HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with EG Kight Nestled in rural Georgia, EG Kight has grown deep roots on her land, where her family has lived for four generations. Kight’s granddaddy was a southern preacher. When Kight was an infant, her mama was offered a Gospel recording contract, but turned it down […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it Up with Gerry Casey and his Guest Sean Chambers Susie Major Great White Skies Dirty Honey California’ Dreaming Boogie Beasts Favourite Scene Leadfinger Nobody Knows Wildstreet Tennessee Cocaine Tom Morello with Slash Interstate 80 The Sonics I Don’t Need No Doctor Bobby Rush Good Stuff Sean Chambers Sitting On […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with B. Christopher B. Christopher, like most composers, is not a household name. However, if you own a television, you have probably heard his music. With over 3,000 placements annually, on virtually every channel, it would be difficult not to hear his work. Like most studio musicians, […]
Robert Billard & The Cold Cuts Stop Self-released Robert Billard, formerly mostly a folk singer and now a bluesman, may be the only one of that ilk living in Nunavut, Canada’s newest province, a massive, sparsely populated territory of northern Canada, forming most of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Its islands have expanses of tundra, craggy […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Jonathon Long The first thing you notice about Jonathon Long’s new record, Parables of a Southern Man, is that his virtuoso guitar playing is not his only strength. Long is a complete musician and entertainer, a great singer and totally original songwriter whose lyrical guitar playing […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Donna Herula Donna Herula is a Chicago-born blues singer, songwriter, and slide guitarist that has a passion for playing traditional Delta and Country Blues, early Chicago Blues, folk, Americana, and roots music. Using electrified resonator guitars, her sound combines her love for the music of the […]
Making a Scene Presents TURN IT UP with Gerry Casey and his Guest Delta Fuse “Now and then a band comes along that gets the pulse racing. Delta Fuse are exactly that, from the first time I heard them play live to a packed house in Ballyshannon at The Rory Gallagher international festival. I knew […]
Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Delta Fuse. Now and then a band comes along that gets the pulse racing. Delta Fuse are exactly that, from the first time I heard them play live to a packed house in Ballyshannon at The Rory Gallagher international festival. I knew that what I had witnessed […]
Sean Chambers That’s What I’m Talkin About This album is a tribute to Hubert Sumlin, a musician who had a huge influence on Sean’s life and future career in music. For a number of years Sean was a member of Hubert’s touring band , an experience that Sean will tell you himself made a significant […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Rob Stone Long renowned as a hard-hitting blues harmonica wailer and forceful vocalist, Rob Stone combines tough Chicago blues tradition with a swinging West Coast rhythmic drive. He’s made a series of widely acclaimed albums over the last two decades-plus showcasing his singular approach to the […]
Various Artists A Sweet Relief Tribute to Joey Spampinato True North This is an amazing group of artists all generously donating their proceeds from these recordings to the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund to support NRBQ founding member/bassist/songwriter Joey Spampinato with his current health issues. Joey’s wife Kami Lyle and producer Sheldon Gomberg rallied a group […]
Gerald McClendon Let’s Have a Party Delta Roots Chicago soul singer Gerald McClendon, the “Soul Keeper,” makes a quick return from 2020’s Can’t Nobody Stop Me Now, a major statement, which he now quickly follows with Let’s Have a Party. McClendon first got a lift from 2019’s Delta Roots release, Battle of the Blues: Chicago vs. Oakland, […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Tia Carroll Tia has been performing steadily with her own band for decades in California, and made some successful recordings before (rock, gospel, and blues (with bands in Italy and Brazil.) But this is her first stateside studio recording of strong original blues and soul, and […]
Making a Scene Presents TURN it UP with Gerry Casey Show #95 with his Guest Jim Basnight Mike Zito Jeremiah Johnstone No Particular Place To Go The Cold Stares Heavy Shoes Delta Fuse Bloodhound Debbie Bond High Rider Blues Mark Cameron It’s Alright The Haunted North Body And Soul Handsome Jack In The Midnight Hour […]
MUSIC ON THE COUCH SHOW #572 – 6/14/2021 LISTEN HERE: https://tobtr.com/11943382 GUY DAVIS – COUCH KID NEW MUSIC Guy released Be Ready When I Call You on June 4th and he came back. We talked about his world and the music on this album and how he is looking at the future. WEB SITE FACEBOOK […]
Patti Parks Whole Nother World VizzTone Working nurse and blues belter Patti Parks hails from Buffalo, NY but made the trek to Baton Rouge, LA to record Whole Nother World, her second full-length release, at Kenny Neal’s studio. After hearing Parks at the Blues Foundation’s International Blues Challenge, Kenny Neal signed her to his Booga […]
Deb Ryder Memphis Moonlight Vizztone Label Group Deb Ryder got her start when as a teenager she would open for visiting artists at her father’s nightclub. She wound up opening for Etta James, Big Joe Turner, Charlie Musselwhite and Taj Mahal. Ryder recorded her debut album “Might Just Get Lucky” in 2013. Her fifth studio […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #94 with his guests the Glycereens! The Great Affairs High On Rose Billy F.Gibbons She’s On Fire The Southern River Band Vice City 11 Ten Ton Mojo Stop Getting Off Misty Blues No More To Give Junkyard All The Time In The World The […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Clint Morgan Americana singer/songwriter and Blues Pianist Clint Morgan, a charter member of the International Blues Foundation, has played in Americana meccas such as Memphis, Tennessee; Clarksdale, Mississippi; and Austin, Texas. He is equally at home pounding out a piano boogie tune as he is an […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Kyle Culkin Kyle Culkin is an American songwriter, guitarist, bassist and roots music recording artist. He grew up in Southern California listening to an eclectic mix of Country, Rock, Jazz, Soul, Blues and everything in between. In his early twenties, Culkin hit the road and cut […]
Blues fans from all over the world tuned into our virtual broadcast of the 42nd Blues Music Awards.Congratulations to all winners and nominees! B.B. King Entertainer Shemekia CopelandBand of the Year Rick Estrin & The Nightcats Best Emerging Artist Album Harlem King Solomon Hicks Blues Rock Album Mike Zito and Friends – Rock ‘n’ Roll: […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Deb Ryder She began singing at the age of five joining her Dad, crooner Al Swanson on stage at several popular venues and churches in the Chicago area. Deb’s musical career began in her early teens when her mother moved the family to California and […]
Making A Scene Brings you TURN IT UP with Gerry Casey Show #93 with his Guest Dean Zucchero! John Fiddler Chinese Whisperers Buckcherry Hellbound Ronan Gallagher Argumental Man Mayala Blue Kiss My Troubles Away Howie G Haunted Heart Blackbird &Crow The Witch That Could Not Be Burned Aaron Nathons &Michael G Ronstadt Ghost Writer Andy […]
Tia Carroll You Gotta Have It! Little Village Foundation Tia Carroll has been performing in California’s Bay Area for decades. She made her own successful albums in both Italy and Brazil, This is the album her fans have been waiting for and her first stateside studio recording. The album was recorded, mixed and mastered by […]
HOME PAGE Making A Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Dean Zucchero! I’m a four-string, Fender tradition bassist from the East Village of New York City with influences steeped in the Rock / R&B and Blues sounds of the 60s with mentors such as (Motown’s) James Jamerson, (Zeppelin’s) John Paul Jones, (BB King’s) Jerry Jemmott, (Aretha Franklin’s) […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Billy Litz of The Hustle Souls Hustle Souls is an Asheville, NC based 4-piece who blend dust-covered-vinyl soul nostalgia with modern sensibility.; recently named one of “Music Connections” Hot 100 Live Unsigned Artists & Bands. Driven by a lust for songwriting, the band’s fervid live […]
Chris Bergson All I Got Left 2 Shirts Coincidentally as we sit down to write on this day of Levon Helm’s birthday, we have one of his many disciples – singer-songwriter, blues guitarist Chris Bergson, offering his new solo effort, All I Got Left. It’s solo in the true sense of the word as you […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Patti Parks Patti has had an exciting year recording her next album, Whole Nother World. Recorded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, it will be released on Booga Records/Vizztone. American Bluesman Kenny Neal signed Ms. Parks to his own label and produced, arranged and performed on this eclectic […]
Making a Scene Presents TURN IT UP with Gerry Casey Show #92 with his Guests Blackbird and Crow The blues has always had a link with the supernatural. The story of Robert Johnstone going down to the crossroads to sell his soul to the devil to become the best guitar player ever. Link that to […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Blackbird and Crow! Donegal duo Blackbird & Crow are probably best described musically as Celtic folk blues with a punk attitude Twas the cold, bleak Summer of 2018 and two of Germany’s most courageous men found themselves trudging through the bogs of North West Donegal. […]
Wee Willie Walker Not In My Lifetime Blue Dot Records Born in Hernando, Mississippi, Wee Willie Walker’s career spanned six decades as he was one of the last real soul singers. He recorded nine sides for the Memphis based Goldwax label in 1968. More recently, between 2004 and 2011, Walker recorded three albums with the […]
MUSIC ON THE COUCH SHOW #570 – 05/24/2021 LISTEN HERE: https://tobtr.com/11938704 PAUL BENJAMIN – COUCH KID NEWS Paul stopped by to talk about the return of the North Atlantic Blues Festival after the cancellation of last year. All the bands are ready and so is Rockland, ME. WEB SITE FACEBOOK PAGE TIA CARROLL Tia has […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #91 and his Guest Jessica Lee Morgan! Not many 4year olds will have a memory of singing vocals on a Hazel O’Connor Album. But then this young child had no ordinary parents. Her father Tony Visconti has legendary status in the world of rock […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Eddie 9 Volt Eddie 9V (9-volt) has made a name for himself in the blues scene in the south, wowing all types of audiences with his searing Freddie King-style approach to guitar and his original retro/soul songs. An “old soul” at the tender age of 24, […]
Various Artists 50 Years of Genuine Houserockin’ Music Alligator Records Alligator, the Chicago based label, is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. In 1971 Alligator President Bruce Iglauer started operating out of his efficiency apartment. The first album issued was “Hound Dog Taylor and The Houserockers”. The catalog now contains over 350 titles. Iglauer has stuck to […]
Making a Scene Presents TURN IT UP with Gerry Casey Show #90 With his Guest Paul Guerin of The Quireboys Every time I switch on the microphone to record another Turn it Up interview I realise how privileged I am to get the opportunity to speak with such amazing talent. Paul Guerin is simply immersed […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with The Reverend Shawn Amos In lieu of gigging to promote Blue Sky, the Rev and the Doctor made some potent, spiked lemonade out of some particularly bad pandemic lemons. They manifested a long-held desire of the Rev’s to journey back to the inspiration that launched him […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Clarence Spady Described as “the future of the blues” by Bill Dahl (Chicago Tribune) circa 1996, Clarence’s sound has become more distinguishable now than ever before. He plays with a depth and sensitivity that can’t be taught, effortlessly combining blues, jazz, funk, latin and rock into […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Tom Craig Philadelphia native Tom Craig plays a special brand of Blues, Soul and R&B. Tom got his first guitar for his eleventh birthday. With 40 years of guitar playing, formal training as a jazz vocalist and his passion for the Blues, he gives you all […]
MUSIC ON THE COUCH SHOW #567 – 05/03/2021 LISTEN HERE: https://tobtr.com/11926773 MARIA MULDAUR – COUCH KID NEW MUSIC Maria returned to The Couch to talk about the last couple of years and her new album, Let’s Get Happy Together. Always a great time speaking with this incredible vocalist. WEB SITE FACEBOOK PAGE EDDIE TURNER – […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it Up with Gerry Casey Show #89 with his Guest Billy Harrison Ireland has produced many famous sons and daughters in the world of music. They have reached the highest highs and have inspired a generation of music lovers. Back in the sixties a group of young men with dreams […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Alex Lopez Alex Lopez is an acclaimed guitarist, prolific songwriter and emerging artist recognized for his electrifying live performances. Critics have said he is “capable of revitalizing the blues for a new generation” and he is quickly taking the blues/rock scene by storm. Alex was born […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Halley DeVestern The Halley DeVestern Band is a high-energy Blues/Funk/Roots/Rock band featuring ex members of Roger Waters, Shawn Mullins, Deni Bonet, and more. Halley had the honor of touring with Janis Joplin’s original band, Big Brother and The Holding Company as their lead singer, filling some […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Michele Biondi “Down by the river” is the third album by Michele Biondi, from Tuscany (Italy). “Cotton & Moonshine”, his second release as a solo artist, has received positive acclaim in both the E.U. and the U.S.A. In 2015 in Mississippi, he was introduced to the Texas-based […]
Van Morrison Latest Record Project: Volume 1 BMG Perhaps no artist was more upset about the pandemic lockdown, at least to the point of railing against it in song, as the ever prolific Van Morrison. And yes, he used the time to generate a ton of new material, indicating that this tongue-in-cheek entitled Latest Record […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Popa Chubby Popa Chubby, born Ted Horowitz, has been hard rocking the blues in his fierce and soulful way for more than 30 years. Over the course of a career that dates back to 1994, he has been a force of to be reckoned with on […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it Up with Gerry Casey and his Guest Interview Charlie Bedford The music business long term survival depends on young blood entering the business. The blues is normally a genre for the more mature artists, so it’s really exciting to see young artists of the age group and obvious talent […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Dexter Allen Dexter Allen, born in Crystal Springs, MS. the son of musical Pastors Lee and Ruthie Allen, was raised on a farm and grew up understanding that life can still be wholesome with only the bare necessities. Dexter began playing the bass guitar at the […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Charlie Bedford The music business long term survival depends on young blood entering the business. The blues is normally a genre for the more mature artists, so it’s really exciting to see young artists of the age group and obvious talent that Charlie possess becoming […]
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 […]
