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August 27, 2014
Failure, Alarms and After Parties: Chats with The Posies, Dry the River’s Peter Liddle and Ghost Town’s Kevin McCullough
A Conversation with The Posies’ Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer Mike Ragogna: As Peaches & Herb would sing, “Reunited and it feels so good!” How are you guys doing? Jon Auer: Not too bad! Mike Ragogna: So what is all this about failure? Failure is not an option! Ken Stringfellow: Well, we’re going in order […]
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August 26, 2014
Friends, Rain Plans, Love Songs & Lullabies: Conversations with Smokey Robinson, Israel Nash & Darryl Tookes
A Conversation with Smokey Robinson Mike Ragogna: Just the other day, I picked up your Icon sampler, the little collection that Universal released. Though I know all those songs by heart by now, it never fails, I’m always hearing something new in them whether it’s in what you did in the music or lyrics. Now […]
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August 21, 2014
Dead Daisies and Beyond: Chats With Dizzy Reed, The Verve Pipe’s Brian Vander Ark, Jean-Luc Ponty and Uriah Heep’s Mick Box
A Conversation with Dizzy Reed Mike Ragogna: Hey Dizzy, Guns N’ Roses DVD Appetite For Democracy 3D Live at The Hard Rock Casino was recently released. Do you think this release is a good representation of what was going on during that period of Guns N’ Roses? Dizzy Reed: Oh, absolutely. The first residency and […]
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August 20, 2014
CMA Songwriting: Chats with Bob DiPiero, Billy Currington, Carrie Underwood, Easton Corbin, Kix Brooks, Chris Young, Ronnie Milsap & Little Big Town’s Kimberly Schlapman
Chats with Bob DiPiero, Billy Currington, Carrie Underwood, Kix Brooks, Easton Corbin, Ronnie Milsap, Chris Young & Little Big Town’s Kimberley Schlapman About The CMA Songwriting Series Mike Ragogna: Bob, where did the idea come from to start-up a Songwriter’s Series at the CMA and what’s its significant history to this point? Bob DiPiero: I […]
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August 17, 2014
Rocker Recap: Conversations With Ted Nugent, KISS’ Gene Simmons and Ace Frehley
ROCKER RECAP… My feeling about interviews with artists and bands is that these are people who you are inviting into your virtual house and they should be shown respect based on their being your guests. I believe it doesn’t mean you have to agree with what they say or even endorse it, but it does […]
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August 13, 2014
From Guardians Of The Galaxy To The Mystery Of Edwin Drood And Way Beyond: A Conversation with THE Rupert Holmes… Plus!
A Conversation with THE Rupert Holmes Mike Ragogna: Okay, let me take a deep breath and do the Rupert Holmes recap…here we go. You’ve won Tony awards as a playwright, lyricist and composer, your first novel was made into a movie with Colin Firth and Kevin Bacon, you created and wrote the AMC series Remember […]
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August 11, 2014
Rockabilly, Empty Hearts & Psycho Sisters: Chats with Brian Setzer, Elliot Easton, Vicki Peterson & Susan Cowsill… Plus!
A Conversation with Brian Setzer Mike Ragogna: Brian, let’s talk about your new album, Rockabilly Riot! All Original. It’s all original material and you start it off with the adrenalized “Let’s Shake.” Rockabilly’s really all about the shake, isn’t it? Brian Setzer: Yeah! [laughs] To me, it seems like nervous energy, you know? It was […]
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July 27, 2014
Chats with CBS This Morning: Saturday’s Anthony Mason, Chase Rice, Gentle Giant’s Derek Shulman & William Gage Blanton
photo courtesy CBS News A Conversation with CBS This Morning: Saturday’s Anthony Mason Mike Ragogna: Good This Morning, Anthony! Anthony Mason: [laughs] MR: You’ve been in journalism for over thirty years. When did you start focusing on interviews? AM: Well, it was kind of an accidental transition. What happened really was I saw a colleague […]
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