Mike Ragogna’s 2.0 – 20120523 – Dar Williams

Joe Bonamassa – HuffPost 5.25.12

Mike Ragogna: Joe, I ask this question of everyone I interview, what is your advice for new artists? Joe Bonamassa: Well, you have to take the good with the bad. What you do, you have to do with conviction. Never follow the trends, never let anybody tell you what you should be doing musically. Take […]

A Conversation with Joe Bonamassa – HuffPost 5.25.12

Mike Ragogna: Joe, how and what are you doing, man? Joe Bonamassa: I’m doing fine. I’m actually here doing my debut on David Letterman, sitting in with the band. It’s a real honor. We’re in New York and we’re just about to wrap up the American tour. Plus, we have a new record coming out. […]

A Conversation with Joe Walsh – HuffPost 5.23.12

Mike Ragogna: Joe, how are you? Joe Walsh: Hello, Mike. I’m good, thanks. MR: So your new album, Analog Man, is your first in 20 years. Twenty years? JW: Well, two things happened. The Eagles decided to get back to work, so Hell Freezes Over came out of that, and we’ve been working ever since. We’ve been around […]

Joe Walsh – HuffPost 5.23.12

Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists? Joe Walsh: Well, I would say — and I’ve always said — you cannot be a legend in your parents’ garage. You’ve got to go play in front of people, even if you stink. You’ve got to go do it and learn how to do […]

A Conversation with Lisa Marie Presley – HuffPost 5.21.12

Mike Ragogna: Lisa, you have a new album, Storm & Grace, and you approached this one very differently than your others, especially by working on it with T-Bone Burnett. Can you tell us the history of how the project came together? Lisa Marie Presley: It came together very organically. Nothing was contrived. A few years ago, […]

Jon McLaughlin – HuffPost 5.18.12

Mike Ragogna: What advice might you have for new artists? Jon McLaughlin: I was thinking when you brought up the whole social media aspect, I think that maybe a couple years ago, I felt like if you were signed to a major label, they should have control over a lot of the aspects, like it’s […]

A Conversation with Jon McLaughlin – HuffPost 5.18.12

Mike Ragogna: Jon, your new album Promising Promises is basically a reworking ofForever If Ever, right? Jon McLaughlin: I made Forever If Ever last summer, 2011. I was actually in between labels at the time so I made the record, I self-produced it, recorded it at home in Indiana, and put it out independently. It got into the hands […]