I’m hanging out with musician, producer, and drum tech extraordinaire Ashwin Deepankar.

Ashwin and I met about 7 years ago when we worked together at Chicago Music Exchange. In 2015, Ashwin left CME to go on tour with the band Wilco as their drummer Glenn Kotche’s tech.

Ashwin is a sonically creative person with a generous heart and he shares stories that I think perfectly showcase how those qualities make him excel in is career. Life on the road is always an adventure and he shares what it was like being on tour when the world shut down last year.  16 months was a long time to be off the road and he shares how he created a space for creativity in his home and how he needed .