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Zach Wolf learned to make records off YouTube in his mom's basement in Oregon. Two years later he was in London cutting vocals in Adele's studio. Then an email went out to the whole team and he was back slinging lattes in Portland.Zach let's us in on a phone call that gave him 24 hours to get to LA, the audition where they stood behind him while he sang into a soundproof wall, and hearing his own song come on the radio with his family in the car. He walked away from being an artist for five years. He's back now with a fresh new single, "French Vanilla". Listen to Zach Wolf on SpotifySign Up for the TRUCK Newsletter Message us at: [email protected]

Brett Benowitz can play the opening lick of Under the Bridge. Took him a year. That's most of what you need to know about him.We drove up the coast and got into the hero he met at a sushi bar, the viral video that has nothing to do with music, and why with major songs on Spotify, he’s walking a little further from the spotlight on purpose. Listen to Brett BenowitzCREDITSSong: Soul to Squeeze - Red Hot Chili PeppersMix by Jordan BooneSign Up for the TRUCK Newsletter Message us at: [email protected] the TRUCKYouTubeInstagramTikTokFacebook

Christopher Kessenich and Jody Lee Oliver hop in the truck. They talk a tour done entirely on foot, a van that knew too many secrets, and an unreleased song about Macho Man Randy Savage that they can't figure out how to record.At the end of the ride they a brand new song you can't hear anywhere else: “Wait No Longer”Their latest record —  Pocket Full of Mumbles — releases September 2nd.Listen to Arts Fishing Club on SpotifySign Up for the TRUCK Newsletter Message us at: [email protected] the TRUCKYouTubeInstagramTikTokFacebookFollow Alex VespestadInstagram

A while back, Paul Greene watched an argument between two people he loves. Neither one was wrong. Nobody was listening. So he made a short film about it, The Rabbit Hole, and wrote the song that runs underneath it.You might know Paul from five seasons on When Calls the Heart, or seventeen Hallmark Christmas movies, or Carnegie Hall. None of that is the interesting part. Instead we talk about surviving an avalanche in the Himalayas, a decade singing to strangers on the New York subway, how fear makes you rigid, and the lessons he’s learned to overcome it.At the end of the ride: Pale Blue Dot, live from the truck bed.Listen to Paul GreenSpotifyFollow Paul GreenInstagramTikTokSign Up for the TRUCK Newsletter Message us at: [email protected]

Kalie Shorr made her debut album in a one room studio on no budget and The New York Times ranked it one of the best albums of 2019. She was placed one spot above Taylor Swift. Three months later she rang in the new year on stage with Stevie Nicks in front of 200,000 people. What happened next is the part nobody saw coming... and it involves a referee costume. Kalie talks about going viral by telling the truth with no shits given, getting her masters back, producing her own records, and the eight year 'situationship' that walked out of the fog and became a song.At the end of the ride, she climbs into the truck bed and plays us a brand new one. It's called "Fever Dreaming". Completely unreleased - heard for the first time from the back of this truck bed.Listen to Kalie ShorrSpotifyFollow Kalie ShorrInstagramTikTokSign Up for the TRUCK Newsletter Message us at: [email protected] and Mastering by Jordan BooneSound Engineer Tristen Bankston

James Ghareeb is a folk songwriter and one of my closest friends. Which means this one goes deep fast. James is in the middle of what he calls wreckage. A breakup he didn't want. A homeland under attack. Family in Beirut he checks on morning and night. You're gonna hear about the summer he was 11, when war broke out in Lebanon, the airport was bombed, and a US military helicopter carried him and one handbag out of the country while most of his family had to stay. And you're gonna hear why he doesn't believe when it rains it pours anymore. He plays for us "Time Enough". He texted me the night he wrote it and said it might be the best song he's ever written. He might be right.Listen to James GhareebSign Up for the TRUCK Newsletter Message us at: [email protected]

First guest ever. It took some work (and hours of mechanical repairs) to get here, but dammit did we make it happen. And couldn't be more stoked about this singer. She goes by DINER. It’s not her real name, but when you have the secrets to the world’s best french toast recipe, it’s a name you deserve. DINER is a hell of a country singer, planting her flag for the genre out here in California, not Nashville, of all places to pursue country. You're gonna hear how she’s fighting in a major standoff to win back her own masters. How she ended up on a Stagecoach stage and playing on a literal NASCAR track. And how, somewhere in all that, she figured out how to survive this industry with nobody's hand on her back but her own.And at the end of the talkin’, in the back of this 1970 Ford, sky wide open, she plays us a song nobody's heard yet. Brand new. Unreleased. Hitting air this summer of 2026. It’s called "Traditional." And trust me. It's about a whole lot more than you think. Listen to DINER https://open.spotify.com/artist/7dvHlnKgD5EWy243QylvvC?si=L14YqWsiRpKF37ljZ81laQFollow DINER:IG: https://www.instagram.com/localdinergirlTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@localdinergirl