![]() ![]() One of those friends, Weston Scott, said the venture showed off Lambert’s goofy side. Lambert invited his friends on as guests to discuss the various episodes. “It’s about a guy who gets tomorrow’s newspaper delivered today, so he can tell the crimes and all the bad things that are going to happen and try to stop them,” Lambert explains. His first was a silly conversational series that focused on the ’90s cult classic TV show, Early Edition. At that point, Lambert had already started to dabble in podcasting. In 2014, Lambert took a job at a recording studio in Lompoc, one that he’d hold onto until 2018. “It was short-sighted in terms of stability and a career, but in terms of creativity, that’s the only part that mattered,” he says. He was already busy working on the next one. When he released an album, he wouldn’t try to promote it. Lambert says he never put much thought into turning his prolific musical output into a stable career. “Can I do an electronic album, a rock album, a folk album? It was like challenging myself, can I do something different than I’ve done before?” “The challenge became can I get an album out by the end of the year, like a brand-new album?” Lambert says. Between 20, Lambert says he made a new album of music every year. While he never transferred to finish his bachelor’s degree, Lambert’s burning desire to record and create remained as strong as ever. “We won battle of the bands,” he says with a smile.Īfter high school, Lambert enrolled in only music and recording classes at Allan Hancock College. Recording music in his bedroom after school was “the only thing I did.” By the time he graduated Righetti in 2006, Lambert joined a local band, A Silent Explosion, which earned some local popularity. Let’s see what we can do.”Ĭome high school, Lambert was “notoriously shy,” he says. “We were a low- to middle-class family-we weren’t privileged-but it was just full force what he’s interested in. “We kept stepping it up every year,” Lambert says. ![]() ![]() When Lambert wore out his four-track recorder, he got an eight-track recorder, and so on. Lambert’s mom, a library clerk, nurtured his passion for music, buying him more advanced pieces of recording equipment on each of his birthdays. And they very much encouraged me to continue that.” “It became this routine of every time Chris comes over, he’s going to have new music to show us. “I’d challenge myself to try to do two or three brand new songs before I went to my mom’s, and play them for her and see what she thought about them,” Lambert says. When it came time to go to his mom’s house, Lambert excitedly brought the tapes with him. “I would definitely say that through high school, my only real hobby was recording music in my bedroom,” Lambert says, his voice on the café patio drawing glances from nearby patrons.Īfter his parents divorced, Lambert spent most of his spare time at his dad’s house writing new songs on his guitar and recording them onto cassette tapes. Lambert first developed an “obsession” with recording music in the eighth grade. I didn’t think I was going to end up in the top echelon of what was charting,” Lambert says. “I didn’t even think about this kind of stuff. A lifetime of practice recording music, and later podcasts, at home is a big part of the answer. 1 charting podcast-helping crack a 25-year-old murder case in the process-is a question Lambert himself still sometimes asks. How a musician from Orcutt who was voted “most bashful” in high school stumbled into creating a No. ![]() Until they recover her remains, it doesn’t feel done.” It’s like, no, this is a story, a full story, that I don’t want to break up. “I see each episode as like an album, and to break that up with a mattress ad, is, like, sacred to me. “I’m not interested in selling,” Lambert says matter-of-factly. It’s just a story he felt compelled to tell in pursuit of justice, resolution, and his own creative fulfillment. More than two years later, two men are going to trial for Smart’s alleged murder, Your Own Backyard has a global following, and the Ernest Righetti High School grad is turning down lucrative offers from major entities like CBS, Netflix, and HBO.īut Lambert’s series on Smart is not for sale. 30, 2019, he had no idea what would come next. When Lambert self-released Your Own Backyard on Sept. 1 PODCAST : Chris Lambert’s local podcast, ‘Your Own Backyard,’ rose to the top of the iTunes charts in April following the arrests of Kristin Smart’s murder suspects, Paul and Ruben Flores. ![]()
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