Here are Ryan’s words from the RSL Blog: A BEST OF 2012 ALBUM SELECTION – Jukebox the Ghost’s third album Safe Travels marks a period in the band’s career that’s steeped in change, both personally and professionally. Relationships dissolved and crumbled. Loved ones...

Sure-fingered, youthful, raw and passionate, Ryan Schmidtt, Boston-based singer/songwriter pays appropriate homage to The Black Keys,’ ‘Lonely Boy’ in this Big Old Big One session. Filmed at the Arnold Arboretum in the brisk winter of 2012’s February, by Ro Rowan and...

Shlomo Gronich, One of Israel’s biggest rock starts since the 70’s, perform his biggest hit “Sympathy” (Sympatyah, is how you say it in Hebrew) with the accompany of Eran Shaysh on percussion. Gronich is most widely known for composing and performing Israeli pop, folk...

In March 2012 I headed to Austin, TX to play at SXSW music festival. with the hope of catching as many live acts as possible, and capturing ‘Off Stage’ videos with them, I ran around from party to party. One the acts that left the strongest impression on me was Brown Bird. Dave on...

This episode of Big Old Big one was shot in the heart of the Cambridge/Somerville roots music scene, at one of the area’s liveliest listening rooms, Toad, in Porter Square, Cambridge, MA. Sat in a booth, just as a listener might, Mike and Pat McCann, and Erik White are joined by Shaysh,...

In early December of 2011, Big Old Big One crew got together with the Boston-based, Poppy Americana group Air Traffic Controller to shoot and record an off-stage session. After a two hours session we ended up with three new videos by this incredible group of musicians, performing live in an un...