HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Kris Gruen It was in Vermont’s rural backcountry woods, mountains, and fields that surround his family’s organic farm, that Kris Gruen began writing his fifth studio album, Welcome Farewell. “I felt like a naturalist,” says the alt-folk songwriter, who had spent much of the previous decade […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Hector Anchondo For Héctor Anchondo, the third time really became the charmed one. Anchondo entered the 2020 International Blues Challenge in the solo/duo category and came away with the top prize: winning the solo/duo category. He also took home the Memphis Cigar Box Guitar Award […]
MUSIC ON THE COUCH SHOW #583 – 09/27/2021 LISTEN HERE: https://tobtr.com/11996821 ROBERT BILLARD & THE COLD CALLS From Halifax we will meet Robert and talk about his incredible musical journey and the new music on Stop. WEB SITE FACEBOOK PAGE MICK KOLASSA – COUCH KID NEW MUSIC Segment Begins At The 46:12 Mark Mick […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Elly Wininger Elly Wininger’s third album “Little Red Wagon” was #8 on the Folk Music DJ Chart for January 2018 and in the top 100 for that year. Her upcoming album, “The Blues Never End” including the award-winning song “Right Kind of Trouble” will be released in September […]
Hybrid Spirits The Forgotten Hybrid Spirits are – Nigel Rooke – Vocals, lyrics, keyboards and drum programming. Paul Kirk – Vocals, lyrics, keyboards, guitars and drum programming. Voodoo Jade – Vocals and lyrics. When three different types of people meet to make music together, only something special can come out of it. And that is with Hybrid […]
Joe Tullos Vessels Big Sun New Orleans musician Joe Tullos left us just shy of a year ago, but he was determined to leave a parting gift, his posthumous release Vessels. Tullos was a legendary character of several pursuits that included writing music for Jimmy Buffet, cooking for John Grisham, and touring with Carl Perkins. […]
Raymundo Sodré Dengo Ropeadope Listening to the uplifting music of Raymundo Sodré for the first time evoked two references. His Brazilian music hails from the Nordeste (Northeast) and resembles the juju music from Nigeria. Casual listeners may in fact think that it is African music. Also, Charlie Musselwhite once explained to me in an interview […]
The Delevantes A Thousand Turns Moon River A Thousand Turns is the third album from Americana band The Delevantes, helmed by New Jersey brothers Bob (the main writer) and Mike (lead guitarist). They are a band that first appeared in the mid-‘90s in the early gestation of Americana but many thought they disappeared as their […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Lindsay Beaver and Brad Stivers 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 LINDSAY BEAVER HOME PAGE BRAD STIVERS Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Lindsay Beaver and Brad Stivers Lindsay Beaver When blues-rocking, soul-singing drummer, songwriter and bandleader Lindsay Beaver takes the stage, she makes an immediate and unforgettable impression. Standing front and center at her kit, singing every song from the depths of […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Jeff Chaz 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 #109 with is Guest Mike Zito The Outlaw Orchestra Done My Time Samantha Fish Faster Electric Mary The King Of Rock n’Roll Carl Sentance Alright Fabrizio Grossi & Soul Garage Experience Radio Diplomatic Immunity Now’s The Time Sorrow &The Spire In The City […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Mike ZIto! Mike Zito is one of the most lauded artists in the contemporary blues arena today and rightfully so, but for him, the thing that counts the most is maintaining his honesty, authenticity and integrity. Those are the qualities that have steered Zito’s career […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Chris Beall The son of a motorcycle racer from a small town in west Texas, Chris Beall is a singer, songwriter, producer, guitarist who’s latest album “The Gin Mill Hymns” recently showed-up at #15 on the Texas Roots Radio chart, #29 on the national Roots Rock […]
Kris Gruen Welcome Farewell Mother West When we use the term country & western, we do not often think of a place like Vermont. That’s not to say Kris Gruen’s Welcome Farewell falls into the country & western camp but the predominant presence of the pedal steel guitar and rootsy accompaniment deliver a similar refreshing, […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Nathan Bell! Award winning performing songwriter, Nathan Bell, the subject of a 2020 Documentary short film “I Don’t Do This For Love (American Songwriter Nathan Bell on tour in Scotland, Wales and England)” was a best-of selection for Americana UK in 2016, 2017, and 2018 including […]
Avey Grouws Band Tell Tale Heart Navy House The Avey Grouws Band hails from Quad Cities, Iowa, which is not your usual home for a blues-based unit. Yet, they have leveraged the strong impact of their 2020 The Devil May Care by hiring Grammy-winning engineer/producer Casey Wasner, who has worked with Keb’ Mo’,Taj Mahal, and […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Jeff Chaz There is a southern gentleman on Bourbon Street. He is soft spoken, with just a bit of a south Louisiana accent, He still opens doors and holds chairs for the ladies. But when Jeff Chaz plugs in his guitar and steps before the microphone, […]
David Sanford Big Band (Featuring Hugh Ragin) A Prayer for Lester Bowie Greenleaf Music We must warn you that this is so far from your father’s big band music, that you need to be ready for progressive, improvised jazz that weaves in modern classical and defiant flavors of both avant-garde and punk. Okay, so with […]
Making a Scene Presents the PODCAST of LIVE from the Midnight Circus Featuring Gabe Stillman 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 Gabe Stillman The Gabe Stillman Band is a three-piece machine that runs at full tilt for every performance. While their sound is unmistakably rooted in the blues, the band draws from the deep well of all American roots music. Since landing in the final 8 of […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Stephen Jacques A rising star in the indie music scene, frontman Stephen Jacques and multi-instrumentalist producer Alan Weatherhead (The Cardigans, Cracker, Sparklehorse) collaborate on this exceptional body of work. These alt-rock recordings are a manifestation of material Stephen gathered throughout his career as engineer, custom builder, […]
Dom Martin & The Savages Live At The Harlington Those of us who love music are always searching for that moment when the music we hear, just stops you in its tracks. It’s the kind of moment is embedded in you memory forevermore. That moment happened for me in early 2019 when I heard Dom Martin perform for the first […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Michael Katon Part 2! Last week Michael told us about it all started for him, now in part two we hear how eventually the man from Hell Michigan set the world on fire with his red hot blues rock ! Your not gonna want to […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Doc Carter Since bursting onto the music scene with his debut EP, “Blue Eyes” in 2017, Texas singer-songwriter Doc Carter has gone on to generate a ton of attention over the years, with several ofhis releases capturing 30,000 plays or more on streaming platforms, and over […]
Chuck Owen and the Jazz Surge Within Us Summit Chuck Owen reconvenes his 19-piece big band along with special guest Warren Wolf to commemorate the five-time Grammy-nominated band’s 25th anniversary with Within Us. This is the Florida-based ensemble’s seventh recording and marked the first time many had recorded with other musicians in the same room […]
The Delerium Trees “Tales From The Western Isles” Today I would like to invite you to discover the new album by The Delerium Trees. I’ve already written a few reviews of this band and I’m always thrilled, but I have to say that “Tales From The Western Isles” is something very special. After the debut […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Brad Vickers of Brad Vickers and his Vestapolitans Brad Vickers learned on the job playing, touring, and recording with America’s blues and roots masters: Jimmy Rogers, Hubert Sumlin, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Odetta, Sleepy LaBeef, Rosco Gordon, and Pinetop Perkins—with whom Brad had the good fortune to […]
Teresa James & the Rhythm Tramps Rose Colored Glasses Vol. 1 Blue Heart Teresa James & The Rhythm Tramps are a Los Angeles-based band, but James was raised in Houston and has been able to mix Texas style blues with a West Coast jump and swing sound for over five decades now. They have received […]
Hector Anchondo Let Loose Those Chains VizzTone Every so often a wonderful surprise comes along, and this is one of them. Let Loose Those Chains is one of the most finely crafted, song driven blues releases of this year. Hector Anchondo is the 2020 IBC winner in the solo/duo category, and this is his first […]
Colin Linden bLOW Highway 20 We associate Colin Linden with the blues, yet bLow is his first electric blues release of the fourteen he’s made as a solo artist over his four-decade career. Linden, of course, has been equally or even more prominent on the roots scene with his band Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, […]
MUSIC ON THE COUCHSHOW #581 – 09/13/2021LISTEN HERE: https://tobtr.com/11995968 ANDY PEAKE – COUCH KID NEWS Andy returned to The Couch to talk about his last year and the music on the latest release, Mood Swings. WEB SITE FACEBOOK PAGE BRAD VICKERS & HIS VESTAPOLITANS COUCH KID NEW MUSIC Segment Begins At The 49:35 […]
Jimmie Vaughan The Jimmie Vaughan Story (5 -CD Box Set) The Last Music Company The living legend Jimmie Vaughan has documented most of his recording history through the auspices of Malcolm Mills’ Last Music Company across 5-CDS in a deluxe box set that in the vinyl size box also includes: An autographed full-size replica of […]
Making a Scene Presents the 2021 Independent Blues Awards! Congratulations to all the Winners and Nominees! The 2021 Independent Blues Awards We do things a bit different than other awards in that we encourage you to not only explore and experience winning artists, but all the nominated artists as well. Under each winning Artist is […]
Elly Wininger The Blues Never End Earwig New York Hall of Fame Inductee (2014) Elly Wininger is socially conscious, highly skilled acoustic guitarist and songwriter based in the Woodstock area. She’s been at her craft for decades now but The Blues Never End is only her fifth album since the end of the ‘90s, the […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Rigby Summer Rigby Summer weaves an Americana soundscape that reflects the road she’s traveled, from her Kansas City jazz upbringing to the beach pop of her former home in southern California to the red dirt roots of her current home in Stillwater, Oklahoma. While her […]
Making a Scene Present Turn it up with Gerry Casey and his Guest Michael Katon! The Dead Show Dealers Anthem 85 Kryptos Force Of Danger Nitroverts What’s Going On Cavalcade Feels Like Home David Gogo Sulfite Boogie Victory Gods Of Tomorrow The Crooks Better Days Oasis Champagne Supernova Primal Scream Rocks Michael Katon Rip It […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Michael Katon! While it’s entirely accurate to describe the music of Detroit legend Michael Katon as ‘blues’, it also fails to do justice to the power, intensity and raw Motor City attitude that Katon commands with every note and chord. Ever since he first started […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Avey and Grouws! Avey Grouws Band met at a blues jam on the Iowa side of the Quad Cities along the Mississippi River, and have since put their Quad Cities sound into the world with the release of their debut album ‘The Devil May Care’ in […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Mick Kolassa Mick Kolassa, a lifelong musician and hardcore blues fan who, in addition to being an active blues artist, is also the head of Endless Blues Records and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Blues Foundation. He lives in Memphis […]
Brad Vickers and his Vestapolitans The Music Gets Us Thru Man Hat Tone This is the seventh release for Brad Vickers and his Vestapolitans, a throwback sound as indicated by the 1950-ish red pickup truck on the CD cover. The core band includes Vickers on guitar, bottleneck guitar and vocals, bassist Margery Peters, drummer Bill […]
Lindsay Beaver & Brad Stivers VizzTone These two names, Lindsay Beaver and Brad Stivers, should be familiar to blues fans, especially the former who caught attention with her 2018 Alligator release, Tough as Love. Stivers released his VizzTone release a year earlier. Both played on Beaver’s album and are considered two of the hottest musicians […]
George Gritzbach Full Circle The thing l love about this job, is receiving music that’s completely new to me . A blank canvas so to speak . No preconceived ideas about either the album or the artist. Listening to this album one word comes to mind quality. Each song is crafted with such feeling and passion, even the […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Emily Frembgen After a successful tour and two albums with Denver indie-rock band Language of Termites (“In a Different Time and Place”, 2009 and “Preterito Perfeito,” 2012) and a string of DIY solo albums and EP’s (“Emily Frembgen and the Spiky Little Pinecone,” 2009, “Always With You,” 2010, […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey and his guest Rob Strong! Ireland has had more than its fair share of world class artists. Names like Rory Gallagher, Gary Moore , Van Morrison, bands like Thin Lizzy and U2. But there is another artist that stands tall alongside these legends. Rob Strong […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Sam Barron Sam Barron was born in NYC. His father was a former folk musician turned forensic criminal investigator. His mother worked with severely handicapped children. Stories from the autopsy table and the macabre reality of God’s misfits left a significant imprint on his developing mind. […]
Dale Webb Take a Little Chance Today I want to introduce you to Dale Webb, singer / songwriter who was born in Wales and raised in Ireland. Dale didn’t have an easy life and started playing guitar after a stroke he suffered as a child when he was just 12 years old. He knew that […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Shaw Davis of Shaw Davis and the Black Ties Formed in 2017 and hailing from Pompano Beach, Florida, Shaw Davis & The Black Ties feature an incendiary fusion of Progressive Hard Rock and Roots Rock that embodies the soul found within Blues Rock icons of the […]
HOME PAGE MAKING A SCENE PRESENTS AN INTERVIEW WITH SETH JAMES AT FIRST, SETH JAMES’ STORY READS LIKE PLOT LINES HAVE GOTTEN THEIR WIRES CROSSED OR TRANSLATIONS MUDDLED: COULD A WORKING COWBOY FROM DEEP WEST TEXAS REALLY BE A ROCK-AND-SOUL ROOTS FUNK MASTER, EDUCATED BY THE BLUES? One listen to James’ new album Different Hat […]
Making a Scene Presents Turn it up with Gerry Casey and his Guest Gerry McAvoy For well over two decades Gerry McAvoy rode shotgun as the bass player to the legendary Rory Gallagher. Rory’s hell for leather stage presence was matched by the rock n roll dynamo that is Gerry McAvoy . In this heartwarming […]