Episode 117: Mark Verbeck
Mark Verbeck is a son, a brother, a husband, and a father. He's also a classically trained musician. He's one-half of Scotch Hollow, and he's my guest for Episode No. 117.
Mark and I talked about that band life, how music's taken him from central PA to Nashville to Chicago, and finally to KC. We talked about gigging, recording, and how parenthood challenges each of those things.
We also talked a little bit about a few of Mark's favorite records.
Those were these:
Robert Johnson's King of the Delta Blues Singers (1961)
Doc Watson* (1964)
The Red Hot Chili Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex Magik (1991)
Far Beyond Driven (1994), Pantera
Check out Scotch Hollow on bandcamp, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Apple Music, and at scotchhollowmusic.com. Many thanks to Mark for his time, and to you for pausing your day to check out our conversation.
copyright disclaimer: I do not own the rights to the audio samples contained within this episode. They are clips from a track called, "Up & Out," by the amazing Slide Five. The tune comes from their 1996 release, Rhode Trip, c/o Ubiquity Recordings, Inc.
*It's important to me to own gaffes, and I gaffed the eff outta talking Doc Watson by saying multiple times that this was the first episode of Badass Records to have a Doc Watson record appear on it. It wasn't; Brooke Kafka had one on her list just a handful of episodes ago. My apologies to both Brooke and to the late Mr. Watson. I musta been running on fumes.