Category Archives for "Entertainment Interviews"
July 28, 2014
- in Chase Rice , Entertainment Interviews by Mike
A Conversation with Chase Rice – HuffPost 7.28.14
Mike Ragogna: Chase, let’s start with your involvement in the Snagajob contest. How did that come about? Chase Rice: Yeah, we teamed up and we’re going to give somebody the opportunity to open for me later this year in Denver. They’ve got to basically do a version of one of their original songs, submit the […]
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July 28, 2014
A Conversation with CBS This Morning: Saturday’s Anthony Mason – HuffPost 7.28.14
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 of mine, a cameraman named Ron Dean who was out shooting a story one […]
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July 28, 2014
A Conversation with Gentle Giant’s Derek Shulman – HuffPost 7.28.14
Mike Ragogna: The Power & The Glory is getting a huge reissue treatment–expanded with a Blu-ray of remixes and more. How did the idea to majorly celebrate this album begin? Derek Shulman: It actually started from a fan and a co-conspirator in our musical world, a guy called Steven Wilson who was the leader/main man of a […]
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July 25, 2014
A Conversation with Ernest Ranglin – HuffPost 7.25.14
Mike Ragogna: Ernest, how do you feel about your creative body of work these days? Ernest Ranglin: I feel fine. And good! When you have been doing it as long as I have and still get to keep doing it, I feel like a lucky man. I love what I am doing. I still compose […]
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July 25, 2014
- in Entertainment Interviews , Gangstagrass' Rench , Rench by Mike
A Conversation with Gangstagrass’ Rench – HuffPost 7.25.14
Mike Ragogna: Rench, your first album was the big, happy Lightening On The Strings, Thunder On The Mic, then came the undeniable Rappalachia. Since then, you’ve been nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Original Main Theme Music. So what is all this Broken Hearts And Stolen Money stuff? Rench: All three albums draw heavily on the common ground Hip-Hop […]
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July 25, 2014
- in Billy Gilman , Entertainment Interviews by Mike
A Conversation with Billy Gilman – HuffPost 7.25.14
Mike Ragogna: Billy, it seems like only yesterday when you made history becoming the youngest singer to reach the top Billboard Country Albums spot. Do you even remember that these ten years later? Billy Gilman: Yes…such a while ago, yet it seems literally like yesterday. I remember so much. Good and bad. Mostly great of course. Very […]
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July 25, 2014
- in Entertainment Interviews , Mary Sarah by Mike
A Conversation with Mary Sarah – HuffPost 7.25.14
Mike Ragogna: Mary Sarah, your debut album Bridges on Cleopatra Records approaches country classics with their original hit artist singing with you. Where did the idea for an album like this come from? Mary Sarah: When I finished touring with Kidz Bop, I returned to Texas to find that the only place I could sing often was the […]
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July 23, 2014
- in Entertainment Interviews , P.F. Sloan by Mike
A Conversation with P.F. Sloan – HuffPost 7.23.14
Mike Ragogna: There’s so much to talk about Phil but let’s start out with your new album, My Beethoven. So how far back do you and Beethoven go? P.F. Sloan: It looks like about eighteen years, now, if you can believe that. MR: What’s the story? How did you discover him? PFS: It was “grace,” really. […]
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