Mike Ragogna’s 2.0 – 20120509 – Greg Laswell

Jesse Winchester – HuffPost 5.9.12

Mike Ragogna: What would your advice be for new artists? Jesse Winchester: Just keep doing it. That’s really all I can say. Steal from the very best, and listen to them, and figure out what they’re doing, and imitate it until you figure out your own style. But mainly, it’s a matter of just persistence.

Marty Stuart – HuffPost 5.9.12

Mike Ragogna: What is your advice for new artists? Marty Stuart: My advice to new artists is to follow your heart at any cost. We have enough people in the world trying to be somebody else or thinking if they play like somebody else, it’ll get ‘em there. It’s a scary thing to follow your […]

A Conversation with Tommy Boy Founder Tom Silverman – HuffPost 5.9.12

Mike Ragogna: How are you doing, Tom? Tom Silverman: I’m doing fantastic! A little crazy, but fantastic. MR: Is it fantastic because of what’s on this year’s New Music Seminar slate? TS: Indeed, it is. It’s really coming together, and it’s a key change in the history of the music business. MR: It’s going to […]

A Conversation with Jesse Winchester – HuffPost 5.9.12

Mike Ragogna: Hello, Jesse. How are you? Jesse Winchester: Hi, Mike! I’m good, thanks. MR: First of all, how are you feeling these days? (NOTE: Jesse had undergone treatment for cancer of the esophagus.) JW: I feel great, thank you. I tire a little quicker than I used to, but that’s improving every day. Yeah, […]

A Conversation with Marty Stuart – HuffPost 5.9.12

Mike Ragogna: Marty, your new album, Nashville, Volume 1: Tear The Woodpile Down, is a thoroughly “country” country album. Marty Stuart: Authenticity is the watch word. I love traditional country, fell back in love head over heels with it five or six years ago. Me and my band were just kind of out there doing whatever […]

Tommy Boy Founder Tom Silverman – HuffPost 5.9.12

Mike Ragogna: Tom, what advice might you have for new artists? Tom Silverman: My advice to new artists is that you have to make yourself happy. We do a thing at the New Music Seminar called the Reflection Award that we give to the top artist on the verge of breaking. Thousands of artists get […]

Norah Jones – HuffPost 5.7.12

Mike Ragogna: Here’s my traditional question that I ask everyone, what advice might you have for new artists? Norah Jones: You know, I don’t know if I’m the best person to give advice because I got lucky at a very young age. I would hate to give the wrong advice! (laughs) I think the business […]