Zig At The Gig podcast

Stephen Bluhm

Out of the Nowhere. Into the Here is the sublime second album by singer, songwriter, and
performer Stephen Bluhm. It’ll be available as both a vocal version and a companion all-
instrumental set. Recorded, mixed, and produced by Bluhm and featuring a host of gifted guest
musicians, the orchestral opus is an elaborate aural feast of strings, horns, flutes, piano, reed
instruments, and other timelessly evocative musical sounds — ambitious, but intimate and
confiding as well. Out of the Nowhere. Into the Here is being released on 12” LP vinyl, CD,
digital download, streaming platforms and 2xCD set including both vocal and instrumental
versions on April 19. The instrumental version is being released separately on the same date on
digital download and streaming platforms.

While Bluhm has been “making songs ever since I can remember,” in his teenage years it was his older siblings’ Lou Reed and David Bowie records that ignited his adolescent musical obsession. While attending Temple University, he took the plunge into live music via campus open-mic nights and from there burst upon the bustling Philadelphia scene, prompting the Philadelphia City Paper to dub him “an old soul, writing Tin Pan Alley-ish fare and singing croon-y folk jazz  in a voice that’d make Morrisey swoon.” Relocating to New York’s Hudson Valley, he further
honed his expressive performing style: Belying the serious slants of some of his songs, Bluhm’s
shows often find him dancing madly among delighted audience members.
“The music (and Stephen) is utterly charming,” raves famed musical theater actor and composer
Tom Judson, one of Bluhm’s avowed fans, about Out of the Nowhere. Into the Here. “The
halting, clipped vocals, with a sudden appearance of sumptuous string writing, are unexpected

and elegant. The music, at first blush, appears naïve. But on a close listen, it’s very assured, and
complex writing. And the arrangements are really just wonderful. Sufjan Stevens meets Kurt
Weill meets Stephen Foster.”
“As I put these songs and arrangements together for the album, I became more and more
confident in them,” says Bluhm. “I just hope people sense the beauty in them, the genuineness
that I put into them.”
With one listen to Out of the Nowhere. Into the Here, no doubt people will sense exactly that.

Stephen's Info

https://linktr.ee/stephenbluhm

Bandcamp: https://stephenbluhm.bandcamp.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephenbluhm/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100066550085802

stephenbluhm.fun

 

Bex Marshall

 

UK British Blues Award winner and 4 time European Blues Awards nominee Bex Marshall’s unique style of guitar playing is a combined technique of slide, blues rock, ragtime and roots pickin’.

Her voice is a powerful melting pot of old black woman’s heartache and rock diva soul. Bex is a writer of distinction and notability, she pushes the boundaries of blues, her songs have been called timeless, touches of genius, and now she tours internationally solo or with a three piece band which augments her unique style of of virtuoso playing, Born In Plymouth Devon she was the product of two very different family’s, one blue blooded landed gentry (her great grandfather was the Squire of Cornwall) and her mothers side Irish Romany (her great Grandmother was the original fairground fortune teller Madam Olga)

As a child at family gatherings her uncles would always play and stand her on the table to sing, at 11 years old she was given a 1963 Gibson Hummingbird by her Uncle David and started playing, she got hooked on instrumentals and classical guitar standards which stretched her fingers and gave her a great basis for her own music to develop, flamenco, ragtime, country chicken pickin’, rock and on to blues and roots where she is now in her element.

She always had a passion for travelling, its in her blood and trained as a croupier at 18 began her travels around the world working gaming tables on cruise liners to Park Lane even dealing illegal poker games in Amsterdam. She hitch hiked the coast of Australia on cattle trains and always with a guitar on her back living and storing tales.

Bex was asked to be the guest JANIS by ‘Big Brother and the Holding Company’s original guitarist Sam Andrews on their their 2014 European Tour.

 

 

Bex's Info

http://www.bexmarshall.com\

http://www.facebook.com/bexmarshallblues

https://www.instagram.com/bexmarshallblues/

 

Lynn Drury

Interview with New Orleans-based singer-songwriter Lynn Drury.

Lynn Drury has been performing, in one arena or another, her entire life. At the ripe old age of five she won a 4-H state competition in Mississippi in pole bending. If you don’t know what pole bending is, it’s alittle like barrel racing, Lynn says. That’s horse talk. In a word, rodeos. Once you know that much about Lynn, you understand her approach. She picked up the guitar at 26, went at it like a pro, and she’s never stopped working. Her inspiration is her environment and since the late nineties, that environment has been New Orleans. The transition for the Yazoo City-born Drury was smooth. She says jasmine smells like honeysuckle, and you believe her. Sultry, sweet songs turn funky, and it’s all in the same neighborhood.

https://www.lynndrury.com/

Jim Coleman & Michael Wiener of The Children...

Jim Coleman & Michael Wiener of The Children... join us on the show to talk about their second album, A Sudden Craving. 

 

 

The Children... is an loose collective initially formed and maintained by Jim Coleman and Michael Wiener. Contributing members include Phil Puleo, Kirsten McCord, John Nowlin and Rock Savage. Their live shows are sprawling, experiential and theatrical, integrating song structure, improv, performance and projections. 

 

The Children...'s info 

the-https://www.jimcolemanmusic.com/the-children

@thechildren_now

Brenda Sauter Of The Feelies & Wild Carnation Part 2

Interview with Brenda Sauter Of The Feelies & Wild Carnation Part 2!

Brenda joins us again to talk about Wild Carnation's re-release of their second album Super Bus!

New Jersey-based trio comprising Brenda Sauter (The Feelies) on vocals and bass, guitarist Rich Barnes and Chris O'Donovan (Grey District) on drums and vocals.. Way back in the 1990s, a young Delmore stumbled into now-defunct NYC nightclub Wetlands (during the sadly also now defunct, NYU Independent Music Festival), just as Wild Carnation were about to begin their set. Having lived in NYC / Brooklyn / Hoboken the previous decade, where countless mesmerizing gigs by The Feelies, Yung Wu, Trypes and Speed The Plough, all with Brenda Sauter on bass, had been experienced, it was the chance to see her fronting her new group that drew Delmore in. A few songs into their set, it was apparent however that this trio was more than a Feelies offshoot project, despite melodic similarities, and Brenda's cool vocals / presence. Wild Carnation played raw, loud and fast (and occasionally out of control), with Rich Barnes’ distorted, jangly guitar lines perfectly colliding with Brenda's propelling bass notes, while Chris O'Donovan kept it together, pounding the living hell out of his drums. It was a garagey, indierock mess, more reminiscent of Hib-Tone / Chronic Town era REM, and emergent New Zealand bands like The Bats and The Clean, than The Feelies.

Brenda's Info

http://www.wildcarnation.com/home.html

https://wildcarnation1.bandcamp.com

http://www.thefeeliesweb.com/

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

 

Harvey Gold

Interview with Harvey Gold of Tin Huey, Golems of The Red Planet, Half Cleveland, and The HiFis. Harvey Gold is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter based in Akron, Ohio.

Harvey's Info

https://golemsoftheredplanet.bandcamp.com

https://harveygold.bandcamp.com/album/its-messy-vol-1

https://www.tinhuey.com

 

Gary & Laura Dumm

Interview with Gary & Laura Dumm

Gary is a life-long Clevelander. Gary’s mom helped teach him to read using comic books as a kid, so they’re kind of in his blood! He attended Cuyahoga Community College in the sixties where he took classes in painting and printmaking. He married Laura in 1971, and they started a life of artistic collaboration as well as creating their own art.

In 1974 Gary met author Harvey Pekar through a friend of Laura’s who worked with Harvey, and began a 30+ year association drawing comics art for his ground-breaking autobiographical comic book “American Splendor”, and Laura added color as needed. Many other comics projects and art show exhibitions have followed for this husband-and-wife team.  Laura has had solo art shows, as well as exhibiting with Gary in numerous group shows. They have worked on many publications, independent comic books and graphic novels. They have even co-curated a couple of successful art shows in Cleveland that extolled the virtues and importance of their city's current and storied comics’ history.,

 

 

Laura was born, raised and still resides in Cleveland, Ohio. She is a self taught artist who was lucky enough to have gone to a high school (West Tech) that was trying out a new program called “Specialized Art Class” with 6 periods of art a day. Basically a college education for 3 years. She married cartoonist/artist Gary Dumm in 1971. In 1986, after working for various magazine publications, she made the decision to become a freelance graphic artist/illustrator and started her own graphic art business to pay the bills. In 2009 she retired to be a full time painter.

First and foremost she is a painter. “I’m a typical Gemini, I need change. I have never worried about having a signature style, painting the same way over and over is a bit boring to me.” For example, from 2008 to 2011, she was painting people/animals in abstract quilt like patterns, paying homage to the women who created quilts as a way to express themselves as well as keeping their families warm. In 2014 she changed to a more realistic pop art style. The one constant in her work is always bright color palette.

Gary & Laura Dumm's Info

https://www.dummart.com

 

Paul Reed Smith

Interview with internationally-known guitar maker and musician Paul Reed Smith. 2024

 

Paul Reed Smith - Eightlock is a band of high-level musicians who are friends and have “locked” together recording and performing a new kind of groove with its roots in Baltimore funk, DC go-go and New Orleans swing. The band’s sound is a heady brew of blues, soul, rock, funk and other roots sounds, all stirred-up into a groove-alicious gumbo. The line-up is three drummers, a bass player, a female singer and three guitar players, and the excitement around their three drummer groove is infectious. The band’s three drummers are: Dennis Chambers (John Scofield, George Duke, Brecker Brothers, Santana, Parliament/Funkadelic, John McLaughlin) who was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2001; Gregory Grainger (Whitney Houston, Acoustic Alchemy); and Ju Ju House the legendary DC Go-Go drummer (Roberta Flack, Trevor Horn and The Chuck Brown Band). Bassist Gary Grainger has performed with John Scofield, Nancy Wilson, George Duke and Bill Evans. Vocalist Mia Samone Davis has a beautiful multifaceted voice that got its start in gospel music at a very young age. Guitarist Mike Ault regularly performs with high caliber artists including Rachelle Ferrell David Grissom, and Davy Knowles. Guitarist Bill Nelson is the Director of the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center where he was introduced and invited to join the band in their efforts to raise money for cancer patients and families. “This group of highly respected and world-renowned musicians have a lot to say musically and spiritually,” Paul Reed Smith says. “It’s been an absolute joy to be the catalyst for their gifts resulting in the music found in Lions Roaring in Quicksand.” Added guitarist/vocalist Dr. Bill Nelson: “The musicianship in Eightlock is extraordinary, but what amazes me most is that the music - both the recordings and live performances - just keep getting better and better. Locking into an Eightlock groove is a dream." And dynamic lead singer Mia Samone summed it up by saying, "Creating this CD reminded me that, ‘Peace is the price when the mind is at war’......inner peace is priceless."

 

In addition to performing and recording with his own band, Paul Reed Smith has played with artists such as Santana, Alter Bridge and the Doobie Brothers. He was honored by Vintage Guitar Magazine as a Hall of Fame inductee in 2011. Paul has countless industry connections through all of the artists that endorse his guitars, plus invaluable marketing opportunities through his guitar company and all of the music stores around the world that sell his guitars. Grammy-award winning Mexican rock band Manaì had him open their residency at the LA Forum this year, John Mayer and Santana have taken him on tour. In addition to 10 powerful original songs on Lions Roaring in Quicksand, the new album features a cover of a Manaì song in English, “Ay, Doctor,” that the band has agreed to share on their social media to their millions of fans, as well as scintillating versions of the Al Green soul classic, “Love and Happiness,” the legendary Edwin Starr song, “War,” and “99,” a chart hit for the original version in France.

 

Paul Reed Smith Eightlock Social Media

Links: https://eightlockband.com/

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063641798882

https://twitter.com/PEightlock

https://www.instagram.com/eightlockband_official/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv-7c7kNFEo0nfpvsim2Gsg

 

Benjamin Jayne Part 2

Broken is the latest release from ‘Benjamin Jayne,’ a project that is
sustained by Benjamin Wright out of Brattleboro, Vermont. The album was
recorded in Wright’s home studio, produced by him and Drew Skinner. It’s
being released by WhatAboutMusic as a digital download and via
streaming platforms on October 13.
Benjamin Jayne’s music has been compared to such acts as The National,
Nick Drake, as well as Beck, and his baritone vocals have been compared
to Leonard Cohen. However, his new record reveals an entirely new vocal
range. The music tends to be on the darker side, melancholic and
reflective, and is typically considered folk rock. Though he does use
interesting electronic elements and at times gets a little too heavy to be
called folk.
The latest album continues in the realm of melancholia. It primarily deals
with people trying to reconcile who they are now compared to who they
remember themselves to be before the current of time got a hold of them. It
is about seeing our reflection and being unrecognizable to ourselves and
then facing the challenge of unraveling all of the elements we have
wrapped ourselves in that don’t feel genuine. The album is seeking truth
and rebirth.
His work under Benjamin Jayne is a solo venture, but he does enjoy the
input and occasional song from his sister Amanda Jayne who is an artist
based out of Barcelona. He also consistently enlists Drew Skinner for
engineering and production, though Benjamin co-produces on all of the
albums.
Benjamin practices psychiatry by day at the country’s smallest hospital,
where he is the Director of Psychiatry. He also has a background in
performance and songwriting, having studied film scoring and jazz
performance at Berklee College of Music. He played in multiple bands over
the last two decades and worked as a professional multi-instrumentalist in
Los Angeles for a while before changing fields from music to psychiatry.

 

 

 

Benjamin's info
https://www.benjaminjayne.com/#home-s...

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2fKjh...

https://www.tiktok.com/@benjaminjaynemusic

https://www.instagram.com/benjaminjay...

 

Raymond Anderson of Nation of No One

Interview with Raymond Anderson of Nation of No One

https://nationofnoone.bandcamp.com

https://soundcloud.com/raynon?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing