What Could Be Bad – Episode 310:Give Yourself to the Music with Scott Rednor

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June 26, 2026
11:06 pm

Benj sits down live at the Shakedown Bar in Vail with musician and venue owner Scott Rednor, whose lifelong relationship with music began on the Suzuki violin and wound through clarinet, cello, and guitar before a seventh-grade dance gig hooked him for good. Scott opens up about the gut-punch moment his band Dear Liza imploded mid-tour — the van’s engine and the group blowing up in the same instant — and how that collapse sent him into a period of carpentry, creative drought, and crying in a closet before vulnerability finally cracked open a flood of his best songwriting. His path back to music led him to the Vail Valley, where he took a cover-gig he didn’t want as a stepping stone, built a loyal following at the Red Lion, and eventually created the Shakedown Bar — a community anchor now collecting a decade of memories for a coffee table book. The conversation goes deep on the mental health challenges unique to seasonal mountain towns, the dangers of screens for kids, and what it really means to give yourself to the music and trust it will give back.

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