Imagine parents so cool that their son, in his early twenties, chooses to be in their band. Introducing Collingwood Ontario based 7 piece, The Mike McCarthy Band tell of their love of the Bakersfield country of Dwight Yoakam…
The strong original band who sound like they are from 'somewhere else', Future History are Guinness World Record holders, slept where The Tragically Hip slept, and share these stories and brilliant performances including a c…
This time, the extraordinarily charming and creative singer/songwriter Lily Frost, joins Jeff and shares songs from her latest and perhaps finest album Retro Moderne, as well as gems from the past. Lily talks songwriting, Bi…
The Franny Wisp & Her Washboard show is a funny, self-deprecating response to a society that is preoccupied with youth, beauty, success and romantic relationships. Her satire and wit are expressed musically through song, spo…
7 piece soul band featuring soul singing powerhouse Samantha Martin play and we chat about touring the world and the ultimate rock and soul male singer.
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Take an ADHD connoisseur of music, the history of glacially-deposited rock, and growing weed, and give him a guitar and a microphone and that is this. Starring the frontman of the band Glacial Erratic. When Dave started out,…
When you’ve played 2000 shows, and practiced in your bedroom since you were 14, you get good. That was the age he was in NYC and got the Gibson Les Paul he plays in this episode, including original songs, a Hendrix cover, an…
A capital ‘R’ rock band featuring rock stars from other bands, like I Mother Earth, and My Darkest Days, I’m joined for a get-to-know-the-band chat by Sal Costa and Brian Byrne. Note: Since this session, Byrne left the band.…
These two tag team their way into the hearts of everyone they encounter, through music and sense of humour. Roddy led the band Rebel Emergency with whom he stage surfed, literally. Pat’s played more shows than the Grateful D…
“HIS VOICE is MAGIC”. A quote from Jake Good’s website. Attributed to some guy named Jeff Woods. But where is Azilda? The answer to that and stories of the evolution of a singer who wins hearts the second he takes the stage.…
A band of brothers featuring two “Crooks with Nathan Crook on gtr/vocals, Trevor Cook on drums, Jared Craig on bass, and lead singer Noel Johnson. In fact they ALL SING! And come with lots of stories and heart in conversati…
The return of the solo gem known as Sages, aka Racquel Hardy (ex of Falcon Jane, my guests Oct. 2018). She is the epitome of ‘artist’, sitting on my studio floor, with a synthesizer between her legs and poetry spilling from …
The guitar virtuoso makes a return visit, with an update and performances, and speaks of guitar hero Frank Marino (update March 2020 – Shane was hand-picked by Marino to be his 2nd guitarist on a 2020 North American tour!)
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These four are deadly together. Three lead singers including bassist Devon Richardson, guitarist Tom Ionescu , keyboardist Jeff Giles, and on drums the Levon Helm meets Ringo Starr: Zach Sutton. Our in depth conversation and…
Shining star Sky Wallace brings it! Joined by drummer Alfie Vienneau, guitarist/producer Devon Lougheed and bassist Jenna Strautman, Skye delivers live performances of songs from the acclaimed album “Coal”, and more.
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It might get loud. 3 piece plugged-in, Sterling & The Birdwatchers are the definition of alt/surf/punk, featuring Duncan Crone on drums, Jack Doris on bass and Kailum “Sterling” MacKenzie on guitar and vocals. 3 live songs i…
The most unique band I’ve encountered in forever, the Hannah Brothers – Ben (gtr and vocals), and Kyle (bass and vocals) are as kind as they are cerebral, and as creative as they are musically mindful. This episode is an int…
When you get up and sing with Sting, you’re on the right track. She sings and plays guitar and piano and says “I’m an R&B-jazz-soul singer blooming out of a meta-head child” and “Mainly a writer”, she professes. Introducing …
“If I don’t write, then life starts to become distorted”, says James Stephens AKA “Fourth Born”. He’s the sister of past podcast guest, country starlet Rebecca Rain. With his guitar, Fourth Born is accompanied by drummer Sar…
Is that a pocket full of kryptonite or are you just happy to see me? This time, what a performer! His talents and hits would land him on the cover of Rolling Stone (Jan 1993), and on stages around the world. Joining me in-st…
His career would begin with an album that would place top 10 in the Top 100 Canadian Albums of All Time – the 1991 Lowest of the Low album “Shakespeare My Butt”. His songs sound at home alongside Elvis Costello, and Billy Br…
This time a story that begins in South America, with multi-instrumentalist record producer Guillermo Sebauste, the soulful Dan Dwoskin on keyboards/vocals, guitarist Haig Beylarian and drummer Lewis Spring. The Honeyrunners …
This blue-eyed soul singer alternates between the lower depths of his voice to its falsetto highs. With acoustic performances from his 2018 album “Changer”, Rob Elder ponders tried and true folk and rock themes of love, ineq…
Not every day a guitarist with a PhD in Biophysics who studied airflow in honeybee hives using 3D computer models, and hydroponics for outer space, drops by. Performing acoustically, his tough-luck-inspired soul-healing blue…
