Charlie Robison
(Q)- Marriage among country recording artists traditionally has a high rate of crumbling apart. Within your wife’s outfit, Natalie and Martie both divorced and Natalie remarried. You recently married your wife and you as well as your wife have been in this business for quite a while. You two are probably both aware of the …
Steve Ripley
(Q)- What was a young Steve Ripley like whenever he was growing up in rural Oklahoma? Steve Ripley (SR)- I got my first Fender guitar at age 12 and I thought Leo Fender made it for me. And that’s what I still choose to believe. Even though Leo had already sold the company to CBS …
Our Lady Peace
Our Lady Peace is currently the most popular rock group in all of Canada, and apparently it’s for all of the right reasons. They received rave reviews from the normally difficult Canadian pop/rock press. Our Lady Peace boasts a solid album titled “Clumsy”, with diverse material that is right at home on modern rock format, …
LeAnn Rimes
This summer country star LeAnn Rimes is co-headling a tour with country singer Bryan White, that’s become one of the hottest tickets in America. At fifteen, Rimes is already a major player in the world of country music. Her new album “Sittin’ on Top of the World”, has already gone platinum and Rimes career shows …
Travis Tritt
(Q)- Do you think the audience for your style of ‘outlaw country” has actually disappeared’ or stopped supporting country music entirely? Or is that just another marketing statistic. Travis Tritt (TT)- I don’t know if I’ve ever got, as the artist we are the kind of attention being the artist that I am, I don’t …
Cyndi Thomson
(Q)- First your name, age and place of birth please. Cyndi Thomson (CT)- I’m Cyndi Thomson, I’m twenty-four years old and I am from my hometown is Tifton, Georgia. (Q)- What does it mean when you say, “I was born to share my heart”? And, isn’t taking that attitude in regards to sharing yourself with …
Jeff Bates
Jeff Bates Interview During the Golden Era of modern American popular music, from the late 60’s into the early ’70’s, American recording artists often sang of the life they lived. Artists’ whose songs appealed to audiences, simply because the audience could see themselves within those now classic hit singles of the era, became legendary. Therein …
Miss Patti Page
(Q)- No matter what, it’s still about the song as far as country music and the stardom, isn’t it? Great material stands the test of time. (A)- Miss Patti Page (MPP)- Yes it does. (Q)- Do you feel there is “age discrimination” as far as the country genre and country radio or videos goes these …
The London Quireboys
The brothers, Noel and Liam Gallagher and their swagger and sense of self belief, have become popular with anti-authority youth movement and soccer hooligan culture of Great Britain. With their rock band Oasis, the highly popular, outspoken Gallagher brothers’ careers have skyrocketed, to international rock stardom, since their days running wild in streets and pubs …
Johnny Paycheck
Johnny Paycheck talks about starting out in his singing career at age fourteen when he ran away from home and hoboed around the country, singing in bars wherever he’d find work a hot meal and a place to sleep. Johnny Paycheck -I got into something when I was a kid that I couldn’t back out …
JOE NICHOLS
To many music industry insiders in the USA, country recording artist Joe Nichols is on the verge of becoming a household name. Why? Because the moment one hears the vocals on his new album, “Man With A Memory”, one fact becomes crystal clear. Joe Nichols has plenty of soul in his voice. And, when he …