Episode 103: Fritz Hutchison
Fritz Hutchison trekked over on a January snow day and sat with me for two hours to bullshit about music and life, and I gotta tell ya' -- it was one of my favorite conversations in recent memory.
I couldn't put a finger on it until several days after we recorded, but there were a number of reasons why I was -- more so than others -- looking forward to this interview. My son -- perpetually eyeing in some fashion or other my calendar of upcoming guests -- made me giggle a time or two about Fritz's upcoming date. And after an oral-surgeon appointment for both of our kids, my ex-wife helped me connect that dots that I know his dad.
Neither of those mattered, though.
It just turned out to be that Fritz is a charismatic dude with a great sense of humor, a wild world of knowledge in his head, and he's a pretty darn good musician, too, it turns out. It was as if the cosmos was telling me I had a good guest on the books, and Fritz -- even though I managed to just...boorishly butcher his name several times -- did not disappoint.
It's Episode No. 103, and one could follow this episode's guest, were one so inclined. He's on the good ol' Instagrams, and he's got himself a handsome bandcamp page, too.
Anyway, we talked life and family, musicianship and gigging, recording, and loving music. And we may've gone a skosh overboard in our heralding of Deep Purple's "Highway Star," but...what's a guy to do.
During the music-loving portion of our talk, we did pause briefly from shenanigans to mention a few of Fritz's all-time-favorite albums, and those were these:
Milestones (1958), Miles Davis
Deep Purple's Machine Head (1972)
Hammersmith Odeon, London '75 (2006), Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
Big Thief's Two Hands (2019)
Suffice to say that this was a fun one, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Thank you.
copyright disclaimer: I do not own the rights to the audio clips featured in this episode. They are samples from a track called "Can It All Be So Simple" by El Michels Affair, from his 2012 release, Enter the 37th Chamber, c/o Fat Beats Records.