# Ben Garnett: Crafting Acoustic Beauty on Kite's Keep Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-musicians-with-leah-roseman-4108951/ben-garnett-crafting-acoustic-beauty-on-kite-s-keep Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-musicians-with-leah-roseman-4108951/ben-garnett-crafting-acoustic-beauty-on-kite-s-keep.md Podcast: [Conversations with Musicians, with Leah Roseman](https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-musicians-with-leah-roseman-4108951) Published: 2025-11-29T05:00:11+00:00 Episode link: https://rss.com/podcasts/conversations-with-musicians-with-leah-roseman/2341936 Audio file: https://content.rss.com/episodes/323337/2341936/conversations-with-musicians-with-leah-roseman/2025_11_22_19_08_36_79a8868b-e388-424b-a14a-f6c2dfcccd2b.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/conversations-with-musicians-with-leah-roseman-4108951/episodes/ben-garnett-crafting-acoustic-beauty-on-kite-s-keep Duration seconds: 4039 ## Resource Guitarist Ben Garnett has released a beautiful new album, Kite’s Keep , and this episode features clips and insights from the project. The record includes collaborations with acoustic music greats familiar to listeners of this podcast, including Darol Anger and Brittany Haas . Ben’s mentor, Chris Eldridge of the Punch Brothers, also appears, and Ben discusses the wisdom he’s gained from other influential musicians in his life, among them his cousin, acclaimed rock guitarist Andy Timmons , the brilliant Julian Lage , and bandleader Missy Raines . He also talks about how playing tuba was helpful, and how he immersed himself in a range of musical styles—studying jazz in university before finding his way into Nashville’s acoustic bluegrass scene. Like all my episodes, you can watch this on my YouTube channel or listen to the podcast on many podcast platforms, and I’ve also linked the transcript. It’s a joy to bring these inspiring episodes to you every week, and I do all the many jobs of research, production and publicity. Have a look at the show notes of this episode, where you’ll find all the links, including different ways to support this podcast! In the show notes I"ve also linked other episodes which I think may interest you: with Darol Anger, Brittany Haas, Marc van Vugt, Tal Yahalom and Alisa Rose Complete Show Notes with ALL LINKS! (00:00) Intro (01:57) Kite’s Keep album, Brittany Haas, Darol Anger, clip Look Again (06:59) Darol Anger, clip Tell Me About You (10:07) album cover, photo by Emilio Mesa (11:35) tuba, music education (13:43) Andy Timmons (19:11) Julian Lage (24:25) Chris Eldridge, producing 1st album Imitation Fields, clip of Post Office Prodigies (29:09) Julian Lage, Chris “Critter” Eldridge (34:20) other linked episodes and ways to support this projec… ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/conversations-with-musicians-with-leah-roseman-4108951/episodes/ben-garnett-crafting-acoustic-beauty-on-kite-s-keep/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/conversations-with-musicians-with-leah-roseman-4108951/ben-garnett-crafting-acoustic-beauty-on-kite-s-keep.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.