interview Archive
13 Mar 2015
A Trip Back in Time with Trip Shakespeare (Part Three)
>>> Hey kids! Don’t forget to read Parts One and Two! <<< Continued from Part Two… Bill Kopp: As we discussed earlier, you’re credited as co-producer on the new Trip […]
12 Mar 2015
A Trip Back in Time with Trip Shakespeare (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: When Trip Shakespeare cut Applehead Man, you were originally a trio. By the time of the second album, Matt Wilson‘s brother Dan had joined. […]
11 Mar 2015
A Trip Back in Time with Trip Shakespeare (Part One)
My interview with John Munson, bassist with late 1980s critical darlings Trip Shakespeare, began with him noting that my name sounded familiar to him: “How might I have heard your […]
27 Feb 2015
Bluegrass “Character Actor” Bryan Sutton Takes a Starring Role
The Asheville music scene has its share of local-boy-makes-good stories. And with his 1997 debut onto the national scene, guitarist and Asheville native Bryan Sutton quickly made a major impression […]
26 Feb 2015
Third Time’s The Charm: Pugwash Aims for America, Part Three
Continued from Part Two… Unlike their earlier deals with other labels, Pugwash‘s recent A Rose in a Garden of Weeds is not a one-off licensing deal. “Omnivore is our label,” […]
25 Feb 2015
Third Time’s The Charm: Pugwash Aims for America, Part Two
Continued from Part One… Some listeners might peg the music of Pugwash as “retro,” though in reality it’s classic pop in the best sense of the word. Many reviewers have […]
24 Feb 2015
Third Time’s The Charm: Pugwash Aims for America, Part One
Irish band Pugwash has been around for fifteen years, and during that time, leader and songwriter Thomas Walsh has worked with a long list of people whose names will be […]
12 Feb 2015
Musical Parody Gets Into a “Grey” Area: 50 Shades! The Musical Parody
Ever since its 2011 printing, E.L. James‘ erotic romance novel 50 Shades of Grey has been an inescapable presence in pop culture. Though as literature – five hundred pages of […]
20 Jan 2015
Hoo-Ever Land: A Chat with Jamie Hoover, Part 2
Continued from Part One… What I didn’t realize at the time is that the setback of rotator cuff surgery and recovery wouldn’t keep Jamie Hoover from creating new music and […]
19 Jan 2015
Hoo-Ever Land: A Chat with Jamie Hoover, Part 1
For the last thirty-plus years or so, Jamie Hoover has been known as a highly regarded producer, musical collaborator, and member of the Spongetones. I first noticed his production credit […]