Ep.1 Chris Searles

Shine Light Podcasts

In our debut episode (1 of 8) Chris Searles tells the host, Jeff, about hearing an advance copy of Grace in 1994 and how it changed his perspective on music and playing the drums. Buckley took an amazing "set list" and attacked it with a muscular approach. Additionally Chris goes into why Matt Johnson's drumming is outstanding on Grace. Jeff tells Chris about hearing Grace at his house for the first time and how Chris and Jeff got to meet and open up for Jeff Buckley in November 1994 at The Electric Lounge in Austin, Texas.
Theme music "Dream Brother" Live at Bataclan 1995

This episode is on both the Twang Twang Shock A Boom SoundCloud podcast channel and Shine Light Podcasts channel.

As a musician Chris Searles has toured and/or recorded with Shawn Colvin, James McMurtry, Alejandro Escovedo, Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, The Flatlanders, Twang Twang Shock-a-boom, Slaid Cleaves, Poi Dog Pondering, Eric Johnson, Bruce Robison, Davíd Garza, Abra Moore, Sara Hickman, Mitch Watkins, Casper Rawls, and many more, and played on two Grammy-nominated recordings. He attended the University of Texas at Austin music school on a full scholarship. He's also been fortunate enough to perform and/or record with: John Prine, Roky Erickson, Los Lobos, Ellis Marsalis, Mose Allison, Bruce Springsteen, Lucinda Williams, and more.

Additionally.....

Chris Searles is a native Austinite and founder/director of BioIntegrity, a research-based advocate for protection and restoration of Earth's biospheric integrity. He devotes his time to producing content, events, and education that facilitate "biospheric literacy" and investments and actions which support the most effective solutions to our global climate and species extinction crises. Chris is also starting a new aspect on local, tree-based, drought reversal soon.

The BioIntegrity community has helped fund protection of more than 320,000 acres of old growth tropical forests since 2014. Those efforts are helping to save thousands of species from extinction, keep more than 85 million tons of greenhouse gasses out of the atmosphere (enough to offset Austin, TX's community carbon footprint for 5+ years), institute land occupation rights for more than 400 Indigenous communities around the world, keep the planet cool, and more. Chris is also co-founder, creator and executive editor of AllCreation.org, a living archive of faith and spiritual practice views on human relationships with Earth's other species and environment. AllCreation has more than 400 posts exploring sacred texts and contemporary views, and is currently read in +150 countries. Visit biointegrity.net and allcreation.org for more info.

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