HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Skylar Rogers To be compared to icons of the music industry such as Tina Turner and Etta James is no mean feat when you have just dropped your debut album. Chicago native Skylar Rogers achieves that and so much more with her 2021 release ‘Firebreather’, and […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Gayle Harrod 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 […]
Making a Scene Presents TURN IT UP with Gerry Casey Show #188 With his Guest Jackie Chambers of Girlschool Barbe Q Clara Rose Nobod’s Girl The Agony She Said Verity White Road To Nowhere The Hot Damn Dance Around Brave Rival Come Down Maid of Ace Made In England Joyann Parker Memphis MuddieBrooke Liverpool Guy […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Brings you Gerry Casey’s Interview with Jackie Chambers of Girlschool Girlschool are a Rock Band originating from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal Scene in 1978 and frequently associated with contemporaries and friends Motörhead. They are the longest running all-female rock band from the UK, still active and looking […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Thomas Abban Uncompromising, mystical, mysterious, ethereal, with an artistic voice all of his own- multi-instrumentalist Thomas Abban is hard to categorize and even harder to ignore. His music balances the accessible with the bewildering. His ethereal voice glides above a tumultuous ocean of musical exploration. Rhythms […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Gayle Harrod Gayle Harrod is living proof that it’s never to late. She began her public singing career in 2011 at the age of 42 with the Soul and Blues band Triple Shot. Since then she has performed with Classic Rock and Blues band Blues Deluxe and the […]
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Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Alastair Greene 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 […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Alastair Greene As Alastair Greene’s prolific and acclaimed career rounds the corner into a third decade, Greene arrives at a new, yet familiar destination. Following a 2018 live album that celebrated the 20th anniversary of his noteworthy Alastair Greene Band, the singer-songwriter/guitarist returns with an inspired […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Rhythm Krewe 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 […]
Making a Scene presents Turn it Up with Gerry Casey and his Guest Eddie Angel The RubyTuesdays Backlight Redemption I Am The Storm The Answer Oh Cherry Robbie Fulks Longhair Bluegrass Celldweller featuring Daedric End Of The World Saint Deamon Load Your Cannons Rebecca Downes Take Me Higher 2023 re mix Toronto Is Broken Drip […]
Big Harp George Cut My Spirit Loose Blues Mountain San Francisco blues singer, songwriter and chromatic harmonica player Big Harp George/George Bisharat returns with his fifth album, Cut My Spirit Loose. He features a cast of elite players, including guitarist Kid Andersen, Joe Kyle Jr. on bass, drummers June Core and Derrick D’Mar Martin, with […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene presents Gerry Casey’s interview with Eddie Angel Eddie Angel – captivating British guitar player, vocalist and songwriter. Charismatic personality, great showman and artist. Living in London. Having started his art expression with painting he moved on to guitar soon to be seen astounding people with his skills. Has since played […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Sarah Rogo Sarah Rogo is an artist, composer, and guitar player residing in Los Angeles, CA. With her haunting and unique slide guitar work, she defies genres and reshapes how the guitar can be used in composition and songwriting. You can find her as one of […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with The Rhythm Krewe Rhythm Krewe had its beginnings in 1990, when guitarist/vocalist/songwriter, Steve Zelman assembled a group of nine musicians to play some of the great blues, soul, and R&B music that had inspired them as young musicians, and to develop new original music that paid tribute […]
Steve Dawson Eyes Closed, Dreaming Black Hen Music Steve Dawson’s status in his home country Canada could decorate the face of a skyscraper. Dawson has played remarkable guitar on, and/or produced, over 200 albums since emerging in the late 1990s, winning a cabinet full of trophies including seven Juno Awards for his efforts. Now in […]
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Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Nick Schnebelen 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 […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Nick Schnebelen Nick Schnebelen – Multiple Blues Music Award Winner From 2018 to 2022, Nick Schnebelen and his band have been touring North America as the opening act for George Thorogood and the Destroyers. Nick clearly has the blues-rock power to fill that slot with regular […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Jeff Pitchell 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 […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #186 with Pat Lloyd of The Equals Lynyrd Skynyrd Sweet Home Alabama Lynyrd Skynyrd Simple Man Lynyrd Skynyrd Freebird Rolla Hey You Mystic Prophecy Hellriot Fontaines D.C. ‘Cello Song The Who with Isobel Griffiths Orchestra Imagine A Man Whitesnake Can You Hear The Wind […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s interview with Pat Lloyd of The Equals Formed in North London in 1965, The Equals were a group of friends consisting of the original line-up, Eddy Grant (guitar), Pat Lloyd (guitar), John Hall; (drums), and brothers Derv Gordon (vocals) and Lincoln Gordon (guitar). In 1965 The Equals […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Martha Groves Perry Martha Groves Perry is a singer-songwriter, entertainer, and multi-instrumentalist based in San Francisco, California. Her original music has a straightforward, compelling and sometimes edgy clarity with strong blues, southern rock, and experimental influences and a badass Americana flavor. Her penetrating lyrics, described by her producer, Kenny […]
Big Shoes Fresh Tracks Qualified Fresh Tracks is the American Roots Supergroup Big Shoes’ follow-up to their acclaimed 2018 Step On It! Big Shoes originally formed as a “tribute project” to recreate the early music of the iconic band Little Feat, thus the name. As they developed it became evident that the group boasted good […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Jeff Pitchell An internationally acclaimed dynamic singer, songwriter and guitarist, Jeff achieved national recognition when his album Heavy Hitter (Pyramid Records/EMI) reached #7 on the Billboard Charts, outselling Delbert McClinton, Robert Cray, Etta James, Johnny Lee Hooker & Muddy Waters. Jeff has recorded with such greats as J Geils, […]
Mike Zito & Albert Castiglia Blood Brothers Gulf Coast Records Mike Zito and Albert Castiglia’s dozens of individual albums all point to their first collaboration working as well as it does. Not to mention that they’re apparently good buddies. The title Blood Brothers encapsulates their bond and shared spirits ideally. Zito and Castiglia have long […]
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Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Sister Lucille 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 […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Paul Filipowicz 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 […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Sister Lucille Hailing from Southwest Missouri and deeply inspired by the musical legacy of Memphis, Sister Lucille has turned the worlds of Blues, Roots and Soul on their collective head and created their own genre – Memphunk! The band’s musical genetics run wide and deep. From […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey and his Guests The Cosmic Trip Advisors Ally Venable/Buddy Guy Texas Louisiana Ian Hunter I Hate Hate The Heavy I FeelThe Love Misty Blue Where Your Blues Come From Laid Back Country Singer Lb Firewind Destiny Is Calling LA Guns You Betray Chris Duarte Nothing […]
Otis Taylor Banjo… PS Audio/Octave While Otis Taylor’s 15th album doesn’t bear the thematically driven title like his 2017 Fantasizing About Being Black, the more plainly titled Banjo… speaks to similar themes. Taylor says this about the album, where, in fact, only four of the eleven tunes feature him playing banjo – “This is not […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Brings you Gerry Casey’s Interview with The Cosmic Trip Advisors The Cosmic Trip Advisors hail from West Lothian in Scotland and are a rock ’n’ roll band with a heart of soul. Rock ’n’ Soul, if you will. In their world, Iggy can rub shoulders with Keef, Dolly can pinch […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Skarlett Woods Entwining Swing and Jazz into folk-themed stories of love, she has a stage presence that demands the attention of a room. Taking her listeners on up-beat rhythmic rides over heart- swelling arrangements of originals and covers, Skarlett has simply become more comfortable showing herself […]
JP Ruggieri Gradually Descend Into Chaos Self-released For those who follow The Wood Brothers or the excellent album from singer/songwriter Jarrod Dickenson, guitarist and fellow singer/songwriter JP Ruggieri may be a familiar name. To the rest of the you, this may serve as an introduction although Gradually Descend Into Chaos is his second full-length album. […]
The Cash Box Kings Oscar’s Motel Alligator Records Blues fanatics of course, but certainly the culturally minded and perhaps most crucially, regular Joe’s, all should spend at least one night in a classic Chicago blues club. Add it to the bucket list, because soaking up that vibe with a blistering band tearing it down can […]
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John Primer Live at Rosa’s Lounge – Teardrops for Magic Slim Blues House Productions Guitarist and singer John Primer releases his second album in the space of only six months, with Teardrops for Magic Slim, a live recording from Chicago’s blues haven, Rosa’s Lounge. The late Magic Slim (Morris Holt) was Primer’s second famous boss, […]
The Band of Heathens Simple Things BOH Records The title to the 1978 Nick Lowe classic, Pure Pop for Now People, popped into my head while listening to Simple Things, The Band of Heathens’ eighth album of original material and 13th overall. If this isn’t pure popular music for everyone right now, I don’t know […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Mississippi MacDonald 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 […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Mississippi MacDonald It’s modern, it’s not musical archaeology,” says London-based soul-blues stylist Mississippi MacDonald of his music. “It celebrates a fantastic tradition. It’s soul-blues, and you’ve got to put your best into it.” MacDonald knows that tradition. He’s been to Al Green’s church and heard him […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Kurt Allen 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 […]
Making a Scene brings you Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #184 and his guest John Primer Agora Empire Young Medicine Hold On To Anything Blackbird Down Down Down Skam Do It Again Elles Bailey Hole In My Pocket These Wicked Rivers Testify Ally Venable Real Gone Tas Cru Riffin The Blue Doomsday Outlaw […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with John Primer John Primer has undisputedly helped build the sound and style of Chicago blues as we know it today. The echos of tradition bellowing from the birthplaces he played such as: Maxwell Street, Theresa’s, Checkerboard and Rosa’s Lounges, pulse from every chord in his […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Jann Klose JANN KLOSE is an award-winning* pop singer-songwriter, who has released seven albums and two EPs. Klose was raised in Kenya, South Africa, Germany and the United States. His recent singles “Sugar My,” “Flesh and Blood,” “Love You the Most,” and “Pilot Light” have accumulated […]
Rhythm Krewe Unfinished Business Rhombus The nine-piece horn band, Rhythm Krewe, from southern California, evoke those glorious West Coast blues records from a decade ago, many appearing on the long defunct Delta Groove label. This band, originally called Floyd & The Flyboys, predate those recordings, having begun in 1990. Like so many musicians in the […]
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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Jaimee Harris Boomerang Town Folk N’ Roll/Thirty Tigers On just her second album Jaimee Harris has proven to be an impressive singer-songwriter, creating vivid character sketches, a myriad of emotions, and an honest way of expressing her own personal feelings through her narratives. She echoes Springsteen and Gretchen Peters to name just two. Those alone […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring The Jorgensens 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 […]