Episode 3

Walk This Way

This episode is about one of the things that launched us homo sapiens on our journey toward making music, which would eventually get us to the guitar.

That one thing is our feet, which is really two things.

When we evolved into beings who could walk upright, we introduced something new into our lives. Becaming bipedal, millions of years ago, gave us one of the foundations of music, and Disco, and CPR. It also helped to make our brains bigger, which made us smarter, and our walking feet and bigger brains and smarter noggins pointed us toward music.

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Grant Samuelsen

Grant Samuelsen has led a multi-modal professional life in the worlds of contemporary art and music, business, and academia, and he has degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Carnegie Mellon University. He has published essays, articles and criticism, and he's been a guitar player since he was 13. He's interested in everything, which can be a problem, but the global social and cultural history of the guitar has held his attention for the longest period of time, so now he's doing this podcast. He's originally from the Chicago area and now lives in Madison, Wisconsin with his family, guitars, and a female Staffordshire Terrier named after one of the male members of Black Flag.