Operation Encore: Soldiers, Stories, and Songs

About Operation Encore: Soldiers, Stories, and Songs

Listen to veteran and active-duty members of the armed forces highlight their original music and tell stories of their service, as they work to spread their message and their music, to new fans.Operation Encore is a non-profit veterans organization that provides opportunities for veteran and active duty singer-songwriters and musicians to take their music to the next level through artist development, professional recording, and industry-focused educational services. We seek out talent from across veteran communities to produce and highlight their original music, showcase their talents and advance their careers. Our podcast features powerful stories and original songs from our artists and artists across the veteran community.

Publisher

Operation Encore

Category

music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

31 Aug 2019

Latest episode

3 Apr 2026

Latest episodes

42 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   3 Apr 2026

   Episode #42: USAF Avionics Tech Abe Partridge

   In this episode of the Operation Encore podcast series Soldiers, Stories and Songs, Guy Jaquier and Adam Rossi get to visit with Abe Partridge. Abe is an amazing songwriter, story teller, visual artist, documentarian of serpent handling Appalachian gospel music, podcast host and just fun dude to talk to. His music sounds like John Prine and Meatloaf had a child who was raised by Paul Thorn. Abe is also USAF veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, current...

2. 

   4 Mar 2026

   Episode #41: Army Special Forces Engineer Brian LaRose

   In this episode of Soldiers, Stories & Songs, Guy Jaquier and Adam Rossi spend time with Brian LaRose, a former Army Special Forces Engineer, who served 6 years as a sniper and demolitions expert with the 5th Special Forces Group, with 2 tours to Lebanon and Turkey. Returning to his home outside of Boston, MA, Brian formed the band “High Pines”, playing locally and recording 2 albums with a blend of Americana and Irish folk tones that make you want to hang out with them in a pub and have...

3. 

   20 Nov 2025

   Episode #40: Airborne Veteran Chuck Briseno: “From West Point to West Hollywood”

   In this episode of Soldiers, Songs & Stories Guy Jaquier and Adam Rossi talk with Chuck Briseno about his journey from growing up in a small south Texas town, reared on a mix of Tejano, country and Red Dirt music, enlisting in the Army and later graduating from West Point. Chuck served from 2005-2018 in the 173rd Airborne with deployments to Afghanistan, fighting in the Konar and Korengal Valleys, made famous by the National Geographic documentary “Restreppo”. He separated from the ...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

22,575

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

11 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 38 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

14

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

77