Joshua Radin photo by Minna Ýr Jóhannsdóttir
Americana Highways’ Key to the Highway series
Fans always clamor to learn more about their favorite, most beloved musicians and those who travel with them. There’s such an allure to the road, with its serendipity, inevitable surprises, and sometimes unexpected discomforts. This interview series is a set of questions we are asking some of our favorite roots rock Americana artists to get to know more about them and what they’ve learned and experienced on the road for music. We are sure they have key insights to share and stories to tell. Here’s one from Joshua Radin.
Americana Highways: How do you like your coffee or other morning wake-up beverage?
JR: Splash of oat milk in an americano
AH: What’s the most interesting or strangest motel/hotel or place you have stayed (while on the road for music?)
JR: Hmm I don’t know? I’m always on the tour bus.
AH: If one CD is stuck in the player in the van for the entire tour, what do you hope it is? And why?
JR: The Beatles Revolver because it’s my favorite album of theirs
AH: What’s one personal item you must have with you on your road trip?
JR: My pillow, because wherever I lay my head, it feels like home.
AH: What is your relationship with food? How do you handle this on the road, and what’s your favorite dish on the road, (or restaurant, and what do you order there)?
JR: Any time there are stone crab claws, I’ll be ordering them somewhere. Otherwise I try to find great salads to stay healthy on the road.
AH: If you could pause your life for a few weeks and spend some time living in a place you only have passed through, which would you choose, and why?
JR: Provence, France. That area is stunning and I love the cafe life
AH: What quote or piece of advice have you gotten from someone on the road that has really stuck with you?
JR: “The reason you play a show in a city is to be invited back to play another.” – Buddy Miller
Find more information about their new album, and tour dates for Joshua Radin here: https://www.joshuaradin.com
See other Key to the Highway interviews here: https://americanahighways.org/category/interviews/key-to-the-highway-series/ (click here for: Todd Park Mohr Jim Lauderdale Vince Herman Jimmy Smith Ben Nichols Bruce Cockburn Charlie Musselwhite Nicki Bluhm Jim White Danny Barnes Patterson Hood Jerry Joseph BJ Barham Rodney Crowell Todd Snider Elizabeth Cook Tommy Womack Eric Ambel, Dan Baird, Robbie Fulks, Malcolm Holcombe Jon Langford Steve Poltz, Lilly Hiatt Sarah Shook & the Disarmers Sadler Vaden )
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