CHANDLER TRAVIS on new album BRANCHES OUT (Incredible Casuals, Catbirds, Three-O, Chandler Travis Philharmonic, Travis Shook & Club Wow)

This THURS 8/27 7-9AM WPKN & podcast Shake 'n' Vibrate welcomes a rock 'n' roll/pop heavyweight in B The T Jr's world, Chandler Travis, Cape Cod and Massachusetts cult leader, I mean - rock 'n' roll tour de force - with bands and projects that include the Incredible Casuals, Catbirds, Three-O, Chandler Travis Philharmonic, Travis Shook & Club Wow.The Incredible Casuals are all-timers for yours truly. Made this whole thing click. Cavern Club like stuff live, with a wealth of recorded gems transporting you to a world and ways of being you never knew existed. Music is amazing.Chandler's new album Branches Out is a Van Dyke Parksian wonder based on a midwest couple's grapple with dementia, aging, and mind loss and their attempt to communicate and find joy in and amongst art and creation. Branches Out, of course, channels Chandler's brilliant pop and rock 'n' roll warmth and wit, flourishing through a cast of many collaborators that include Patty Larkin and David Greenberger. Beauty, love, loss - stop reading and start listening. There's your pull-quote baby!You can find all Chandler's troublemaking at chandlertravis.comWe start it all off with a brief tribute to Darien CT's own Jeff Connolly of the Lyres (MONOMAN!) and DMZ. What a beautiful complicated rockin' soul. Thank you. GO dig Miriam's Kicksville episode with Fleshtones Peter Zaremba for more essential rabbit holes.It's all a gas.