Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey and his Guest Ralph Selbach! Abcd Band Grab The Bull By The Balls AC/DCWild Reputation Power Up 2020 Odd Crew Wings On A Burning Wind The Anix Cut Me Nouveau ArcadeiHumanz New Single Joe Bonamassa Well I Done Gone Over It The Hives Rigor Mortis […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Brings you an Interview with Eli Wulfmeier of Leroy From the North Toughen Up, Leroy of The North’s full-length debut, is a soundtrack for road trips with the radio cranked high, the FM dial caught somewhere between the country and classic rock stations, the sounds from both channels bleeding together […]
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Jimmy Bennett Sunday Morning Sessions Junkyard Dog Productions Sunday Morning Sessions, the new album from Jimmy Bennett (Bennett Brothers, Alexis P. Suiter, John Ginty, Bruce Katz) stole my heart from the first listen. Bennett, an original member of Levon Helm’s Midnight Rambles in Woodstock, New York, began writing this record on Easter Sunday 2020 as a response to the beginning days of the Coronavirus outbreak. […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Hudspeth and Taylor 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 […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Geanies 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 […]
Micke Bjorklof and Blue Strip Colors of Jealousy Hokahey! Music Productions I’ve been writing about the music of Micke Bjorklof since 2014 with the After the Flood release. I love the way his crafted lyrics and musical arrangements are brought to life with Blue Strip. Their latest album Colors of Jealousy has again captivated me with every listen. Bjorklof has a unique way to […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Hudspeth and Taylor Guitarist, singer, teacher, and songwriter Brandon Hudspeth was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. He began taking guitar lessons at an early age after hearing Johnny Cash on Sesame Street. In high school, heavily influenced by the Blues, he started playing weekend gigs around the […]
Making a Scene Brings you Turn it Up with Gerry Casey and his Guest King Bee and the Stingers Lions in the Street Moving Along Voodoo Ramble Waterfall Filter Obliteration The Cold Stares Cross The Line Robert Jon & The Wreck Don’t Look Down Edit The Tide Strangest Call Ida Mae My Whispers Are Wildfire […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Sarah Menefee of King Bee & The Stingers King Bee & The Stingers is a six-piece blues, soul and funk band from Bloomington, Indiana. The group works with Indie Ink Management and publicist Marlene Palumbo. Several KBS singles have been distributed by Sony Orchard and are […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Sean Michael Howe of The Geanies Geanies, an electrifying, blues-influenced alt-rock band, release the debut EP, Can’t See The Sun, July 14th via Mule Kick Records. The Venice, California band is fronted by lead singer/composer Sean Michael Howe. Howe has the colossal sound and technical delivery of a […]
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Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Eric Johanson 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 Eric Johanson In the midst of creating The Deep and the Dirty, Eric Johanson’s previous album cracked the Top 10 on the Billboard blues chart. It was his fourth time reaching the Top 10. And for a Louisiana native who’d grown up idolizing bluesmen like Freddie […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Pistol Pete Wearn 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 […]
The Nick Moss Band featuring Dennis Gruenling Get Your Back Into It! Alligator Get Your Back Into It! is the third album (and third on Alligator) for 2020 BMA Winners Chicago veteran guitarist/vocalist Nick Moss and harmonicist Dennis Gruenling, who return after their widely acclaimed, three-time BMA winner Lucky Guy! We often throw around terms […]
Making a Scene Brings You Turn It Up with Gerry Casey and his Guest Gene Bannon Dolly Parton/Rob Halford Bygones Brave Rival For The Ones Ben Reel Come A Long Way Hurricanes Thunder In The Storm Ritchie Dave Porter & Debra Susan We Still Believe In Love Paul Rodgers Living It Up The Answer Keep […]
Jan James Time Bomb Blue Palace Records It has been over thirty years since Jan James released her first album Last Train. That record gained her a rather large fanbase in Europe. With creative partner guitarist Craig Calvert by her side, her latest and twelfth release Time Bomb is drenched with feeling and soul. James’ musical-wheelhouse is centered in American roots, and embraces each petal: […]
KAREN LEIPZIGER/KL PRODUCTIONS Making a Scene Brings you an Interview with a Pro – Karen Leipziger of Nashville’s KL Productions KBA Award winning publicist (2007) and Grammy (“Before This Song Is Over” Eddy Clearwater with Los Straitjackets Rock ’n’ Roll City) and BMA-nominated songwriter (“Winds Of Change” Eddy Clearwater Reservation Blues), Karen Leipziger/KL Productions has been […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Brings you Gerry Casey’s Interview with Gene Bannon Gene Bannon from Cootehill ireland he was the saxophone player in The Times Showband. They recorded an album in Abbey Road studios and used the same engineer as the Beatles. Gene also played in Dusty Springfield’s band in the late sixties. These […]
Alan Paul Brothers and Sisters: The Allman Brothers Band and the Story of the Album that Defined the ‘70s St. Martin’s Press Acclaimed music columnist and author Alan Paul has covered The Allman Brothers Band and its offshoots for much of his career. He previously wrote the New York Times bestseller, One Way Out: The […]
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Leonard “Lowdown” Brown Blues is Calling Me Music Maker Foundation Born in Arkansas and raised in Indiana, Leonard “Lowdown” Brown has been surrounded by music most of his life. In 1980 he moved to Houston, Texas for his work with General Electric and became in involved in the local music scene. In 1988, he acquired […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Mike Guldin 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 […]
Guy Bélanger Voyages & Other Stories Bros Quebec’s Guy Bélanger is a multiple Maple Blues Award winner for Harmonica Player of the Year and is otherwise well recognized as both an instrumentalist and singer-songwriter in his nearly fifty-year career. Voyages & Other Stories is his seventh solo album, a mix of originals and covers, featuring […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Mike Bourne 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 […]
Making a Scene Brings you Turn it up with Gerry Casey and his Guest Laurence Jones Dom Martin Unhinged The Record Company Talk To Me Moonshine Bandits /Buckcherry WILD The Greig Taylor Band 3 Chords And The Truth Alice Copper I’m Alice 3Force Prevention Billy The Kid & The Regulators Say You Wanna Woman Geordie […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Laurence Jones Laurence Jones, the multi-award-winning guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter born in Liverpool, releases his seventh studio album via Marshall Records on August 25th, showcasing his new power trio. The British Blues Rock guitar sensation has shared stages with Sir Van Morrison, Sir Ringo Starr, […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Mike Guldin Mike Guldin first picked up the guitar at age 15 and since then has honed his craft playing in roadhouses, clubs and bars, and Festivals and Theaters for over 45 years. Influenced by blues legends Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Willie Dixon, Albert Collins, The […]
Duane Betts Wild & Precious Life Royal Potato Family “My mother she married a ramblin’ man,” Duane Betts sings in “Taking Time,” the snappy little tune that kicks off his 2018 debut EP, Sketches of American Music. The heritage that pours out of Betts in reference to his father, Dickey Betts of the original Allman […]
Franck L. Goldwasser Who Needs this Mess!!? Crosscut Veteran blues fans recall “Paris Slim’s” sets with the Mannish Boys and perhaps some of his other collaborations with West Coast blues artists. Now the French-born guitarist/vocalist, using his given name Franck L. Goldwasser, returns with a solo album, Who Needs this Mess!!?, on which the title […]
Making a Scene Presents an interview with Mike Bourne From the House of Blues to the International Jazz and Blues Festival in Manila and countless points in between, Mike Bourne has been entertaining audiences around the globe with his unique style of jump blues, blues, and roots music since 1998. Inspired by Louis Jordan, T-bone […]
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Eric Johanson The Deep and the Dirty Ruf Records Louisiana blues-rocker Eric Johanson has a ridiculously cool album with his latest release The Deep and the Dirty. Enlisting Jesse Dayton (Rob Zombie, X, Samantha Fish) surely accounts for the badassery which abundantly flows out of the dozen original tracks contained on this record. With Eric Johanson on guitar and vocals, the band is […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Lady Adrena 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 Lady Adrena Vocalist, and Songwriter, and Adrienne Palmer aka ” LADY ADRENA” was born May 24, 1980 in Jackson Mississippi. Her singing career began at age five in County Line Baptist Church and has continued to flourish. In April, 2008, ADRENA completed her first single, “WHAT’S […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Jason Stutts of Rust Dust 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 […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #201 and his guest The Zac Shulze Gang Aslan This Time Aslan This Is Aslan Crazy World David Bowie Life On Mars Ralph Selback Thank You A Life Divided Disorder Beatcore World Away Hurricane #1. Awake at 9 The Kings Of Cool Paddy C. […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Brings you Gerry Casey’s Interview with Zac Shulze Gang In the distant future of 2092, a group of time bandits were hell-bent on bringing hard-hitting blues rock with fusions of every genre ever conceived to the generations of the past. The time bandits flew back through the late 90s and […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Kyle Culkin Kyle Culkin is an American songwriter, guitarist and roots music recording artist. He has worked over the past two decades as a multi-instrumentalist musician and the guitarist for nationally touring acts such as The Jeff Jensen Band. Culkin opened for the great B.B. King […]
Bruce Katz Connections Dancing Rooster Keyboardist Bruce Katz has a new trio that he’s unveiling on his latest, Connections, which was recorded at the famed Capricorn Studios in Macon, GA, familiar turf to Katz from his tenures with Gregg Allman’s Band, Butch Trucks’ Les Brers, and Jaimoe’s Jasssz Band. While an integral member of those […]
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 […]
Monster Mike Welch Nothing But Time Gulf Coast Records With Nothing But Time, Mike Welch cements the legitimacy of the Monster moniker that comedian and “Blues Brother” Dan Aykroyd dubbed him with when Welch was a 13-year-old blues guitar prodigy. Welch had recently come off a tough year and a half of long Covid when […]
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Larry Taylor and The Taylor Family Generations of Blues: West Side Legacy NOLA Blue Arguably, no single family has been more important to the blues than the Taylor family, headed by Jimmy Reed’s renowned guitarist and bandleader in his own right, Eddie Taylor, Sr. and his wife, singer Vera Taylor, part of the Great Migration […]
D.K. Harrell The Right Man Little Village It’s refreshing to find a youthful talent that embraces the blues tradition. The Right Man is the debut for 25-year-old D.K. Harrell of Ruston, LA. As a blues singer/guitarist/songwriter Harrell has somehow absorbed not only the history of the blues but its nuances too. While he is still […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Sara Petite 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 […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Eric Heideman 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 […]
Making a Scene Brings you Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #200 with his Guest B’ee Anthony Gomes White Trash Princess The Stone Cold Hobos Working On Rock n’Roll Iron Savior Firestar Anna Scott If I Stay The Bellamy Brothers Satin Sheets The Eagles Life In The Fast Lane Ian Hunter I Hate Hate […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with B’ee B`ee grew up around the suburbs of Düsseldorf in Germany. During her younger years she would sing and entertain her school friends who we´re captivated by her soulful voice. She later found herself being approached by various local bands, requesting her to try out […]
