Dom Martin A Savage Life Dom Martin is someone who has a talent that is so obvious from the moment you first experience his spellbinding musical abilities. Over the decades Ireland has produced many fine artists in the world of blues. Legends like Rory Gallagher, and Gary Moore spring to mind . Dom Martin has […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Bobby Gentilo Take a walk through the world famous Cat Head Records in Clarksdale, MS and you will find more than a dozen albums with Bobby Gentilo’s name credited on the jacket. Gentilo is an award-winning international record producer and musician who has worked and performed […]
Prakash Slim Country Blues From Nepal Ram Prakash Pokharel aka Prakash Slim, an emerging blues artist from Lamatar, in the Lalitpur district of Nepal, has most definitely caught my attention with his new album Country Blues From Nepal. With only a resonator guitar and slide in hand, he captures the pure essence of the blues with magnificent covers of legends such as Robert Johnson, Bukka […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Mike Guldin Mike Guldin first picked up the guitar at age 15 and since then has honed his craft playing in roadhouses, clubs and bars, and Festivals and Theaters for over 45 years. Influenced by blues legends Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Willie Dixon, Albert Collins, The […]
Tim Gartland Truth Taste Good Music Truth marks the fifth solo album for Nashville-based harmonicist, singer-songwriter Tim Gartland. The dozen songs were all written or co-written by Gartland, who learned from the best in Chicago, having been mentored by Jerry Portnoy. Gartland cites as major influences Little Walter for harp playing, Ray Charles for song […]
Albert Castiglia I Got Love Gulf Coast The searing blues rock guitarist and songwriter Albert Castiglia always leaves it all on the floor, whether it be his ferocious guitar playing, impassioned vocals, or his honest, personal take on what’s happening to him on a personal level. The pandemic years for Castiglia, like for most of […]
Erik Deutsch La Nuit Blanche Ropeadope Given that pianist, keyboardist, composer, bandleader, and sideman Erik Deutsch has performed and recorded with pop/rock/country and jazz artists like Norah Jones, Rosanne Cash, Citizen Cope, Charlie Hunter, Leftover Salmon, Shooter Jennings, Shelby Lynne, and many others you would expect a genre-less sound. From 2016-19 Deutsch was a full-time member […]
Making a Scene Presents The Blues Foundation Announces the Nominees for the Blues Music Awards! An impressive assembly of blues music masters, ranging from Blues Hall of Famers to rising stars, will gather in Memphis on Thursday May 5th, for the 43rd Annual Blues Music Awards. Presented by The Blues Foundation, the BMAs honor the […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Big Al and the Heavyweights 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 […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Lia Hide Lia Hide is the prolific lady of Greece’s dark, progressive, alt-pop. Her latest effort, The Missing Fourth Guest, is the fourth album by the Athenian avant-pop artist. The Missing Fourth Guest borrows its title from Plato’s ‘Timeaus’ dialogue opening line and discusses the emotional struggles […]
Lady A Satisfyin’ I’ve been a fan of Lady A since my first listen when I reviewed her 2016 album Loved, Blessed, and Blues. Her ninth and latest album, Satisfyin’ continues to capture my affection for her music as it perfectly pairs her songwriting expertise with her special blend of funk, soul, and blues. With Anita White aka Lady A front and center on lead vocals, […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Ross Osteen 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 #134 Muddy Waters Mannish Boy Philip Lynott Ode To A Black Man The Byrds 8Miles High Bob Dylan Tangled Up In Blue Vanilla Fudge You Keep Me Hanging On David Bowie Watch That Man The Rolling Stones Paint It Black Jo Jo Gunne Run […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Jesse Norell Jesse Norell is an indie rock singer-songwriter and guitar teacher from Minneapolis, MN. After playing in bands until 2007, Jesse stopped writing songs and playing shows until his daughter, Alyssa, came along. His debut solo LP “Aorta Borealis” is his return to making music. […]
Josh Hyde Parish Blues Self-released The title lets you know that bluesman Josh Hyde hails from Louisiana. This is Hyde’s third album, and this writer was privileged to have covered his debut, about which the state’s premiere guitarist, Sonny Landreth, used these terms to describe Hyde – “funky, atmospheric, and soulful.” That debut, 2017’s The […]
Home Page Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Big Al of Big Al and the Heavyweights! Big Al and the Heavyweights originally formed in 1996 as the Unknown Blues Band, with founding members Al Lauro, Warren Haynes (Allman Brothers Band and Gov’t Mule), and pianist Rick Gergen (Sweethearts of the Rodeo). Although, Warren is […]
Mike Guldin Tumblin’ Blue Heart The tempting way to begin this review was to hail yet another Pennsylvania act living near this writer, and while we give an obligatory nod to that notion, we then learn that the album was recorded at seven different studios by over a dozen players, beyond just the usual Philly […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Ross Osteen With a voice that summons the guttural howls of John Fogerty, and guitar work that ranges from the front porch to outer space, Ross Osteen joins the powerful blues/rock scene of the deep south. The songwriter was born in western North Carolina placed in […]
Ryan Keberle’s Collectiv Do Brasil Sonhos Da Esquina Alternate Side Trombonist and composer Ryan Keberle, who traveled to Sao Paulo, Brazil in 2017 and 2018, began to collaborate with the city’s longstanding trio of Felipe Silveira (piano), Thiago Alves (bass), and Paulinho Vicente (drums), eventually forming the quartet Collectiv do Brasil and recording this beautiful […]
Buckmiller Schwager To Memphis and Back Together Tom Buckmiller and Brian Schwager are taking the Iowa blues scene by storm with their original working-man blues. This Des Moines, Iowa – based blues duo pulled down first place in the 2021 Iowa Blues Challenge Solo/Duo category, securing their entry into the 2022 International Blues Challenge in Memphis, Tennessee coming up in May. Buckmiller has authored three blues books and […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Regina Bonelli 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 Regina Bonelli Regina Bonelli’s band delivers an authentic, gritty blues and soul sound. For almost two decades, fellow New York natives, acclaimed bluesmen Tomas Doncker, James Dellatacoma, Kevin Jenkins, Nick Rolfe, Mark Henry, Leroy Thompson and Artur Uronen have been putting it down in the music world, here in the USA, and abroad. […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Richard Wilkins 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 […]
Jose Ramirez Major League Blues Delmark Is there any more appropriate title than Major League Blues at the time of this writing amidst the MLPA strike and the news that baseball’s opening day will be postponed? That’s one way to look at. Another way is that 34-year-old Costa Rican bluesman Jose Ramirez has made it […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey Show #133 and his Guest John Fairhurst Reckless Love Bark At The Moon Dave Coutts Saturday Tough On Fridays Covet Ozzy Osbourne Crazy Train Jaime Williams &The Roots Collective Life’s A Blast Sem & The Friends This Is My Place Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with John Fairhurst “I love speaking with john, the passion the hunger to see a society being treated fairly as equals burns in this man’s heart. That passion has always found it’s way into the lyrics and music that john has created over the years . […]
Making a Scene Presents Soul Patrol with the Black Rooster Show #2 Misty Blu Party all night Long Kenny Wayne We Do We Vick Allen Shawty on the Side Lamar Brace Rock Me Baby JL Party JL Turn is Loose C Love I’m Gone Nakita Rules to the Game King George Friday Night Portia P […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with The HawtThorns! An Americana band whose sun-kissed songwriting, versatile guitar work, 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. That chemistry reaches a new […]
Just a Season Leave to Come Home Northern Electric Hailing from Vancouver, the Americana band Just a Season delivers their third album, Leave to Come Home. Like the theme of so many albums recorded during the pandemic, the band reassures us not to sink too deeply into introspection, to put the darker times behind us […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Jana Pochop “Since I have been a full-on freelancer for over a decade, I think I have reached a point of success in that I get to dictate my days and no two days are alike.” says Jana Pochop, a self-proclaimed nerd with a penchant for […]
Eugenie Jones Players Open Mic Rarely will you see so many luminaries on one album. Well, okay it is a double disc and the third album on her own label for talented jazz vocalist/composer/lyricist Eugenie Jones who fronts various bands in New York, Chicago, Dallas, and her home base, Seattle on the aptly titled, Players. […]
Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Richard Wilkins The Richard Wilkins Blues Band is shaking up the Gorge’s live music scene. Blues is the 1st stop for RWBB, with detours into boogie-woogie, soulful ballads, and vintage blues-rock. Our music is upbeat and great for dancing. Our experienced, journeymen musicians and soloists support the […]
Kristen Lee Sergeant Falling Tiger Turn Kristen Lee Sergeant may not be your dad or mom’s prototypical jazz vocalist. There isn’t even a hint of scat, for example. She presents a much bigger package, especially here on her third album, Falling, where her interpreter role now takes a back seat to her own original material, […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Love Light Orchestra 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 […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with John Nemeth of the Love Light Orchestra Though born from the desire to rekindle enthusiasm for the grand, orchestral sound of mid-20th century blues, Love Light Orchestra is much more than a nostalgia act. Formed in 2016 as a nod to the sound and visual flair […]
Terraplanes Blues Band Stepping Stones The Terraplane Blues Band from Bristol, UK absolutely tears it up on their new album Stepping Stones. Produced by Richard Parsons, this twelve-track album of hot, original blues features Nick Scrase front and center on guitar and vocals. The rest of the band is comprised of Eduardo Allen on harmonica, Tom Turner on drums, and Andy Wood on Bass. Opening with “Highway 61” The […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Kathy Murry and the Kilowatts 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 […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey and His Guest Stone Jamess of The Dead Show Dealers Circle Of Friends Featuring Jaime Kyle Take My Love To Heart Adam Ant Stand & Deliver Fallen Sanctuary Broken Dreams Vendetta Love Ode Leadfinger Dodged a Bullet Serious Black Fallen Hero The Blues Band Come […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Present Gerry Casey’s Interview with Stone Jamess of The Dead Show Dealers It was in the autumn of 2020 when I first came across the music of the dead show dealers. A big hello to my dear friend Toper Denman of The Southbound Snakecharmers who introduced me to The Dealers […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Chris Castino For the last 20+ years Chris has written songs for his band The Big Wu. He successfully written material that is condusive to loud guitars, blues hollerin’, and dancing. The current version of the Big Wu is suited for tunes that are equal parts […]
Reverend Nathon Volume 1 Volume 1, the debut album from Reverend Nathon swiftly grabbed my attention, and won my admiration with its kick-ass style of southern blues-rock. This twelve-track, all-original recording is loaded with infectious rhythms and doused with Seventies psyche-rock. It’s definitely a fun listen. Hailing from the Lone Star State, Reverend Nathon is comprised of Nathon Dees on guitar and lead vocals, Gary […]
Making a Scene Presents Soul Patrol with Stevie J Blues C Love I’m Gone JL Turn it Loose Chavonna adams Saint jaimz Talk about it King George Keep on rolling TK Soul Rehab Sir Charles Jones Natural woman Jackie Neal Down in Da club Donnie Ray Who’s rocking you Stevie j Blues Big Boy […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Scott Martin Scott Martin has been a finalist at the Telluride Troubadour Contest, a winner at Songwriter Serenade, a finalist at the Wildflower Performing Songwriter contest, and twice a Kerrville New Folk Regional Finalist. Scott’s record “Missing” was released in 2018, featuring a song cycle about historical […]
Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne Blues From Chicago to Paris Stony Plain JUNO Award-winning and Boogie Woogie Piano Hall of Famer Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne revisits the bygone era of blues piano trios on Blues From Chicago to Paris. This stripped-down, retro album pays homage to the rollicking piano and bass-slapping legends Memphis Slim and Willie […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Kathy Murray of Kathy Murray and the Kilowatts With her new album, “Fully Charged,” due February 18, 2022, on Blue Heart Records, and the successful 2018 release of her critically acclaimed “Premonition of Love”, Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Kathy Murray and her band the Kilowatts maintain their place […]
Sugarray Rayford In Too Deep Forty Below The force of nature that is Sugarray Rayford has returned with In Too Deep. The two-time B.B. King Entertainer of the Year and Grammy nominated vocalist, arguably today’s leading soul-blues artist, keeps his successful 2020 formula intact by working again with Forty Below owner Eric Corne, who assembled […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Angela Easley 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 Angela Easley Angela Easley has the voice of the bayou – sultry, spicy, and full of soul. Angela was recently awarded the 2021 Female Vocalist Of The Year Bronze by the International Singer Songwriter Association and was fan nominated in 6 categories. This Nashville Indie Recording […]
Tritone Asylum The Hideaway Sessions Blue Canoe Tritone Asylum is a collective that brands their music “electro-acoustic,” filled with jazz-fusion, jazz improvisation, and Latin rhythms. It’s a tantalizing concoction that nods to familiar fusion pioneers of the ‘70s, Pat Metheny, the breakthrough sound of ECM, and versatile players such as Eddie Harris and The Brecker […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Big Llou 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 […]