“Bear and a Banjo,” a new podcast from iHeartRadio, is a throwback to the time when families huddled around the living room radio to hear Orson Welles’ Mercury Theater, or “The Sh…
“Radio was the original way people communicated in this country,” points out Jared, who plays Banjo — not the instrument, but the character — opposite sidekick Poo Bear. He realized there were a lot of similarities between today’s podcasts and the commercial-sponsored country radio shows which sprouted up across the country in the ‘30s and ‘40s.
The members of the podcast all gathered for a press event in Boyd’s multilevel recording studio and office complex in Studio City. Turns out the genesis of the project came about three years ago, when an inebriated Jared walked up to Justin Bieber outside an L.A. hotel, who said he had to meet Poo Bear, calling him “the best songwriter in the world.”
The show’s narratives combine fiction and reality with the aplomb of an E.L. Doctorow novel, using various story-telling techniques through technology, old and new, very much like the original “Blair Witch Project.” Individual episodes were written by noted music journalists Tom Piazza and Bill Flanagan as well as Burnett’s friend Nic Pizzolatto, the creator of HBO’s “True Detective,”
Quaid’s Dr. Q is related to music archivists and field recordists such as Alan Lomax, Jac Holzman or Harry Smith crossed with the Coens’ recent Western anthology “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” which Jared was watching when the idea came to him. The imagery of the biracial musicians — in real life, a black American from Baltimore and a white Jewish kid from Toronto — recalls similar iconic teams like Bruce Springsteen and Clarence Clemons or the “Ebony and Ivory” of Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney.
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