Sugar Maple

A new fiction podcast that traces the journey of a very special guitar, its multiple owners, and the music they make together.

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  • Bonus Episode: Sugar Maple Live

    In this special bonus episode, we share some live performances of Sugar Maple songs and some interviews that we conducted as part of the Osiris Live road show in May. We hope you enjoy. Please listen to the songs from this episode wherever you listen to music (Apple, Spotify). And check out the limited edition…

  • Episode 8: Terrance Woodridge

    In the season finale, the threads collide as Terrance finds himself drawn forward in time—along with every other Sugar Maple owner—to play a concert balanced on a tipping point of destruction or creation. Backstage at a music festival unlike any other, Terrance alone has a chance to prevent or fulfill Thread Tree’s grand designs ……

  • Episode 7: Fiona Blitzkrieg

    It’s 1992, and a frantic Terrance tries desperately to get through to Sugar Maple’s current owner: London’s own Fiona Blitzkrieg, a former heavy metal darling, now a struggling addict in recovery, facing what looks like her last chance with her career, her exasperated bandmates, and her life. Terrance knows what Thread Tree wants Fiona to…

  • Episode 6: Quentin Gladstone

    We pick up the story with Terrance chasing new leads, while he plays back the tale of a previously unknown Sugar Maple owner, Quentin Gladstone—an unhoused young man who found community and purpose with a welcoming church and its charismatic minister, Solomon Randolph. But when Randolph puts the untrained Quentin in charge of the gospel…

  • Episode 5: Belinda Rose

    As Terrance drives to Atlanta to follow a new lead, he recounts the story of Belinda Rose, a Nashville country singer who delivered a single 70s hit, written on Sugar Maple, which her duplicitous boyfriend won in a poker game. Why did Belinda Rose leave the country just as her star was rising? Why do…

  • Behind the Scenes || Director James Masciovecchio

    We’re bringing you a special conversation this week, a behind-the-scenes look at the making of Sugar Maple with the show’s Director, James Masciovecchio. Enjoy, and we’ll be back with another episode soon. CONTEST ALERT! Look for Fiddlehead cans with #SugarMaple on the bottom – post a photo of you and the bottom of your can…

  • Episode 4: Stella “Doc” Osprey

    It’s 1992, and our narrator Terrance Woodridge meets Sugar Maple’s most enigmatic owner, and is pulled at last into Sugar Maple’s story. The New Orleans heroin dealer Stella “Doc” Osprey, who vanished in the 70s—after crafting a song that reverberated across the jazz scene and throughout the ages—explains her disappearance, and delivers an amazing vision…

  • Episode 3: Ornate Williams

    Episode 3 takes place in 1965. Trailblazing disco legend Ornate Williams recounts the early days of her career as a fiery and rising Motown hopeful. After she discovers Sugar Maple in a grisly scene, the song she plays on it catapults her to the top of the charts. But her new fame threatens to expose…

  • Episode 3: Ornate Williams

    Episode 3 takes place in 1965. Trailblazing disco legend Ornate Williams recounts the early days of her career as a fiery and rising Motown hopeful. After she discovers Sugar Maple in a grisly scene, the song she plays on it catapults her to the top of the charts. But her new fame threatens to expose…

  • Episode 3: Ornate Williams

    Episode 3 takes place in 1965. Trailblazing disco legend Ornate Williams recounts the early days of her career as a fiery and rising Motown hopeful. After she discovers Sugar Maple in a grisly scene, the song she plays on it catapults her to the top of the charts. But her new fame threatens to expose…

  • Episode 2: Louis “Hambone” Butler

    It’s 1958, and we meet Louis “Hambone” Butler, a Memphis railway porter who looks in a boxcar and discovers an abandoned Telecaster customized with unique wood. The skill Louis shows when playing Sugar Maple may give him his big break, if he can avoid the schemes of a rival who wants it for himself, and…

  • Episode 1: “Sweet Licks” Bobby Lindro

    In the series premiere, we meet our narrator, Terrance Woodridge, who brings us a tale he’s chased down: the story of Sugar Maple, the guitar of legend with a timeless sound that’s passed from hand to hand over the years.In this episode, we go back to 1951 and hear the story of “Sweet Licks” Bobby…

  • Introducing Sugar Maple

    Welcome to Sugar Maple, an eight-episode dramatic fiction podcast that features an original soundtrack. Fred Savage stars as Terrance Woodridge, a diligent documentarian obsessed with finding an amazing guitar of legend—before it finds him. This podcast centers on a Fender Telecaster, rebuilt using a scrap of mysterious wood and dubbed Sugar Maple, which passes by…

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