Category Archives for "Entertainment Interviews"
August 26, 2014
A Conversation with Darryl Tookes – HuffPost 8.26.14
Mike Ragogna: Darryl, you and Joe Beck collaborated on this children’s album,Precious Child–Love Songs & Lullabies. How did this project come together?Darryl Tookes: In 1995, Joe Beck and I found ourselves becoming fathers again when our youngest children were born. Joe and Marsi have twin boys who were born around the same time as my […]
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August 26, 2014
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A Conversation with Israel Nash – HuffPost 8.26.14
Mike Ragogna: Your new album Rain Plans already has received international acclaim. What do you think of the reaction so far? Israel Nash: The reaction overseas has been really rewarding. The album made a number of year-end lists in Europe in publications like Uncut, Rolling StoneGermany, and Rolling Stone France. But more importantly, I feel the album has really connected with […]
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August 26, 2014
A Conversation with Smokey Robinson – HuffPost 8.26.14
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 on Smokey & Friends, you took many of […]
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August 22, 2014
A Conversation with Dizzy Reed – HuffPost 8.22.14
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 the last one we did were both […]
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August 22, 2014
A Conversation with Uriah Heep’s Mick Box – HuffPost 8.22.14
Mike Ragogna: Mick, Uriah Heep has been making music for decades, your latest being the album Outsider. How does the band stay vibrant after all these years?Mick Box: Simply because we have the same passion and energy for our music, that we have always had. MR: How did Outsider come together creatively and in the studio and were there […]
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August 22, 2014
A Conversation with The Verve Pipe’s Brian Vander Ark – HuffPost 8.22.14
Mike Ragogna: Brian, Overboard is The Verve Pipe’s first album in thirteen years. Why did it take so long between albums and what has been everybody doing during that stretch? Brian Vander Ark: We had tried on a number of occasions to get back into the studio, but we were just getting in each other’s way, trying […]
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August 22, 2014
A Conversation with Jean-Luc Ponty – HuffPost 8.22.14
Mike Ragogna: Jean-Luc, you are one of the most famous and most revered violinists in the world. You must hear and read that occasionally. What is your reaction to being thought of in that way? Jean-Luc Ponty: The most rewarding is the respect I get from young and even very young generations of violinists, including […]
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August 20, 2014
The CMA Songwriting Series Interviews – HuffPost 8.20.14
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 have been a CMA board member for well over a decade. The CMA Awards show was broadcast from NYC for the first time ten years ago. I […]
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