HOME PAGE Making a Scene Talks with Billy Price! 2016 Blues Music Award Winner Billy Price first attracted national attention during his three-year association with guitarist Roy Buchanan. Price is the vocalist on two of Buchanan’s LPs, That’s What I’m Here For and Live Stock. Since then, with the Keystone Rhythm Band, the Billy Price […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Indie Blues Double Shot Show! This is the Voice of Indie Blues, the future of the blues. An Indie Blues double shot of artists who embrace the diversity of the blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These […]
HOMEPAGE Making a Scene Talks with Jeff Taylor of The Altered Five Blues Band! Altered Five Blues Band makes music with a swaggering stomp of bruising, barrelhouse grit. According to Downbeat magazine, frontman Jeff Taylor “sings powerfully” and “Jeff Schroedl’s live-wire guitar reaches the high bar of mixed invention and fluidity.” Blues Bytes magazine declares […]
HOME PAGE Making A Scene Talks with Jim Bowers of Jimbo Pap! Jimbo Pap’s members don’t wear rhinestoned Nudie suits like the Flying Burrito Brothers did, or like so many of their current peers continue to — in fact, they declare that right away, in the first verse of their debut LP’s first track— but […]
There are a few essential purchases you can make for your recording studio setup that will impact your sound. One of those is your choosing the right preamps! Today we are going to look at the Warm Audio WA-412 their 4 channel preamp inspired by the API 3124 . Automated Processes Incorporated or API was […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Eliza Neals! This is the Voice of Indie Blues, the future of the blues. Artists who embrace the diversity of the blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These artists understand the blues is a living art […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Vince Agwada! This is the Voice of Indie Blues, the future of the blues. Artists who embrace the diversity of the blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These artists understand the blues is a living art […]
MUSIC ON THE COUCH SHOW #482 – 09/09/19 LISTEN HERE: https://tobtr.com/11487375 AL BASILE – COUCH KID NEW MUSIC Al returns to The Couch with his new album B’s Hot House, a new collection of 14 originals from this master storyteller. Be nice to catch up with Al and share this new music three weeks before […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Eliza Neals! Eliza Neals is a prolific songwriter, confident producer, arranger, bandleader, pianist, and one-of-a-kind live performer. Eliza sings with unearthly passion and velvety grit, effortlessly pushing air to new heights. Her operatically trained voice has been called both sexy and menacing. None of this is surprising, […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Vince Agwada! Vince Agwada, ace guitarist, composer, producer, and recording artist got his start in music at the world-renown Blues havens Theresa’s and Buddy Guy’s Checkerboard Lounge, where he cut his teeth observing and backing journeymen players such as Buddy Guy, Magic Slim, Otis Rush, John […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with The Tokyo Tramps! Hailing from the Land of Rising Sun (Japan), TOKYO TRAMPS is a group of American roots music fanatics. The musical journey started when Satoru left Japan to go to Louisiana searching for the spirit of Rock’n’Roll. Soon he found the key, Blues. Yukiko […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Susan Gibson One of the reasons Susan Gibson always keeps a banjo close at hand, be it in the studio or at every show she plays, is because she likes the “lift” it brings to counterbalance a particularly heavy lyric: “Almost like it’s got a smile […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Indie Blues Double Shot Show! This is the Voice of Indie Blues, the future of the blues. An Indie Blues double shot of artists who embrace the diversity of the blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These […]
The Results are in for the Making a Scene 2019 Independent Blues Awards! We at Making A Scene are excited because this year we had a fantastic diverse selection of nominees. Now, of course we have to do things a little different than any of the other “Awards” out there. We want to celebrate not […]
HOMEPAGE Making A Scene presents an interview with Helene Cronin! Helene Cronin is a Texas artist whose writing style combines elements of Americana and Country. Perhaps best described simply as an acoustic storyteller, she’s often compared to Lori McKenna, Nanci Griffith or Mary Chapin Carpenter, but her sound is uniquely her own. One reviewer called […]
Making A Scene Talks with The Jersey Swamp Cats! The Jersey Swamp Cats are a piano and guitar driven band entertaining crowds in North Jersey and beyond with their own brand of jump blues and vintage rock ’n’ roll. The Cats perform creative renditions of classics by favorites like Louis Prima, T-Bone Walker, Fats Domino, […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with a Pro Michael Frank President of Earwig Music Company! Earwig Music Company, Inc. was founded in October 1978 in Chicago by Michael Frank as a record label and artist management company. The label grew out of Michael’s love of the blues and his desire to help blues musicians […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Mark Cameron! This is the Voice of Indie Blues, the future of the blues. Artists who embrace the diversity of the blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These artists understand the blues is a living art […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring JP Soars This is the Voice of Indie Blues, the future of the blues. Artists who embrace the diversity of the blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These artists understand the blues is a living art […]
We recently reported on the closing of Streamlicensing.com Now ASCAP Responds to allegations made by the former owners of Streamlicensing! Recently, ASCAP learned that the StreamLicensing.com service has shut down. We are writing to inform all StreamLicensing Broadcast affiliates that the owners and operators of the StreamLicensing service have not been transparent with its customers, […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Mark Cameron! Minnesota based singer, songwriter and guitarist Mark Cameron has been active in live music for over thirty years. Mark began his performing career in the rich folk-rock scene of the early 1970’s and brought this influence into several bands he founded during the 1980’s and […]
Home Page Making A Scene Presents an Interview with JP Soars! J.P. Soars is soaring high, nominated for “Blues Rock Artist of the Year” in the 40th annual Blues Music Awards in 2019. Soars is nominated alongside blues music heavyweights Billy Gibbons, Eric Gales, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and Tinsley Ellis, rounding out the Blues Rock category. Soars […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Scotty Dennis! Scotty Dennis is a Blues artist from Kansas City, Missouri. He comes from a talented musical family with a deep back ground in Gospel music. He has been addicted to the Blues since he was 4 years old, when his uncle would sneak him […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Isaiah Evans of “The 40 Acre Mule” “It used to be called boogie-woogie. It used to be called rhythm & blues. Now, they call it rock & roll” Chuck Berry’s words are at the very heart of Roots Rock & Roll 5-piece, THE 40 ACRE MULE! The […]
Introduction Before we get started let me explain some of the fundamental types of engineers in a recording studio. The first “type” of engineer you will encounter in a recording session is the “Tracking” engineer. This the guy who chooses and places the microphones in the studio. He chooses the preamps and sets the levels […]
MUSIC ON THE COUCH SHOW #480 – 08/12/19 LISTEN HERE: https://tobtr.com/11453011 TOM EULER Tom makes his Monday Couch debut to talk about his journey as a musician and the new album, Blues Got My Back. Another musician long overdue for The Couch, and we had a great time talking WEB SITE FACEBOOK PAGE ZAC HARMON […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Zac Harmon! This is the Voice of Indie Blues, the future of the blues. Artists who embrace the diversity of the blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These artists understand the blues is a living art […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Ray Fuller! This is the Voice of Indie Blues, the future of the blues. Artists who embrace the diversity of the blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These artists understand the blues is a living art […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Zac Harmon! Zac Harmon is an award-winning guitarist, singer, and songwriter whose distinctive style continues the lineage of American Blues music. America’s classical music. Blues Revue called Harmon “a masterful musician and performer of the blues.” Blues journalist Don Wilcock referred to his “Bobby Blue Bland uptown […]
HOME PAGE Making A Scene Presents an Interview with Ray Fuller! RAY FULLER from New Albany Ohio, was given his first guitar at the age of 8, a Gibson Melody Maker. At an early age, Fuller was inspired by the British Invasion; Rolling Stones, Yardbirds and the Animals bands. Fuller’s first Blues album he ever heard […]
HOMEPAGE Making A Scene Presents an Interview with Ben Davis Jr.! At the crossroads of the cosmic stylings of The Grateful Dead and the vulnerable sonic truths of Todd Snider lies Ben Davis Jr. and the Revelry: a genre-defying psychedelic fivesome brewed in the creative pressure cooker of Appalachian Ohio. Before Ben Davis Jr. and […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Indie Blues Double Shot Show! This is the Voice of Indie Blues, the future of the blues. An Indie Blues double shot of artists who embrace the diversity of the blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These […]
Making a Scene Presents a review of the Warm Audio WA 47 Microphone For anyone who has or is considering building a home studio, your microphone collection is one of the most critical investments you can make. Many of the classic microphones we would love to have are more often than not priced way out […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Charlie Wooton! This is the Voice of Indie Blues, the future of the blues. Artists who embrace the diversity of the blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These artists understand the blues is a living art […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Gracie Curran! This is the Voice of Indie Blues, the future of the blues. Artists who embrace the diversity of the blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These artists understand the blues is a living art […]
HOME PAGE Making A Scene Presents an Interview with Charlie Wooton! Charlie Wooton was born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana, with his four older brothers, who were all exceptional musicians, including Dr. John Wooton, head of percussion at USM. As a teen, music was Charlie’s life; studying Classical and Jazz during the day, then playing […]
HOME PAGE Making A Scene Presents an Interview with Gracie Curran! In the five years since the release of her critically acclaimed debut album “Proof of Love”, the singer has been packing venues across the country and around the world, wowing audiences with her stunning voice and soul shaking delivery. A Blues Music Award Nominee, Boston […]
HOME PAGE Making A Scene Presents an Interview with “The Nickel Slots” The Nickel Slots take you on a journey through hard times and desperation that always carries hope that better things are just around the corner. With influence from early roots Americana music as well as a touch of rebellious ’70s punk, The Nickel […]
HOME PAGE Making A Scene Presents an Interview with a Pro Sallie Bengston Nola Blue Records! I first met Sallie over 5 years ago in Memphis and from the beginning I was struck by her wit and intelligence. Since that first meeting, fueled by her love of Benny Turner’s music, she has taken to the […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Indie Blues Double Shot Show! This is the Voice of Indie Blues, the future of the blues. An Indie Blues double shot of artists who embrace the diversity of the blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Nancy Wright! This is the Voice of Indie Blues, the future of the blues. Artists who embrace the diversity of the blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These artists understand the blues is a living art […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Kerry Kearney! This is the Voice of Indie Blues, the future of the blues. Artists who embrace the diversity of the blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These artists understand the blues is a living art […]
MUSIC ON THE COUCH SHOW #479 – 08/05/19 LISTEN HERE: https://tobtr.com/11444695 ANNIKA CHAMBERS – COUCH KID NEW MUSIC Annika returned to talk about her new album, Kiss My Sass. Since she was last here, Annika’s entire world has changed…for the better and she and I touched on the incredible highlights of her rising career. WEB […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Nancy Wright! Nancy Wright is one of the most highly respected and in-demand sax players on today’s blues, Americana and R&B scene. Major music writers have hailed her big-toned tenor and compared her to the all-time greats. Though she’s called the Bay Area home for 30 years, […]
HOME PAGE Making A Scene Presents an interview with Chris Carroll For most kids, a broken radio in the family van might get in the way of singalongs. But Chris Carroll’s dad loved John Prine, and she’d fill the dead air with “Sam Stone,” entertaining a pair of younger brothers. Carroll was born in Toronto, […]
HOME PAGE Making A Scene Presents an Interview with Kerry Kearney! Kerry Kearney (pronounced “Car-Nee”), a slide guitar master, plays and works his instrument to limits that amaze even the most seasoned musician or cultured music fan. The sounds Kerry creates from his vintage, stock and custom made guitars are as unique as his song writing […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with a Pro Songwriter, Drummer, Producer, Engineer Twist Turner! During the course of his 55 year musical career Songwriter, Producer, Drummer Twist Turner has worked with over 40 Grammy winners and or nominees and countless W.C.Handy/BMA winners. Twist was raised in Seattle and began his musical career […]
MUSIC ON THE COUCH SHOW #478 – 07/29/19 LISTEN HERE: https://tobtr.com/11441059 HEATHER NEWMAN- COUCH KID NEW MUSIC Heather returned to talk about all that is going on in her world and we also discussed the new album, Rise From The Flames, while listening to the tunes. WEB SITE FACEBOOK PAGE DIANA REIN Diana has a new album, […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Indie Blues Double Shot Show! This is the Voice of Indie Blues, the future of the blues. An Indie Blues double shot of artists who embrace the diversity of the blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring AG Weinberger! This is the Voice of Indie Blues, the future of the blues. Artists who embrace the diversity of the blues that always has and still is being created from it’s roots. These artists understand the blues is a living art […]
