Dionne Bennett Sugar Hip Ya Ya Hunnia Prepare for blast-off. This one comes as an explosive surprise. British Jamaican singer-songwriter, producer, and radio personality Dionne Bennett, who has forged most of her career in Europe, means business. We can thank Little G Weevil for bringing Bennett to our attention as the album was recorded in […]
Various Artists Highway Butterfly – The Songs of Neal Casal (3 CDs, 5 LPs) Royal Potato Family Neal Casal never got his due as a complete artist and certainly as a songwriter until now. Spread across 5 LPs and 3 CDs from a stunning list of artists are 41 of the late Casal’s songs in […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Joe Veloz of Joseph and the Velozians Throughout my career as a musician, I have strived to accomplish a high level of skill as a bassist by creating and developing deep organic grooves along with strong song and melodic sensitivity. As a GHS […]
MUSIC ON THE COUCH SHOW #587 – 11/08/2021 LISTEN HERE: https://tobtr.com/12019716 SUE FOLEY Sue Foley made her first visit to The Couch to discuss her musical journey and the new album, Pinky’s Blues. We touched on her history of road travel, the road ahead and the signature guitar “Pinky” WEB SITE FACEBOOK PAGE […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Chris “BadNews” Barnes Chris BADNEWS Barnes and Grammy Award-winning producer, Tom Hambridge, have teamed up for Barnes’ first ever original blues album, BADNEWS RISING. This is Barnes’ third release with Vizztone Records. All ten original offerings written by Barnes & Hambridge were recorded at Nashville’s Sound […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey show #115 with his Guest Krissy Matthews Flickertail Heroes Dangereens Love Jive Neil Young &Crazy Horse Heading West JesseyJackson Going Home The Band Of Heathens/Ray Wylie Hubbard Papa Was A Rolling Stone Jack J. Hutchinson Straight To Hell Kris Barras My Parade Cyndi Boste Night […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Krissy Matthews It was 1995, Krissy was 3 years old and his father invited him on stage to play along to Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison. This is when the story started for British Norwegian Krissy Matthews. Now at 28 years old, he has gained a reputation […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Luca Kiella! Luca Kiella Chiellini left all he ever knew when he was 26 years old. With nothing but his suitcase, his keyboard, and the big dream of making his mark in the music industry in the United States. All the way from his home in […]
Dave Specter Six String Soul – 30 Years on Delmark Delmark Guitarist Dave Specter lives up to the enticing album title Six String Soul, with his career-to-date selection of 28 remastered tracks spanning his three decades with Chicago’s Delmark records. It’s so tempting to engage in the kind of wordplay found in the liner notes […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Diane Durrett Singer, songwriter, producer Diane Durrett is a board member of the Recording Academy Atlanta Chapter, best known for the GRAMMYs. In 2020, during the pandemic with no LIVE shows Diane shifted adding video editing to her technical skills. She produced three music videos for […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it Up with Gerry Casey and his Guests The Wayward Saints Wayward Saints Band Pay No Mind Ritchie Dave Porter &Debra Susan No Chains To Bind You Eric Johanson Hammer On The Stone Julian Sas Howling Wind DaveSteffen Band Drive My Car Dire Straits Money For Nothing Ghosts Of Sunset […]
Jeremy Monteiro & Alberto Marsico Jazz-Blues Brothers Jazz Note Back in April of this year, we brought you the elite trio of pianist Jeremy Monteiro aka Singapore’s King of Swing, bassist Jay Anderson, and drummer Lewis Nash Live at No Black Tie. That session introduced this writer and you readers to the swinging, bluesy piano […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Neil Taylor From The Porkroll Project The band has a collective experience that runs deep and wide, having played together in various other projects for over ten years. They are well seasoned veterans of events such as the Philadelphia Jam on the River, the Annual Chameleon […]
MUSIC ON THE COUCH SHOW #585 – 10/25/2021 LISTEN HERE: https://tobtr.com/12006556 BRIGITTE PURDY – COUCH KID NEWS Brigitte stopped by to talk about and share her new single, “Stylin’” WEB SITE FACEBOOK PAGE COLIN LINDEN – COUCH KID NEW MUSIC Colin returned to discuss the music on his new album, bLOW and his world the […]
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 Mark Joseph Mark Joseph’s 2021 third full-length album, Vegas Motel, is a highly personal record rooted in the emotion of the year it was written (2020), yet reaching far beyond the confines of the times. Vegas Motel delicately emotes Joseph’s real-life experiences and relationships dating back […]
Sue Foley Pinky’s Blues Stony Plain Canadian-born and longtime Austin TX resident Sue Foley is back with Pinky’s Blues, the follow-up to her acclaimed 2018 The Ice Queen. The title references her signature pink paisley Fender telecaster, “Pinky.” Foley is at the peak of her still growing career as she won “Best Traditional Female (Koko […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview 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 the […]
Ben Levin Still Here VizzTone Still Here is the third release for the youthful pianist/songwriter/vocalist Ben Levin, who has already matured well beyond his years. When we last visited him on his 2020 release Carryout or Delivery on these pages, Levin was still in college, having just reached drinking age. And, as we said then, […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey and his Guest Johnny Gallagher The Bad Day Blues Band Hurricane Wildstreet Mrs Sleazy Kenny Wayne Sheppard Woman Like You Eric Johanson Love Is A Rebellion Carl Sentence California Queen Gus G Quantum Leap Nita Strauss Our Most Desperate Hour Jessie Lee &The Alchemists Let […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Johnny Gallagher “What can you say about this man that hasn’t already been said. A force of nature, a rock n’ roll dynamo, a larger than life stage presence. All of them are true and yet they don’t adequately describe the awesome talent that Johnny […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Rusty Ends Rusty Ends is the real deal, a true link between the rock and blues of the 50’s and 60’s and the 21st century. Rusty learned his craft as a teenager playing in the bars and taverns up and down Dixie Highway between Louisville and […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Tony Holiday Not only does he enjoy the cozy informality of making music on them, he’s done some outstanding recording on those porches too. Studios simply aren’t a necessity for the blues harmonica wailer when he’s ready to lay some sounds down for posterity. He just […]
Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Kid Ramos! Having reached a milestone birthday on October 17, 2020, which also happened to be the day the album was recorded, Johnny Tucker released his new opus, 75 and Alive, in partnership with Blue Heart Records. Bob Auerbach selected Kid Ramos to produce this collection of […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Teresa James of Teresa James and the Rhythm Tramps 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 though their uncommonly imaginative […]
Zac Harmon As Long As I Got My Guitar Catfood Long As I Got My Guitar is the latest from Texas-based blues singer/guitarist Zac Harmon who returns to Bob Trenchard’s Catfood label and again taps producer Jim Gaines, recording at Trenchard’s base studio, the Sonic Ranch, near El Paso. Although Harmon is based in Texas, […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #110 and His Guest Brian Mullen of The Cold Stares Boogie Beasts I Don’t Care 20 Watt Tombstone Midnight Train To Memphis Dirty Streets Good Pils Loz Campbell The World Was Made To Destroy You The Amorettes Let The Neighbours Call The Cops Dom […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Brian Mullen of The Cold Stares Authenticity. A word that is frequently used in describing The Cold Stares, and frequently missing from modern music discussions. “We’re not just a blues band, or just a rock band, or anything other than who we are”, front man […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Hector Anchondo For Héctor Anchondo, the third time really became the charmed one. Anchondo entered the 2020 International Blues Challenge in the solo/duo category and came away with the top prize: winning the solo/duo category. He also took home the Memphis Cigar Box Guitar Award […]
MUSIC ON THE COUCH SHOW #583 – 09/27/2021 LISTEN HERE: https://tobtr.com/11996821 ROBERT BILLARD & THE COLD CALLS From Halifax we will meet Robert and talk about his incredible musical journey and the new music on Stop. WEB SITE FACEBOOK PAGE MICK KOLASSA – COUCH KID NEW MUSIC Segment Begins At The 46:12 Mark Mick […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Elly Wininger Elly Wininger’s third album “Little Red Wagon” was #8 on the Folk Music DJ Chart for January 2018 and in the top 100 for that year. Her upcoming album, “The Blues Never End” including the award-winning song “Right Kind of Trouble” will be released in September […]
The Delevantes A Thousand Turns Moon River A Thousand Turns is the third album from Americana band The Delevantes, helmed by New Jersey brothers Bob (the main writer) and Mike (lead guitarist). They are a band that first appeared in the mid-‘90s in the early gestation of Americana but many thought they disappeared as their […]
HOME PAGE LINDSAY BEAVER HOME PAGE BRAD STIVERS Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Lindsay Beaver and Brad Stivers Lindsay Beaver When blues-rocking, soul-singing drummer, songwriter and bandleader Lindsay Beaver takes the stage, she makes an immediate and unforgettable impression. Standing front and center at her kit, singing every song from the depths of […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #109 with is Guest Mike Zito The Outlaw Orchestra Done My Time Samantha Fish Faster Electric Mary The King Of Rock n’Roll Carl Sentance Alright Fabrizio Grossi & Soul Garage Experience Radio Diplomatic Immunity Now’s The Time Sorrow &The Spire In The City […]
Avey Grouws Band Tell Tale Heart Navy House The Avey Grouws Band hails from Quad Cities, Iowa, which is not your usual home for a blues-based unit. Yet, they have leveraged the strong impact of their 2020 The Devil May Care by hiring Grammy-winning engineer/producer Casey Wasner, who has worked with Keb’ Mo’,Taj Mahal, and […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Jeff Chaz There is a southern gentleman on Bourbon Street. He is soft spoken, with just a bit of a south Louisiana accent, He still opens doors and holds chairs for the ladies. But when Jeff Chaz plugs in his guitar and steps before the microphone, […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Gabe Stillman 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 […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Gabe Stillman The Gabe Stillman Band is a three-piece machine that runs at full tilt for every performance. While their sound is unmistakably rooted in the blues, the band draws from the deep well of all American roots music. Since landing in the final 8 of […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it Up with Gerry Casey and Part 2 of his interview with Michael Katon The Rolling Stones Brown Sugar Wayward Saints In The Wild Jimmy C. Bad Led Zeppelin Bring It On Home The Porkroll Project Papa Didn’t Raise Me Right George Gritzbach Black Rose Brian Reynolds War Crimes Fleetwood […]
Dom Martin & The Savages Live At The Harlington Those of us who love music are always searching for that moment when the music we hear, just stops you in its tracks. It’s the kind of moment is embedded in you memory forevermore. That moment happened for me in early 2019 when I heard Dom Martin perform for the first […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Brad Vickers of Brad Vickers and his Vestapolitans Brad Vickers learned on the job playing, touring, and recording with America’s blues and roots masters: Jimmy Rogers, Hubert Sumlin, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Odetta, Sleepy LaBeef, Rosco Gordon, and Pinetop Perkins—with whom Brad had the good fortune to […]
Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps Rose Colored Glasses Vol. 1 Blue Heart Teresa James & The Rhythm Tramps are a Los Angeles-based band, but James was raised in Houston and has been able to mix Texas style blues with a West Coast jump and swing sound for over five decades now. They have received […]
Hector Anchondo Let Loose Those Chains VizzTone Every so often a wonderful surprise comes along, and this is one of them. Let Loose Those Chains is one of the most finely crafted, song driven blues releases of this year. Hector Anchondo is the 2020 IBC winner in the solo/duo category, and this is his first […]
Colin Linden bLOW Highway 20 We associate Colin Linden with the blues, yet bLow is his first electric blues release of the fourteen he’s made as a solo artist over his four-decade career. Linden, of course, has been equally or even more prominent on the roots scene with his band Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, […]
MUSIC ON THE COUCHSHOW #581 – 09/13/2021LISTEN HERE: https://tobtr.com/11995968 ANDY PEAKE – COUCH KID NEWS Andy returned to The Couch to talk about his last year and the music on the latest release, Mood Swings. WEB SITE FACEBOOK PAGE BRAD VICKERS & HIS VESTAPOLITANS COUCH KID NEW MUSIC Segment Begins At The 49:35 […]
Jimmie Vaughan The Jimmie Vaughan Story (5 -CD Box Set) The Last Music Company The living legend Jimmie Vaughan has documented most of his recording history through the auspices of Malcolm Mills’ Last Music Company across 5-CDS in a deluxe box set that in the vinyl size box also includes: An autographed full-size replica of […]
Elly Wininger The Blues Never End Earwig New York Hall of Fame Inductee (2014) Elly Wininger is socially conscious, highly skilled acoustic guitarist and songwriter based in the Woodstock area. She’s been at her craft for decades now but The Blues Never End is only her fifth album since the end of the ‘90s, the […]
Making a Scene Present Turn it up with Gerry Casey and his Guest Michael Katon! The Dead Show Dealers Anthem 85 Kryptos Force Of Danger Nitroverts What’s Going On Cavalcade Feels Like Home David Gogo Sulfite Boogie Victory Gods Of Tomorrow The Crooks Better Days Oasis Champagne Supernova Primal Scream Rocks Michael Katon Rip It […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Michael Katon! While it’s entirely accurate to describe the music of Detroit legend Michael Katon as ‘blues’, it also fails to do justice to the power, intensity and raw Motor City attitude that Katon commands with every note and chord. Ever since he first started […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Avey and Grouws! Avey Grouws Band met at a blues jam on the Iowa side of the Quad Cities along the Mississippi River, and have since put their Quad Cities sound into the world with the release of their debut album ‘The Devil May Care’ in […]
