Music Interviews Episodes

Send us a text One of the episodes recorded in the summer of 2025, Dustin and I dig deep into his inspirations, songwriting process, and he shares a lot of wise words, in addition to chatting about their latest album. This episode is great for any musician/songwriter, or fan's of blues-rock! Fronte…

Send us a text By any normal measure, John McCutcheon, at age seventy-two, should be retired. He’s punched the clock in the international folk music world for over a half century. He’s been a respected archivist of Appalachian music. He was in the forefront of popularizing the hammer dulcimer and i…

Send us a text This episode with Ron, recorded originally in summer of 2024, in which he chats about the band's latest albums, career highs, and lows, and much more. To learn more about Ron, and the multi-decade rock band, go...

Send us a text Jeff Weiss formed Scotia Rose in 2023, and they've been rocking ever since! The band sat down with me to discuss creative collaboration, life in a band, and future plans. To learn more about the band, and catch...

Send us a text Jennifer Roig-Francoli, award-winning professional violist is back on the show to continue her conversation about creativity, music, life, and more. Check out her website below, and don't forget to tune into he...

Send us a text Janet Horvath is a professional cellist, author, and speaker. Her latest book, THE CELLO STILL SINGS tells the remarkable tale of her parents as musicians in survivor's orchestras, and her discovery of their li...

Send us a text Drummer, and NYC native, Carmine Appice joins the show to discuss his lengthy career, inspirations, and the latest album from Cactus. Bio (from website) One of the premier showmen in rock, Appice became known w...

Send us a text I was joined by Michael Shrieve and Stephen Dees of the 1980s rock band, Novo Combo to talk about their unique career, musical inspirations, and what it was like to come back together and record after all those...

Send us a text Bay area native Smith is a proud member of a huge musically gifted family that created and nurtured his love of music. Singing his first solo at age 3, Smith’s music has surpassed over a million and a half Yout...

Send us a text It was a delight to meet and chat with McKenna Michels, a talented young singer-songwriter from Texas. Ever since her 2021 debut EP, RENAISSANCE, Austin’s McKenna Michels has been making waves and grabbing at f...

Send us a text Electric Violinist GINNY LUKE’s highly anticipated and long-awaited debut solo vocal album, Devil at My Heels, is due out November 1 on KZZ Music/Blue Élan Records. The album combines melody, muscle, and messag...

Send us a text Chris Slade’s music career reads like a Who’s Who list of rock ‘n’ roll. It’s truly amazing how many iconic bands and artists he has performed with over the decades. His musical journey can be traced back to 1...

Send us a Text Message. Honored to sit down with Jeff Pilson in this enlightening, and sage conversation about the music business, his musical inspirations, current projects, and of course, what living a creative life means t...

Send us a Text Message. Content Warning: Themes of songs discussed in this episode include violence, cancer, suicide, and drug use. Please make your own choice when deciding whether to listen to this episode or to fast forwar...

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Karen Birch Blundell is a New York City based performer and teaching artist. She is English horn of the Northeastern Pennsylvania Philharmonic and the Associate Principal Oboe/English horn of the Eastern Music Festival. She p...

My good friend Matt Pierce sat down to chat with me a bit ago about how he's been doing since we met in grad school. We get into deep discussions about music-cello playing in particular-and very cerebral topics that I hope yo...

Jennifer Roig-Francoli is a violinist, educator, and Certified Alexander Technique teacher. We sat down to discuss her new book (out now!), the impact of Alexander technique on her playing and her life, and how she helps musi...

Today, I'm joined by my friend, and fellow podcaster/musician, Dan Issawi to discuss one of our fave bands, Muse. 2023 marks 20 years since Muse released one of their all-time greatest albums, ABSOLUTION. Dan and I go track b...

The band was formed in 1968 in Los Angeles as The Flying Burrito Brothers. Its classic lineup featured country rock pioneer, the late Gram Parsons, and former founding Byrds members bassist Chris Hillman and drummer Michael ...

Texas Scratch is made up of three born-and-bred Texas guitarists – Jim Suhler from Dallas, Buddy Whittington from Fort Worth and Vince Converse from Houston. This mighty threesome of big dog guitar slingers takes no prisoner...

This special episode features podcast alums, and Beatlephiles, Jack Canfora, Elizabeth MacDuffie, Mark Alan Milller, and Steve March-Tormé. I learned so much in this panel episode about the original Fab Four, and made some gr...

My good friend, George Heathco, a Houston based musician, and composer, and I catch up on his latest projects, how he deals with being stuck when composing, and getting real about imposter syndrome and taking charge of one's ...

Malcolm Bruce, composer, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist sits down to talk about the honor of recording and being part of the upcoming tribute album to Cream, Heavenly Cream: A Tribute to Cream. Malcolm is the so...