Episode 90 - Rod Melancon
"Walking The Floor" with Chris Shiflett
Chris Shiflett
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 June 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Los Angeles based Americana singer/songwriter Rod Melancon moved to California from his home state of Louisiana to pursue acting, but luckily for us he picked up a guitar along the way and started writing songs! Ten years later he's just released his fantastic new record, "Southern Gothic."
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| 0:00.0 | This is right my law song you're listening to walking the floor. That. Walking the floor. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm walking the floor. |
| 0:17.0 | Walking the floor. Walking the floor over you. |
| 0:20.0 | Oh, lies, seniors and señeritas. |
| 0:27.0 | This is Chris Shifflet, and you are listening to walking the floor. |
| 0:35.0 | Greetings from beautiful Rykovic Iceland, |
| 0:38.5 | where we kicked off our Foo Fighter Tour, last night. |
| 0:44.8 | And it was awesome. |
| 0:45.8 | We had a great show. |
| 0:47.2 | I haven't been up to Iceland in a really long time, but I'm happy to say it is still amazing. Been eating lots of fish. |
| 0:57.0 | Been sleeping with my eye patch on because you know it never ever seems to actually get dark here. That's cool. What I do, it's a day off. |
| 1:06.2 | So I went to the blue lagoon and I soaked in those nourishing blue waters and I rubbed that white shit all over my face and you know just generally had a very nice relaxing day |
| 1:19.6 | We're leaving to go to Helsinki tomorrow. I'll be sad to leave this place because I really do like it here. It's a lot of fun. |
| 1:25.0 | And you know on the way out to Reykjavik Iceland, I stopped off in London and I did a couple of shows, a couple solo acoustic shows, one of them at the 100 club. |
| 1:37.1 | My good buddy Rami Jaffi got up, played a couple songs with me on the old accordion, that was nice, kind of filled things out then the next night well the next |
| 1:46.2 | day I sat and did promo all day long so look for all those interviews out on the internet. |
| 1:53.6 | Interviews, reviews, all that sort of good stuff. |
| 1:56.0 | It's all out there on the internet. |
| 1:58.1 | And then I play at a show with my buddy Sam Palladio |
| 2:01.9 | over at the Water Rats Rats which you know I played |
| 2:03.8 | water rats like I don't know 10 11 years ago with Jackson United and my memory of |
| 2:09.2 | that place was it was kind of like a dive bar but it's been turned into sort of a nice slightly more upscale kind of |
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