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HOME PAGE Making a Scene presents an interview with Peter Veteska Peter Veteska was born in Manhattan and grew up in Queens, where, influenced by Derek And The Dominos, Alvin Lee and The Allman Brothers, he bought his first guitar at a pawn shop. A self-taught musician, he began playing professionally at age 15, but […]
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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Dennis Jones I was born and raised in the small town of Monkton, Maryland, population 4,856. My family didn’t have much money, but we always had what we needed. Monkton was a great place for a kid to grow up. The area is known for its […]
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Making a Scene Presents TURN IT UP with Gerry Casey Show #62 1-The Spencer Davis Group Keep On Running 2-The Spencer Davis Group Gimme Some Lovin’ 3-The Treatment Hang Em’High(Power Crazy2019) 4-The Bloodshots No Way Out ( single 2020) 5-Shemekia Copeland Money Makes You Ugly (Uncoivil War 2020) 6-Peter Frampton Band Four Four Day Creep […]
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Devin B. Thompson Tales Of The Soul Severn Records Devin B. Thompson hails from the Chicago suburb of Joliet, Illinois. Raised in a musical family his father and sister sang in the church choir. Thompson began playing trumpet and singing backing vocals in his older brother’s band when he was still in his teens. His […]
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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Tim Woods For more than three decades, singer and guitarist Tim Woods’ career has taken him on a long and storied journey that continues to write new chapters every year. Originally from Western Pennsylvania – where he remains a fixture of the music scene – Tim […]
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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Tim Langford Tim “Too Slim“ Langford is a monster guitarist and unabashed blues rocker whose influences run the gamut from Lightnin’ Hopkins, Freddy King, Duane Allman, and Lynyrd Skynyrd to Robin Trower. He is a prolific singer/songwriter whose songs have now yielded an impressive 13 studio Too Slim and the Taildraggers albums, 2 […]
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Nora Jean Wallace Blues Woman Severn Records Elnora Jean Wallace was born in the Mississippi Delta town of Greenwood. Her father was a sharecropper and a professional blues singer; her mother, a gospel singer. Her grandmother owned a Juke Joint and on the weekends Nora Jean would listen to relatives sing the blues. To this […]
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Kevin Burt Stone Crazy Gulf Coast Records Iowan Kevin Burt has been on the Midwest blues scene honing his soulful presentation for some twenty-five years. He is a self-taught guitarist, harmonica player and vocalist, who has shared the stage with B.B. King, Koko Taylor, Albert Collins, Luther Allison, Lonnie Brooks and many others. His festival […]
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Shaun Murphy Flame Still Burns Vision Wall Records A young Shaun Murphy found work in the theater eventually leading to a Motown recording contract. Her first album was a collaborative effort with Meatloaf on the Rare Earth subsidiary. Murphy toured as a backing singer for both Bob Seger and Eric Clapton. Murphy met Bill Payne […]
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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, […]
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Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey featuring Cassidy Paris! Anthony Gomes Tell Somebody ( Containment Blues 2020) Too Slim And The Taildraggers She’s Got The Remedy Marishi Ten Never Look Back 2019 The Thigh Scrapers Shatter(Single 2018) 1.4.5. Can’t Stop Movin’ Filthy Filthy Listen To The Radio (Single2019) Tommy Gunn Cant […]
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Marcel Smith Everybody Needs Love Little Village Foundation Sacramento’s Marcel Smith began singing in church and studied the music of gospel quartets: the Mighty Clouds of Joy, the Blind Boys, the Soul Stirrers, and the Dixie Hummingbirds. At the age of fifteen he was heard by gospel veteran Willie Washington who invited Smith to join […]
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The McKee Brothers A Time Like This Self-released In this writer’s radio days, a frequent caller often said, “You can never have too many horns.” It is not only the horn charts that drew me to this record, but repeated listens revealed some good songwriting, strong vocals on every track, and fond memories of their […]
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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Dudley Taft Dudley Taft grew up in the American Midwest, where he learned the values of friendship, roots blues, rock ‘n’ roll and a good ear of corn. With a background that includes Berklee College of Music as well as years touring with rock bands Sweet […]
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Shemekia Copeland Uncivil War Alligator Records Shemekia Copeland is the daughter of the four-time Blues Music Award winning bluesman Johnny “Clyde” Copeland. Growing up in a household surrounded by music she inherited the urge to perform. At the age of eighteen Shemekia released her 1998 Alligator Records debut “Turn The Heat Up” receiving her first […]
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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Shaun Murphy! I found my way to the Blues stage at the first Ann Arbor Blues Fest, and was completely smitten. Getting to play at such an important milestone festival had my head spinning. That was my awakening to the Blues, and I couldn’t have been among a […]
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MUSIC ON THE COUCH 10/19/2020 – SHOW #537 LISTEN HERE: https://tobtr.com/11819146 MR SIPP – COUCH KID NEWS Mr. Sipp came by to discuss his latest single, “Played Yourself”. We also spoke about his upcoming albums and plans on releasing them. I also brought up his Gospel career which is continuing to be very successful. WEB […]
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Rick Fines Solar Powered Too Independent Rick Fines hails from Peterborough, Canada in Central Ontario. He gained attention in the 1980’s as the co-founder, front man and guitarist in “Jackson Delta” who recorded their 1989 debut “Delta Sunrise” in Memphis. They followed up with two Juno Award nominated albums; 1991’s “Acoustic Blues” and 1992’s “I […]
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Peter Veteska & Blues Train Grass Ain’t Greener On The Other Side Independent New Yorker Peter Veteska learned to play guitar by listening to Eric Clapton and Duane Allman. He played his first gig at the age of fifteen but as he grew older his tastes turned toward Jazz. He reconnected with his passion for […]
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HOME PAGE Gerry Casey Interviews Malaya Blue! For her third full-length studio album, UK contemporary blues singer/songwriter Malaya Blue collaborated with three-time Grammy winner Dennis Walker to co-write and produce the simply titled, “Still.” The pair brought together some of the finest musicians from the UK music scene including guitarist Nat Martin, keyboard wiz Stevie Watts, […]
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Laura Tate Live From El Paso 811 Gold Records Dallas’ Laura Tate studied acting in New York City at both the Herbert Berghoff Studio, and the Stella Alder School of Acting. She performed off-Broadway and toured in theatrical productions in Los Angeles, and Nashville. She soon found herself on the production side of the business […]
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MUSIC ON THE COUCH SHOW #536 – 10/12/2020 LISTEN HERE: https://tobtr.com/11810713 PRATT/WESLEY – COUCH KID NEWS Kern Pratt, Will Wesley and Philip Chandler came by to discuss their single “A New Kind Of Blues”, and how they are coping with the pandemic. KERN PRATT FACEBOOK PAGE WILL WESLEY FACEBOOK PAGE SHAUN MURPHY – COUCH KID […]
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Big Harp George Living In The City Blues Mountain Records George Bisharat a.k.a. Big Harp George is a San Francisco singer, songwriter and harp player. He favors the chromatic harp which gives his music a jazzier sound then most blues players. Formerly George was a criminal defense attorney and award winning law professor at the […]
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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Malaya Blue! For her third full-length studio album, UK contemporary blues singer/songwriter Malaya Blue collaborated with three-time Grammy winner Dennis Walker to co-write and produce the simply titled, “Still.” The pair brought together some of the finest musicians from the UK music scene including guitarist Nat Martin, […]
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1-Anthony Gomes,This Broken Heart Of Mine( New Single)( Containment Blues 2020) 2-Southbound Snakecharmers, The Ballad Of Tarantino( New Single) 3-Snowey White And The White Flames, Another Blue Night ( New Single) (Something On Me due out October 9th) 4-The Scuttlers,The Sun’s Gone In On Me ( New Single) 5- The Dead Show Dealers,(Un) Society ( […]
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Ben Levin Carryout or Delivery Vizztone This young college student (yes, he’s still in college three albums later) sounds so good playing the rollicking piano and singing like a veteran that it would be impossible for the uninformed listener to guess that Ben Levin has just reached legal drinking age. Having received two Blues Blast […]
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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with John Nemeth As a teenager in the early ‘90s growing up in the muddy potato fields of Idaho, John Németh was drawn to the hard-edged hip hop sounds and rock bands of the day, until a friend, Tom Moore, introduced him to the Junior Wells and […]
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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Lucas Spinosa Lucas developed an interest in music by the age of eight years old and has been playing professionally since junior high school. By the time he reached nineteen, he had recorded his first album. He has a great interest in writing, including an expansive […]
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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Ten Penny Gyspy Arkansas singer/songwriters Justin Patterson and Laura Lynn Danley had been writing and performing separately as solo artists for years when they decided to form the Folk/Americana duo Ten Penny Gypsy in 2017. That decision changed their fortunes immediately, and put their musical careers onto a new […]
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Kim Wilson Take Me Back! The Bigtone Sessions MC Records Harmonica player and vocalist Kim Wilson fronts the Fabulous Thunderbirds while also maintaining a solo career. Wilson has seven previous studio albums under his own name; the last being 2017’s “Blues and Boogie Vol. 1”. Wilson is winner of six Blues Music Awards. He is […]
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Turn it up with Gerry Casey and Interview with Gerry Quigley! 1-Anthony Gomes,Make A Good Man(Wanna Be Bad) New Single) 2-61Ghosts,Requiem (New 2020) 3-Black Stone Cherry, Ringin In My Head( New single) 4-The Cold Stares , Jailbreak( New Single) 5-Angus Gill And Season’s Of Change ( featuring Steve Earle),The New Old Me(New Single) 6-Minefield, Alone […]
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MUSIC ON THE COUCH SHOW #535 – 10/05/2020 LISTEN HERE: https://tobtr.com/11802752 DOUG MacLEOD – COUCH KID NEWS Doug came by to discuss the rerelease of “The Train Of Change”, a song he wrote over 10 years ago. We also talked about how he is coping with the pandemic and his thoughts on how the world […]
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Chris Smither More From The Levee Signature Sounds Chris Smither recorded his debut album “I’m A Stranger Too!” in 1970. Included was the song “Love You Like a Man”. Two years later the song was recorded by Bonnie Raitt and helped establish Smither as one of our foremost songwriters. Smither’s last album was 2018’s “Call […]
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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Trevor Sewell Winner of 9 major awards in the U.S.A and 4 times nominated in the British Blues Awards. The past three years have seen Sewell continue to go from strength to strength particularly in America where his debut album ‘Calling Your Name’ spent a staggering […]
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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Andrew Adkins Across the Cumberland River from Music City, the burgeoning neighborhood of East Nashville has become a haven for artists, songwriters, and other creatives. One such songwriter is Andrew Adkins, who has been a part of the Nashville community for over a decade. As the […]
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Drive-by Truckers The New OK ATO One of America’s most important rock bands, Drive-by Truckers (DBTs), delivered an inspired, ferocious, and angry at times performance in Philadelphia the day after the 2016 Election. Their performance was as one would have expected. Yet, the collective vibe both onstage in the audience was collective release from the shocking numbness still […]
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Kerry Kearney Tales from The Psychedelta Highlander Records Kerry Kearney is among my favorite slide guitarists. Although not as well-known as Sonny Landreth or Roy Rogers, Kearney has been honing his craft for over forty years. Many of Kearney’s most sought after recordings are long out of print. This collection was remastered by Chris Wallitsch […]
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Fiona Boyes Blues in My Heart (20th Anniversary Edition) Reference Recordings This writer fondly remembers the Australian finger-picking blues singer-songwriter from about a dozen years ago when she performed live on my then radio show. One couldn’t help but be struck by her undeniable talent, both playing the guitar and singing, yet the overriding takeaway […]
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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Johnny Iguana Johnny Iguana grew up in Philadelphia, where he studied piano from age eight and played piano and organ in blues bands from age 16. He moved to New York City at age 22, where he met one of his greatest musical heroes, Junior Wells. […]
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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with RB Morris RB Morris is a poet and songwriter, solo performer and band leader, and a sometimes playwright and actor from Knoxville, Tennessee. He has published books of poetry including Early Fires (Iris Press), Keeping The Bees Employed, and The Mockingbird Poems (Rich Mountain Bound), and music albums including Spies Lies and […]
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MUSIC ON THE COUCH SHOW #533 09/21/20 LISTEN HERE: https://tobtr.com/11784462 SUGARAY RAYFORD – COUCH KID NEWSSugaray stopped by to discuss his new single, “Homemade Disaster” and the world around us. As always Sugaray told it like it is. WEB SITE FACEBOOK PAGE DAVID MILLER & THE SINNERS – COUCH KID NEW MUSIC Segment Begins At […]
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Home page Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Al Basile Al Basile grew up in a park in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He graduated from Phillips Academy in 1966, and in 1970 he was the first to receive a Master’s Degree from the Brown University Writing Program. He began his musical career as a cornet player […]
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Lloyd Jones Tennessee Run Vizztone Label Group Lloyd Jones was born in Portland in 1950. His father was a trumpet player, and his older brother taught him drums. As a teenager he took up guitar. Early blues and soul influences include Muddy Waters; Walter Horton; Jimmy Reed, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, and James Brown. […]
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Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite 100 Years of Blues Alligator As this writer has said before of other artists, the eventual pairing was inevitable. Not only are Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame guitarist Elvin Bishop and Grammy-winning harmonica master Charlie Musselwhite fellow blues travelers and Blues Hall Of Famers with over 100 years of […]
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Band of Heathens Stranger BOH The Band of Heathens (BOH) have made a pandemic record, loosely alluded to by its title, Stranger, the sixth studio album for the Austin-based unit, and their first of original material since 2017’s Deuende. Actually, the title for this one, wasn’t directly drawn from the pandemic but rather influenced by […]
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Home Page Making a Scene Presents an interview with Sugarcane Jane Sugarcane Jane is Anthony Crawford and Savana Lee —Americana’s husband-wife duo from Alabama’s Gulf Coast. Between them, they have decades of rich musical experience: Anthony’s an in-demand multi-instrumentalist and producer who has worked with such notables as Neil Young, Steve Winwood, and Dwight Yoakam. […]
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HOME PAGE Making a Scene presents an Interview with Dave Fields Fodera Guitar artist Dave Fields 6th and latest album Force of Will is ferocious mix of blues rock and beyond that stretches the boundaries. Force of Will will take you on a musical journey in a way that only Dave Fields can take you. […]
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Bette Smith The Good, The Bad and The Bette Ruf Records Bette Smith grew up in the rough Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. “My father was a church choir director. I was singing since I was five years old. My mother listened to nothing but gospel, every Sunday morning, she would get up and put on […]
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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with DL Marble From the White Mountains to the Valley via Tempe Arizona.. D.L. Marble and his band share passions for sound, rhythm and the road! Each member brings a unique musical aesthetic to the band and over the years they have grown comfortable jumping genres and […]
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Al Basile Last Hand Sweetspot Records Al Basile got his start as the first trumpet player in “Roomful of Blues” when it was formed by Duke Robillard in 1973. Basile’s solo debut “Down on Providence Plantation” was produced by Robillard in 1998. Since then, each of Basile’s studio recordings were produced by Robillard. Between 2010 […]
