Episode #13
Episode 13 | Ross Bellenoit (Muscle Tough)
Ross Bellenoit plays guitar in Muscle Tough — though good luck telling who's playing what on their records, or with your eyes shut at the show. For twenty years he's also been one of Philadelphia's most-called guitarists, and a lot of the guitar tone and harmonic scaffolding underlying the Americana that came out of this city in the early aughts is his: Amos Lee, Birdie Busch, Chris Kasper, and the production chair at Turtle Studios.We open on the injury that knocked him off the road for a stretch — since healed, thankfully — and go from there. What a guitarist does when he can't play guitar. The five-year record he finally let himself put guitar solos on. Why he left Spotify for Tidal and won't give an inch on AI. And how Muscle Tough only exists because the two guys he originally wanted for the gig both had weddings that night. Also Gustav Mahler, and a Zeppelin medley that started as a joke.New original music under his own name is coming sometime next year. And get ready to Get Tough with Ross and the boys later this year. Bub & Pop : Website | Instagram | Facebook | TikTok | Threads | X | LinkedIn | Discord Host : Matt Hoffman | Producer : Tedd Kanakaris | Location : The Boom Room
