RockOm

This week's audio podcast episode features interviews with "industrial re-percussionist" and performer Billy Jonas (about his song "God Is In") as well as Mickey Hart (of Grateful Dead fame, Planet Drum and more). Topics include seeing God in everything, connecting to the divine through participation, the healing power of music, modern Shamanism and much more. CLICK HERE to visit our Podcast page to download this and other episodes of the RockOm Podcast. Grab it for your drive home to or from work or school tomorrow!

Music is what the good doctor has ordered this week at RockOm, healing us with rhythm and with laughter.

To begin, check out our all new interview with Grateful Dead drummer, world music practitioner and music therapy expert Mickey Hart titled "If There is a Creator, It's a Rhythm". Read Mickey's thoughts on his "shamanistic" role as a drummer and about music's ability to connect us with the infinite, vibratory universe.

Then head over to the right column of the homepage to check out Billy Jonas' amusing and lighthearted song, "God Is In," about finding the divine in everything. Make sure you listen to the whole song to get the depth of what he's trying to say and then head over to his website to find out more and to pick up a copy of one of his albums.

by Billy Jonas

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Billy Jonas is a singer-songwriter, guitarist and an "industrial re-percussionist" whose primary instrument is the audience. A Billy Jonas performance is an explosion of energy. In singalongs, bangalongs, whisperalongs, as well as improvised songs, his primary instrument is the audience. Everyone becomes part of a performance that reaches out and (as the Fayetteville Morning News puts it) "...touches even the most hardened of hearts."

"God Is In"

"This has been a very powerful song. No matter where I play it, there is always a strong response. I remember when I was writing it, I didn't have a sense that it was a great song. Overtime it has revealed to me that it's way bigger than me. A wonderful example of music coming through me, as opposed to from me. And to think it all started with the microwave..." (Billy Jonas)

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