Graventown
A kindness, positivity, mental health and music-magic-based informal conversational town hall created, authored, and produced by award winning Canadian singer songwriter and ex-journalist Matty McKechnie (known musically as Graven). Whether he has acclaimed or interesting pals, comedians, musicians or artists to interview - or even if it's just a solo-yolo convo that he "sends into the universe", Matty would always want you to know that you - whoever and wherever you are - are ALWAYS welcome in Graventown.
Episodes
90 episodes
Episode 90: Interview w/ Mark Sasso (Elliott Brood)
As one the three majestic sparkplugs that fire up the magnificent machine of the indie folk-rock/alt-country award winning band Elliott Brood, Mark Sasso had a lot to say and we had a lovely flowing chat about musicality, all things music, song...
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Episode 90
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Episode 89: Carcast 11 / Slow It Down
Heyo friendoes. Here's one from the road in this insanely magically muddy mentally marooning month of May. I'm typing this from the teleport of the toucan. Getting ready for a fun festival atmosphere. There shall be drunken throngs kanoodling a...
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Episode 89
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Episode 88: The Gift Of A Basic Day
Hello friendoes: I hope you enjoy my return to the homestead - far from the carcast realm - and into the white hospital desk microphone majorca of the mind. In this hive-zone of busy buzzworld that we reside within, sometimes it's important to ...
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Episode 88
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Episode 87: Carcast 10 / Highflyer Feels
Oh friends - these days, the good feels seem to have no ends. This was a humdinger straight from the heart of the road-weary but eye-teary Gravenator while being Peterborough bound and recapping a Toronto Tragically Hip-based Dave Bookman benef...
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Episode 87
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Episode 86: Carcast 9 / Love Download
Friends; this was a gushy one from the weatherbeaten civic on a post-Owen Sound/Uxbridge rip. Lots about my pal Krista and the Thornbury crew and lots about my pals in the Uxbridge region (Sandford specifically). If you're not up for some feels...
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Episode 86
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29:51
Episode 85: Joy-Harvest-Mind-Hang
Friends; I appreciate the clicks and the likes and the lingers on this little podcast o'mine - because I'm gonna let it shine. This was a fun one to shoot into the ethersphere and you might even catch a nugget of a new song in the middle somewh...
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Episode 85
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28:14
Episode 84: Offroad Recalibrations
Hello friends - I hope the depth of this world isn't giving you the bends, these days. Hard to escape that out of sorts wonky bonkers vibe - but we are pushing through the weeds, regardless. (Weeds? Deep sea diving? Mixed metaphor Matty?) Here'...
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Episode 84
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34:58
Episode 83: Word To April Third
Friends without ends. Lorders without borders. How y'all doin' out there in radioland? Is it just me, or this spring seeming to be a bit bleak? Feels like there's way more room for the rich and less room for the meek. But I digress (with little...
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Episode 83
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30:15
Episode 82: Be Ok With Building Rest
Back on the airwaves, my dudes. It's been a minute between roughshod roadway rides through the highways and biways of middle ontario, but I'm back for a heavy hot minute. Really hope to see you at an upcoming April show - but I wanted to take a...
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Episode 82
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27:57
Episode 81: Good Gravy
81 episodes!?! Someone call the PRESSES!! Oh wait - they're busy dealing with all that nationalism bordering on fascism stuff. Right. Well hey - at any rate - welcome back to Graventown for a super special one off about finding the proper accou...
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Episode 81
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29:38
Episode 80: Finding The Why (Part 2)
Pals from all canals; what's the hibbidy? Are you singing dippity doo dah or skippity toilet? I hope in all of the chaotic streams of info that you can settle your senses and rest your rendering system for a few moments and find your why. Dig d...
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Episode 80
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Episode 79: Finding The Why
Hello friends. It's been a few weeks since I've a couple stones to throw into ye olde pod pond, but I'm back in the saddle. I thought I'd rap a bit about Finding The Why - which is a concept that is going to be important as we all make our way ...
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Episode 79
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32:20
Episode 78: Interview w/ Mallory Chipman
Folks - hello. Welcome back to the Graventown jamboree. Grab your sonic picnic basket for a little auditory meadow-frolic. This episode was a great and golden flowing convo between myself and western Canadian Edmontonian music maker and multi-p...
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Episode 78
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40:54
Episode 77: Settling In, Alarmism and Intention
Well hello, friends. We are back at it - yet again. I hope 2025 is finding you as well as it can so far and I thought I'd take a stab at some healthy ideals to help you on your way out the door into the wild blue yonder of the approaching (inse...
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Episode 77
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30:36
Episode 76: Delving Into Darkness To Live In The Light - Part Two
Graventowner non-frowners. Thanks for being here. On a dusty dark damp drive across highway 7, I thought I'd pop this two part series out into the mental ethersphere for y'all as I've been pushing my roughshod rickety heart-cart down the mucky ...
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Episode 76
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20:55
Episode 75: Delving Into Darkness To Live In The Light - Part One
Friends; hello. Happy almost 2025. I hope part 1 of this 2 part series helps you find that still small inner voice to do some work on the stormy darkness inside you (and inside all of us) in order to find your emotional blue sky. This was a bit...
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Episode 74: Interview w/ Miranda Journey
Friends. Countryfolk. Lend me your auditory holes (Good thing I never performed Shakespeare). Yahoo for being back in the pod saddle and I had a chance to chat with a very special mystical magical human being and music maker named Miranda...
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Episode 73: Hibernation Station/Year In Rearview
Friends. Been in the creative womb lately and just trying to listen to my inner quiet during this loud oncoming holiday season. I also took a bit of a lookback in my existential rearview mirror to appreciate some hefty tour-highway highli...
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Episode 73
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28:07
Episode 72: Less Shouting; More Listening
Hello friends. Well it sure has been a few milliseconds since I popped out a sonic egg of truth into the mental incubator of the podcast ethersphere. This one was meant to be more of an encouragement and a note of hope after all of the strange ...
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Episode 72
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26:58
Episode 71: The Friendly Ghost Of The Coast
Friends; what a special episode indeed because as you hear this, I'll most likely be in the friendly Atlantic Canadian skies, drinking a morning beer on Porter Airlines, as I'm taking a little mental trip eastward to visit some friends in...
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Episode 71
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29:38
Episode 70: When You Think You've Rolled With It For Too Long, Just Keep On Rollin'
Hello Graventown residents. Sorry for the delay - I was fairly truculent with Tuesday uploads for a while and then some life stuff happened. You understand. At any rate, somehow we are here on the wild frontier of 70 episodes. Seventy. Sh*t. Yo...
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Episode 70
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34:30
Episode 69: Interview w/ Christina Martin and Dale Murray
Friends. Sometimes you get the egg whites, and sometimes you get the meaty yolks. Christina Martin is my sister from another mister who I've never even met - a and a multi award winning music maker and singer-songwriter from the east coast of C...
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Episode 69
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58:31
Episode 68: Interview w/ Byron Bertram
Friends - welcome back to the G-town get-down yet again. Musicians and comedians often feel like we are distant relatives; there's a correlation but we can't exactly put our finger on that common throughline. But also, with any performer, there...
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Episode 68
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29:48
Episode 67: Interview w/ Ron Hawkins
Friends, countryfolk and city scoundrels; hello. This was an extra special cake and ice cream episode of Graventown because I got to talk with someone I deeply respect and admire (and whom I have such a lovely conversational shorthand with)&nbs...
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Episode 67
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53:28
Episode 66: Golden Hour Power
Friends! Here's one I ripped off into the universe from the municipal roads of Nepean. Just some post thoughts and ponderings. I hope they find you well in the continuation of this glorious fall weather. I'm just getting to a place where I'm tr...
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Episode 66
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