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Broadcast week of May 14, 2012 | Special Guest Shawn Phillips
Shawn Phillips
This week on Art of the Song we bring you another in our Concerts and Conversations series recorded live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Our guest, Shawn Phillips is perhaps one of most fascinating and enigmatic musicians to come out of the early-1970s singer/songwriter boom. He performed with such legendary musicians as Donovan and the Beatles. The mere fact that Shawn was a musician as much as a singer and songwriter made him stand out, and helped him attract a dedicated following. His refusal to shape his music — which crosses between folk-rock, jazz, progressive, pop, and classical — to anyone else's expectations, allowed him to hold onto a large and dedicated cult following, without ever achieving the stardom that his talent seemed to merit. [Visit Shawn's website ]
Broadcast week of May 07, 2012 | Special Guest Ronny Cox
Ronny Cox
This week on Art of the Song, Ronny Cox joins us to talk about his creative path. Known to most for his uncanny ability as an actor to transform his natural, easy going manner into some of our favorite villains, Ronny shares with us about his first love... Folk music. As a songwriter, Ronny Cox has 7 CD’s to his name. He keeps busy between movies and a solid career as touring singer/songwriter. Ronny talked with us at the Woody Guthrie Festival about how music has held him through good times and bad. [Visit Ronny's website ]
Broadcast week of April 30, 2012 | Special Guest James Torme
James Torme
This week on Art of the Song we visit with another in our series Standing on the Shoulders of Giants. James Torme is our guest, son of legendary jazz artist Mel Torme, James followed the family business his own way. First exploring R & B, James found the allure of Jazz to be too strong, and with his most recent CD, he puts his personal style on to standards and pop hits from Cole Porter to Michael Jackson. James talked with us about his upbringing in Europe and his joy in finding his creative voice. [Visit James website ]
Broadcast week of April 23, 2012 | Special Guest The Highest Pass
The Highest Pass
This week we bring you a special edition of Art of the Song Creativity Radio. A departure from our usual singer-songwriter format, we’ll delve deep into the world of documentary film-making with a visit to the makers of the award-winning film, The Highest Pass. We talk with protagonist and writer-producer, Adam Schomer, his guru and mentor, Anand Mehrotra, and producer-director, Jon Fitzgerald. The interview segments are connected with the film’s soundtrack music, composed by Michael Mollura and Jon Anderson of YES. [Visit the movie website ]
Broadcast week of April 15, 2012 | Special Guest Gretchen Peters
Gretchen Peters
This week on Art of the Song we talk with Grammy-nominated Nashville songwriter, Gretchen Peters. Her voice and guitar playing have been at the core of her music since she started performing in the folk circuit as a teenager. Inspired by Paul Simon, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and a new generation of songwriters rising out of Nashville that included Steve Earle, Nanci Griffith and Rodney Crowell, Gretchen relocated to Music City in the late 1980s. Martina McBride’s 1995 recording of Gretchen Peters’ tune “Independence Day,” made her a songwriting sensation. The performance received a “Best Country Song” Grammy nomination and won the Country Music Association’s “Song of the Year” title. After that a string of great vocalists – Pam Tillis, Trisha Yearwood, Patty Loveless, Neil Diamond, George Strait, Etta James – began to record Peters’ songs. Since then, she’s recorded five solo albums, including her most recent, Hello Cruel World. We spoke with Gretchen with an intimate audience at Jimmy LaFave’s Songwriter Rendezvous in Lajitas, Texas. [Visit Gretchen's website ]
Broadcast week of April 09, 2012 | Special Guest Rod MacDonald
Rod MacDonald
This week on Art of the Song we visit with Rod MacDonald. Throughout a 35-year performing career, Rod has been entertaining audiences worldwide with timeless ballads, modern folk songs, and musical versatility. Rod was a major part of the 80s Greenwich Village folk renaissance, having performed with Pete Seeger, Tom Chapin, Dave Van Ronk, and Suzanne Vega. In 2002, Smithsonian Folkways recognized Rod's considerable contribution to folk music by including more than 20 of his songs in their Fast Folk Music Collection, honoring him as one of the most heavily represented artists in the series. We spoke with Rod in our Albuquerque studios. [Visit Rod's website ]
Broadcast week of April 02, 2012 | Special Guest Kenny White
Kenny White
Kenny White is our guest this week on Art of the Song. Kenny’s songwriting is an addictive combination, bringing together the heart of the Great American Songbook, the edge of New York City at 2 am, and the musical savvy of a Madison Avenue Ad man. Kenny produced Shawn Colvin’s Grammy-nominated tune, “I Don’t Know Why,” as well as three CDs for the legendary J.Giels Band leader, Peter Wolf... the second of which, “Sleepless,” garnered the distinction by Rolling Stone magazine of being one of “the 500 greatest albums ever made.” The project gave Kenny a chance to work with Keith Richards, Mick Jagger, and Steve Earle. As a contributing writer / musician, Kenny worked on a number of film soundtracks including, Message in a Bottle, Ed TV, Forces of Nature, A Walk on the Moon, and four films by indie master, John Sayles. The former New York jingle writer and producer turned singer / songwriter joined us for a live concert and interview, as part of an Art of the Song fundraiser, held at El Monte Sagrado Resort in Taos, New Mexico. [Visit Kenny's website ]
Broadcast week of March 26, 2012 | Special Guest Tracy Newman
Tracy Newman
Our guest this week on Art of the Song is TV writer, producer, and folksinger, Tracy Newman. Tracy started as a staff writer on Cheers. In 1997, she won an Emmy and a Peabody Award for co-writing the ground-breaking “coming out” episode of Ellen. In 2001, she co-created the successful ABC comedy, According to Jim, featuring Jim Belushi. Tracy has been playing guitar and writing songs since she was 14. She joined us for a live interview in Albuquerque for “Women in Creativity Month.” [Visit Tracy's website]
Broadcast week of March 19, 2012 | Special Guest Ari Hest
Ari Hest
This week on Art of the Song, we talk with Ari Hest. Ari took piano lessons as a child and later taught himself to play his mother’s nylon string guitar with influences from both his parents' record collection and radio artists. He wrote his first song in 1996 about a made-up girlfriend and a hot-air balloon, and went on to record several albums, including his recent Sunset Over Hope Street. [Visit Ari's website]
Broadcast week of March 12, 2012 | Special Guest Rondi Charleston
Rondi Charleston
This week we visit with Rondi Charleston, backgrounded by diverse careers in music and media, Rondi has developed a luscious form of accessible jazz and jazz inspired singing and songwriting. Having grown up in Chicago’s Hyde Park the only daughter of a jazz enthusiast and a mother who sang and taught voice, music was everywhere in Rondi’s house. Rondi spoke with us about her background, her creative process and her recent release Who Knows Where The Time Goes. [Visit Rondi's website]
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