Glen Phillips is considered one of the best song witers of our time.  He has been a touring musician for decades for Toad the Wet Sprocket, and many solo and side projects including MAS, Plover, WPA, RemoteTreeChildren. In this interview he shares with us authentic thoughts, wisdom, and music from his decades of experience, including deep insights about life, song writing, mentoring, the creative process, and live music from his records. 

At the time of the interview, he was  sheltering in place and spending his unexpected time at home doing 3 weekly Facebook Live benefit concerts as well as a StageIt online concert on Sundays. He is also working on finishing up a new Toad the Wet Sprocket album to be released soon. He leads community singing circles on Tuesday nights, formerly in person and now on Zoom. He has started to teach songwriting, voice and guitar online as well. He thought he might learn to knit or pick up a new language or another instrument with all the time at home, but that hasn’t happened yet and probably won’t. His girlfriend really wants a dog but the landlord says no pets. He never did the quarantine sourdough thing but might pick it up if there’s a strong second wave.

RESOURCES

• https://www.glenphillips.com/

TRASCRIPT

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