Just 4 friends (who have never met in person), sharing and talking about obscure songs that they love. Basically, music geek heaven.
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Welcome to the Weekly Song Videos of One of Those Times in a Life where Mark Pearson offers music written and performed over an ongoing career of more than forty years, songs to be enjoyed individually, seen as part of a larger yearlong concert, or appreciated as the soundtrack to of a life. Join the journey at the MarkPearsonMusic.com website and become part of the conversation at the Mark Pearson Music Facebook Page.
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Episode 38 of Campfire Songs with Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham, Molecular Steve, Bilders, Hidden Cameras, Sessa, Sadler Vaden, Beth Orton, and Zenxith.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 37 of Campfire Songs, with Laughing, The Mysteries of Life, YAWNi, Descendants, Chime School, Fun Boy Three Claudette et Ti Pierre, and Kelly Hogan.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 35 of Campfire Songs, with Guided By Voices, The Breeders, Urge Overkill, Songs: Ohia, Snarls, Crowsdell, The Thons, and C Turtle.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 35 of Campfire Songs with Mike Scott & The Bootlegs, Beat Happening, Hurry, Noise Addict, Absolute Grey, Love Child, The Mosquitos, and Belle Adair.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 34 of Campfire Songs featuring The Treasures of Mexico, Raphael Saddiq, Sloppy Heads, The Umbrellas, Stars, Papas Fritas, Marc Johnson, and The Edsel Auctioneer.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 33 of Campfire Songs featuring some of our favorites from 2023. Includes selections from Ana Frango Elétrico, Lewsberg, The Nude Party, The Pretty Flowers, En Attendant Ana, Joanna Sternberg, Class, and Brian Dunne.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 31 with special guest Derrick Bostrom of the Meat Puppets. Great conversations with the founding member and drummer of one of our favorite bands. Plus music from Johnny Carver, Novos Baianos, Connie Eaton, Jim Ed Brown, Sugluk, Roger Miller, Liquor Giants, and Meat Puppets.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 31 of Campfire Songs featuring Bilders, Barry Adamson, The Sweater Girls, Will Johnson, Beth Orton, Klaus Johann Grobe, Andrew Bryant, and Deeper.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 30 of Campfire Songs featuring Blue Aeorplanes, Mainland Break, Pretty Flowers, Raphael Saadiq, Camper Van Beethoven, Ural Thomas & The Pain, Palace Brothers, Dillon Fence. Plus we talk about Bob Mould and Sugar, as well as various Chicago musicians.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 29 featuring Mush, Jason Morphew, Self, Al Riggs, Slang, Jerry Lee Lewis, Squire, Bill Callahan.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 28 with special guest Brinsley Schwarz. Music from Brinsley Schwarz, Jim Ford, Jimi Hendrix, Kendra Smith, Jimi Hendrix, Little Feat, Dumptruck, Steely Dan, and Country Westerns.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 27 of Campfire Songs with special guest Michael Hall, lead vocalist and guitarist of the Wild Seeds, a member of The Setters, as well as a long solo career. Featuring songs by The Wild Seeds, and along, The Holy Modal Rounders, Judee Sill, Bottlecap Mountain, Chicano Batman, Karen Dalton, Tee Vee Repairman, and Michael Hall.…
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Episode 26 of Campfire Songs featuring Blues Lawyer, The Stroppies, King Biscuit Time, Angélique Kidjo, Gentleman Jesse, Kishore Kumar, East River Pipe, Salad Boys.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 25 of Campfire Songs featuring The Funkees, Holopaw, Tallies, The Besties, Slovenly, Trembling Blue Stars, The Tubs, Meat Puppets.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 24 of Campfire Songs featuring The Go-Betweens, Friends Again, Chris Stamey, Faye, Walter Marin, Sabina Sciubba, Marah, and Popular Creeps.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 23 of Campfire Songs featuring Flin Flon, Alexis Castrogiovanni, Freeman, Dot Dash. The Weakerthans, Jonathan Richman, The City, Ghost Car.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 22 of Campfire Songs with special guest Tyler Asay of The Tisburys. Tyler joins the 4 Geeks around the virtual campfire to talk about the Tisbury’s new record, Exile On Main Street. Featuring songs from The Tisburys, Miracle Legion, Richard Hell, Don Dixon, 2nd Grade, Circle C, Rilo Kiley, Supercrush.…
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Episode 21 of Campfire Songs with special guest Julie Simmons of musicmakesyouthink.com. Featuring songs from Joey Valence & Brae, The Berries, Mother Mother, Don McGlashan, Pip Blom, Green, The Brand New Heavies, Senay.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 20 of Campfire Songs featuring Pet Fox, Jenny Toomey, Gigolo Aunts, Frankie Miller, Peter Laughner, Mommyheads, Tim Curry, and Nutrients.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 19 of Campfire Songs, with special guest Matt Derda of Matt Derda & the High Watts. Featuring Matt Derda & The High Watts, Cool Ghouls, Mono Men, Ebo Taylor & Uhuru-Yenzu, Dead Moon, The Dirtbombs, Truck Stop Love, and Andrew Bryant.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 18 of Campfire Songs featuring Christmas, The Opals, Nanci Griffith, The Smarthearts, Volcano Suns, Reverend Maceo Woods and The Christian Tabernacle Choir, The Bobby Fuller Four, and The Wild Flowers of AmericaDoor Campfire Songs
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Episode 17 of Campfire Songs featuring Daryl Hall, The Pussywillows, Prefab Sprout, Eades, Mbongwana Star, Outdoor Velour, Bird Nest Roys, Young Guv.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 16 of Campfire Songs featuring Night Shop, Magic Sam, Big Fish Ensemble, Hypercolor, Partner Look, Slapp Happy, Graeme Downes, and The Mendoza LineDoor Campfire Songs
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Episode 15 of Campfire Songs in which the Four Geeks bring a couple of their favorite songs from 2021. Featuring Strapping Fieldhands, Aeon Station, Macie Stewart, Motorists, Ada Lea, Bo Burnham, André Abujamra, UV-TV.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 14 of Campfire Songs featuring The Chills, Chime School, Martin Newell, The Oranges Band, Tracey Thorn, Nextstopexjock, John Cale, Idaho.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 13 of Campfire Songs featuring The Roomsounds, Freakwater, Palace Music, Wheat, Wine Lips, Betwixt, The Butterflies, Arto Lindsay.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 12 of Campfire Songs featuring Naomi’s Hair, jhn mrsr, 801, The Telefones, Voxtrot, Die Welttraumforscher, Fumaça Preta, and Ducks Ltd.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 11 of Campfire Songs featuring Broncho, Caitlin Cary, Kids These Days, Fuzzy, Black Pussy, Texas Instruments, M.O.T.O., and Liquorice.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 10 of Campfire Songs featuring The Squalls, Bad Astronaut, The Coctails, Dave Schoonderbeek with By Divine Right, Bar-B-Q Killers, China Gate, The Limiñanas, and Luna.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 9 of Campfire Songs, with special guest Wally Salem, founder of the record label The Beautiful Music (www.thebeautifulmusic.com). Featuring Tremolo, The Pattern, The Mysteries of Life, The Social Icons, The Sound, Man's Body, Clothilde, Television Personalities.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 8 of Campfire Songs. Featuring The Swimming Pool Q's, Terrible Truths, The Regents, Roky Erickson, Macha, Sam Baker, Takka Takka, Jess Sah Bi & Peter One.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 7 of Campfire Songs. Featuring For Squirrels, The Tages, Las Akelas, Sleepy, The Lemonheads, Family Atlantica, The Burning Hell, The Whatt Four.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 6 of Campfire Songs. Featuring Omar Souleyman, Mega Super Ultra, Big Dipper, Aaron Collins and The Teen Queens, The Delusions, The Webb Brothers, Balancing Act, The Rockers.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 5 of Campfire Songs with special guest Tim Lee of The Windbreakers, Bark, and the Tim Lee 3. Featuring the Cairo Gang, Charlie Pickett, The Dirtbombs, Speed The Plouh, Steve Ison, The Squirms, Tyler Keith, The Windbreakers.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 4 of Campfire Songs. Featuring the Wild Seeds, Radon, The Donner Party Dinner Menus, Dan Wriggins, Windbreakers, The Neats, The McKinleys, The Homesick.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 3 of Campfire Songs. Featuring Rookie, The Tisburys, 2nd Grade, The Crystal Furs, Silverbacks, Steven Bradley, Cornershop, The Crystal Furs.Door Campfire Songs
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Episode 2 of Campfire Songs. Featuring Winter Hours, Guided By Voices, The Chairs, The Blue Notes, Timbuk 3, The Shazam, Treat Her Right, The Cannanes, Slow, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Portastatic, with special guest, Marc Fagel, author of Jittery White Guy Music: True Rock & Roll Confessions From a Guy Who Bought The Album.…
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Episode 1 of Campfire Songs. Featuring Falstaff, Blue Angel, Graham Cousens, Pain, Robert Duncan, Dogbowl, Sugar Shack, Peter Jefferies, Shugo Tokumaru, The Chills, Howard Tate, and Dan Zanes.Door Frozen Lazuras
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By the time you read this, we will have celebrated lighting the 49th and final campfire of this particular journey, this Pilgrimage, with a concert and the release of an album of fifteen new songs. I am filled with gratitude, thankful to discover I had the grit, and thankful for the grace given and received. I look forward to the next adventure(s),…
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As I reach this moment in the journey I am reminded again how long life takes and the fact that it is over in an instant. I am surprised that the last three stages of life turned out to each be ten year long. It was certainly not planned that way. While I’m too close to it to judge the quality of it, telling my story around forty-nine campfires has…
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There were a lot of significant benchmarks in the summer and fall of 2015. There was my 50th high school reunion and 50 years of friendship and musical partnership with Mike McCoy. My older brother celebrated his 70th birthday and my younger brother retired. Those moments combined with others involving lifelong connections or friendships made me re…
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As the pace of lighting these campfires increases—and the goal of lighting the “last campfire” on May 13th approaches--I realize what a luxury it has been to meander slowly through the memories and discoveries of a lifetime.At this campfire I talk about becoming part of a Civil Rights Pilgrimage in the fall of 2014. Preparing for those nine days on…
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When I started this journey of Gratitude, Grit, and Grace I thought it would be mostly one of awakening and recording memories. I continue to be surprised—pleasantly for the most part--at how much of it is about discovering and discoveries. By shining light into dark corners I am seeing things differently or for the first time. By opening long door…
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A few things became clear as I got ready to share my songs and stories in a series of virtual campfires. I would need a team of people to help me. It was going to take a lot longer than I first imagined. What I thought was going to be simply a journey of memory quickly became one of discovery as well. I also quickly realized that the exploration al…
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In the summer of 2007 I began what became the 7th and final stage of my personal and professional journey, “One of Those Times in a Life.” I realized I had finally faced long hidden fears in a way that I was able to live with them instead of in them. One of the ways the change appeared to show itself was in my songwriting. A process that was often …
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It has been a while since we lit the 41st campfire. In the interim I have written a number of new songs and recorded a 15 song CD. I am also getting ready for a concert to celebrate the release of the new album and the lighting of the 49th and final Campfire on this amazing journey, One of Those Times in a Life.I had promised myself when I began th…
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In the summer of 2004 I released a solo CD called “The Missing Peace.” At the same time my lifelong friend, Mike McCoy, joined me in The Brothers Four and during the 2004-2005 concert season The Brothers Four did a series of performances in the US with The Kingston Trio and Glenn Yarbrough and his group. In 2006 McCoy and I released a 25th annivers…
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The 40th campfire talks about the spring of 2004. That season I successfully completed the vocals for my most ambitious solo album, there were significant personnel changes within The Brothers Four, and I had a life altering moment with my older brother. Together those experiences propelled me on “The Road That Leads Us Home.”…
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In the 38th Campfire the long held and deep-seated fears that resided so long in my unconscious were found and freed and soon running wild. In this, the 39th Campfire, those fears begin to be given names and faces and in the naming and facing them I am able to begin claiming them.Door Mark Pearson
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It has been a while since we have lit a campfire…this 38th campfire talks about events in 2001. In the spring of that year I shared a book I created with a few family and friends. The manuscript contained my journey for “authenticity, belonging, and confidence” or, put another way, “a search for truth, home, and to find myself.” Somehow putting tha…
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