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Tony Cuchetti

Interview with Tony Cuchetti

Tony Cuchetti came by his skills as a singer, writer, and performer the hard way – from extensive road work from an early age. “My parents decided to start a family act in the late 60s and started playing malls, fairs, conventions, and even Vegas in the era of the Jackson 5 and The Osmonds. We had the bus and the costumes. When I came along, I was born into it and toured for the last ten years of the group. That’s pretty much how I grew up, on the road for ten or eleven months out of the year. I remember it fondly. It was a pretty tight-knit production, and we were self- contained as a family.” Cuchetti continues to be a tireless gigging musician playing north of 200+ shows a year both solo and with his full band. The songs from Freer Street touch base with core values and core questions to reach out to audiences, but in the end, Tony Cuchetti builds songs in the hopes of finding those of like mind. He concludes, “What sounds good and what makes me feel good, that’s how I operate.”

www.tonycuchetti.com 

Facebook/tonycuchettimusic

Instagram - tonycuchetti Youtube - @tonycuchetti7012

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/artist/4ZBfX6BKy28zdtaEEHqTem?si=wuZ-- 0RHTneTOkhkO_Hh0Q

Apple Music - ‎Tony Cuchetti on Apple Music

Rooms To Let : Lady Bug AV Club Radio Interviews

Lady Bug Av Club ran a pirate radio station for Rooms To Let 2023. I interviewed artist Owen Lowery, Charlie Malta "Guice Mann" (Juice Man), Meryl Engler, Cara Gaetano Kate Snow, Stephanie Stewart, Kyla Decatur, Mary Defer, Brian Schultis, Emily Liptow, Marisa Herman, Jeanetta Ho, Jimmie Woody, Eric Tuck-Macalla, Jacob “Archie” Liptow, Clifford Benjamin 

roomstolet

https://www.instagram.com/ladybug.av.club/

 

Brian Krumm of The Great Crusades

Vocalist/guitarist Brian Krumm formed The Great Crusades more than 20 years ago, following
his tenure with The Suede Chain. The Great Crusades’ debut, The First Spilled Drink of the
Evening was released in 1997, earning the praise of Rolling Stone’s David Fricke: “The Great
Crusades look at life through a shot-glass lens, mixing anger, muscle and minor-key remorse like
a roughneck Tindersticks with the bonus of a singer who’s got the tubercular pipes of Tom Waits
and Axl Rose’s love child.”
In 2000, Damaged Goods was released by Glitterhouse Records in Europe and Checkered Past
Records in North America. Next, the Never Go Home tour was presented by Musikexpress
Magazine and the band appeared on the legendary TV program Rockpalast. (The band also
played Rockpalast in 2015—one of only a few bands to play the show twice.)
Welcome to the Hiawatha Inn, Four Thirty, Keep Them Entertained, Fiction to Shame, Thieves
of Chicago and Until the Night Turned to Day followed, each providing a new focus for
Krumm’s ever-evolving songwriting and storytelling. Two songs from Keep Them Entertained
appeared in the season 4 finale of the HBO vampire series True Blood.
In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic put music venues on hold worldwide, Krumm focused on
solo work and began writing the materials that’d wind up on Just Fade Away. With the album
set for release, Brian Krumm and His Barfly Friends plans to tour in 2023.

http://www.briankrumm.com https://www.instagram.com/barflykrumm/https://twitter.com/BarflyKrummwww.facebook.com/briankrummandhisbarflyfriendshttps://www.bandsintown.com/a/15518730-brian-krumm-and-his-barfly-friendshttps://www.songkick.com/artists/10264541-brian-krumm-and-his-barfly-friends/calendarhttps://pravdarecords.bandcamp.com/artists

 

Joe Cannon of Resurrectionists

Interview with Joe Cannon of Resurrectionists

Resurrectionists were originally formed by lyricist, guitarist, and banjo picker Joe Cannon and bassist Jeff Brueggeman from the locally revered trio WORK with drummer Josh Barto and pedal steel player Gavin Hardy. On the group’s 2019 debut album What Comes In -- a collection of everyman trouble tales delivered with dark wit and piquant Midwestern tang -- Gavin’s mournful, swelling steel work helped steer songs into Gothic-country territory. On Now That We Are All Ghosts, Hardy has been replaced by multi-instrumentalist Gian Pogliano. Gian’s penchant for more adventurous, wider-ranging sonic discourse inspires Resurrectionists to branch out into unexpected stylistic experimentation. The material here is informed equally by the meticulous melodic abstractions of pre-punk icons on Television as the Old Weird American sounds of Dock Boggs and Bascom Lamar Lunsford. Now That We Are All Ghosts – SW031: Seismic Wave Entertainment   

Resurrectionists Info https://www.facebook.com/resurrectionistsmke

https://www.instagram.com/resurrectionists_mke/

https://resurrectionistsmke.bandcamp.com/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/7iirX41ABvqvjz7YGGylJo?si=dyvZFLKaRxa4EKsM_MCevg

https://www.youtube.com/@resurrectionistsmke4624

 http://seismicwave.net/

https://www.instagram.com/seismicwaveent/

https://twitter.com/seismicwave

https://www.discogs.com/label/905311-Seismic-Wave-Entertainment

 

Brandon Hardesty of Bumpin Uglies

Interview with singer-songwriter Brandon Hardesty of Bumpin Uglies 

Bumpin Uglies is an American punk reggae band from Annapolis, Maryland. 

The band's music features a "melody-driven, free-spirited blend of ska, reggae, and punk with a strong focus on lyrics and crowd-pleasing grooves.

The band's influences are a mix of ska-punk and reggae drawn from pioneering bands Sublime Bad Religion, Reel Big Fish, and Goldfinger.  

 Tickets for Bumpin Uglies, C-Level, Joint Operation at Westsidebowl 

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bumpin-uglies-w-c-level-joint-operation-tickets-590696538247

 

Bumpin Uglies Info

https://www.bumpinugliesmusic.com

 

 

Hoag & Bonesaw Kepner Of Two Player, & Full Service

TWO PLAYER IS AN AUSTIN-BASED POWER DUO FEATURING BROTHERS HOAG (DRUMS/LEAD VOCALS) AND BONESAW (GUITAR). FORMED IN 2018, THESE FORMER FRONTMEN OF FULL SERVICE COMBINE PROGRESSIVE RHYTHMS WITH EXCITING, COMPLEX LEAD GUITAR WORK AND DULCET VOCAL ACROBATICS, ALL DISGUISED AND PACKAGED INTO LEAN, SAVORY ARRANGEMENTS. IT'S A TOUCH OF MATH ROCK AND A SPOONFUL OF POP, WITH A LIVE PERFORMANCE THAT SHOWCASES THE BROTHERS' DEEP AND UNRIVALED CHEMISTRY AND MUSICAL ECCENTRICITY.

 

Two player's Info

https://www.twoplayermusic.com/

 

The Dream Recording Studio Info

https://www.thedreamrecordingstudio.com

 

Full Service's Info 

https://www.youtube.com/fullserviceband

 

Tracy Nelson

Iconic roots singer Tracy Nelson, who burst onto the Rock and Roll scene in the mid-1960s as lead singer in the San Francisco-based group Mother Earth and her legendary vocals on the classic “Down So Low,” will release her first album in over 10 years,  Life Don’t Miss Nobody, June 9^th on the BMG label. Joining Tracy are some of her favorite musical friends, including Willie Nelson, Charlie Musselwhite, Irma Thomas, Marcia Ball, Jontavious Willis, Mickey Raphael, and Terry Hanck. Life Don’t Miss Nobody was produced by Roger Alan Nichols with Tracy Nelson and recorded in Nashville and several other studios.

Tracy Nelson possesses one of the most powerful voices in American music and has emerged from a lengthy recording hiatus with the album of a lifetime, a musical self-portrait spanning her entire career. Life Don’t Miss Nobody is a 13 track collection that stretches back to her start as a guitar-picking Wisconsin teen playing coffeehouses, through an unparalleled career now in its sixth decade, singing blues, country, New Orleans R&B and gospel, and performing in storied music meccas in her epic, genre- busting musical journey.

 

Tracy's Info 

http://www.tracynelsonmusic.com

 

Kenny Werner

Kenny Werner has been a world-class pianist and composer for over forty years. His prolific output of compositions, recordings, and publications continues to impact audiences worldwide. In 1996 he wrote his landmark book Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within.

Werner has since created videos, lectured worldwide, and authored many articles on how musicians, artists, or even business people can allow their “master creator” within to lift their performance to its highest level, showing us how to be spontaneous, fearless, joyful and disciplined in our work and our life.

Kenny was awarded the 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship Award for his seminal work, No Beginning No End. No Beginning No End is a musical journey exploring tragedy and loss, death and transition, and the path from one lifetime to the next. Utilizing over 70 musicians, Kenny’s third album for Half Note Records is an expansive composition featuring Joe Lovano, Judy Silvano, Wind Ensemble, Choir and String Quartet.

Born in Brooklyn, NY on November 19, 1951 and then growing up in Oceanside, Long Island, Kenny began playing and performing at a young age, first recording on television at the age of 11. Although he studied classical piano as a child, he enjoyed playing anything he heard on the radio. In high school and his first years of college, he attended the Manhattan School of Music as a classical piano major.

 

Becoming the Instrument

Kenny Werner has been a world-class pianist, composer, and teacher for 40 years. In 2010, Werner received the Guggenheim Fellowship Award for his seminal work, “No Beginning No End,” a musical journey exploring tragedy and loss, death and transition, and the path from one lifetime to the next.

Now he has coalesced his knowledge into Becoming the Instrument, the highly anticipated sequel to his landmark book, Effortless Mastery, which revolutionized how musicians approach their craft.

In Becoming the Instrument, Werner shares how anyone can experience mastery, drawn from his experience as a musical master. It’s the guide for seeing the highest in oneself and others.

This new book is for anyone who wants to understand the fine art of mastery and how it applies to their own life. He brilliantly yet simply expresses how to lift one’s perceptions from the mundane to a higher plane and does it with a sense of humor.

The next level is attainable.

“Mastery is not perfection, or even virtuosity. It is giving oneself love, forgiving one’s mistakes, and not allowing earthly evidence to diminish one’s view of oneself as a drop in the Ocean of Perfection.” ‒ Kenny Werner

Kenny's Info 

 

https://kennywerner.com/

 

 

Mark Cousins

About Mark Cousins

Mark is a Northern Irish-Scottish filmmaker and writer. His themes are the inspiring
power of cinema, cities, walking, childhood, archives and recovery.
At the start of his career he made TV documentaries on childhood, neo-Nazism and
Mikhael Gorbachev. In the mid 90s he and the Edinburgh International Film Festival
showed films in Sarajevo to support its besieged citizens. His first book was
Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary (“Indispensible” - Times
Literary Supplement).
His 2004 book The Story of Film was published around the world. The Times
called it “by some distance the best book we have read on cinema.” Its latest edition
was published in October 2020. His 930 minute film, The Story of Film: An
Odyssey (“The place from which all future film revisionism should begin” - New York
Times), played in the major film festivals and cinemas, and has had an influence on
film education. Michael Moore gave it the Stanley Kubrick Award, it won the
Peabody Award, was BAFTA Scotland nominated, and received other prizes. In
2021 he added a sequel film, The Story of Film: A New Generation. It premiered
as the launch film of Cannes, was called “poetry in motion” by the Hollywood
Reporter, and “the soul of the festival” by Cannes director Thierry Frémaux. Empire
magazine called it “a poetic opus” and it was nominated for Grierson award.
Cousins’ first feature documentary, The First Movie, about kids in Kurdish Iraq, won
the Prix Italia. It was inspired by growing up in the Troubles in Northern Ireland and
his passionate interest in the role cinema can play in kids’ lives. In 2012 he was
nominated for the London Awards for Art and Performance and the Screen
International award. He was guest curator at the Eye Cinematheque in Amsterdam.
His next feature film, What is this Film called Love?, played in 20 countries, at the
ICA in London, and was nominated for Best Director by BAFTA Scotland. PJ Harvey
called it “revelatory and inspiring”. The rock band Maximo Park wrote a song inspired
by it.
In 2013 he completed Here be Dragons, a film about the vital role of film archives,
especially one in Albania. It won the main prize in the Romania Film Festival. In the
same year he made A Story of Children and Film, which was in the official
selection in Cannes. He curated Cinema of Childhood, a series of 17 films which
toured the UK and Ireland for a year and was supported by the BFI. He received the
Visionary Award in Traverse City and the Saltzgeber Prize at the Berlin Film Festival.
Then he made Life May Be, co-directed with Iranian filmmaker Mania Akbari, and 6
Desires, an adaptation of DH Lawrence’s book Sea and Sardinia. Life May Be was
noted for its feminism and innovation and was called “transcendent and
extraordinarily delicate”. It won the Don Quixote prize. 6 Desires: DH Lawrence
and Sardinia, in which Jarvis Cocker plays the voice of DH Lawrence, had its world
premiere at the London Film Festival and its international premiere at Sundance.

Cousins had his first retrospective at the Wroclaw film festival. Others have followed
in London, Thessaloniki, Finland and Geneva.
Cousins’ The Oar and the Winnowing Fan was a takeover of the DazedDigital
website. His I am Belfast was his first full feature about Northern Ireland. It was
released by the BFI. Variety compared it to the great director Dziga Vertov. His
BBC/BFI film Atomic, a collaboration with the band Mogwai, played in Hiroshima,
near Chernobyl and Coventry Cathedral and at the Edinburgh International Festival.
He curated a season of films for the Romanian Cultural Institute and made a fiction
film, Stockholm My Love, (starring Neneh Cherry, released by BFI). He completed
Bigger than The Shining, a secret project, showable only in underground
circumstances, and wrote The Story of Looking (“Like a wise man looking at the
stars”, the Guardian; “Brilliant” the New York Times). It was nominated for the Saltire
Award for best non-fiction book.
Cousins’ The Eyes of Orson Welles world premiered in Cannes and received rave
reviews. His 2 hour, four-screen Storm in My Heart is about Hollywood sexism and
racism. His 14 hour film Women Make Film premiered at the Venice, Toronto and
Telluride film festivals, is narrated by Jane Fonda, Sharmila Tagore, Debra Winger,
Adjoa Andoh, Kerry Fox and Tilda Swinton, and is showing in many countries. The
Times called it “Exquisite, emotionally resonant and intellectually unassailable. Pure
poetry.” It won the European Film Academy’s inaugural Innovative Storytelling
award, and has led to the restoration of a series of films directed by women.
Two more recent films are The Storms of Jeremy Thomas, about the legendary
film producer – which premiered in Cannes 2021 and won the best documentary in
Spain’s Dias De Cine - and The Story of Looking, in which he filters the history of
looking through his own eye operation. Time Out called it “A rich cinematic journey
into the art of seeing and how it connects us with culture, ourselves and each other.” 
It won the Best Non-Fiction Film award at the Seville Film Festival. Cousins recently
completed My Name is Alfred Hitchcock and The March on Rome, an Italian
Palomar production about Mussolini and Fascism, part-shot in Cinecitta in Rome and
starring Alba Rohrwacher. The latter premiered at the Venice film festival, was
called “entirely arresting” by the Guardian, won the audience award for Best
International Documentary in Brazil, and was nominated for a European Film
Academy Award. The former premiered at the Telluride film festival.
In 2022, his films were the subject of a multi screen film installation, Passé Présent
Futur, at the huge Plaza cinema in Geneva, and had a retrospective at the Biograf
film festival in Bologna. He premiered his first art installation, Like a Huge Scotland,
at teh Fruitmarket gallery, Edinburgh, and – along with Cate Blanchette and Sarah
Polley - was given the Outstanding Contribution to Cinema medal at the Telluride
Film Festival.
Cousins has honorary doctorates from the Universities of Edinburgh and Stirling, is
Honorary Professor of film at Queen’s University, was co-artistic director of Cinema
China and did The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams and A Pilgrimage, with
Tilda Swinton. He and Swinton also ran The 8 ½ Foundation, a two year event

which created a movie birthday for children. It was nominated for the Human Rights
Award. He was chair of the Belfast Film Festival and Docs Ireland. He was recently
given Portugal’s Aurelio de Paz dos Reis international award for Outstanding
Contribution to Cinema (2019), and the British Association of Film, Television and
Screen Studies Outstanding Achievement Award for his work in screen education
(2020).
Mark’s roles in filmmaking, education and advocacy have widened and deepened
with the years. He was an early adopter of small cameras and new technology to
evolve a business model for filmmaking which was sustainable, international and
creatively free.
He has walked across Los Angeles, Belfast, Moscow, Beijing, London, Paris, Berlin,
Dakar and Mexico City. He drove from Edinburgh to Mumbai, and loves night
swimming.

 

 

Mark's Info
https://twitter.com/markcousinsfilm

https://www.womenmakefilm.net/

 

Vashti Bunyan

Vashti Bunyan is an English singer-songwriter. Beginning her career in the mid-1960s, she released her debut album, Just Another Diamond Day in 1970. The album sold very few copies, and Bunyan was discouraged, and abandoned her musical career. By 2000, her album had acquired a cult following; it was re-released, and Bunyan recorded more songs, initiating the second phase of her musical career after a gap of thirty years. She subsequently released two more albums: Lookingaftering in 2005 and Heartleap in 2014.

 

 

 

Wayward, Just Another Life to Live

In 1968, Vashti Bunyan gave up everything and everybody she knew in London to take to the road with a horse, wagon, dog, guitar, and her then-partner.

They made the long journey up to the Outer Hebrides in an odyssey of discovery and heartbreak, full of the joy of freedom and the trudge of everyday reality, sleeping in the woods, fighting freezing winters and homelessness. Along the way, Vashti wrote the songs that would lead to recording her 1970’s album Just Another Diamond Day, the lilting lyrics and guitar conveying innocent wonder at the world around her whilst disguising a deeper turmoil under the surface.

From an unconventional childhood in post-war London to a fledgling career in mid-sixties pop, to the despair and failure to make any headway with her own songs, she rejected the music world altogether and left it all behind. After retreating to a musical wilderness for thirty years, the rediscovery of her recordings in 2000 gave Vashti a second chance to write, record and perform again.

Vashti's Info 

http://anotherday.co.uk//

vashtibunyan

Wayward, Just Another Life to Live.  (Links to find Vashti's Book)

https://www.amazon.com/Wayward-Just-Another-Life-Live/dp/1474621937

https://www.whiterabbitbooks.co.uk/titles/vashti-bunyan/wayward/9781474621939/