Talkin’ Blues (Talkin’Blues Productions)

An interview with Andrew Galloway - the president of Electro-Fi Records.  Music:  "Snap" by Mel Brown & The Homewreckers  Special Thanks to:  Gary Vaughan, Tom Funasaka and Bruce Greenaway

An interview with blues musician, Sugar Brown - www.sugarbrowmusic.com.  (Music:  "Poor Lazarus" traditional arrangement by Sugar Brown.  Special Thanks to Sarah French.)

An interview with radio DJ, John Donabie.  (Music:  "Leaving" by Steve  Strongman.  Special thanks to Bruce Greenaway and Gary Vaughan.)

An interview with blues legend Bobby Rush = www.bobbyrushbluesman.com Please note:  This interview contains language that may offend some people.  (Music:  "Leaving" by Steve Strongman.  Special Thanks to Chuck Jackson, Bruce Greenaway and Gary Vaughan.)

An interview with drummer, Gary Craig (Bruce Cockburn, Anne Murray, Blackie & The Rodeo Kings, etc...)  (Music:  "Leaving" by Steve Strongman.  Special thanks to Bruce Greenaway & Gary Vaughan.)

From the archives, an interview with guitarist, Ronnie Earl -  www.ronnieearl.com.  (Music:  "Leaving" by Steve Strongman.  Special thanks to Deb Blanchard, Ronnie Earl, Andrew Galloway, Michael Cloeren, Bruce Greenaway and Gary Vaughan.)

An interview with legendary New Orleans pianist, Henry Butler - http://henrybutler.com(Music:  "Leaving" by Steve Strongman.  Special thanks to Henry Butler, Bruce Greenaway and Gary Vaughan.)

An interview with Fathead bassist, Omar Tunnoch - www.bobomartunnoch.com.  (Music:  "Leaving" by Steve Strongman.  Specialthanks to Omar Tunnoch, Bruce Greenaway and Gary Vaughan.)

An interview with troubadour, Eric Bibb - www.ericbibb.com (Music:  "Leaving" by Steve Strongman.  Special thanks to Sari Matinlassi, Holger Petersen, Bruce Greenaway and Gary Vaughan.)

An interview with Canadian singer/songwriter, Jon Brooks - www.jonbrooks.ca.(Music:  "Gun Dealer" by Jon Brooks.  Special thanks to Jon Brooks, Bruce Greenaway and Gary Vaughan.)

An interview with jazz musician, Steven Bernstein - www.stevenbernstein.net  (Music:  "Leaving" by Steve Strongman.  Special thanks to Henry Butler, Steven Bernstein and Gary Vaughan.)

Interview with singer, actor, entertainer, producer, mom and many,  many other things - Shakura S'Aida. Music:  "Time" by Shakura S'Aida.  Special thanks to Gary Vaughan and Bruce Greenaway.)

An interview with musician, artist and lawyer, Paul Sanderson -  http://www.sandersonlaw.ca/  (Music:  "Leaving" by Steve Strongman.  Special thanks to Paul Sanderson, Bruce Greenaway and Gary Vaughan.)

An interview with keyboardist, Michael Fonfara of Downchild.  (Music:  "Leaving" by Steve Strongman.  Special Thanks to Omar Tunnoch, Andrew Galloway, Michael Fonfara, Bruce Greenaway and Gary Vaughan.)

An interview with documentary producer/director Daniel Cross - http://www.eyesteelfilm.com (Special Thanks to Rob Lutes, Daniel Cross, Eric Thom, Bruce Greenaway and Gary Vaughan.)

An interview with music composer, Ari Posner - www.arimusic.com.  (Special thanks to Ari Posner, Liam Romalis, Bruce Greenaway and Gary Vaughan.)

An interview with Sonny Charles of the Checkmates, Ltd & Steve Miller Band. (This is part 1 of the interview.)

An interview with Sonny Charles of the Checkmates, Ltd & Steve Miller Band.  (This is part 2 of the interview.)

An interview with Cirque du Soleil guitarist, Bruce Rickerd (Music:  "Leaving" by Steve Strongman  Special thanks to Junior Brantley and Bruce Rickerd for this interview.)

An interview with keyboardist, Junior Brantley. (Music:  "Leaving" by Steve Strongman  Special thanks to Curtis Salgado and Junior Brantley for making this interview happen.)

An interview with Blues guitarist/singer, Tommy Castro - www.tommycastro.com.  (Music:  "Leaving" by Steve Strongman.  Special thanks to Tommy Castro, Bruce Greenaway and Gary Vaughan.)

An interview with Sugar Ray Norcia of Rhode Island - www.sugarrayandthebluetones.com.  (Music:  "Leaving" by Steve Strongman.  Special Thanks to Sugar Ray Norcia.)

An interview with blues musician, Greg Nagy.  (Music:  "Leaving" by Steve Strongman.  Special thanks to Greg Nagy and Bruce Greenaway.)

An interview with New York photographer, Joseph A. Rosen. http://josepharosen.com/ (Music:  "Leaving" by Steve Strongman)

An interview with the CEO of the Legendary Rhythm & Blues Cruise, Roger Naber - www.bluescruise.com  (Music: "Leaving" by Steve Strongman)

An interview with the Associate Dean and Director of Chamber Music at the Glenn Gould School of Music, Barry Shiffman.

This episode features an interview with the wonderful Sonny Landreth - www.sonnylandreth.com.  (Music:  "Leaving" by Steve Strongman)

An interview with the great Elvin Bishop about his induction into the Blues Hall of Fame - www.elvinbishopmusic.com.  (Music:  "Leaving"  by Steve Strongman)

An interview with American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, Walter Trout - www.waltertrout.com. 

An interview with pianist Jamie Parker from the Gryphon Trio - www.gryphontrio.com.

An interview with Canadian blues singer, songwriter and harmonica player, Paul Reddick - www.paulreddick.ca.

This episode features an episode with Gospel, Blues and Rock singer, Alexis P. Suter - http://www.alexispsuter.com.

This episodes features an interview with Irish singer/songwriter/guitarist, Grainne Duffy - grainneduffy.com.

An interview with singer/songwriter, Johnny Max about his life and his involvement in the business of music - www.johnnymaxband.com

Interview with guitarist/manager Paul Nelson -  www.paulnelsonguitar.com.    (Music:  "Diagonal Blue" - The Paul Nelson Band.  Special Thanks to John Lappen of Lappen Enterprises, the Blue Note Club in NYC and Gary Vaughan for his post audio edit.)

This episode features an interview with Zydeco musician, Dwayne Dopsie - www.dwaynedopsie.com.

This episode features an interview with guitarist, singer/songwriter - Sue Foley - www.suefoley.com.

An interview with Canadian musician, Harry Manx - www.harrymanx.com.

From the Talkin' Blues Archives.  Back in September of 2004, I had the wonderful pleasure of interviewing one of my musical heroes, Chris Whitley, the day after his performance at Hugh's Room.  Portions of this interview was to be used for my television series back then but that fell through.  I am not mic'd for this interview as I had no idea it would ever wind up on this podcast project.  My brother, Tom, was kind enough to edit and clean up the audio for this podcast episode.  

Be sure to listen to PART 2 of this podcast as well.

From the Talkin' Blues Archives.  Back in September of 2004, I had the wonderful pleasure of interviewing one of my musical heroes, Chris Whitley, the day after his performance at Hugh's Room.  Portions of this interview was to be used for my television series back then but that fell through.  I am not mic'd for this interview as I had no idea it would ever wind up on this podcast project.  My brother, Tom, was kind enough to edit and clean up the audio for this podcast episode.  This is Part two of the interview with Chris Whitley from September 24, 2004.

An interview with guitarist/singer/songwriter Toney Springer of Wild T and the Spirit - www.wildt.ca.

A conversation with Jimmy Boudreau - drummer for Mel Brown's Homewreckers.  Jimmy also plays with Jim Witter, The Western Swing Authority and many other musical projects -  www.jimboudreau.com

Episode 46 features an interview with Steve Marriner of Monkey Junk - monkeyjunkband.com.

An interview with music writer Eric Thom about his life and his approach to reviewing music.  You can find some of Eric's latest reviews at  http://blurtonline.com/

An interview with Canadian guitar maker, Linda Manzer - www.manzer.com.

Here's something different.  Musician, Shakura S'Aida interviews the host of talkin' blues, Mako Funasaka about his life.  www.talkinblues.com

An interview with musician Rick Holmstrom -   www.rickholmstrom.com  (music:  "Lord Please" by Rick Holmstrom.  Special thanks to Andrew Galloway, the Kitchener Blues Festival and Mark Carpentieri of M.C. Records)

An interview with blues, roots and rock musician, Steve Strongman - www.stevestrongman.com.

An interview with blues, afro-roots and soul guitarist / singer-songwriter Cécile Doo-Kingué - www.cdkmusik.com.

An interview with musician, producer, and songwriter Alec Fraser.  He is one half of Fraser Daley and has played with the who's who of the Canadian blues scene.  www.fraserdaley.com

An interview with drummer, Bucky Berger who has played with Fathead, Danny Brooks, Rough Trade, Chilliwack and Raffi...to name just a few.  This interview took place on November 29, 2016.

An interview with the Executive Director of Performing Arts for the Royal Conservatory of Music, Mervon Mehta - http://www.rcmusic.ca.

An interview with chamber blues musician, Corky Siegel - www.corkymusic.com.

An interview with Chicago blues musician, Toronzo Cannon - www.toronzocannon.com

A conversation with the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Blues Foundation, Barbara Newman - www.blues.org.

An interview with the owner and founder of Cordova Bay Entertainment, Michael Burke - www.cordovabay.com.

An interview with Canadian harmonica player, Roly Platt - www.rolyplatt.com.

An interview with Jimmy Carter of the Blind Boys of Alabama -  www.blindboys.com.  (Music:  "Leaving" by Steve Strongman.  Special thanks to Charles Driebe and Sue Schrader, Bruce Greenaway and Gary Vaughan.)

An interview with Cape Breton Blues Musician/slide player, John Campbelljohn - www.campbelljohn.ca.

An interview with Montreal Blues guitarist, Paul Deslaurier - www.pauldeslauriersband.com.

 An interview with Canadian jazz, blues & boogie-woogie pianist, vocalist, composer, arranger and producer, Michael Kaeshammer - www.kaeshammer.com.

An interview with award winning, Grammy nominated blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, Mark Hummel - www.markhummel.com.

An interview with the General Manager of the Notodden Blues Festival and singer/songwriter/harmonica player in Spoonful of Blues, Jostein Forsberg from Notodden, Norway - www.bluesfest.no.

An interview with American soul blues singer, guitarist, arranger, songwriter and record producer, Johnny Rawls - www.johnnyrawlsblues.com.

An interview with former President and CEO of the Blues Foundation, Jay Sieleman.

An interview with the producer of the Blues Music Awards and storyteller (author, filmmaker and public speaker), Willy Bearden - http://www.willybearden.com.

An interview with with blues, roots and rock musician, Ross Neilsen -  www.rossneilsen.com.  (Music:  "Elemental" by Ross  Neilsen  Special thanks to Gary Vaughan.)

An interview with the Detroit's Queen of the Blues, Thornetta Davis - http://thornettadavis.com/

An interview with Canadian Fingerstyle Guitarist, Don Ross - www.donrossonline.com.

A conversation with guitarist, singer, songwriter, Chris Antonik - www.chrisantonik.com.

From the Talkin' Blues Archives...an interview with Bluesman Snooky Pryor from November 3rd, 2001.  This interview took place thanks to the help of Andrew Galloway of Electro-Fi Records.  Assisting me in the recording of this interview and someone who is heard at the latter part of the interview is David Rotundo.

An interview with the brilliant singer, songwriter and harmonica player, Rick Estrin - www.rickestrin.com.

An interview with Ivan Neville of Dumpstaphunk - www.dumpstaphunk.com.  (Music:  "Leaving" by Steve Strongman  Special thanks to Bruce Greenaway and Amee Jana.)

An interview with studio musician, Bernie LaBarge - www.bernielabarge.com.(Music:  "Overnight Sensation" by Bernie LaBarge  Special thanks to Bruce Greenaway, Gary Vaughan and Domenic Troiano.)

An interview with multiple award winner, bassist for Downchild, and musical director of the Maple Blues Awards (just to name a few things he does), Gary Kendall - www.garykendall.com.  This is part one of two of my interview with Gary.

An interview with multiple award winner, bassist for Downchild, and musical director of the Maple Blues Awards (just to name a few things he does), Gary Kendall - www.garykendall.com.  This is part two of two of my interview with Gary.

An interview with Chicago Blues musician, Rockin' Johnny Burgin - www.rockinjohnnyburgin.com.

An interview with Canadian Blues Harp player, David Rotundo - www.davidrotundo.com.

An interview with author of "The Blues - Why It Still Hurts So Good" and Manager and Wife of Walter Trout, Dr. Marie Trout - www.marietrout.com.

An interview with Canadian Blues Guitarist, Shawn Kellerman (Lucky Peterson, Godboogie, Shawn Kellerman Band) - www.shawnkellerman.com.

An interview with promoter (and generalist) Rico Ferrara of Blues for a Big Town - www.bluesforabigtown.com

A conversation with legendary American soul singer, Bettye LaVette - www.bettyelavette.com

A conversation with singer, songwriter and guitarist - Jon Knight of Soulstack - www.Soulstackmusic.com.

A conversation with vocalist (Planet Earth & Funk Embassy) and the host of Gumbo Kitchen on Jazz.FM91, Ronnie Littlejohn.

This interview took place On March 4th, 2020 before our world changed.

A conversation with American blues, jazz and rhythm and blues baritone saxophonist, songwriter, arranger and record producer - Doug James (Roomful of Blues, Duke Robillard, The Founders and Doug James Big Band).

A conversation with the president of Electro-Fi Records, Andrew Galloway (www.electrofi.com) and graphic designer, Bruce Greenaway.

A conversation with singer/songwriter, lead guitarist and bandleader for the late Gregg Allman and newest member of the legendary Rock and Roll band, Little Feat - Scott Sharrard - https://www.scottsharrard.com

A conversation with singer, songwriter and guitarist, Charlie Huhn (Foghat, Victory, Humble Pie, Gary Moore and Ted Nugent).

A conversation with American songwriter, vocalist, guitarist and bassist - Walter Parks (Walter Parks & The Unlawful Assembly,  The Nudes, Swamp Cabbage and sideman for Richie Havens) - www.walterparks.com

A conversation with Irish guitarist, vocalist and songwriter - Barry McCabe (solo artist, Albatross) -  www.barrymccabe.com

A conversation with roots and blues singer-songwriter, Suzie Vinnick - https://www.suzievinnick.com.

A conversation with American electric blues guitarist, songwriter and record producer who played in Etta James' backing band for 23 years - Bobby Murray (Bobby Murray Band, Etta James, Frankie Lee)  - https://www.facebook.com/bobbymurraygroove

A conversation with author and two time Blues Music Award winner in the Instrumentalist - Bass category, Mudcat Ward (Sugar Ray Norcia and The Bluetones & The Broadcasters).

A conversation with Kim Wilson and Steve Strongman about "Struck Down", the latest recording by the Fabulous Thunderbirds - https://fabulousthunderbirds.com & https://www.stevestrongman.com

A conversation with blues, rock and "garage cabaret" pianist, producer and composer - Johnny Iguana (solo artist, The Claudettes, Junior Wells) - johnnyiguana.com