HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview 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 the […]
Ben Levin Still Here VizzTone Still Here is the third release for the youthful pianist/songwriter/vocalist Ben Levin, who has already matured well beyond his years. When we last visited him on his 2020 release Carryout or Delivery on these pages, Levin was still in college, having just reached drinking age. And, as we said then, […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey and his Guest Johnny Gallagher The Bad Day Blues Band Hurricane Wildstreet Mrs Sleazy Kenny Wayne Sheppard Woman Like You Eric Johanson Love Is A Rebellion Carl Sentence California Queen Gus G Quantum Leap Nita Strauss Our Most Desperate Hour Jessie Lee &The Alchemists Let […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Johnny Gallagher “What can you say about this man that hasn’t already been said. A force of nature, a rock n’ roll dynamo, a larger than life stage presence. All of them are true and yet they don’t adequately describe the awesome talent that Johnny […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Rusty Ends Rusty Ends is the real deal, a true link between the rock and blues of the 50’s and 60’s and the 21st century. Rusty learned his craft as a teenager playing in the bars and taverns up and down Dixie Highway between Louisville and […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Tony Holiday Not only does he enjoy the cozy informality of making music on them, he’s done some outstanding recording on those porches too. Studios simply aren’t a necessity for the blues harmonica wailer when he’s ready to lay some sounds down for posterity. He just […]
Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Kid Ramos! Having reached a milestone birthday on October 17, 2020, which also happened to be the day the album was recorded, Johnny Tucker released his new opus, 75 and Alive, in partnership with Blue Heart Records. Bob Auerbach selected Kid Ramos to produce this collection of […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Teresa James of Teresa James and the Rhythm Tramps Her persuasive pipes slathered in honey and soaked in Texas-bred sass, keyboardist Teresa James and her band, the Rhythm Tramps, have long reigned as one of Los Angeles’ leading contemporary blues outfits, even though their uncommonly imaginative […]
Zac Harmon As Long As I Got My Guitar Catfood Long As I Got My Guitar is the latest from Texas-based blues singer/guitarist Zac Harmon who returns to Bob Trenchard’s Catfood label and again taps producer Jim Gaines, recording at Trenchard’s base studio, the Sonic Ranch, near El Paso. Although Harmon is based in Texas, […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #110 and His Guest Brian Mullen of The Cold Stares Boogie Beasts I Don’t Care 20 Watt Tombstone Midnight Train To Memphis Dirty Streets Good Pils Loz Campbell The World Was Made To Destroy You The Amorettes Let The Neighbours Call The Cops Dom […]
