Episode 27 - Brian Whelan
"Walking The Floor" with Chris Shiflett
Chris Shiflett
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2015
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Los Angeles based Seattle native, Brian Whelan, walks us through his journey coming up through the LA roots scene, from joining Dwight Yoakam's band to committing full time as a solo artist.
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| 0:00.0 | Who the fuck is Brian Wheeling? |
| 0:02.0 | I'm walking the floor over you. |
| 0:07.0 | Walking the floor. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm walking the floor. |
| 0:12.0 | Walking the floor over you. |
| 0:15.0 | Well hello there friends and neighbors this is Chris |
| 0:20.0 | Shifflet host of Walking the Floor. I'm coming to you today from a hotel room in the middle of London. |
| 0:27.0 | I was on tour, now you might say I'm on vacation, as I'm sure probably anybody listening to this |
| 0:34.5 | podcast knows about about Dave's broken leg up in Sweden and the fact that we've |
| 0:40.7 | had to cancel or postpone the shows that we had, |
| 0:44.6 | the rest of the shows that we had out here for this run, but fear not, |
| 0:49.2 | my man Dave is one tough m-effer, |
| 0:51.8 | as we learned the other night when he soldered on through the gig |
| 0:55.3 | after breaking his leg in the second song and I think we must have been up on stage for |
| 0:59.2 | like three hours or something after that it was it was he put in a full night's work sitting there in |
| 1:04.5 | what must have been incredible pain and he's going to be fine he just needs some |
| 1:10.2 | time to rest and recuperate so everybody send your positive vibes over to Mr. |
| 1:15.0 | Groel because he needs them. Anywho, that's what's going on in the short term here in |
| 1:21.7 | London, but let's jump back a few weeks to my interview |
| 1:26.0 | with my good friend Brian Wheeling Brian Wheeling who I met a few years ago |
| 1:32.1 | when dead peasants needed a pedal steel player to jump in for a couple of gigs and |
| 1:37.6 | my good man, Mitch Marine, who plays drums for Dwight Yoakum, said, hey, this new guy in Dwight's band, Brian, he could |
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