Bands and more... much more. Rooted in Americana, Blues, Bluegrass, Country, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Reggae, Rock, Soul but mostly Jam Band music.

Here is a small sample of the guests that have been on The Sound Podcast to date: ALO, Anders Osborne, Antibalas, Aqueous, Band of Heathens, Barr Brothers, Blackberry Smoke, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Col. Bruce Hampton, Dark Star Orchestra, David Gans, Dennis McNally, Devon Allman, Dopapod, Duane Betts, Dwayne Gretzky, Eric Krasno, Everyone Orchestra, Fruition, G.Love, Ghost Light, Grateful Dead, Goose, Hard Working Americans, Hannah Wikclund, Hayley Jane and the Primates, Holly Bowling, Horseshoes and Hand Grenades, Infamous Stringdusters, Jackie Greene, Jason Crosby, Jazz is Phish, JD Simo, Jim Cuddy, John Kadlecik, Karina Rykman, Karl Denson, Kevin Kendrick, Leslie Mendelson, Lettuce, Living Colour, Lizards, Mapache, Marco Benevento, Marcus King, Mark Karan, Mars Hotel, Midnight North, The Mother Hips, Mungion, Natalie Cressman, Nicole Atkins, Organ Freeman, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Pink Talking Fish, Railroad Earth, Ratdog, Reed Mathis, Reid Genauer, Ross James, Sam Bush, Samantha Fish, Scott Sharrard, SOJA, Southern Avenue, Soulive, Spafford, Steve Kimock, Tauk, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Lizards, the New Deal, The Sheep Dogs, Tom Hamilton Jr., Turkuaz, Twiddle, Umphrey’s McGee, Vulfpeck, Warren Haynes, Widespread Panic, Wood Brothers, Yonder Mountain String Band, and many many more. 

Geared towards Deadheads, Phishheads and the Jam Band community, The&nbsp;Sound Podcast&nbsp;is all about tunes and interviews and is hosted by Ira Haberman.&nbsp;
Featuring Jam Bands and more... much more. Rooted in Americana, Blues, Bluegrass, Country, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Reggae, Rock, Soul but mostly Jam Band music.
Here is a small sample of the guests that have been on The Sound Podcast to date: ALO, Anders Osborne, Antibalas, Aqueous, Band of Heathens, Barr Brothers, Blackberry Smoke, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, Col. Bruce Hampton, Dark Star Orchestra, David Gans, Dennis McNally, Devon Allman, Dopapod, Duane Betts, Dwayne Gretzky, Eric Krasno, Everyone Orchestra, Fruition, G.Love, Ghost Light, Grateful Dead, Goose, Hard Working Americans, Hannah Wikclund, Hayley Jane and the Primates, Holly Bowling, Horseshoes and Hand Grenades, Infamous Stringdusters, Jackie Greene, Jason Crosby, Jazz is Phish, JD Simo, Jim Cuddy, John Kadlecik, Karina Rykman, Karl Denson, Kevin Kendrick, Leslie Mendelson, Lettuce, Living Colour, Lizards, Mapache, Marco Benevento, Marcus King, Mark Karan, Mars Hotel, Midnight North, The Mother Hips, Mungion, Natalie Cressman, Nicole Atkins, Organ Freeman, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong, Pink Talking Fish, Railroad Earth, Ratdog, Reed Mathis, Reid Genauer, Ross James, Sam Bush, Samantha Fish, Scott Sharrard, SOJA, Southern Avenue, Soulive, Spafford, Steve Kimock, Tauk, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Lizards, the New Deal, The Sheep Dogs, Tom Hamilton Jr., Turkuaz, Twiddle, Umphrey&rsquo;s McGee, Vulfpeck, Warren Haynes, Widespread Panic, Wood Brothers, Yonder Mountain String Band, and many many more.&nbsp;

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