Category Archives: Interviews

Interview with SHAWN PHILLIPS

September 2, 2024

August 2024 To be a thing unto itself yet appeal to everybody and stay an artist in a class of his own wasn’t easy even back in the late ’60s and early ’70s when individualism reigned supreme, but Shawn Phillips … Continue reading →

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Interview with CHRIS SLADE

August 28, 2024

August 2024 To headbangers, he’s this bald-headed thunder-god from AC/DC; to more discerning listeners, he’s a groove master from MANFRED MANN’S EARTH BAND; to Chris Slade, it’s all parts of his spiritual path. And, as Chris reckons, those parts were … Continue reading →

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Interview with MIDGE URE

August 21, 2024

August 2024 Soft-spoken when you speak to him and fierce when he’s facing the audience, Midge Ure may seem to embody contradiction – and such a core of this artist’s personality is also, perhaps, the very root of his creative … Continue reading →

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Interview with ROGER EARL (FOGHAT)

December 18, 2023

November 2023 Back in 1973 FOGHAT informed the world that they had a long way to go; fast-forward fifty years, and the veterans are still going from strength to strength. Neither fame nor fortune prevented the ensemble – steered towards … Continue reading →

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Interview with RICHARD WILLIAMS (KANSAS)

June 14, 2023

June 2023 Unlike the intermittent timelines many of their contemporaries measure in jubilees, the circle of KANSAS’ existence remains unbroken for five decades now – a little hiccup in the mid-’80s can be discounted – and guitarist Richard Williams has … Continue reading →

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