Creators and Guests

Jeff is a bass player, educator, husband, dad, and friend who really loves making podcasts including the "It's No Secret" podcast about his band Twang Twang Shock A Boom. He hangs out with drummers a lot. Born in Texas, workshopped in New York.

Camille Zamora balances a vibrant career of opera, recital, and concert performances. In collaboration with artists ranging from Plácido Domingo to Sting, Camille has garnered acclaim for her “dramatic and nuanced” (The New York Times) interpretations of repertoire ranging from Mozart to tango. She is known for her “dignity and glowing sound” (The New York Times) in “luminous, transcendently lyrical” performances (Opera News) that “combine gentility and emotional fire” (The Houston Chronicle). Camille Zamora and fellow Juilliard graduate, Monica Yunus, are co-founders of Sing For Hop

Guitarist, Singer, Song-Starter, Story Guy

Chris Searles is a native Austinite and founder/director of BioIntegrity, a research-based advocate for protection and restoration of Earth's biospheric integrity. He devotes his time to producing content, events, and education that facilitate "biospheric literacy" and investments and actions which support the most effective solutions to our global climate and species extinction crises. Chris is also starting a new aspect on local, tree-based, drought reversal soon. Visit biointegrity.net and allcreation.org for more info.

Django Haskins Songwriter and singer based in Chapel Hill, NC

Jeff Lipstein Drummer, Producer, Mixer, Composer Jeff Lipstein is a drummer, music producer, mixer and composer currently living in the Hudson Valley of New York State. He spent 20 years cutting his teeth in NYC and touring the world performing and/or recording with acts such as David Johansen, Clem Snide, Martha Wainwright, The Mercury Rev, Sandy Bell, Spring Awakening, The Blue Man Group, The East Village Opera Company, David Garrett and others. Since 2020 Jeff has been recording and mixing albums as well as composing music for advertisements from his studio in Woodstock NY.

Texas Drummer for John Mayer and Tedeschi-Trucks Band. Now playing with Gary Clark Jr.

Johnny Goudie is a Cuban-American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumental musician, record producer and podcaster based in Austin, Texas.n 2011 Johnny took his talents to the world of podcasting and launched “How Did I Get Here?”, an audio segment that takes the form of a casual living room conversation while simultaneously packing the punch of a formal interview.

Kristina founded the Jeff Buckley Birthday Tribute, which took place at various venues in Austin for 10 years and showcased some of the best in Austin talent. It was featured on the official Jeff Buckley website, as well as local radio shows like the renowned Eklektikos with John Aieilli. Kristina is an artist, writer, and music nerd.

playing and recording some drums, playing some bass, singing a bit, masterminding.....

Famous Drummer!

Rachel Eckroth is a Grammy nominated American singer-songwriter and keyboardist from Phoenix, Arizona. She is currently the keyboardist for alternative musician St. Vincent and singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright after being the keyboardist for jazz trumpeter Chris Botti, singer-songwriter KT Tunstall, and The Meredith Vieira Show. Her latest album The Garden was released by Rainy Days Records in 2021.

Rose Smith’s fiction and nonfiction can be found in The Missouri Review, Five Points and Narrative Magazine. She was the winner of The Missouri Review's 27th Annual Editors’ Prize and was named a finalist for Narrative's 2018 Story Contest. Her films have aired on PBS and Sundance Channel among others, and have screened at various festivals, including Sundance, SXSW and MoMA Documentary Fortnight. She received her MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers, and teaches workshops and classes at Austin Bat Cave, an independent creative writing center. Rose lives in Austin, Texas with her husband. She is currently at work on a novel.

Roxanne Drolet is a writer, audio producer, musician and actress. She is the writer and producer of the short film Seaside, the one-act play Coney Island, and the soon-to-debut 29 Paintings, a series of theatrical vignettes bringing to life fictional characters inspired by well-known painted portraits. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, her compositions include music for NBC’s network TV show The Black Donnellys, the independent film Anything Once, and Off-Broadway theater productions including Love's Labour's Lost, The Star Play, and a series of Miami Addy Award-winning Heineken commercials airing in seven countries.