“The Ballad Of Uncle Drank” Podcast: Santa’s Hammered

It’s natural that music and podcasting would make a great pair. They’re both audio formats that disdain the presumable superiority of video.

A popular audio fiction podcast by Audio Up has only deepened that amorous relationship.

It’s called The Ballad of Uncle Drank, which is an eight-episode comedy event starring veteran actors Will Sasso and Luke Wilson, Brian Kelley, Chelcie Lynn, Jared Gutstadt, Billy Zane, and Scarlett Burke, among others.

The eight-part series gives a new comedic take on the music industry throughout the 1970s, 80s and 90s. Artists and fans alike tell the somewhat true-life adventures of long-forgotten fictional country superstar, Uncle Drank — a lovable, drunken and free-spirited beach musician who traveled the world with his best friend BLENDY, a talking blender, and then mysteriously disappeared in 1992.

When the podcast released in early September, Audio Up also unveiled an original soundtrack alongside the podcast, a single, “Biggest Dock on the Lake” featuring Uncle Kracker.

Audio Up billed the podcast as, “One-part Kenny Chesney and one-part Kenny Powers, Uncle Drank’s music and story will take listeners on an adventure through an era that time has forgotten. Before Jimmy Buffet ate a cheeseburger in paradise, and before…