Each week we interview independent musicians about their career, the Music Business and their views of what is happening in their genre.
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Mr. Downchild and Kasimira! Mr. Downchild and Kasimira met at a jam session when a mutual friend asked them to sit in. It was immediately evident that their musical styles worked well together. Later, Mr. D would invite Kassy to show up at his gigs and […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Chris Eger Very few musicians are said to be extraordinary examples of excellence in any one genre of music. Even fewer can be described as exceptional across multiple. When considering Chris Eger fits into the latter category as both a guitarist AND vocalist, it is no […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Present an Interview with Janiva Magness Janiva Magness has a brand new release out “Janiva Magness Sings John Fogerty Change in the Weather”! Grammy nominee, B.B. King Entertainer of the Year, Song of the Year, Contemporary Female Artist of the Year. As a 7x Blues Music Award winner, 28x BMA […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Jeff Dale! Jeff Dale is an award winning songwriter and performer, born and raised on the south side of Chicago. Having played all over the United States, he now reaches international audiences with shows from Belgium to Croatia. With over 40 years of performing and writing […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Randy Lewis Brown! Songwriter and poetic lyricist Randy Lewis Brown was born in Louisiana, spending his childhood in pre-civil rights Shreveport, immersed in the formative strictures and music of the church. He discovered a new world when, at twelve, his family moved to Houston. It was […]
The Mavericks Play The Hits Mono Mondo Recordings/Thirty Tigers The Mavericks were founded in 1989 in Miami, Florida. Their sound combines modern country music, Latino and rock n’ roll influences. Between 1991 and 2003 they recorded six studio albums including 1994’s “What A Crying Shame”. The title track from that album had been pre-released as […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Stephen Clair! Stephen Clair first came to prominence when WFUV got behind the single ‘Jen In Her Underwear’ from his 2003 sophomore release Little Radio. Clair’s continuing making records, some singer-songwritery, some punk rock, some twangier. There are a few things that hold all of those […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Present an interview with a Pro – B Christopher – Production Music Libraries! Production Music Libraries One of the best income streams for a musician can be having your music licensed for TV or movies. What many don’t realize there is a huge market for “Stock” music or “Production Music […]
John McNamara Andrea Marr John McNamara Andrea Marr Making a Scene Presents an Interview with John McNamara of the McNaMarr Project! McNaMarr Project combine the powerhouse voices of multi-award winning blues artists John McNamara and Andrea Marr. From a mutual love of soulful blues they bring a sound evocative of old school soul, blues and […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Pascal Bokar! Pascal Bokar’s American Shores, in the “AfroBlueGrazz” style coined by the album’s producer Greg Landau, is an ambitious fusion of textures and styles that comes from Bokar’s unique cultural perspective. As an accomplished jazz guitarist and scholar of African music and jazz he consistently heard clear […]
HOMEPAGE Making a Scene presents an interview with Alice Peacock! Much has changed for singer-songwriter Alice Peacock since her last solo studio album, 2009’s Love Remains. She’s had three kids, moved to Cincinnati and … gotten 10 years older. “Feel the weight of the world on my shoulders/ Am I wiser or am I just […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Vaneese Thomas! Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Vaneese is the daughter of Rufus Thomas, whose legendary career as a musician and entertainer began in Vaudeville and spanned more than half a century in rhythm-and-blues recording and radio. Her older siblings are the hit recording artist “Memphis Queen” […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Seth James! Authenticity and originality don’t always make for the most compatible bedfellows. Indeed, paying reverence to one’s roots sometimes moots the possibility of finding contemporary credence. Happily though, in the case of the Texas born and bred singer/songwriter Seth James, all those elements find equal […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Professor Louie! Professor Louie has emerged over his five decades in the music industry as the torch bearer of the true spirit of American Roots music. Seasoned live performer, prolific recording artist and versatile multi-instrumentalist (Hammond B3 organ, piano/keyboards, accordion, vocals), Professor Louie also wears the […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Don Gallardo! From the foot of Mount Tamalpais, just north of San Francisco and east of the Pacific shore, to East Nashville’s stubbornly independent community of young artists and musicians, singer/songwriter Don Gallardo’s path has always steered clear of the mainstream. Traces of his journey illuminate […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Ghalia! You can’t miss Ghalia Volt. She’s the natural-born rock star with the leather jacket and wicked grin, leaning from her album sleeve to offer you a hit on her hip flask. But the real Southern blend ain’t in the bottle, it’s on the songs. Following […]
HOMEPAGE Making a Scene Interviews 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 Water and Second Coming, […]
HOMEPAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Dallas Burrow! By the time Dallas Burrow headed to Nashville in 2018 to record his career-defining Southern Wind, the Texas-born songwriter had already wandered across much of the free world, chasing his unique muse from New Braunfels to New Orleans, from Northern California to western Spain, from […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Carolyn Gaines Carolyn Gaines was born into the blues as the daughter of the great guitarist-singer Roy Gaines who was superstar Diana Ross and Billie Holiday’s guitarist. In addition, her uncle is saxophonist Grady Gaines who worked with many top names including Diana Ross & The […]
HOME PAGE Making A Scene Presents an interview with Black Betty of Moonshine Society! Moonshine Society gives a big nod to Aesop’s theory that we’re known by the company we keep. So, while staking claim to lofty Music Land real estate of their own with a searing, cutting-edge blend of blues, soul, rock and R&B, […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Talks with Billy Price! 2016 Blues Music Award Winner Billy Price first attracted national attention during his three-year association with guitarist Roy Buchanan. Price is the vocalist on two of Buchanan’s LPs, That’s What I’m Here For and Live Stock. Since then, with the Keystone Rhythm Band, the Billy Price […]
HOMEPAGE Making a Scene Talks 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 […]
HOME PAGE Making A Scene Talks with Jim Bowers of Jimbo Pap! Jimbo Pap’s members don’t wear rhinestoned Nudie suits like the Flying Burrito Brothers did, or like so many of their current peers continue to — in fact, they declare that right away, in the first verse of their debut LP’s first track— but […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Eliza Neals! Eliza Neals is a prolific songwriter, confident producer, arranger, bandleader, pianist, and one-of-a-kind live performer. Eliza sings with unearthly passion and velvety grit, effortlessly pushing air to new heights. Her operatically trained voice has been called both sexy and menacing. None of this is surprising, […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Vince Agwada! Vince Agwada, ace guitarist, composer, producer, and recording artist got his start in music at the world-renown Blues havens Theresa’s and Buddy Guy’s Checkerboard Lounge, where he cut his teeth observing and backing journeymen players such as Buddy Guy, Magic Slim, Otis Rush, John […]
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 […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Susan Gibson One of the reasons Susan Gibson always keeps a banjo close at hand, be it in the studio or at every show she plays, is because she likes the “lift” it brings to counterbalance a particularly heavy lyric: “Almost like it’s got a smile […]
HOMEPAGE Making A Scene presents an interview with Helene Cronin! Helene Cronin is a Texas artist whose writing style combines elements of Americana and Country. Perhaps best described simply as an acoustic storyteller, she’s often compared to Lori McKenna, Nanci Griffith or Mary Chapin Carpenter, but her sound is uniquely her own. One reviewer called […]
Making A Scene Talks with The Jersey Swamp Cats! The Jersey Swamp Cats are a piano and guitar driven band entertaining crowds in North Jersey and beyond with their own brand of jump blues and vintage rock ’n’ roll. The Cats perform creative renditions of classics by favorites like Louis Prima, T-Bone Walker, Fats Domino, […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Mark Cameron! Minnesota based singer, songwriter and guitarist Mark Cameron has been active in live music for over thirty years. Mark began his performing career in the rich folk-rock scene of the early 1970’s and brought this influence into several bands he founded during the 1980’s and […]
Home Page Making A Scene Presents an Interview with JP Soars! J.P. Soars is soaring high, nominated for “Blues Rock Artist of the Year” in the 40th annual Blues Music Awards in 2019. Soars is nominated alongside blues music heavyweights Billy Gibbons, Eric Gales, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and Tinsley Ellis, rounding out the Blues Rock category. Soars […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Scotty Dennis! Scotty Dennis is a Blues artist from Kansas City, Missouri. He comes from a talented musical family with a deep back ground in Gospel music. He has been addicted to the Blues since he was 4 years old, when his uncle would sneak him […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Isaiah Evans of “The 40 Acre Mule” “It used to be called boogie-woogie. It used to be called rhythm & blues. Now, they call it rock & roll” Chuck Berry’s words are at the very heart of Roots Rock & Roll 5-piece, THE 40 ACRE MULE! 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 Ray Fuller! RAY FULLER from New Albany Ohio, was given his first guitar at the age of 8, a Gibson Melody Maker. At an early age, Fuller was inspired by the British Invasion; Rolling Stones, Yardbirds and the Animals bands. Fuller’s first Blues album he ever heard […]
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 […]
HOMEPAGE Making A Scene Presents an Interview with Ben Davis Jr.! At the crossroads of the cosmic stylings of The Grateful Dead and the vulnerable sonic truths of Todd Snider lies Ben Davis Jr. and the Revelry: a genre-defying psychedelic fivesome brewed in the creative pressure cooker of Appalachian Ohio. Before Ben Davis Jr. and […]
HOME PAGE Making A Scene Presents an Interview with Charlie Wooton! Charlie Wooton was born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana, with his four older brothers, who were all exceptional musicians, including Dr. John Wooton, head of percussion at USM. As a teen, music was Charlie’s life; studying Classical and Jazz during the day, then playing […]
HOME PAGE Making A Scene Presents an Interview with Gracie Curran! In the five years since the release of her critically acclaimed debut album “Proof of Love”, the singer has been packing venues across the country and around the world, wowing audiences with her stunning voice and soul shaking delivery. A Blues Music Award Nominee, Boston […]
HOME PAGE Making A Scene Presents an Interview with “The Nickel Slots” The Nickel Slots take you on a journey through hard times and desperation that always carries hope that better things are just around the corner. With influence from early roots Americana music as well as a touch of rebellious ’70s punk, The Nickel […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Nancy Wright! Nancy Wright is one of the most highly respected and in-demand sax players on today’s blues, Americana and R&B scene. Major music writers have hailed her big-toned tenor and compared her to the all-time greats. Though she’s called the Bay Area home for 30 years, […]
HOME PAGE Making A Scene Presents an interview with Chris Carroll For most kids, a broken radio in the family van might get in the way of singalongs. But Chris Carroll’s dad loved John Prine, and she’d fill the dead air with “Sam Stone,” entertaining a pair of younger brothers. Carroll was born in Toronto, […]
HOME PAGE Making A Scene Presents an Interview with Kerry Kearney! Kerry Kearney (pronounced “Car-Nee”), a slide guitar master, plays and works his instrument to limits that amaze even the most seasoned musician or cultured music fan. The sounds Kerry creates from his vintage, stock and custom made guitars are as unique as his song writing […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with a Pro Songwriter, Drummer, Producer, Engineer Twist Turner! During the course of his 55 year musical career Songwriter, Producer, Drummer Twist Turner has worked with over 40 Grammy winners and or nominees and countless W.C.Handy/BMA winners. Twist was raised in Seattle and began his musical career […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Heather Newman! Heather Newman had picked up a bass guitar only six months prior to her bands first on stage appearance at Knucklehead’s Saloon in Kansas City, MO March 17th, 2017, where she introduced her music to the stylings of Keith Ladd on the guitar , […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Terri Hendrix! Terri Hendrix is a pioneering independent Texas songwriter who spins sorrow into joy and wrings wisdom from the blues with a poetic grace and engaging melodic flair that has endeared her to three generations of loyal fans around the globe. A classically trained vocalist […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with A.G. Weinberger! AG Weinberger is a central figure on the Romanian blues and jazz scene. He is headlining all the major festivals in the country, constantly touring and sought after by the media. AG is a multi-award winner and the recipient of the President Medal – […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Present an interview with “The HawtThorns”! An Americana band whose sun-kissed songwriting, fiery electric guitar, and lush vocal harmonies evoke the California coastline as much as the Bible Belt countryside, the HawtThorns are rooted in the collaborative chemistry of husband-and-wife duo KP and Johnny Hawthorn. Before forming their band in […]
HOMEPAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Alice Howe! When Alice Howe wants to unlock a memory or understand an emotion, she steps outside. “There’s something about the stillness,” she says. “When I’m sitting with my guitar and looking out at a forest or the ocean, I have the space to reflect to on people and places. My […]
HOMEPAGE – GRIFF HAMLIN HOMEPAGE – Griff Hamlin and the Single Barrel Blues Bland Blues Guitar Unleashed Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Griff Hamlin! I’ll Drink To That” is the first release from Griff Hamlin & The Single Barrel Blues Band, but it’s certainly not the beginning of a career that has already […]