Interview with frontman/songwriter, Tony Green
This is the full interview and has mild format changes from the last 12 years of episodes.
Jun 11, 2021•52 min
Interviews with notable New Orleans musicians - Jonathan Freilich Presents
This podcast will feature interviews done by Jonathan Freilich with notable figures that relate in some way to the current vibrancy of the New Orleans music scene and community. It seeks to form a dialogue between ideas and motivations behind the music and the relationship of those ideas to the sound artifact being presented. The podcast will also address what the state of understanding is in audiences and whether understanding is relevant to the "success" of the musical artwork. Older interviews and further information can be found at www.jonathanfreilich.com
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Phil DeGruy/Cranston Clements Interview
In this rambling conversation we get to the marvelous origin story of these two remarkable guitarists of New Orleans who frequently perform comedy/music pyrotechnics with the subversive group, The Self-Righteous brothers. Topics- Wayne Cochran; early guitars; musical background; the 60s; song and guitar modification; Hank Mackie
Jan 10, 2021
Mark Bingham on Michot's Melody Makers Live from Saturn
The beginning of slightly new formatting and interviews expanding to subject matter including things beyond New Orleans. Guitarist/Producer/Songwriter Mark Bingham discusses how he came to be performing live again with the seminal band Michot’s Melody Makers
Sep 16, 2020•1 hr 2 min
Beth Patterson Interview Part 4
Part 4 How all her interests feed or inform each other; productiveness, or lack of, during Covid-19 stay-at-home order; more on adding creative outlets; writing poetry; Novel writing and publishing short stories; creative takes on Sherlock Holmes; Ernst Bloch; Albert Einstein’s problems with counting in music; releasing singles; working with Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes recently; Coronavirus situational songs....
Apr 26, 2020•22 min•Ep. 4
Beth Patterson Interview part 3
Part 3 Return to New Orleans; the poor claires; playing with Ancestro and music from Peru/Bolivia/Chile/Honduras/Guatemala/ Ecuador/Argentina; Nueva Cancion movement; Functioning with A.D.D.;signs of getting better; split screen jam sessions and jamming with the dryer; Hybrid Vigor album; focussing on eking out a living on the internet; jamming with the dryer; mixing or fusing styles; the magpie; approach to lyrical content; reaching an emotional point that stopped the songwriting; writing ficti...
Apr 20, 2020•23 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Beth Patterson Interview Pt. 2
Beth continues from part 1 of a 4 pt interview.
Apr 16, 2020•30 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Beth Patterson Interview pt. 1
Interview will be in 4 parts.
Apr 11, 2020
Carlo Nuccio Interview Pt.2
Earl Palmer and tap dancing; playing drums for a living; putting bands together; being on the road; being a lead singer; viewpoints on money in the music business; sacredness of songs and empathizing with the writer; song contest and The Who Dat song; David Torkanowsky; Allen Toussaint; playing music in the late 70s in New Orleans; looking after the DJs; going to LA; starting out as recording engineer; how he ended up with a studio; more on how he wrote the Who Dat song; selling the rights to Wh...
Apr 07, 2020
Carlo Nuccio interview pt. 1
Carlo talks here mainly about his younger years and coming up in music and awareness of the culture.
Apr 05, 2020
Geoffrey Douville interview pt. 4
This was labeled as 3 for years and was sitting under the wrong episode description. Things are corrected as of 2/15/2020
Feb 16, 2020•50 min
Ryan Scully/ Josh Cohen Pt.2
Listening to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly; earliest music appreciations; the way ideas move through the 40s; song rejection; mcmurray talks of songs with the 40s; mother-in-law; how the music makes people react; Ebola? (too soon?); lifestyle descriptions in the songs; Morning 40 style; Funkadelic; the olfactory sense; discovering Nirvana and liberation by record store; Josh and binaural beats; Scully’s other material outside the 40s; whether the band broke up because of problems between Scully an...
Feb 20, 2016•28 min
Ryan Scully/ Josh Cohen pt. 1
how the 40s met; starting to write songs; experience of New Orleans; relationship between origins and musical content; Irving Berlin; the Rough 7 and backup singers; The beginning of the Morning 40 Federation; the first 40s tour and delusions of grandeur; the Attack Family; the concept behind the 40s; what was appealing to Scully about the band; I Aint Really Alright; subconscious access to material; dangers of becoming formulaic; Scully’s function; traditional music as a binding factor
Dec 21, 2015•22 min
Geoffrey Douville interview part 3
More on the new film festival; sound in film compared to plain music; post production blues; big budget films; problems learning film in school; being a tactician in the film business; paths to directing; whether there is or can be a New Orleans film style; the New York film style; Belizaire the Cajun ; frustrations with the magical realist take on a New Orleans film; impact of film on Jeff's music; culture of not listening to rules in New Orleans; why Jeff loves Spike Lee; expressive film camer...
Nov 23, 2014•51 min
Geoffrey Douville Interview pt. 2
More on Danny Barker and his part in the resuscitation of brass band music; the "copy cat" phenomenon and striving for individualism; how he thought his way into his approach to guitar in egg yolk; performer/ audience relationship; proselytizing in music; the 10 foot semi circle of doom; difficulties of getting attention in the cell phone era; Dave Renson and Benny's Bar; losses in new Orleans R'n'B; playing with K-Doe, Howard Tate, Al "Carnival Time" Johnson; film background; how film school st...
Oct 28, 2014•30 min
Geoffrey Douville Interview Pt.1
Part 1- Egg Yolk Jubilee; Lump, Mike Joseph, A.P. Gonzalez; collaboration with Paul Grass and the punk rock approach to Dixieland, the heavy brass genre; familial lineage to new orleans jazz greats; Frank Federico; Al Beletto connection; Glenn Barbaro- his midi Calliope and other wild side projects; steve callandra; mike hogan; cycling through drummers and periods of turmoil; Lou Thevenot; the world Egg Yolk showed up in; the increase in pop mentality in younger musicians; irreverential approach...
Oct 26, 2014•37 min
Brice Miller Interview Pt. 3
Brass bands in other parts of the United States; the "mythical" Congo Square; the role of formal musical education in the development early jazz artists- Buddy Bolden; brass bands around the world; jazz funerals, 2nd lines, benevolent societies and their roles in solidifying the place of people of color in the city- the taking of it; why brass bands in New Orleans have outlived the traditions in other cities; political needs for brass bands; more on cultural mentorship, cultural capital, social ...
Feb 26, 2014•42 min
Brice Miller interview pt.2
Part 2-Mentorship in the brass band community; Milton Batiste; Eureka brass band; waning of the early brass band interest; resurgence in interest by inserting more contemporary sounds; Tuba Fats; Danny Barker; Second line; The Dirty Dozen Brass Band; participatory music; The Rebirth Brass Band; Role of marching bands in the development of brass bands; Junior Pinstripe brass band; brass band repertoire evolution; mentorship in the current generation; cultural history, heritage, racial history, an...
Aug 22, 2013•34 min
Brice Miller interview pt. 1
Part 1- Dissertation subject; growing up in the brass band tradition; outside negative views of brass band traditions; Paul Barbarin and Brice's father; Doc Paulin; Fairview Baptist Brass Band and Danny Barker; Pinstripe Brass Band beginnings from the Mahoganny Brass Band; the development of contemporary brass band style; Brice's early second line experiences that drew him in; commodification of indigenous cultures and resultant viewpoints about Brass Bands; Helen Regis; Masters in Education Adm...
Aug 15, 2013•24 min
King James Pt. 2
How the special men started; moving to Alabama; Jesse Mae Hemphill; difference in solo expression from group; fat possum; original material; John Rodley; Tuba Fats; Palmetto Bug Stompers; music development; the Rainbow Fanny Pack; Bruce Brackman; Robert Snow; choosing BJ's; quitting the piano; trance music; starting a new Mardi Gras Krewe; doom; meditation metal; heading to Lincoln Center; thoughts on change; Tim Green; moving forward with The Special Men; deal with Domino Records; recording at ...
Jul 13, 2013
King James Interview pt.1
Origins; how he came to be in New Orleans; must have a guitar; KISS, Band of Gypsies, Tutti-Frutti (first record), and acquiring a 45 collection; getting into the blues; symphony work; simultaneous punk phase; getting to bass; Nervous Dwayne; Augie Jr blues band; Carl Le Blanc; Sun Ra; Sheik Rasheed; Kidd Jordan; The Photon band; life happens!; Jesse Mae Hemphill; coming to The Special Men; Junior Kimbrough; blues songwriting and knowledge of the terminologies and meanings
Jul 09, 2013
Tom Mcdermott interview pt.2
Part 2- Coming to New Orleans for James Booker; the different rhythms in traditional jazz- tresillo, cinquillo; working with Lil Queenie, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band; starting the New Orleans Night Crawlers; what's changed in New Orleans music over the years; loss of older players and lack of replacement; John Cleary; Dave McKenna, Dick Hymen; attempting music journalism; playing with Trolsen, Matt Perrine, Evan Christopher. Permalink...
Sep 24, 2012•17 min
Tom Mcdermott interview pt.1
Part 1- Tinnitus; working with Meschiya Lake; what makes a jazz player and why he feels he is not really a jazz player; interest in world music that relates to early jazz; 'Best of' record to be put out by Van Dyke Parks; Choro, Ragtime, Musette, and Tom's re-usage of the forms for improvisation; being from St. Louis and University experiences; forays into music journalism; the problems in rock journalism; Tom's music background; examples of his brother's musicality; being uncomfortable with pop...
Sep 17, 2012•18 min
Tim Robertson interview pt.3
Part 3 - More on Hot Karl; satire at Checkpoint Charlie's on Monday nights; not taking himself seriously and coming up against the limits of musicians' sense of humor; Dirty Mouth; Chameleon theater and big band; Dave Stover; Dave Sobel; David James; starting point: "everybody fuck off"; the release of Dirty Mouth; Rob Wagner; ideas for the Morning 40 Federation; "Bourbon St. is all in your head"; studying composition privately and what lead to that; obsession with 12 tone music and serialism; f...
Jul 24, 2012
Tim Robertson interview pt.2
Part 2 - David Bowie; how he started on guitar; the appeal of volume and speed; questions about Metal and the makeup of heaviness; Black Sabbath; Django's influence on Tony Island; King Thunder and the emergence of Hot Karl; Benji's Kosick unique approach; Captain Beefheart; Hot Karl's impact on Tim's approach; the subtleties of time in rock music; evolutionary psychology
Jul 20, 2012•13 min
Tim Robertson interview pt.1 (5/1/12)
Tim is an interesting figure in the New Orleans music vista. He plays Bourbon St. He is a survivor of that commercial zone and knows how to do it (or has the personality for it) in a way that doesn't limit him and has driven him plain crazy. Many have been driven in such a direction. Many people ask questions about validities and viabilities involved in music on Bourbon St. Tim, from first hand experience over lot of years, engages these questions:- What is Bourbon St.? How does that music zone ...
Jul 19, 2012
Dan Oestreicher interview part 3
Part 3 - Changes in the current New Orleans music scene that are caused by economic changes; rehearsals instead of pick-up bands; trad and revisiting Aurora Nealand's (see her interview) discussion of gender role solidification; heated debating over the preceding issues; music becoming populist and away from the seperatism of bebop- more heated debate! ; "in 2012 to be populist is to be subversive!"; the central features of the expression of the Trombone Shorty band; egalitarianism in New Orlean...
Jul 15, 2012•25 min
Tim Robertson interview pt.4
Part 4- Uses of composition training in Tim's everyday work; Tim's harmonic language; how he appropriates work from scores; getting in to Amanda Shaw's band; fitting into Bourbon St. schedule and Neslort schedule; fitting well with the idiosyncracies of Rick Trolsen's music; "I have my own ideas about rhythm!"; "I never count in my brain higher than 3!"; Das Rhinegold; things that are coming up-Dirty Mouth, Trio; arguing on stage; Alex Mcmurray in a mini cooper; interviewer-->interviewee swit...
Jul 13, 2012•15 min
Dan Oestreicher interview part 2
Part 2 - How Dan ended up in the Naked Orchestra; militant attitude towards certain music for growth; growing out of the results of mistaken assumptions; limited paradigms in jazz education; freedoms and an agenda unveiled in New York; Tony Dagradi and further doors opening with James Singleton's band; discussion of ideas for another approach to music education; The Other Planets and the "confluence of the downwardly mobile"; what is going on with "trad" in New Orleans in in the current scene; A...
Jul 10, 2012•29 min
Interview with Dan Oestreicher, currently with Trombone Shorty but also,saxophonist at large (5/2/12)
Dan Oestreicher first hit the radar for this writer when he presented himself at a Naked Orchestra show at the Mermaid lounge and made clear that he should be playing with the group. He did that for the rest of that evening and for a long time afterward. He played with many of the most forward thinking New Orleans musicians and frequently he is there right when they are looking the most forward. This includes the The Other Planets, The Magnetic Ear, 3 now 4, James Singleton, Irvin Mayfield's New...
Jun 25, 2012•19 min
Dave Capello in conversation Pt.4(conclusion)
Part 4- what happened when he got to New Orleans; falling into what he was trying to get away from; on the other hand...; punkfunk scene dying in New York and the reasons; getting into New Orleans and the beat and syncopation; hitting some hard times in New Orleans and leaving for a while- Ithaca; problems with the music press in New Orleans-suppressing innovation; insoucience; desire to push the limits; studying with Andrew Cyrille; more jazz pondering; the failure of imagination; bitter-sweet ...
Sep 28, 2011
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