Erin Harpe Meet Me In The Middle featuring Jim Countryman Vizztone Label Group/Juicy Juju Records The Boston based Erin Harpe recorded five electro-pop albums with her first band “Lovewhip” before embracing the blues. Her transition began in 2002 when she released “Blues Roots”; and continued with 2008’s “Delta Blues Duets” recorded with her father Neil. […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Tim Wright of Blind Fiction. Tim began his music career playing saxophone in front of his childhood home at the age of 10. Music became a focus when he attended Waukesha South High School where he earned the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award his senior year as […]
Artur Menezes Fading Away VizzTone This writer does not often venture into blues rock (Yes, I know- that’s an heretical statement given coverage of the form on these pages) but shining talent exists in every genre. Brazilian guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Artur Menezes stands apart from the sameness that far too frequently populates this kind […]
Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Stone and Robert of The Dead Show Dealers! The Dead Show Dealers are an Aggressive/Americana band founded in Central Florida. A single styling or genre cannot define their sound. As you can hear in their music; they have a bit of punk, rockabilly, country, bluegrass, blues, and rock. […]
Tim Woods Vortex Independent Originally from Western Pennsylvania Tim Woods has been influenced by a variety of genre’s including blues, rock, bluegrass, and jazz. When Woods turned eighteen his family relocated to Macon, Georgia and he immersed himself in the music scene promoting national acts at a local nightclub. Later, Woods formed the Woods Family […]
MUSIC ON THE COUCH SHOW #539 – 11/02/2020 LISTEN HERE: https://tobtr.com/11834438 BOBBY ‘BLACKHAT’ WALTERS – COUCH KID NEWS Bobby came by to talk about his latest look at our world, entitled “Cast Your Vote”. We spoke about his troubadour style of releasing singles, and the election. We also closed the show with his latest, which […]
MUSIC ON THE COUCH SHOW # 538 – 10/26/2020 LISTEN HERE: https://tobtr.com/11826602 BRIGITTE PURDY – COUCH KID NEWS Brigitte came by to talk about her world in California, the upcoming album and the new single released early, “Memphis Hotline”. WEB SITE FACEBOOK PAGE DUSTIN ARBUCKLE – COUCH KID NEW MUSIC Segment Begins At The 20:35 […]
Dennis Jones Soft Hard & Loud Blue Rock Records Dennis Jones hails from the rural town of Monkton, Maryland. His grandfather played an acoustic guitar and a thirteen-year-old Jones received his first guitar on Christmas Day. At the age of sixteen he was already in a cover band playing rock n’ roll. He joined the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Dustin Arbuckle Dustin Arbuckle and The Damnations are not a band you can easily associate with one specific genre, and that’s how they planned it. Arbuckle, a veteran of the progressive roots music scene whose singing and harmonica playing first came into prominence in Moreland & Arbuckle, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
HOMEPAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Clay Melton Having performed live in Houston since the age of 15, now 24, he has come a long way since Being named “One of the top 10 guitarist under 20” by the International Guitar Festival in Dallas when he was 16. Riding the success of his […]
Mick Kolassa If You Can’t Be Good, Be Good At It! Endless Blues Records Michigan born Mick Kolassa has lived in the greater Clarksdale, Mississippi area for over twenty-five years. Kolassa is part of the local Memphis blues scene and a former member of the Board of Directors of The Blues Foundation. After years of […]
The Allman Brothers Band The Final Note – Painters Mill Music Fair 10-17-71 Warner Theater, Erie, Pa 7-19-05 (2 CDs) Allman Brothers Band Recordings/Peach Records These two live recordings of the Allman Brothers Band, as the dates suggest, represent two incarnations of the lineup, neither ever heard on record until now. The Final Note is […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 ( […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Johnny Rawls Where Have All The Soul Men Gone Third Street Cigar Records Johnny Rawls was born in Mississippi in 1951. The guitarist learned by backing musicians when they would tour the state. In 1975 Rawls joined O.V. Wright’s band and became his musical director until Wright’s passing in 1980. Rawls kept the band together […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sonny Green Found! One Soul Singer Little Village Foundation Robert “Sonny” Green was born in Monroe Louisiana in October, 1941. At the age of eighteen the vocalist was hired by saxophonist Big Jay McNeely who had a 1959 hit single “There is Something On Your Mind” sung by Little Sonny Warner. As Warner’s replacement Green […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Vanessa Collier “There’s a young lady [Vanessa Collier] came onstage with me, I forget where I was, but she’s playing an alto saxophone, and man, she was amazing.” Those are the words of Buddy Guy in a recent issue of American Blues Scene, describing an impromptu […]
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 […]
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 […]
Johnny Iguana Chicago Spectacular! Delmark Records Brian Berkowitz known professionally as Johnny Iguana is a highly regarded Chicago blues pianist having toured or recorded with Otis Rush, Junior Wells, Carey Bell, James Cotton, Eddy Clearwater, Buddy Guy, Lurrie Bell, Matthew Skoller and Lil’ Ed. More importantly he appears on three notable Larry Skoller produced projects: […]
