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Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #168

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Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey with his Guest Brush Shiels Ronan Gallagher Out Of My Head Rory Gallagher Just Hit Town AC/DC Highway To Hell Deadwolf Heavy Rock ‘n’ Roll Nazareth Teenage Nervous Breakdown Nazareth Silver Dollar Forger Nazareth Broken Down Angel Mark S.Black Through The Gap Delta Fuse When […]

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Bywater Call Remain

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Bywater Call Remain Gypsy Soul Records       Maple Blues Award winners Bywater Call have drawn a fair share of parallels to Tedeschi Trucks Band since emerging in Toronto in 2017. Remain will likely bolster those comparisons, but also cement the distinctive character of this seven-member group through their gripping performances of eleven original songs. This […]

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Amanda B Perry is Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Amanda B Perry Amanda B. Perry is a Twin Cities musician who brings passion and drama to the stage through powerful vocals, and soaring piano chords. In a pop/soul/americana style, inspired by artists such as David Gray and Adele. Amanda specializes in writing love songs, and […]

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South Island Rhythm Kings are Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with the South Island Rhythm Kings At the nucleus of the South Island Rhythm Kings is Father/Son team of Lazy Mike Mallon and Carson Mallon creating a musical bond on early Electric Blues, accompanied by seasoned musicians delivering their mutual love of “no school like old school” blues. […]

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Spencer Mackenzie Preach to my Soul

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Spencer Mackenzie Preach to my Soul Gypsy Soul Records Ranking high on my list of the newest wave of blues artists is Canadian bluesman Spencer Mackenzie.  While just in his mid-twenties, he’s already been nominated for multiple blues awards in Canada, and is bound to push the envelope even further in his career.  His talent for […]

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Emanual Casablanca Blood on my Hands

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Emanual Casablanca Blood on my Hands Kings County Blues Blood on my Hands, the debut album from Brooklyn-based blues-rocker Emanual Casablanca has quickly garnered my admiration.  Casablanca’s all-in approach to music produces deep and personal songs.  That’s what makes his blues honest and real.  This album contains sixteen tracks of all-original material featuring an amazing arsenal of guests which include Eric Gales, Albert […]

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John Primer Hard Times

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John Primer Hard Times Blue House Productions Hard Times, the very latest release from Chicago Blues great John Primer captures my ‘real-deal’ blues-loving heart with thirteen new originals.  With Steve Bell on harmonica, Lenny Media on drums, and David Forte on bass, this recording also features special guests Rick Kreher on 2nd guitar, Johnny Iguana on piano and organ, and John’s seventeen-year-old daughter Aliya Primer on vocals.  Primer states: “The name of my new CD […]

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LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring The Lucky Losers

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  Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring The Lucky Losers 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 […]

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Ivor S.K. Mississippi Bound

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Ivor S.K. Mississippi Bound Vizztone Label Group Hailing from Sydney Australia, and now living in New Orleans, Ivor Simpson-Kennedy takes story-telling to the highest level with his music.  There’s a unique spin he has on blues and roots which is very refreshing and quite captivating.  The attention he pays to details in his songwriting, pairs perfectly with his laidback […]

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The Lucky Losers are Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with The Lucky Losers Winners of five Independent Blues Award in 2021 including “Artist of the Year” (Cathy Lemons), “Song of the Year” (Godless Land), “The Lucky Losers are San Francisco’s finest male/female duet fronted band — a throwback to the hybrid of soul, blues, rock, gospel, […]

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Annika Chambers and Paul Deslauriers Good Trouble

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Annika Chambers and Paul Deslauriers Good Trouble Vizztone Label Group Annika Chambers and Paul DesLauriers have both been on my radar a while.  I covered Chambers’ 2019 album Kiss My Sass, and DesLauriers’ 2016 release Relentless, as well as his 2019 release Bounce.  I embraced all three of those recordings.  The spirited couple met at the 2018 International Blues Challenge in Memphis and started working together in 2019.  Within the […]

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LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Matt Woods

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  Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Matt Woods 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 […]

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Matt Woods is Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Matt Woods The Matt Woods Band is a Des Moines based blues band specializing in old school urban electric blues.  The band’s hard-hitting rhythms and powerful guitar lines evoke a sound right out of the early Chess Records catalog.  Featuring Matt Woods on guitar and vocals, […]

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LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Annika Chambers and Paul DesLauriers

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  Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Annika Chambers and Paul DesLauriers 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 […]

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Annika Chambers and Paul DeLauriers are Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE   Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Annika Chambers and Paul Deslauriers Both on stage and in private life, these two internationally acclaimed artists share incredible chemistry! Their first introduction (lasting only a few seconds) in the crowded lobby of the historic Orpheum Theatre during the 2018 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, […]

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LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Ben Levin

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  Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Ben Levin 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 […]

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Gerry Casey Interviews Zach Person

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Zach Person American recording artist, Zach Person, is the new face of indie rock. Emerging out of Austin, Texas, Person plays loud, raw, and connects with his music fans on a primal sonic level. Only 25 years old, Person has a swagger, talent and grit beyond […]

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Ben Levin is Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Ben Levin At only 22 years old, Ben Levin is already making his mark as a blues pianist, vocalist, and songwriter. Ben has been nominated for a Blues Music Award and two Blues Blast Magazine Awards. Based in Cincinnati, OH, Ben has been playing 100 shows a year since he […]

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Buddy Guy The Blues Don’t Lie

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Buddy Guy The Blues Don’t Lie RCA Records “The Blues Don’t Lie” is the follow up album to the “Blues is Alve and Well” featuring producer, songwriter, and drummer Tom Hambridge. Also featured are Reese Wynans Hammond Organ; Michael Rhodes, bass; and Rob McNelley guitar. Guest artists are Mavis Staples, Elvis Costello and James Taylor. […]

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LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Lightnin Malcolm

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  Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Lightnin Malcolm 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 […]

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Lightnin Malcolm is Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Lightnin Malcolm Cutting edge Mississippi Bluesman Lightnin Malcolm, a charismatic and energetic guitarslinger with a deep soulful voice, has taken his irresistible dance grooves from Juke Joint teen years to World Stages with mainstream artists such as Robert Plant, Jimmy Buffett, Robert Cray, The Black Keys, Widespread […]

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LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Robert Hill and Joanne Lediger

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  Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Robert Hill and Joanne Lediger 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 […]

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Lee Fields Sentimental Fool

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Lee Fields Sentimental Fool Daptone The venerable classic soul singer Lee Fields has joined the Daptone roster. Few things are more fitting. Sentimental Fool finds the septuagenarian Fields in fine voice, backed by the roster’s house band that brings out the singer’s best. The album was produced by Daptone’s Gabriel Roth (AKA Bosco Mann). He […]

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Angela Strehli Ace of Blues

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Angela Strehli Ace of Blues New West Records Angela Strehli “Ace of Blues” is Strehli’s first album in 17 years co-produced by her and her husband Bob Brown. Many will remember her 1990 album “Dreams Come True” with Marcia Ball and Lou Ann Barton and as part 2009’s Blues Broads also featuring Tracy Nelson. Strehli’s […]

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Mud Morganfield Portrait

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Mud Morganfield Portrait Delmark Records This is Mud Morganfield’s newest album. Included are seven originals and seven covers. The covers include Muddy Waters “You Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had” and John Lee “Sonny Boy” Williamson’s “Good Morning Little School Girl. This is Mud’s first album for Delmark Records. All but the first track […]

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Robert Hill and Joanne Lediger are Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE ROBERT HILL HOME PAGE JOANNE LEDIGER Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Robert Hill of Robert Hill and Joanne Lediger Robert Hill Robert Hill was born at a very early age, a small, naked male child in North Little Rock, Arkansas. As the story goes, whenever someone from the city of Little […]

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Sara Niemietz Superman

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Sara Niemietz Superman Self-released Singer-songwriter Sara Niemietz has had widely eclectic musical tastes since childhood. So, it should not be surprising to see her deliver one of the most purposely diverse, genre agnostic we’ve heard with Superman. Partnering with top-notch co-producer, co-writer, and guitarist Linda Taylor, the duo brings us fourteen tunes. Niemietz, though a […]

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Jeremiah Johnson Hi Fi Drive By

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Jeremiah Johnson Hi Fi Drive By Ruf Ah, the guitar slinger – too many notes, too much repetition, and too loud. That was my previous impression of Jeremiah Johnson.  Hi Fi Drive By conjures a different one because Johnson comes to this recording with a bunch of infectiously good songs. So, it seems that Johnson […]

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LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Laura Tate

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  Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Laura Tate 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 […]

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LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Mitch Grainger

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  Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Mitch Grainger 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 […]

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The Claudettes The Claudettes Go Out

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The Claudettes The Claudettes Go Out Forty Below The Claudettes Go Out, the quartet’s sixth album, is their follow-up to their 2020 High Times in the Dark, described by this writer in another outlet as their best yet. While that was a coming-out party for trained jazz vocalist, turned pop singer Berit Ulseth, this one smooths […]

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Kirby Heard is Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Kirby Heard Since the November 2019 release of her first solo project, “Mama’s Biscuits”, Kirby Heard has become known for songs that take listeners on journeys through yesteryear and memories of home. Often introspective, inquisitive, and witty, these are songs with an authentic voice and perspective. […]

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Serabee Hummingbird Tea

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Serabee Hummingbird Tea Rabadash The next great female soulful singer in the mold of Bonnie Bramlett, Bonnie Raitt, and Susan Tedeschi may well be Serabee (short for her real name, Sera Buras). She’s a songwriter too, having penned the 14 originals on this destined to be breakout album, Hummingbird Tea. Just look at these credentials […]

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Mitch Grainger is Making a Scene

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HOME PAGE Making a Scene presents an interview with Mitch Grainger Mitch Grainger is the perfect paradox. A white guy from Australia, who infuses the Blues & Roots genre’s traditional styling’s with a confidence, and depth of spirit, that has seen him compared to the likes of Robert Johnson* by American music critics. His sound, […]

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Dave Keyes Rhythm Blues & Boogie

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Dave Keyes Rhythm Blues & Boogie Blue Heart The artist with the perfect name for his craft, Dave Keyes, returns with his sixth album and debut for Blue Heart Records, Rhythm Blues & Boogie. Keyes, here playing piano, Wurlitzer, B3, and accordion has earned three BMA nominations, has played in the Broadway pits, done television […]

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Malaya Blue Blue Credentials

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Malaya Blue Blue Credentials Blue Heart Unfortunately, the songs on Blue Credentials are the swan songs for the late noted blues songwriter Dennis Walker (Robert Cray, B.B. King, Bettye LaVette) unless someone unearths undiscovered material. Award-winning U.K. vocalist Malaya Blue follows up her 2020 critically acclaimed collaboration with Walker, Still, making this her fourth release […]

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LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Sweet Undertow

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  Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Sweet Undertow 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 […]

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