interview Archive
08 Jan 2020
Johnny Mathis is Still “Wonderful! Wonderful!”
Pop stars and pop music fashions come and go. But a select few performers endure through the years. At the top of that short list is Johnny Mathis. Recipient of […]
07 Jan 2020
Samantha Fish: More Than Just a Girl with a Guitar (Part Two)
Continued from Part One … “Kill or Be Kind” is as far away as you can get from the idea of a song that’s merely an excuse for a guitar […]
06 Jan 2020
Samantha Fish: More Than Just a Girl with a Guitar (Part One)
Early in her career, Missouri-born guitarist and singer Samantha Fish was featured on an album titled Girls With Guitars. It’s difficult to imagine the Samantha Fish of today allowing herself […]
05 Jan 2020
Russ Wilson: It’s All About the Music
Russ Wilson is one of the busiest musicians in Western North Carolina. Leading or playing in no less than nine bands, the singer and multi-instrumentalist has still found time to […]
04 Jan 2020
David Holt’s ‘State of Music’
It’s important to shine a light on the musical traditions associated with North Carolina. And one of the most entertaining and effective efforts in that regard is the public television […]
03 Jan 2020
The ‘It Was Fifty Years Ago Today’ Tour, Part Two
The continuing story of the Beatles’ White Album Continued from Part One… Todd Rundgren readily admits that he views The Beatles as an uneven record. “The album is incoherent,” he […]
02 Jan 2020
The ‘It Was Fifty Years Ago Today’ Tour, Part One
The continuing story of the Beatles’ White Album Tribute concerts and tours are a fixture of today’s live music experience. Sometimes they’re self-tribute: Legacy acts take advantage of decades of […]
29 Dec 2019
Kat Williams: Season’s Gratitude
For nearly two decades, Katrina Way “Kat” Williams was a prominent fixture of Asheville’s live music scene. The vocalist’s multigenre repertoire earned her a place as one of the region’s […]
27 Dec 2019
Musoscribe’s Best of 2019: Interviews
I lost count of how many interviews I conducted in 2019. I think the number is right around 175. I enjoyed ever single one of them, but as is typical, […]
21 Dec 2019
Hit Dogs: Serious Rock, Leavened with Humor
In the mid-1980s, Frank Zappa released an album with a question for a title: Does Humor Belong in Music? While much of the guitarist-bandleader-composer’s music was quite serious, his humor-focused […]