#12 Road Trip to Nathan Carson

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Salem Flavored Podcandy. This week, with a Portland twist…

What a treat to sit down with Nathan Carson in his home in Portland, Oregon. He’s a musician, booker, promoter, published author, and a decent human being, on top of all that. Peter has known Nathan since way back in the day – mutual fans of each other’s music: Imps of Spring, Moon Patrol, pointlineplane to name a few. Peter was under the weather for this cast, so he’s a little quiet, but he’s there.

Nathan has figured out how to make a living from being a booker/promoter with his booking company Nanotear. It started as a project for booking doom metal, when there

Kayla Dixon of Witch Mountain

wasn’t a ton of doom metal bands to be found. Now he books for over 25 metal bands on as many different labels – bands such as Yob, Mike Scheidt, Wizard Rifle, and his own

band Witch Mountain, which he is the drummer. Witch Mountain’s latest single, Midnight plays at the end of the podcast. You can also check it out here.

Nathan also hosts a radio show on XRAY.FM, Wednesday nights at 10pm called “Heavy Metal Sewing Circle.” If that’s not a convenient time for you, the episodes are archived on the website.

And if that weren’t enough, and don’t think it oughta be, Nathan is also a published author. He’s a huge fan of H.P. Lovecraft and the like, so his works are along that vein with a Willamette Valley flavor. He gave me a copy of Starr Creek, which I’m half finished with. He told me it wasn’t nostalgic in an 80s way (set in the 80s), but it definitely nostalgic in a Mid-Willamette Valley way. I am enjoying it, quite a bit. He has stories in several anthologies that you can also find on his Amazon page.

AND, on December 2nd, Nathan will be in Salem at the downtown Book Bin for a reading and signing of his latest project, The Willows. This is part one of a two part comic book that is an adaptation of Algernon Blackwood’s novella of the same name, richly illustrated by Sam Ford. I certainly hope you’ll come say hi at that event.

So, with no further ado, the interview.

https://roughshodradio.files.wordpress.com/2017/11/nathan-carson-final.mp3

Mentions:

Imps of Spring, Moon Patrol, pointlineplane, Aranya, mARMITs, Foggy Notion, Witch Mountain, YOB, Kayla Dixon, Bomb’s Away Cafe, Interzone, Aether Theory, Dark Horse Comics, Nanotear, Mudhoney, Huey Lewis, Ground Kontrol, Mark Lore, Xray.fm, Heavy Metal Sewing Circle, Burial Grounds, HP Lovecraft, Starr Creek Novella, Floating World Comics, Sam Ford, Wizard Rifle, Mountain Goats, Brian Eno, Gene Wolfe.