A Conversation with Rickie Lee Jones – HuffPost 7.20.11

Mike Ragogna: Rickie Lee, how are you? Rickie Lee Jones: I’m great. How are you? MR: Terrific. So there is a certain new Rickie Lee Jones DVD out called, Live In Stockholm. Let’s just start from the beginning on this, like with that story about how your neighbor became the director. RLJ: Sure. I was […]

Chatting with Rickie Lee Jones and NRBQ’s Terry Adams, Plus Miss Derringer’s New Video and Hot Water Music’s New Single

Mac Gayden – HuffPost 7.18.11

Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists? Mac Gayden: Persistence is the whole thing, don’t give up. Even if nothing ever happens, don’t give up. If somebody in the music business gives up, it opens a slot for you. It doesn’t mean you have to make it in the music business. It’s […]

Mike Batt – HuffPost 7.18.11

Mike Ragogna: Mike, with all of your experience and history in the music business, do you have any advice for new artists? Mike Batt: Well, the old adage about it being only part inspiration and a great deal of perspiration really has a lot to do with it. You can’t really ever tell how good […]

A Conversation with Mike Batt – HuffPost 7.18.11

Mike Ragogna: Hi Mike, let’s chat about your The Hunting Of The Snark reissue. Mike Batt: My pleasure, Mike. Well, I should point out, and I’m sure you already know this, but “The Hunting Of The Snark” was originally written as a poem by Lewis Carroll. I merely took the poem many years later and […]

Mike Batt – HuffPost 7.18.11

Mike Ragogna: Mike, with all of your experience and history in the music business, do you have any advice for new artists? Mike Batt: Well, the old adage about it being only part inspiration and a great deal of perspiration really has a lot to do with it. You can’t really ever tell how good […]

Death Cab For Cutie’s Benjamin Gibbard – HuffPost 7.18.11

Mike Ragogna: What advice would you have for new artists at this point? Benjamin Gibbard: Well, we were just on tour with a band, and they’re kind of a new band. I was talking with the songwriter, and they’re struggling with that whole thing that artists tend to struggle with when they first get recognition […]

A Conversation with Mac Gayden – HuffPost 7.18.11

Mike Ragogna: Mac, you co-wrote the classic song “Everlasting Love,” but you also are known for playing on Dylan’s Blonde On Blonde sessions, so let’s go there first. How did you get associated with that Bob Dylan classic? Mac Gayden: There was a group of us in Nashville who played in a weekend band called Charlie McCoy […]