Ira Hicks and Ryin Jones sit down with singer-songwriters Carter Sampson and Erik the Viking (Erik Oftedahl) to talk about life on the road and all they have up their sleeves. This episode is bookended with a live track from each artist, Carter Sampson's "Wild Bird" and Erik the Viking's "Another Prayer for the Damned". Find more from each artists …

Ira Hicks heads down to Austin, TX to chat with singer/songwriter (and one of my favorite graphic artists) Chris King. They discuss everything from his new album "Animal" - scheduled to be released soon - to the state of the current music scene. We wrap up the session with "Native Son," a track taken from Chris' prior album "1983" - available on iT…

This week we ... well, we probably somehow insult your favorite city. We introduce our Lost Byways "Barguments" segment with an episode centered on travel. Spawned from two different perspectives on a recent trip to Austin, TX, we dive into what makes a city great/awful and what we'd consider the best and worst cities to visit in the US. In all of …

This week we chat with Tim Schoelen, the founder of OKC's Mustang Brewing Company, about the state of craft/local beer and how we all want Burt Reynolds to be in our movie. Then our own Ira Hicks heads over to the Wormy Dog Saloon to catch up with Derek Paul and talk about his start as a singer-songwriter and his recently released album with his ba…