{"id":9821,"date":"2015-12-30T05:30:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T05:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=9821"},"modified":"2015-12-24T14:52:18","modified_gmt":"2015-12-24T14:52:18","slug":"best-of-2015-musoscribe-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/30\/best-of-2015-musoscribe-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2015: Musoscribe Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"

To date, I’ve had the honor and pleasure of conducting more than 250 interviews. This year alone I did nearly fifty. And while it’s risky to pick favorites \u2013 I can honestly say that I’ve enjoyed every single one \u2013 a few stand out from the rest. Here are five of ’em.<\/p>\n

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Anton Barbeau<\/b>
\nI’d been a fan of his work for years, but somehow had never gotten round to scheduling an interview with the Sacramento-born Anton Barbeau<\/b>. But as plans firmed up for a trip to Europe with my wife and son, I saw a perfect opportunity to sit down with Ant<\/a> on his adopted home turf: the Kreuzberg neighborhood of Berlin. His album Magic Act<\/i> (set for release in 2016) is one of the focuses of the interview, but we discussed a great deal more than that over coffee.<\/p>\n

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Shuggie Otis<\/b>
\nHe was a child prodigy who worked with his dad (the great bandleader Johnny Otis<\/b>), Al Kooper<\/b>, Frank Zappa<\/b>, and others. But he faded way after a string of amazing (if idiosyncratic) albums. Unlike, say, his contemporary Sly Stone<\/b>, Shuggie Otis<\/b><\/a> is back in a big way. Shuggie doesn’t grant many interviews, so this one was quite a score for me. The feature originally appeared as a cover story in Stomp and Stammer<\/em> magazine, with photos that my wife and I took when we saw Shuggie in concert<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Karl Wallinger<\/b>
\nI like to tell the story about the time Karl Walinger<\/b> and his group World Party<\/b> forced my car off the road<\/a>. In 2015, I got the chance to interview him<\/a>, not to mention to see him live onstage for the third time.<\/p>\n

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David Torn<\/b>
\nTorn eschews the term avant garde when describing his music, but there’s no denying its spontaneity and experimental nature. I chatted with him<\/a> ahead of his 2015 house concert, an intimate gathering like few others.<\/p>\n

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Les McCann<\/b>
\nThis one took some doing, but thanks to a mutual friend who gave me the home phone number of the soul-jazz great, I enjoyed one of the most enjoyable (and important) interviews of my career to date. Les McCann<\/b><\/a> is funny, candid, inspirational, and one helluva musician.<\/p>\n

I look forward to 2016’s interviews; I’ve already lined up a few that I’m bursting to tell you about. But…not just yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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