Music Therapy with Jessica Risker
Music:Music Interviews
How do you honor your idols without being derivative? How do you start over in a new (york) city?
This week on Music Therapy I sit down with Dan Rico, a Chicago DIY scene fixture who moved to New York City right before the pandemic hit.
We get into creativity, live band recordings vs virtual instruments, SXSW takeaways, quitting drinking, finding a new music community in NYC, impostor syndrome, and lots more.
We also listen to a couple of new fantastic tracks from Dan: "Conceited" and " Hit and Run" plus a special bonus track "Better Company" that Dan and I collaborated on.
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Dan Rico is a songwriter, guitar player, and multi-instrumentalist from Chicago, IL living In Brooklyn, NY. Rico is a writes music and performs in the Surf rock group High Waisted and plays guitar in the grunge band Dropper, who just got back from South by South West. Rico also releases music under his own name, collating inspirations as disparate as Prince, T Rex, Os Mutantes, and Taylor Swift.
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Music Therapy Podcast Credits:
Music Therapy is hosted by Jessica Risker, produced by Sullivan Davis of Local Universe, and engineered by Joshua Wentz in Chicago.
Opening and closing music composed by Joshua Wentz.
Taped April 2023
Ep 116
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Episode 79: Quinn Tsan on The Vanity of the Arts and Becoming a Film Composer
Episode 78: Jessica Takes a Break Until 2022 for Self Care and the Holidays!
Episode 77: Camilo Medina (Divino Niño) Is Vibing in the Bath
Episode 76: Darien Williams Can‘t Say No / Balancing Work & Creativity
Episode 75: Steve Malden on Comedy vs Music and Moving to NYC
Episode 74: Richard Album‘s Last Show
Episode 73: Savanna Dickhut (Burr Oak) Pours Her Heart Out
Episode 72: Pandemic Burnout - Dealing With Prolonged Stress w Dr. Caroline Adelman
Episode 71: Macie Stewart Needs Some Alone Time
Episode 70: Andrew Sa Is Better With Others
Episode 69: Hausu Mountain Will Dominate the World + live performance by Pepper Mill Rondo
Episode 68: Nathan Graham Keeps His Cool
Episode 67: Jess Viscius of BNNY on Grief and Making An Album Blue
Episode 66: Chris Koltay’s Rock and Roll Fantasy
Episode 65: All about SONGWRITING! with Jean Cochrane of Hard Femme
Episode 64: Girl K Talks Songwriting, Finding Each Other and Crying in The Green Room
Episode 63: Dr Lauren Neaman on Social Anxiety in the Time of Covid & Being A Social Being
Episode 62: Adam Schubert (ULNA, Cafe Racer) Talks Addiction, Recovery, and Staying Sober in the Music Scene
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