Artist/Musician Shayan Regan joins Greg on the Podcast for episode #99. He was my guest on episode #34, and he’s celebrating the release of his most recent album, Zero Hour : Genesis, which dropped back on February 20th of this year, 2026.

With musical clips included, in this episode Greg and Shayan discuss Shayan's plans to release a Deluxe Edition of the album. We also discuss the meaning behind why he makes his music and get into deeper music conversations including our mutual love for Pink Floyd and the "space" theme Shayan was utilizing as inspiration for writing Zero Hour : Genesis.

Shayan also shares tips on productive ways he writes music and collects feedback from others.

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Future Soul is the sixth studio album by the Tedeschi Trucks Band. Released on March 20, 2026, the album was produced by Mike Elizondo with band member and lead guitarist, Derek Trucks co-producing.

Derek Trucks is the nephew of Butch Trucks, drummer for The Allman Brothers Band. Derek began hanging around and jamming with the Allman Brothers in 1993 when he was 13 years old. He later joined the band in 1999. It was clear to anyone and everyone around him that Derek had a special talent with the guitar. Playing his first performance at age 11, Derek embraced the blues and would many times play the guitar using a slide, which gives the guitar a more unique sound common with the traditional blues style.

Norwell, Massachusetts based musician Susan Tedeschi formed The Susan Tedeschi Band in 1993. The group released their first album in 1995. In 1999, performing as the opening act for The Allman Brothers Band, Tedeschi met young Derek Trucks, then aged 19, during their stop in New Orleans. The two bonded over their mutual love for blues and jazz. After the 1999 tour was over, the two stayed in touch and developed a relationship. That relationship blossomed beyond music, and the two married in 2001. They officially formed The Tedeschi Trucks Band in 2010. Today, they have two children and live together in Jacksonville, FL.

Future Soul is my high pick and a gem for a new 2026 album. For those of you (including myself) who said unhappily that rock n' roll is dead, immerse yourself in this album. You will realize we’re not going to heal until each we love ourselves and do our very best to love one another first, rather than resort to hate out of the gate. Ride on, and love will find its way to you.

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The album that made me open my eyes back to Bruce Springsteen was an album that I feel many diehard fans rarely talk about that album is 1995’s, The Ghost of Tom Joad.

The Ghost of Tom Joad is Springsteen’s eleventh studio album. It was recorded between March and September 1995 and released on November 21, 1995, by Columbia Records. This was only Bruce’s second mostly acoustic album after 1982’s Nebraska. Interestingly enough, it was his first studio album to fail to reach the top ten in the US in over two decades, and this is reason number 700 why I love it so much.

Different from his previous albums, Bruce wanted to make his melodies uncomplicated. He writes about people who traveled light, who were transient and people who left behind hard, complicated lives in another country.

Bruce knew The Ghost of Tom Joad would not attract his largest audience, but like Nebraska, he was still very proud of it. He felt it represented what it stood for, a view from a different perspective. A perspective many folks in the United States have sadly forgotten exists or don’t care about.

The album was released on November 21st, 1995, which happened to also be the night Bruce performed his first full solo acoustic concert since the early 1970s. In a solo show, there’s just one man, one guitar and the audience. As Bruce later writes in his book,

“What’s drawn forth is the emotional nucleus of your song. If your song is written well, it will stand in its skeleton form. Unlike Born in the USA, this album was naked”.

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