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October 21, 2009

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One Fast Move or I’m Gone: An Interview with Son Volt’s Jay Farrar and Death Cab For Cutie’s Benjamin Gibbard – HuffPost 10.21.09

Although Son Volt’s Jay Farrar and Death Cab For Cutie’s Benjamin Gibbard create music from two different perspectives–one uses roots-Americana as his template, and the other employs emo pop-jangle–their blend on the documentary soundtrack One Fast Move Or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur creates a sly folk variant that syncs perfectly with Jack Kerouac’s classic. To lines […]

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October 21, 2009

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Son Volt’s Jay Farrar – HuffPost 10.21.09

[Note: This is a piece of an interview with Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard on their Jack Kerousac project One Fast Move Or I’m Gone: Kerouac’s Big Sur. It’s presented here because it gives a little insight into what artists do when they collaborate.] Mike Ragogna: How did your collaboration begin? Jay Farrar: Ben and I […]

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October 16, 2009

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Still Awesome After All These Years: An Interview With Producer Phil Ramone – HuffPost 10.16.09

If you’ve ever read his Friday Huffington Post column Dog Ears Music, you’re aware that Phil Ramone is fond of some pretty great records. Every week, he and Danielle Evin suggest albums and tracks from various decades that deserve attention as they happily update music lovers on artists’ gems and buried treasures. His weekly advisories immediately […]

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October 14, 2009

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Joan Baez – HuffPost 10.14.09

[Note: The following is from my 2009 interview with Joan Baez and contains some good information for new artists.] Mike Ragogna: After growing up on the R&B that played on your bedside radio, what got you into folk music? JB: It was genuine and I couldn’t stand anything that wasn’t. Early on, it was the […]

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October 5, 2009

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An Interview with Brandi Carlile – HuffPost 10.5.09

Mike Ragogna: Brandi, how does your new album Give Up The Ghost differ from your previous releases? Brandi Carlile: Well, the first one was recorded before we ever got a record deal, so we recorded it by ourselves with a series of pseudo-producers, engineers, and studios, and a lot of it was recorded in my house. It […]

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October 2, 2009

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An Interview with Author David Comfort on The Rock & Roll Book of the Dead – 10.2.09

Mike Ragogna: Since your new book discusses the deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Kurt Cobain, and Jerry Garcia, of course, there’s going to be a lot of controversy surrounding it since everyone wants to see their heroes in a good light. With all the information that’s already out […]

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September 28, 2009

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An Interview with Jason Mraz – HuffPost 9.28.09

In the few short years following the release of Jason Mraz’s 2002 debut album Waiting For My Rocket To Come, the young San Diego singer-songwriter has had the longest running hit onBillboard‘s Pop Singles chart (“I’m Yours,” 70 weeks), has become a Grammy award-winner, has earned a Songwriters Hall Of Fame trophy, has opened for The […]

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September 25, 2009

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Interviewing Dan Zanes – HuffPost 9.25.09

Mike Ragogna: Unlike a lot of children’s music that talks down to kids, dumbs-out the topics, or is so corporately-synthesized that all the honesty and joy is sucked out, your recordings do the opposite. Didn’t you get the memo? Dan Zanes: We’re making music for everybody. At our shows, kids are only half the audience. […]

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