interview Archive
02 Sep 2019
Welcome to Cadillac Baby’s Show Lounge: The Bea & Baby Boxed Set
From the perspective of crate-diggers – amateur and professional music archivists alike – one of the great benefits of the digital age has been the rescuing of obscure recordings. Against […]
30 Aug 2019
Copland: Communist Composer?
Responsible for some of the most important works in 20th century American classical music, Aaron Copland earned the label often applied to him: the Dean of American Composers. Despite his […]
28 Aug 2019
Michael Franti: National Tour, Local Focus
Michael Franti is well known for many things.* The Oakland-born musician is a guitarist, rapper, songwriter and poet. He’s also renowned for his activism and commitment to social change, world […]
27 Aug 2019
Televisionary: Josh Mills discusses TV Comedy Pioneer Ernie Kovacs (Part Two)
Continued from Part One … My first exposure to Kovacs was the PBS retrospective series, which I guess was in the late ’70s. Yeah. This record came out in ’76. […]
26 Aug 2019
Televisionary: Josh Mills discusses TV Comedy Pioneer Ernie Kovacs (Part One)
There was no precedent for the comedy of Ernie Kovacs. A pioneering figure in the early days of television, Kovacs brought a bizarre kind of comedy – mostly verbal, but […]
24 Aug 2019
For Nikki Talley, Home is Where the Muse Lives
Based since 1996 in Western North Carolina, singer-songwriter-guitarist Nikki Talley took to the road about six years ago. With husband and multi-instrumentalist Jason Sharp, she toured constantly, traveling across the […]
23 Aug 2019
Denny Laine: McCartney’s Wingman is Still Flying (Part Two)
Continued from Part One … I started buying Wings albums when Band on the Run came out. I was 10. And as I followed the band, I began–even as a […]
22 Aug 2019
Denny Laine: McCartney’s Wingman is Still Flying (Part One)
Denny Laine was a founding member of the Moody Blues, along with longtime members Ray Thomas and Mike Pinder. He left and went on to a solo career, working briefly […]
21 Aug 2019
Spin it On: Denny Laine on Wings’ ‘Back to the Egg’ at 40 (Part Two)
Continued from Part One … I have a bootleg recording which is probably a rough mix of a working version of Back to the Egg, and the version of “Getting […]
20 Aug 2019
Spin it On: Denny Laine on Wings’ ‘Back to the Egg’ at 40 (Part One)
In the very early 1970s, not long after the Beatles had broken up, Paul McCartney decided he wanted to have a band again. With wife Linda, he recruited Denny Laine, […]