Episode 4

FEATURED SONGWRITERS: THE THERAPY SISTERS : Do Something, PATTY CARPENTER & VERANDAH PORCHE : Precious Right (Vote), ZOE LEWIS : SMASH (the Glass Ceiling), BABA BRINKMAN & FRIENDS : LOTUS for POTUS, Hosts: Joanna Rush & Seth Wilpan, And special thanks to our hosts and audio/video team.

THE THERAPY SISTERS : Do Something
Long-time Austin music scene celebs, The Therapy Sisters have been conducting their own kind of therapy sessions all over town—encouraging smiles and laughter, hilarity and joy, introspection and out-trospection with a dedicated army of faithful clients. Lisa Rogers’ song Do Something, written over twenty years ago, is still a huge hit. (It’s rumored that Michelle Obama is a fan…)

Lisa Rogers: Electric guitar, lead vocal, percussion, video editor / Maureen McLean: Electric bass, vocals

PATTY CARPENTER & VERANDAH PORCHE : Precious Right (Vote)
Patty (singer & piano player) and Verandah (poet & scribe) have penned about 50 songs together, “one for each year of our friendship”. Southeastern Vermont is their stomping ground. Verandah, a well-recognized, published poet and Patty, with her keyboard brilliance and jazz-inflected singing are a powerful duo. Check out their outstanding commentary in 2020’s “Tweeting From the Tower“—not to be missed!

Patty Carpenter: composer, vocals, keyboard / Verandah Porche: composer, spoken word, vocals / Charles Light: video / Jack Cochran & Pamela Falkenberg (Outlier Moving Pictures): Additional images and video editing

ZOE LEWIS : SMASH (the Glass Ceiling)

Known for her outrageous talent and unlimited energy, Zoe Lewis has wowed audiences world wide since she first graced British stages. Often called “a band in a body”, Zoë plays vintage jazz and world beat  grooves on anything from the piano to the spoons! Now a US citizen, she’s released 10 albums of original material, and has toured with Judy Collins, the Indigo Girls and many more notables! 

BABA BRINKMAN & FRIENDS : LOTUS for POTUS
“In Sanskrit, Kamala means LOTUS. In America, Kamala means POTUS.” Baba Brinkman is a Canadian rapper and playwright best known for recordings and performances that combine hip hop music with literature, theatre, and science. Brinkman spent his early summers in remote tree planting camps, and began planting trees himself at the age of 15.  He worked for his parents’ business, Brinkman & Associates Reforestation, for twelve seasons in British Columbia and Alberta, personally planting more than one million trees.

Baba Brinkman, Jam Ram, Lex Rush, Dex McBean: Artists, Composers / Produced, mixed, mastered: Tom Caruana / Sitar + Overtone singing: Neel Murgai / Sanskrit + Hindi vocals: Preeta Sinha /  *Special thanks to One Green Planet and all who participated in the production of Lotus for Potus