All Folked Up with Pi Jacobs and Tim Easton

Tasty Brew Music

Pi Jacobs draws inspiration from her unconventional upbringing in the Land of Weed and Wine aka Northern California. Blending roots-rock swagger and storytelling soul, her music has drawn comparisons to Tom Waits, Dolly Parton and Lucinda Williams. She has been heard on NPR, Austin Music TV, Americana Highways and regularly on radio stations across the nation including 90.1 FM KKFI Kansas City Community Radio.

Tim Easton is repeat offender on the Tasty Brew Music Podcast having first appeared during a live recorded interview from the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Okemah, Oklahoma in 2019. Tim Easton was born on the Canadian border in upstate New York and spent his formative years living in Tokyo, Japan and Akron, Ohio. Traveling early and often, he learned the ways of the road and roads and spent 7 years as a bona fide troubadour, making his way around Europe, playing the streets and clubs, living in Paris, London, Madrid, Prague, and Dublin. Before the pandemic he toured Russia under the auspices of the US State Department. His songwriting style is folk based storytelling and personal traveling tales, often peppered with bold confessions or “tell it as it is” reality. Rolling Stone magazine praised him as “having a novelist’s sense of humanity”.

Pi and Tim were part of a contingent of artists who came in to the KKFI studios during the 2022 Folk Alliance Conference in Kansas City as part of a special 4 hour “takeover” of the Tasty Brew Music Radio Show. Enjoy these conversations and musical interludes with Pi Jacobs and Tim Easton!