interview Archive
09 Dec 2025
John McLaughlin: The Shakti Sage (Part Two of Two)
Continued from Part One… The following is an edited and expanded version of a feature that was originally published in The Tonearm. And this developed to the ultimate point when […]
08 Dec 2025
John McLaughlin: The Shakti Sage (Part One of Two)
The following is an edited and expanded version of a feature that was originally published in The Tonearm. Busy and vital as ever at age 83, John McLaughlin is currently […]
04 Dec 2025
Mann Underground: Geoff Mann Pays Brilliant Tribute to His Father (Part 3 of 3)
Continued from Part Two… (NOTE: A portion of this feature appeared previously on The Tonearm.) What were some of the guiding aesthetics that you brought to the project? I’ve been […]
03 Dec 2025
Mann Underground: Geoff Mann Pays Brilliant Tribute to His Father (Part 2 of 3)
Continued from Part One… (NOTE: A portion of this feature appeared previously on The Tonearm.) Why drums and not some other instrument? Geoff Mann: When I was a kid, I […]
02 Dec 2025
Mann Underground: Geoff Mann Pays Brilliant Tribute to His Father (Part 1 of 3)
A portion of this feature appeared previously on The Tonearm. Over the course of his career, flautist Herbie Mann released nearly 90 albums of original material. Nominally a jazz artist, […]
27 Nov 2025
McLuhan: An Amazing Musical ‘Anomaly’ in 1971 and Today (Part Two of Two)
Continued from Part One… The following is the second part of an edited and expanded version of a feature that was originally published in The Tonearm. How much of the […]
26 Nov 2025
McLuhan: An Amazing Musical ‘Anomaly” in 1971 and Today (Part One of Two)
The following is an edited and expanded version of a feature that was originally published in The Tonearm. One of the strangest albums of the early 1970s is also one […]
21 Nov 2025
Datrian Johnson’s Appalachian Soul
Gospel, soul, folk, blues, funk, show tunes and more: those are just some of the styles in which Asheville native Datrian Johnson is immersed. The singer’s body of work – […]
19 Nov 2025
Robin Trower’s 21st Century Blues
Robin Trower is one of rock’s true guitar heroes. The London-born musician got his professional start forming and leading the Paramounts, an Essex beat group that would during its seven-year […]
05 Nov 2025
The New Mastersounds: Goodbye But Not Farewell
This feature originally ran in Good Times ahead of the band’s October 23 date in Santa Cruz, CA. When guitarist Eddie Roberts and drummer Simon Allen launched the New Mastersounds […]