Interviews and Features on Indie Blues Artists
Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Stone James of the Dead Show Dealers Stone James is no stranger to this show , unfortunately on this occasion we are speaking about the tragic events that robbed the world and friends and family of the Late Robert Wilson guitarist and band member of The […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Willie West Willie West is one of the original Soul and Blues men. He was born Millard Leon West on December 8, 1941 in Raceland, Louisiana, a stone’s throw from New Orleans. He started singing at 15 when he and his cousins formed a band they […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Johnny King Johnny King and Blues Legend Tony (TC) Coleman embarked on a musical endeavor to capture King’s catalog in its entirety. They discovered Skip Brown’s Final Tracks Studios in downtown Roanoke, Virginia, and started making musical history all over again! The Multi-Disk Project has grown […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Brad “Guitar” Wilson Cali Bee Music is excited to announce that Brad “Guitar” Wilson released his new album, Lovers Before Sunrise, on April 7, 2023. Produced by Quincy Jones’ engineer and Grammy-award winning producer Francis Buckley, with radio and publicity handled by the very successful and world renown […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Jennifer Lyn On the plains of North Dakota, USA nestled between the tall grass and the open prairie sky sits a recording studio. The sound of overdriven guitars with dueling lead harmonies and classic rock undertones rips through the air followed by vocals that reach you […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Jimmy Bratcher Bratcher’s passion for raw-but-exacting electric guitar sounds began in the ’60s when he fell under the spell of Eric Clapton, his first six-string hero. As a kid, Bratcher developed eclectic taste, culled from his large musical family, who would have sprawling jam sessions at […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Deb Callahan Philly’s blues and soul drenched singer and songwriter Deb Callahan recently celebrated the March 2023 release of her 6th studio album “Backbone”! The album consists of 12 songs including 10 original new tunes and recently charted #2 for the Roots Music Report Top 50 […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Billy Evanochko of Billy the Kid and the Regulators Billy the Kid and The Regulators are a high powered, guitar driven, rhythm and blues band based in Pittsburgh. Lead singer Billy Evanochko is widely-known across the Steel City for his impassioned lyrics, seductive vocals, and […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Dean Zucchero Hailing originally from the streets of East Village, New York City, Zucchero cut his teeth in the bustling, industry-driven Manhattan music scene where songwriting and studio recording chops have long since been revered and rewarded. Cultivating these traits in the city’s local dive-bar and […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Johnny Wheels Johnny Wheels is a singer / songwriter / harmonica player inspired by the soul of the Pacific Northwest. The “Swamp Donkeys” are Johnny’s band-mates who are inspired by Johnny to “live a song” on the edge. Johnny: “Nope! You won’t hear a song exactly the […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Jason Stutts of Rust Dust Some artists are deliberate in what they do, while others eagerly accept the mystery of it all. Jason Stutts, who goes by Rust Dust on record, belongs to the latter group, allowing songs to take shape in mere minutes or over […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Brings you Gerry Casey’s Interview with Gina Coleman of Misty Blue Gina is a graduate of Williams College. She began singing in 1990 on a dare by her co-workers and hasn’t turned back since. She began performing in a duet, The Siblings. Gina shortly started her own duet, Cole-Connection, which […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Scott Ellison In addition to solo records and playing with other artists, Ellison has also penned songs that have appeared in such hit TV shows as Sister Sister, Eye on L.A., and the soap opera Santa Barbara, as well as the soundtrack to the Ben Affleck […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Weezil Malone Guitarist and singer Weezil Malone is virtually a blues institution in the Grand Rapids area, having performed and recorded for years, (40 years in 2019). He now surrounds himself with a stellar bunch of players, aka “the Rockin’est little band around” –the Weezil Malone […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Ana Popovic Internationally renowned guitarist Ana Popovic has built her career on defining and describing, on her own terms, the essence of American music, simultaneously pushing limits, bending genres, and reinventing her music and herself with each new record. Not surprisingly, she can claim any number […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Brings you Gerry Casey’s Interview with Marcus Malone and Innes Silbun of Malone Sibun The UK based, Detroit soulful blues-rock star Marcus Malone teams up with explosive British blues rock guitarist Innes Sibun for a handful of warm up dates for a new band with familiar faces. The new band […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Tony Holiday There’s something about Tony Holiday that draws people together. In fact, community has been at the core of Holiday’s young career from the beginning. Since relocating from Salt Lake City to Memphis in 2017, Holiday has been at the center of a soul blues […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Rosco Wilson of Rosco Levee and the Southern Slide Back in February of this year I attended The Broadstairs Blues Blast festival whose reputation had preceded it . All the amazing things I had heard were all true and then some some , one of […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Big Harp George George Bisharat/Big Harp George is a San Francisco Bay Area blues singer, songwriter, and chromatic harmonica player. The chromatic, compared to the 10-hole diatonic more common to blues, has a distinctive voice, giving Big Harp George a jazzy and sophisticated sound. Big Harp […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Big Shoes Big Shoes Band is a Nashville-based Americana Roots SuperGroup comprised of Triple A Studio & Touring Pros with traditional influences including the legendary Little Feat, greats like B.B King, Ray Charles, The Allman Brothers’ Band and Bonnie Raitt into their fan-pleasing original compositions and tastefully-arranged covers in their critically acclaimed […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Ally Venable Texas blues-rock singer/songwriter and guitarist extraordinaire, Ally Venable, entertains wherever she goes. With her signature glitter dresses and black knee-high boots, Venable comes off of the ropes swinging dazzling crowds on tour or throughout the festival circuit. “Venable pulls off a stunner of gritty and/or […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Marcus Bonfanti At first glance, Marcus Bonfanti seems to embody the time-honored archetype of the British rock and roll wild man. Raggedly coifed, lazily dressed, blessed with an intense stare that could frighten away a rattlesnake. If he were a few decades older, you could […]
Making a Scene Presents an interview with Danny Liston What do record mogul Ahmet Ertegun, blues legend Gregg Allman, and Grammy award-winning producer Jim Gaines have in common? They all played a significant role in the music that is truly Danny Liston. Growing up in the St. Louis Irish working class neighborhood known as Dogtown, […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Skylar Rogers To be compared to icons of the music industry such as Tina Turner and Etta James is no mean feat when you have just dropped your debut album. Chicago native Skylar Rogers achieves that and so much more with her 2021 release ‘Firebreather’, and […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Gayle Harrod Gayle Harrod is living proof that it’s never to late. She began her public singing career in 2011 at the age of 42 with the Soul and Blues band Triple Shot. Since then she has performed with Classic Rock and Blues band Blues Deluxe and the […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Alastair Greene As Alastair Greene’s prolific and acclaimed career rounds the corner into a third decade, Greene arrives at a new, yet familiar destination. Following a 2018 live album that celebrated the 20th anniversary of his noteworthy Alastair Greene Band, the singer-songwriter/guitarist returns with an inspired […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene presents Gerry Casey’s interview with Eddie Angel Eddie Angel – captivating British guitar player, vocalist and songwriter. Charismatic personality, great showman and artist. Living in London. Having started his art expression with painting he moved on to guitar soon to be seen astounding people with his skills. Has since played […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with The Rhythm Krewe Rhythm Krewe had its beginnings in 1990, when guitarist/vocalist/songwriter, Steve Zelman assembled a group of nine musicians to play some of the great blues, soul, and R&B music that had inspired them as young musicians, and to develop new original music that paid tribute […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Nick Schnebelen Nick Schnebelen – Multiple Blues Music Award Winner From 2018 to 2022, Nick Schnebelen and his band have been touring North America as the opening act for George Thorogood and the Destroyers. Nick clearly has the blues-rock power to fill that slot with regular […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Jeff Pitchell An internationally acclaimed dynamic singer, songwriter and guitarist, Jeff achieved national recognition when his album Heavy Hitter (Pyramid Records/EMI) reached #7 on the Billboard Charts, outselling Delbert McClinton, Robert Cray, Etta James, Johnny Lee Hooker & Muddy Waters. Jeff has recorded with such greats as J Geils, […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Sister Lucille Hailing from Southwest Missouri and deeply inspired by the musical legacy of Memphis, Sister Lucille has turned the worlds of Blues, Roots and Soul on their collective head and created their own genre – Memphunk! The band’s musical genetics run wide and deep. From […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Paul Filipowicz If they’re still standing at what should have been the end of the set list, it’s a signal to Filipowicz to crank out another hard-driving tune on one of his worn Fender guitars. But there is a softer side to the 66-year-old Chicago native […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Mississippi MacDonald It’s modern, it’s not musical archaeology,” says London-based soul-blues stylist Mississippi MacDonald of his music. “It celebrates a fantastic tradition. It’s soul-blues, and you’ve got to put your best into it.” MacDonald knows that tradition. He’s been to Al Green’s church and heard him […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with John Primer John Primer has undisputedly helped build the sound and style of Chicago blues as we know it today. The echos of tradition bellowing from the birthplaces he played such as: Maxwell Street, Theresa’s, Checkerboard and Rosa’s Lounges, pulse from every chord in his […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Kurt Allen Kurt Allen Band is a high quality, high energy Funky Blues/Rock power trio. With strong roots in Blues, Funk, Soul, Jazz and Rock, Kurt Allen Band has been relentlessly touring the US for the last 8 years. Having already performed from coast to coast, […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with The Jorgensens Connections between partners, whether they be spiritual, romantic or creative can be the origin of true magic. The journey of Brianna and Kurt, and evolution of their creative collaboration, has yielded music that defines both of them through the vehicle of The Jorgensens. There […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Bad Bob Bates Bad Bob Bates is a veteran North East England musician and lives on the banks of the river Tyne in an old stone house to the west of Newcastle/Gateshead. When he’s not making music he’s building guitars (Bridge Street Guitars) and foot […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Douglas Avery Douglas Avery considers himself a lucky man, living his dream of being a musician. Born and raised in Los Angeles, California, Avery got an early start performing for the first time at age five as a member of his school‘s choir, singing pop and […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Teresa James Teresa James and the Rhythm Tramps are on quite a roll. Her persuasive pipes slathered in honey and soaked in Texas-bred sass, keyboardist Teresa James and her band, the Rhythm Tramps, have long reigned as one of Los Angeles’ leading contemporary blues outfits, even […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene presents an interview with Big B and the Actual Proof Walk down Nightmare Alley, take a left on Scarlet Street, duck through a side door to a nameless, smoke-filled taproom, and immerse yourself in the world of The Noir Album, the new record from Big B and The Actual Proof. Inspired by film’s seamiest genre, […]
Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Jewel Brown A young nightclub performer from Houston with a booming bluesy voice, Jewel Brown faced a once-in-a-lifetime career choice in 1961: whether to join Duke Ellington’s band or Louis Armstrong’s. “I said Louis Armstrong in a flash, ” Brown recalled this week in the French Quarter hotel […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Henri Herbert Boogie Till I Die, the new solo piano album from Henri Herbert, is an intoxicating ode to a truly original American art form. Always thinking and experimenting with the form, Henri is not content standing still. “I like trying to push it forward,” he […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Linda Carone LINDA CARONE IS A VINTAGE JAZZ AND BLUES VOCALIST: a niche song stylist and interpreter of popular music from the 1920’s and beyond. An early passion for jazz and blues developed upon first hearing the raw and emotive melancholy of Billie Holiday. This inspiration laid […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with DC Blues Band PAUL WINN | Vox/Blues Harp Manager and one of the original founders of the band. Paul is also a multi-award nominated Blues Radio Presenter as the host of “Blues From The Ouse” on Jorvik Radio and also “The Blues Hour” on Tempo FM & […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Brooks Young Brooks Young & His Band saturate their songs with rock and roll edge and blues feel, going for a direct, emotional and powerful sonic blend. Brooks’ searing guitar leads and soulful vocal performances lock in perfectly with the solid rhythm section, creating an inspirational […]
The Matt Swanton Band The Matt Swanton Band Independent Matt Swanton is a rock blues guitarist who has been playing since 9 years old. Matt has since gotten to share the stage with the likes of Albert Castiglia, Mike Zito, Jeremiah Johnson, Papa Chubby, and Ronnie Earl. This year Matt was nominated by the Boston Blues […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Eddie 9v All his life, Eddie 9V (9-volt) has acted on instinct. Aged just 15, this old-soul artist turned away from the path of college and jobs to burst all guns blazing onto the roots and blues club circuit of his native Atlanta, Georgia. Flash […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene presents an interview with Jamie Williams and the Roots Collective Jamie Williams and the Roots Collective are Jamie Williams on vocals & rhythm guitar; Dave ‘The Hat’ Milligan on lead guitar; Jake ‘The Dude’ Milligan on Bass & James Bacon on drums. They exist on an imaginary tightrope stretching between […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Mick Kolassa “Michissippi Mick” Kolassa lives in Memphis but was born in Michigan and lived in Mississippi for nearly 30 years, where he was given his nickname. He has played blues in solo and duo acoustic formats and with his bands for years. Mick has performed […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Chris Shutters Chris is a two-time BSBS National Blues Champion, songwriter and producer. He has performed and toured internationally on 9 world tours and has four albums. His is latest album is called ‘Chris Shutters Quarantine Sessions’. His late 2019 album is called ‘Good Gone Bad’ […]
