HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Dean Owens “Certainly Dean’s pedigree as a performer is never in doubt with Great Grandparents circus owners and performers ranging from Clowns to Lion Tamers . Hear Dean’s tell about his amazing family history, and how he found through a family member doing a school […]
Jessey Jackson Gypsy Willow When an artist creates new songs and puts them together to form an album it’s a really special occasion. So when listening to Gypsy Willow I’m reminded how art and life experience are really one and the same. It takes a unique and special talent to combine lyrics that are meaningful and connect […]
Michelle Malone 1977 SBS Previous efforts from singer-songwriter/guitarist Michelle Malone have been searing, no-holds barred blasters, as gutsy blues as any contemporary blues artist has delivered. 1977 is a whole different side of Malone though. This is acoustic driven Americana that mixes nuance with nostalgia, autobiographical tales and introspection. Her character studies are particularly interesting. […]
Making a Scene Presents an Interview with J-Rad Cooley Young Salt Lake City-based musician J-Rad Cooley is a singer/songwriter, piano player and harmonica player, a unique storyteller with a distinct sense of blues, melody and groove. His soulful songs show his diverse influences from Lightnin’ Hopkins to Ray Charles to The Band, some with a […]
Old Crow Medicine Show Paint This Town ATO While they started as a bluegrass band, Old Crow Medicine Show (OCMS) in recent years have won two Grammys and are considered one of our best roots bands, meshing Americana, old-timey music, folk, and rock & roll into an appealing sound that consistently sells out venues wherever […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Shanna in a Dress Shanna in a Dress is your quirky best friend who refuses to wear pants. She says what everyone is thinking but no one else will say and you’ll get an uncensored journey of clever humor and heartbreak with a hefty side of entertainment […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Michael Veitch Michael Veitch can’t help but to look at music from all sides. This year–the same year that he’ll be appearing on PBS’s upcoming series about songwriters co-writing with Holocaust survivors, he will release an album with the title, “Wachtraum,” which means “days of dreams” […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with James Lee Baker Releasing an album has many cool milestones from the day the masters come back, to the day the order is placed online, to when it shows up on platforms for streaming, the morning the CDs arrive in the mail, and even the first […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Sarah Jane Nelson Now, as a Nashville-based singer and songwriter, she’s weaving her life experiences with universal truths to tell stories of her own. “For many years, I was terrified to be truly vulnerable in my songwriting. I was used to playing a part. As an […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Matt Hannah Matt Hannah is a Michigan-native and Minneapolis-based folk Americana singer-songwriter. His music has been heard on KCMP The Current (MPLS) and radio stations throughout the country, and he has performed throughout the Midwest including at the Mid West Music Fest. His sophomore album Dreamland, […]
The Boxmasters Help…I’m Alive Help…I’m Alive, the twelfth and latest release from The Boxmasters, ushers in a dozen new original songs from J.D. Andrew and Bud Thornton. With each of their recordings, I’ve always been delighted to listen to the guys navigate through their spectrum of influences. This album most definitely carries on that tradition. An infectious hook, powered by a […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene brings you Gerry Casey’s Interview with Charlie Landsborough For me music has always been about reaching out to others , and spreading happiness and love . Charlie Landsborough certainly fits that description, for many years he has brought so much joy into the hearts of his many fans from all […]
Frank Joshua “Sense Life” Frank Joshua, singer/songwriter from London has just released his debut album “Sense Life”. An album that gets under your skin and is as rich and diverse in themes as life itself. 10 songs that don’t leave out any feeling and that take us emotionally into the singer’s emotional world. Frank says […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Teghan Devon Teghan Devon is an award-winning singer-songwriter based in the DMV who has also lived in California, Texas, Michigan, Minnesota, and Massachusetts. She has been writing and performing her songs for 12 years. She fell in love with music at a young age when she […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Aaron Cabbage of Surge and The Swell Surge and the Swell is the solo and collaboration vehicle of Minnesota-based, Americana and Indie-folk, singer-songwriter Aaron Cabbage. Born in Kentucky, raised in Southeast Texas via Indiana and now calling Minnesota home, his influences run North to South. Cabbage pulls […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Dana Cooper Cooper’s lifelong passion & devotion to music began at age 2 in Kansas City. His father, George, was a huge influence. One of Dana’s earliest memories is of his father taking him to the Calico Cat, popping a coin in the jukebox and listening […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Steve Noonan Steve Noonan, a former recording engineer for Prince, is a blend of influences from post-modern British bands to 70’s songwriters. The end results are clear vocals entwined in pleasingly connected sections, all surrounded by his 12-string guitar’s lush open chords. His 2009 self-titled EP release established […]
Martin Harley, Daniel Kimbro & Sam Lewis Harley Kimbro Lewis Midnight Mango This is the debut for this singer-songwriter trio. Harley Kimbro Lewis is a straight-forward acoustic album with a laid-back, back porch feel – three guys singing, picking, and strumming. As they say, they did it the old-fashioned way, writing songs in the morning […]
John Evans Heart of Reason John Evans, singer/songwriter and producer, based in North Wales, just released his new album “Heart of Reason” in February 2022. John started with a debut album after finishing school and art college together with two of his school friends Alan and Linda Thompson. “Magic Man EP” was released in 2010. […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene presents an Interview with Jefferson Ross Southern folk artist, Jefferson Ross, is a songwriter, singer, guitar slinger and painter weaving stories for the ears and the eyes. Based in The Peach State, Jefferson travels throughout the U.S. and Europe performing his original music and displays his art at festivals and […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents An Interview with Dan Weber Dan Weber is an award winning songwriter who has been described as “reminiscent of early John Prine” (Fatea Magazine). Legendary Folk troubadour Ramblin’ Jack Elliott said “I love Dan’s songs and he tells really good stories.” “As I kid I fell in love with […]
Dan Weber The Way The River Goes Highway 142 Dan Weber’s songs are every bit as strong as the stunning photography that graces both the CD cover and the detailed booklet within, depicting him in various poses, sitting and standing, guitar in hand, in a shallow river. As he says of his 14 songs, “I […]
Massy Ferguson Joe’s Meat & Grocery North & Left Joe’s Meat & Grocery is the sixth album for the Seattle-based alt-country rockers Massy Ferguson (MF), known for their jangling, no-holds barred guitar driven attack and their invigorated fusing of country-rock and amped-up Americana. You would expect a heavy, driving sound. After all, they take their […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with David Gideon David Gideon is the kind of larger-than-life character you’d read about in a Jack Kerouac novel: adventure seeking, well traveled, and a little bit wild, with stories to tell and songs to sing. He mixes autobiography, tall tales, and old-school country twang on Lonesome Desert Strum. Recorded in […]
Emily Glazener Finding Irene Today I have the great pleasure to write about Emily Glazener’s brand new album. Emily, based in Houston Texas has been making music since she was a teenager, playing in cover bands and performing solo acoustic shows. She is also the frontwoman of the very successful band Red Iris as well […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Mehuman Folk Hop For Hip Folk, is the signature sound coined by singer/songwriter Mehuman (PRON. “May-mon”), and it resonates with authenticity and integrity throughout her music. Mehuman’s personal narrative is fraught with love, joy, loss and sorrow. From the vantage point of her most recent release. […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Matt Patershuk! Matt’s Grandad used to say: “God loves a trier”. He didn’t mean it in the way televangelist preachers do; who often say in not so many words: “If you pray the right way (and tithe appropriately), God will open limitless financial, health and career […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Michael Peterson This is more than an interview this is a Masterclass in Songwriting and how to negotiate the Nashville Music Industry! Though Michael Peterson is an Arizona boy who got into the music business through a college football teammate, he wound up with one of […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Vince Fontaine of Indian City Vince Fontaine is a musician, producer, and festival curator based in Winnipeg, Canada and one of Canada’s most important Indigenous composers. Celebrated for his creative direction of multi-award winning band Eagle & Hawk and his talented collective Indian City, Fontaine’s career […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Laurie Jones Laurie Jones is an American Singer/songwriter that has been dubbed “the missing link between Dusty Springfield and Tom Petty. She has been referred to as “Chrissie Hynde with a folk guitar” and compared to Lucinda Williams and Sheryl Crow for her Americana and […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Ellanora Dellerba When Ellanora DellErba isn’t picking her guitar, she’s looking through the lens of her camera. One might be tempted to think she sprung up from nowhere, like sage on a high desert plateau, grounded and rooted in the arid earth, but that would belie […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents Gerry Casey’s Interview with Jaime Kyle Before Taylor Swift and Miranda Lambert, there was Jaime Kyle. Jaime was the first female rock artist to be signed to a major record deal out of Nashville. Her albums “The Passionate Kind” (Atco/Atlantic), “Back from Hollywood” (Now and Then, England) and “The […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Randy C Moore RANDY C MOORE is an Americana Music Artist. A native of Humble, Texas, at 15 years of age he was making his own records; and with the help of Houston radio personality Arch Yancey (KNUZ), his first single releases were receiving significant Texas […]
Bruce Cockburn Greatest Hits (1970 – 2020) True North This may be the first time this writer has ever given ink to a greatest hits album, but my guess is that there are not many of us thinking of Bruce Cockburn, one of the most indelible voices of early non-commercial FM radio in the ‘80s, […]
Matt Patershuk An Honest Effort Black Hen There must be something in those canola fields of Alberta that makes good songwriters. Matt Patershuk is the third singer-songwriter this writer has covered in just the past two months. Those who read reviews know that this writer is especially fond of Black Hen Records, and virtually anything […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with John DeNicola An Academy Award-winning songwriter, John DeNicola has channeled his lifelong passion for music into a remarkably vibrant career in the recording industry. His songwriting successes include co-writing the hit singles “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” and “Hungry Eyes” for the Dirty Dancing […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an Interview with Mike Terrill of The Fires of Denmark When Mike Terrill starts making music, he works…fast. In just the last five years, he’s been a part of over 100 projects/recordings. But on Relativity, the latest release from his project Fires of Denmark, Terrill took his time; unable […]
Hayes Carll You Get It All DualTone Hayes Carll has built his career mostly on singer-songwriter roots-rock records but he claims that You Get It All is a country singer-songwriter record. He turns to his wife, Allison Moorer, and her favorite producer, guitar great Kenny Greenberg as co-producers of this, his eighth album. The many […]
HOME PAGE Making a Scene Presents an interview with Bruce T Carroll With the release of his third album, First Bird To Sing, Bruce T. Carroll is completing a significant musical hat trick. In the short span of only five years, Bruce has written, recorded, and released three albums: Ruckus and Romance (2016), Finding You […]
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. […]
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 […]