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My guest today is Composer/Producer/Engineer BZ Lewis who has worked on projects for Blame Sally, Roberta Flack, MTV, Microsoft, Mapplethorpe, World Poker Tour, Dateline, All My Children, The Shield, and Guitar Hero to name just a few. In this episode, we discuss The Origin of BZ Big Spring, TX Tumbleweed Smith Reel to Reel Duplication Outlier Status David Koresh UT Austin Guilt Over Leaving Music Prophetic Dreams Starting a Production Company Making a Movie Moving From Texas Easily Digital Audio Riding a Bike San Francisco Studio Working in a Mall Music Store Media Creature Luck POPTUNA Company Splits Working with New Beginners Music Libraries Saving Early Frugal Living Work-Life Balance Yellow Page Crowd Matt's Rant: Taking the Weekend Off Links and Show Notes BZ's Site BZ's Dad's Site Credits Guest: BZ Lewis Host: Matt Boudreau Engineer: Matt Boudreau Producer: Matt Boudreau Editing: Anne-Marie Pleau WCA Theme Music: Cliff Truesdell Announcer: Chuck Smith
This week on ART ON THE AIR features Monica Pasqual, Known for two decades as a member of Blame Sally. She is a Bay Area folk-pop singer-songwriter, using much of her previous recorded work with this, her sixth solo album, adding ten more songs that speak from both painful experience and optimistic resistance. Our Spotlight is with Art Barn Executive Director Amy Davis Navardaukas updating what is happening in the new year with exhibits, classes, and even plans for Art Blizt. Tune in on Friday at 11am for our hour long conversation with our special guests or listen on the web at WVLP.org Listen to past ART ON THE AIR shows at brech.com/aota. Rebroadcast on WVLP - Monday at 5pm and Sunday (1/3) on 7pm on Lakeshore Public Radio89.1FM or lakeshorepublicradio.org. Please have your friends send show feedback to Lakeshore at: radiofeedback@lakeshorepublicmedia.org Send your questions about our show to AOTA@brech.com LIKE us on Facebook.com/artonthairwvlp to keep up to date about art issues in the Region. New and encore episodes also heard as podcasts on: anchor.fm/art-on-the-air, NPR ONE, Spotify Tune IN, Amazon Music, Apple and Google Podcasts, plus many other podcast platforms. Larry A Brechner & Ester Golden hosts of ART ON THE AIR.
Blame Sally live session on Folkscene. Recorded 4-9-11. Hosted by Roz Larman. Engineered & remastered for broadcast by Peter Cutler. ©Folkscene
Texas indie Americana and folk is what David Martinez does and he does it really well, with a little rock snuck in for good measure. A passionate, powerful and determined singer songwriter, Martinez is taking the Texas music scene by storm. He has played at the Texas Indie Fest, Texas Rockfest, and SXSW, with the among others plus toured the state and nationally. With a voice that can belt or croon smooth as glass, he is bringing a refreshing vibe to Texas in his new album, One More Time, produced by Leroy Miller. Now in Corpus Christie, it won’t long before we hear about him far beyond Texas. Spark & Whisper is the musical collaboration of Anita Sandwina & Velvy Appleton, singer-songwriters/multi-instrumentalists from the SF Bay Area who met at the Strawberry Music Festival in Northern California, formed a trio, expanded to a band, changed names and produced two critically acclaimed albums, an east coast tour. Over 100 shows later, Appleton & Sandwina created Spark & Whisper and released their debut album, “Spark & Whisper” to stellar reviews and strong radio play. The album launched the band into 3 years of solid gigging. They teamed up with producer Monica Pasqual of Blame Sally and released their second album, “Ghost Towns” which was embraced by the acoustic/folk radio community and rose on 12 different Folk DJ’s “Top 10 Albums of 2013”.
Lesbians and their friends take over the stage at Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley Friday, Nov. 13, in a concert benefiting Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which has defended the rights of LGBT people in many recent legal cases and political battles.
Lesbians and their friends take over the stage at Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley Friday, Nov. 13, in a concert benefiting Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which has defended the rights of LGBT people in many recent legal cases and political battles.
Doña Oxford is an extraordinary soul, R&B and boogie woogie singer/songwriter and keyboardist who’s old school soul vocals and high octane keyboard piano create music that crowds of all ages go wild for. She puts on red hot live shows - many have called them “Gladys Knight meets the Rolling Stones” concerts. Doña has played with legends including Keith Richards, Bob Weir, Levon Helm, Albert Lee, Buddy Guy, Shemekia Copeland and Johnnie Johnson, and played keyboard for Van Morrison in his latest studio recording. Labeled the ‘Goddess of Soul’, Doña toured her sassy, soulful 6-piece band throughout the world while recording four fast selling albums. She joins us on Musiic Friday Live! at 2:05 pm ET. Fourth generation Californian Corinne West, described as "the Siren of the Sierras" brings a powerful and eloquent voice coupled with finely crafted song to the global acoustic roots music scene. At 15, she left home with guitar in hand to travel America in a converted school bus, sang in an edgy rock-n-roll band, studied theatre, restored bi-plane wings, built custom curved walls as a river rock mason and opened a fine art business in glass and metal with a blacksmith in the High Sierras. All of that informs her elegant new sexy acoustic jazz-rock-folk, "west-coast acoustic soul" sound. Her newest album, The Promise is a collaboration with Pam Delgado and Jeri Jones of Blame Sally and is a soaring triumph. She joins us at 2:30 pm ET.
Owning a house in West Oakland, foreclosures and the Oakland Community Land Trust, a Hear Here on the Oakland cathedral, and local musicians Blame Sally.
BLAME SALLY is one of the most powerful word-of-mouth success stories in recent years.. Each of the four women put her individual career aside to start Blame Sally in the San Fransisco Bay-area when they were in their late thirties and forties � the age at which bands are traditionally supposed to break up and begin solo careers. Their latest CD is "Speeding Ticket and a Valentine" released on Ninth Street Opus.Water." THE TWILITE BROADCASTERS continues the longstanding tradition of two part rural harmony vocals with simple acoustic string instrument accompaniment once common in the Southern part of the United States (starting in the 1930's). The irinfluences include The Monroe Brothers,The Louvin Brothers, The Stanley Brothers, Jim and Jesse, and more but have a sound that is uniquely theirs. Adam Tanner and Mark Jackson formed the group in 2009 in Weaverville, North Carolina. They have just released a new recording called "The Trail of Time."
FTB podcast #118 features the new album by OWEN TEMPLE called Mountain Home. Also new music from SEMI-TWANG, BLAME SALLY and CALAFIA. Show #118 OWEN TEMPLE - Mountain Home Mountain Home REBECCA PRONSKY - Hard Times Viewfinder JOHN SHIPE - What Right Do We Have To Fall in Love Villain BLAME SALLY - Big Big Bed Speeding Ticket and a Valentine (mic break) MILK DRIVE - Soho Road From Home TOWN MOUNTAIN - Diggin' On the Mountainside Steady Operator ALELA DIANE & WILD DIVINE - Long Way Down Alela Diane & Wild Divine OWEN TEMPLE - Medicine Man Mountain Home (mic break) SEMI-TWANG - The Wages of Sin Wages of Sin TONY FURTADO - Toe The Line Golden LAKE STREET DIVE - Henriette Lake Street Dive CALAFIA - Open Arms Calafia (mic break) OWEN TEMPLE - One Day Closer To Rain Mountain Home (May 6th, 2011)Bill FraterFreight Train BoogieAmericana Boogie
I had a lot of fun with tonight's show! 8:15 interview with Pam Delgado of Blame Sally (they're at Rogue Folk Club Sept. 3). Just after 8:30 Dan Mangan rolled into the studio with his trusty Taylor and cohorts John and Aaron. Hilarity and fine music ensued. Tune in and enjoy, my friends!Enjoy the rest of the summer..val folkoasis@gmail.com