HeyJaredRibcast: The Shinyribs Podcast
Mr. Ribs makes mountains out of molehills, hay outta horse’s mouths, something outta nothing. Behind the scenes, long form tangents of uncommon grace and courage. Always a new song, unreleased song, outtakes from legendary recordings, etc shinyribs.substack.com
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WHAT HAPPENS NEXT (opens the original)
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1991 that makes 31 At the St. Rose of Lima out on Bayou Rd That’s where our story begins So sweetly to unfold Thru the tough times the crazy times Where does the time go tell me where does the Mississippi river flow After it reaches the Gulf of Mexico We shoulda stayed in our first house on laverne st in Algiers That was the coolest house shotgun beams and piers But we moved On to Mandeville and Meterie When Katrina chased us she couldn’t catch you and me Do still wanna go with me Over mountains
You Are Here (opens the original)
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This is a video poem. An idea I had that I explored in some downtime in Northampton around the iron horse. Which was one of the best shows of this leg of our Real alligator rollout tour. I wrote this poem after I woke in the middle of the night in Norwich, New York. I can’t remember if it was the night before the show the night after. It doesn’t matter. The piece itself is not really finished. It’s a work in progress as many of my poems are. Hell as many of my songs are as well. As much as any o
Winston Salem Ramkat (opens the original)
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So often promoters will request. I do a “shout out video” y’all have no doubt seeing many of these. I am ambivalent about them because I just don’t know if they move the needle in any meaningful way? The venues do share it with their clientele their community so you get some direct local impact from them I suppose. I don’t know what do y’all think? Not just with Shinyribs but with any band y’all like do you rely on these kind of shout out videos? Anyway, here’s what I did for The Ramkat in Winst
Video Ribs (opens the original)
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Sorry for the bait click title. This post is simply about me leaning into video creation from writing, scripting, planning shots to editing and producing them. Suffice it to say I’m finding space for my unstructured imagination to shovel into these little weird movies— I seem to have a creative focus that is an ever present force in my life. I don’t know what that is, where it comes from, but it’s in my inherent being. I am always making art. I’m always dreaming scheming teeming with poetry and
Hey Ladies! Come Through! (opens the original)
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It always moderately irks me when I dig down into my statistical insights on various platforms. These numbers shown are from Spotify. Mostly it’s just something to riff on for social media attention grabbing. With this video I tried some tricks I’ve learned from some other short form video makers. I’ve been using my phone for most video stuff lately. But, managing the data storage has become kind of a pain in the ass and unnecessary angst inducing to me. At the time I’ve been paying out the nose
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