HOME PAGE Making A Scene Presents an Interview with Katarina Pejak! Katarina Pejak is a singer/songwriter and piano player who combines genres of the American roots music, filtering them through her Balkan descent and a classical musical training. Inspired by Tom Waits, Bessie Smith, Norah Jones, Otis Spann and many other artists whose music she […]
Tommy Castro and the Painkillers Killin’ It Live Alligator Records Tommy Castro has been playing rockin’ blues for the last thirty years. He has released fifteen albums and been nominated for twelve Blues Music Awards winning six times. Two of those BMA trophies are for the “B.B. King Entertainer of The Year” award, the highest […]
Adam Klein Low Flyin’ Planes Cowboy Angel Athens, Georgia has long been a spawning ground for great music. Beyond the more widely known names like REM and Widespread Panic, are some exceptionally talented roots musicians like Adam Klein. This is Adam’s seventh album, the. sonic follow-up to 2013’s Sky Blue DeVille. Like that one and […]
Mardi Gras is almost here and you can be celebrating already with live blues and some great Mardi Gras parties, like the one at Tony and Carmen’s house! If you want to go to it, and you should, there is an open invitation on Facebook and it will really help if you RSVP! Their back […]
HOME PAGE FACEBOOK PAGE SOUNDCLOUD YOUTUBE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Khalif “Wailin’” Walter! Khalif “Wailin’ ” Walter without a doubt belongs to the the new generation of Blues players coming from the Windy City and contributing to it’s rich legacy of Chicago Blues. This definitely ain’t your grandaddy’s Blues though. Khalif’s music, […]
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 […]
HOME PAGE FACEBOOK PAGE INSTAGRAM Making a Scene presents an Interview with Jane Kramer! Lauded by UK music reviewer Three Chords and the Truth as sounding like she was “…born to gypsy poets and raised by Emmylou Harris,” Asheville, North Carolina songstress Jane Kramer has garnered international recognition for the sultry, heartrending originality of her […]
Augie Meyers I Know I Could Be Happy If Myself Wasn’t Here El Sendero Records In 1965 Doug Sahm formed “The Sir Douglas Quintet” with childhood friend Augie Meyers. The band had a top twenty hit with “She’s About a Mover”. They were busted for pot in Texas, moved to San Francisco and re-formed with […]
Peter Rogan Still Tryin’ to Believe Melt Shop Proving that’s it’s never too late to begin, this is the debut album from 57-year-old Peter Rogan, already a songwriting winner in the Great American Song contest. Rogan wrote or co-wrote all dozen songs on the album with 17 musicians and back-up singers, thereby fulfilling a lifelong […]
Jane Kramer Valley Of The Bones Jane Kramer releases her third full-length album Valley of the Bones on March 1st of this year. This is an album of original songs that evolve out of the heart. They make sense out of the things that wear you down and rip you heart. They are also about […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Dee Miller! 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 Steve Conn! 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 […]
Amy McCarley MECO Amy McCarley is a steely eyed musician on a mission. A native of north Alabama, McCarley is on a course that is true. MECO is the NASA acronym for Main Engine Cut Off. The songs chronicle Amy’s pursuit of a career in music after leaving the NASA contracting world. These are good […]
Road Dawg Touring Website Road Dawg Touring Facebook Making a Scene presents an Interview with a Pro Doug Tackett – Road Dawg Touring One of the most important person in an artist’s career is the Booking Agent! Getting to the point where you are ready for one is a whole different story. Doug Tackett is […]
Making a Scene Presents “How Spotify’s Gatekeepers Are Turning Listeners Into Fans (Or Not)” Editors Note: No matter where you stand on the streaming of music, the fact remains this is the new reality in the music industry. The main income stream of the musician is at live performances and the task for the Indie […]
Tony Holiday Porch Sessions Vizztone Label Group Tony Holiday used to play guitar and front the Salt Lake City based Tony Holiday and the Velvetones. When he switched to harmonica he recruited the then young prodigy Landon Stone as the band’s guitarist. The band won the Salt Lake City Weekly Music Awards and was named […]
Doug MacDonald Quartet Organisms Self-released Only last month we wrote about guitarist Doug MacDonald’s trio album View of the City but the prolific and rather restless MacDonald returns with a self-released quartet disc featuring some fine players. Like the title implies Organisms is an organ project, MacDonald’s third, as a leader, composer, and arranger. Interestingly, […]
Carol Sudhalter Quartet Live at Saint Peter’s Church Alfa Projects It’s not often that you find a baritone saxophonist/flutist as a band leader. Sure, Gerry Mulligan comes to mind but who else? Carol Sudhalter has proven herself to be one of jazz’s top baritone saxophonist, a fine flutist and originally a tenor soloist, having been […]
Eric Jerardi Occupied Niche Records Guitarist Eric Jerardi won the Ohio University battle of the bands in 1989. He won again two years later as the Midwest’s “Best Unsigned College Band”. He recorded his debut album in 1995. Since then he has shared the stage with Little Feat, toured with Robin Trower, and has been […]
HOME PAGE FACEBOOK PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Steve Conn! “It’s a bad neighborhood, but I keep coming back,” Steve Conn sings in the title cut to his fifth album, Flesh and Bone. “Searching for mercy, in spite of the facts,” he declares, inviting listeners on a guided tour of flowing grooves and […]
Atomic Road Kings Clean Up The Blood Big Tone Records This is the Atomic Road Kings debut recording but the individual members are not new to lovers of the blues. The core band includes Big Jon Atkinson, lead, rhythm guitar and vocals, who came to prominence with his third album, 2016’s “House Party at Big […]
HOME PAGE FACEBOOK PAGE Making A Scene Presents an interview with Dee Miller! Dee Miller is a Minnesota musician who has a performance pedigree that spans many years on the local and Midwest Blues scene. Dee’s “barrelhouse” style of singing has earned her the label “Duchess of the Blues” in the Twin Cities and regionally. […]
HOME PAGE FACEBOOK PAGE Making A Scene Presents an Interview with Eric Brace A Grammy-nominated producer, the front man of the acclaimed roots-rock band Last Train Home, half of a duo with songsmith Peter Cooper, and founder of East Nashville indie label Red Beet Records, Eric Brace is a prolific and admired artist. A former music journalist […]
MUSIC ON THE COUCH SHOW #459 – 02/18/19 LISTEN HERE: https://tobtr.com/11182487 LARKIN POE Megan & Rebecca Lovell truly came to the attention of the Blues world with the release of Peach. They followed that up with the November release of Venom & Faith. What a great conversation I had with these two women. We discussed […]
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 […]
John Mayall Nobody Told Me Forty Below The Godfather of British Blues, John Mayall is now 85 years old, but you’d never guess it from his prolific output in recent years since he signed with co-producer Eric Corne’s label, Forty Below Records, in 2013. Mayall’s long overdue induction into the Blues Hall of Fame was […]
Tedeschi Trucks Band Signs Fantasy Records/Concord Music Group Susan Tedeschi was born in Boston, Ma. She released her debut album in 1995 but came to national attention with the release of “Just Won’t Burn” on Tone Cool Records in 1998. At the same time the Jacksonville Fl. guitarist Derek Trucks was achieving fame with his […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Watermelon Slim! 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 Seth Walker! 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 […]
Amour Colin Linden and Luther Dickinson Stony Plain Records Master roots guitarists Luther Dickinson and Colin Linden pared up to make a stellar collection of love songs from many areas of Americana: Blues, country, rock ‘n roll, r&b, and folk are all represented on Amour and what a wonderful mix! Dickinson and Linden are joined […]
Emily Scott Robinson Traveling Mercies Self-released If you’ve heard Emily Scott Robinson’s song “The Dress” or the accompanying stories in other publications, you may just want to scroll down. However, for those who have not, there’s not a more important place to start. Without her harrowing trauma endured after being raped in her early twenties, […]
HOME PAGE FACEBOOK PAGE INSTAGRAM TWITTER Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Seth Walker! “Are You Open?” Seth Walker sings on his transfixing new album of the same title. More than just a question, it’s a challenge, an invitation, a dare. “To me, being open means being vulnerable and exposed,” explains Walker, “but that’s […]
Katarina Pejak Roads That Cross Ruf Records Katarina Pejak hails from the Serbian city of Belgrade, where her father ran the local jazz and blues nightclub. Listening to her father’s record collection she became inspired by Tom Waits, Norah Jones, Bessie Smith, Otis Spann and others. She decided she should stretch her classical piano […]
HOME PAGE FACEBOOK PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Watermelon Slim! Bill “Watermelon Slim” Homans has built a remarkable reputation with his raw, impassioned intensity. HARP Magazine wrote “From sizzling slide guitar…to nitty-gritty harp blowing…to a gruff, resonating Okie twang, Slim delivers acutely personal workingman blues with both hands on the wheel of […]
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 […]
Aaron Lack’s Vibetet Lovely Night Millard Street Music Aaron Lack is an Adjunct Professor of Music at Concordia University in Austin, Texas. He currently teaches Drumset, Applied Music and the history of Jazz. Lack plays drums, classical percussion, Vibraphone and traditional steel pan music. He has shared the stage and performed with Benny Green, Roy […]
HOME PAGE FACEBOOK PAGE INSTAGRAM Making a Scene Presents an interview with Berry Boo! Meet this Singer/Songwriter/Swagstress from Brooklyn, NY. Having already made a name for herself by performing and touring the world as a supporting vocalist for today’s top artists such as: Nicki Minaj, One Republic, Melanie Fiona, Robin Thicke just to name a […]
Seth Walker Are You Open? Royal Potato Family It’s been one heck of a moment or two lately. Normal has turned on its head. We are all in this together, and together we can make a difference. Are You Open?, the new album by Seth Walker releases February 15 on Royal Potato Family and asks […]
Peter Mulvey There Is Another World Righteous Babe Records. Peter Mulvey is a traveling troubadour with his compass pinned to the out of the ordinary. He is a songwriter who threatens at being a poet. The songs from There Is Another World are no exception. Conventional instruments unconventionally create mood and the lyrics fall to […]
MUSIC ON THE COUCH SHOW #458 – 02/11/19 LISTEN HERE: https://tobtr.com/11182377 JACINTA GRIFFIN Ms. Hy-C & Fresh Start were the winners of the Band Challenge in the 35th International Blues Challenge. She and I will talk about the band’s journey and what they see is their next goals. FACEBOOK PAGE TOM STEPHEN – Segment Begins […]
Establishing your brand has always been part of creating a successful music career. Today it may be more important than ever. Now I can hear some of you already! “We(I) Let our(my) Music do the Talking, I don’t have to create a Brand!” Nothing can be further from the truth in today’s music industry. Before […]
Big Joe and the Dynaflows Rockhouse Party Severn The rowdy proceedings here match the album title, Rockhouse Party, even though the title is drawn from the name of co-producer and stellar keyboardist Kevin McKendree’s studio in Franklin, TN. Big Joe is D.C.-based drummer/vocalist Big Joe Maher, making his fourth album for Severn Records. This is […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Ina Forsman! 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 Willa Vincitore! 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 […]
Clifford Lamb Blues and Hues Weber Works Clifford Lamb is a San Francisco-based pianist/composer who is releasing his fourth solo album as a leader and his third with renowned bassist Buster Williams and charismatic drummer Cindy Blackman Santana, among the cast of supporting musicians. The concept for Blues & Hues is a mashup of different […]
HOME PAGE FACEBOOK PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Ina Forsman! It takes a special artist to snatch triumph from the jaws of disaster. Rewind to 2016 and everything was going right for Ina Forsman. The 24-year-old singer had gone from Finland’s best-kept secret to Ruf’s hottest new signing. Her self-titled debut had […]
HOME PAGE FACEBOOK PAGE Making A Scene Presents an Interview with Willa Vincitore Singer/songwriter Willa Vincitore has been building a fan base across the Hudson Valley for nearly two decades. While her songwriting is an eclectic mix of blues, soul, rock, funk and (occasionally) pop, there’s one thing that ties it all together—that voice. Willa’s […]
Tiffany Pollack/Eric Johanson Blues In My Blood Nola Blue Records Tiffany Ann Pollack is a product of the musical mecca known as New Orleans. At an earlier age Pollack began to write songs and sing. Her first professional gig was singing background vocals for Russell Batiste & Friends. She eventually formed her own band Beaucoup […]
SISSTER Wows LA at the release party for her debut self-titled EP Patrick O’Heffernan (Los Angeles) SISSTER wowed a n LA audience when she released her self-titled EP last week and demonstrated why she is so popular and so beloved. You could feel the love in the air at the Sunset Blvd multi-venue Los Globos […]
The Trevor B. Power Band Everyday Angel Independent The Trevor B. Power Band is based in northwest New Jersey. Power grew up in a household with parents that loved all kinds of music. He received his first guitar when he was fifteen and began playing the rock n’ roll of the sixties and seventies. He […]
