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March 15, 2010
Lucinda Williams – HuffPost 3.15.10
[Note: During this interview with Lucinda Williams, she offered some insights into her creative process that might be useful for artists.] Mike Ragogna: What’s your creative process like? Lucinda Williams: A therapist told me one time, “Don’t worry about it, you’re working on a J-Curve.” That’s how I wrote all the songs for West, I ended […]
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December 14, 2009
- in Entertainment Interviews , Joan Baez by Mike
How Sweet The Sound: An Interview with Joan Baez – HuffPost 10.14.09
For most of the fifty years since she debuted at the Newport Folk Festival, Joan Baez has dedicated her life and music to fighting for equality and social justice, and for bringing about positive change in the world. On Wednesday, October 14, PBS stations nationwide celebrated her life, music, and activism in the American Mastersdocumentary How Sweet […]
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December 14, 2009
- in Advice for New Artists , Julian Lennon by Mike
Julian Lennon – HuffPost 12.14.09
[Note: This is taken from my first interview with Julian Lennon, his discussing his starting up a music entity to accommodate new releases.] Mike Ragogna: Would you discuss how you started plotting theReveloution? Julian Lennon: Yes, I’d been speaking with the other founding members over six months to a year now. In fact, one of […]
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December 14, 2009
A Conversation with Julian Lennon on the Revolution and “Lucy” – HuffPost 12.14.09
Mike Ragogna: Julian, this is like your twentieth interview of the day? Julian Lennon: (laughs) It’s been a looong day, but I’m fine. MR: Are you all talked-out yet? JL: No, this is partly the beginning of the onslaught. You know, it’s been a while since I’ve done any interviews so I haven’t quite condensed […]
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December 10, 2009
A Very Special Christmas (Special Olympics Series) Conversation with Tim Shriver, Vicki Iovine, Colbie Caillat, Carter Twins & Mitchel Musso – HuffPost 12.10.09
Mike Ragogna: Tim, what is the mission of the Special Olympics organization? Tim Shriver: I think our movement is a force for social change, it’s a real civil rights movement in 180 countries around the world. In each of those countries, villages, cities, and towns, our job is to empower people with intellectual disabilities through […]
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December 7, 2009
An Interview with Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix – HuffPost 12.7.09
Back in 1977, singer-songwriter and activist Harry Chapin co-founded the organization World Hunger Year with Bill Ayers, a famous DJ of the era, because, as his daughter Jen explained, “He saw hunger and poverty as an insult to America.” When Chapin passed, his organization lived on mainly with the support of his friends, family, and […]
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December 7, 2009
Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix – HuffPost 12.7.09
[Note: This is advice to new artists in the context of contributing to the culture in practical ways.] Mike Ragogna: When did your band start helping the needy? Jacoby Shaddix: It began in April 2009, and we worked with a local charity called Loaves & Fishes in Sacramento. When we were working on our record Metamorphosis, […]
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December 4, 2009
- in Carly Simon by Mike
A Conversation with Carly Simon – HuffPost 12.4.09
Mike Ragogna: You know, if I’d lived with your album for just another week, I would have absorbed it more thoroughly and reviewed it for HuffPost a bit differently. There are a couple of points I made that should have been phrased better. Carly Simon: This is so reminiscent, in a much kinder way, of […]
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