40 Years Later, Aldo Nova Still Out To Prove He’s No One Hit Wonder (INTERVIEW)
Imagine a teenage girl in a room filled with posters pinned to her walls, calling the local radio station on request night and asking them to play a song called “Ball & Chain” by a new singer named Aldo Nova. Fast-forward to 2022 and that former teenager is talking to that now seasoned artist about […]
Shooter Jennings Talks Multi-Dimensional Artistry With Yelawolf & Bond With Brandi Carlile (INTERVIEW)
If you don’t know that Shooter Jennings is a multi-dimensional artist by now, you’re lost somewhere back in 1970’s Outlaw Country. The son of country music legends Waylon Jennings and Jessi Colter has made his career diving headfirst into all aspects of the word music. He has done country, sure, but his heart has multiple […]
Joss Stone Talks A Life of Soul, Collaborations & Acting On ‘The Tudors’ (INTERVIEW)
Joss Stone is a multi-talented lady. She’s a singer, songwriter, actress and can cook in her kitchen with hundreds of her fans watching her culinary successes … and disasters. But whatever she does, it’s always with a smile on her face. Not even covid could deflate Stone’s happiness, although it did deter her plans for […]
Joan Osborne Shares Stories Of Her Unrelenting Soul Career (INTERVIEW)
“I’m fresh from my walk and feeling good,” Joan Osborne tells me when I call in for our interview. “I live mostly on the East Coast so it’s great to be someplace where it’s 60 degrees in the middle of January.” Osborne is indeed refreshed from the sunny California weather and spends our time together […]
Travis Tritt & His Band Take Biloxi For A Swingin’ Good Time (SHOW REVIEW/PHOTOS)
For rock & roll fans, when they imagine what a country music concert must be like, it usually consists of lower-volumed music, lots of cowboy hats in the crowd, and a setlist full of twangy ballads about two-timing men and broken-hearted women. Obviously, they haven’t seen Travis Tritt. Yes, he has ballads and drinking songs, […]
Samantha Fish Is The Real Deal: The Next Blues Kingpin Shares Stories New & Old (INTERVIEW)
“At the end of the day, we’re all still a bunch of kids cause we play music for a living, right,” Samantha Fish says with a knowing laugh. Having been a musician since her teens, she is very familiar with life on the road, playing guitar and singing songs of her own creation. She was […]
Immortal Axes: Guitars That Rock by Lisa Johnson (BOOK REVIEW)
Ask any guitar player about their favorite instrument and they will talk about it’s attributes like it was the most precious thing in the world to them. They detail it’s beauty using terms such as sexy and enchanting, how it’s soul is the real instigator of the songs the musician ends up creating with it, […]
Chris Hillman, Herb Pedersen and John Jorgenson Give A Masterclass in Baton Rouge (SHOW REVIEW)
If you ever wanted to watch a MasterClass, where the best of the best show you how it’s done, then sitting in the audience at the recent Chris Hillman, Herb Pedersen and John Jorgenson concert was exactly where you needed to be. When it comes to Mandolin, no one is better than Hillman; although Jorgenson […]
Jay Jay French of Twisted Sister Answers Questions Never Asked & Talks Lifetime of Hustlin’ & Rockin’ (INTERVIEW)
“I became a rock star but I’m also a real musician who changed my focus in order to succeed.” Twisted Sister guitar player Jay Jay French had announced to his family one day that he was going to be a rock star. After spending years as a drug dealer in New York City in his […]
Go-Go’s Drummer Gina Schock Talks ’80s Glory Days & Reigniting Bionic Pop Punk Spark (INTERVIEW)
A photograph is worth a thousand words, and for Go-Go’s drummer Gina Schock, she has probably taken thousands of pictures in her lifetime so far. Lucky for us, she is sharing some of those snazzy polaroids from her years in The Go-Go’s in her new book, Made In Hollywood: All Access With The Go-Go’s. Landing […]