ARTIST INTERVIEW ARCHIVE - T



ARTIST

DATE

SUMMARY

DURATION
 

Taylor, Wayne 03/25/2018 Wayne Taylor, singer/guitar player while in the Navy with the renouwned Country Current Bluegrass group for 21 years is now retired and working a number of projects. His current band, Appaloosa has won acclaim and his newest album, Carnigie Tradition, provides discussion material as he chats with Steve about the band, the album and his passion to recreate the great performances of the past.


  0:30:22
Thomason, Ron 07/28/2019 Steve chats with Ron Thomason of Dry Branch Fire Squad at Grey Fox 2019 about the origins of the festival and his work with Mary Daub, his traditional approach to bluegrass and other topics.


  0:11:38
Thorn, Andy 02/17/2019 Andy Thorn's powerful, driving banjo picking has helped carry Left Over Salmon to new heights. Listen in as Steve chats with Andy about his jazz guitar background, playing the banjo, joining Left Over Salmon, their nearly 30 years of musical history and the Boulder, Colorado scene that has provided the environment for such growth in musical expression.


  0:22:45
Thorn, Andy 10/02/2022 Andy Thorn, banjo player with Left Over Salmon, lives in the mountains of Colorado. Among his frequent visitors is a friendly FOX.  Strange as it seems, a video of him playing banjo to this fox went viral on social media. Andy was inspired to create a solo album of him playing music in the wild to his special friend. Listen as Steve and Andy chat about his home in the mountains, his special fox friend and the album titled Songs of the Sunrise Fox.


  0:24:19
Tonk, Wonky 03/05/2023 Wonky: crazy, loony, a mix of bonkers and wacky. Wonky Tonk is a movement of love for love, from love. Steve visits singer/songwriter Wonky Tonk at her home studio to talk about her music and her "anything goes" songwriting style. Learn about the depth and grit of her music that shines through due to her honesty, fearlessness and sense of perseverance.


  0:31:12
Trischka, Tony 10/06/2012 Tony talks about his eclectic style combining minstrel, jazz, conventional, and progressive banjo playing, his new album for Rounder Records, the documentary "Give Me the Banjo" about banjo history, the "New York Banjo Players" concert series, and his online banjo lessons program including video exchanges.


  0:25:53
Trischka, Tony
w/ Sonny Osborne
08/03/2013 Tony Trischka talks about Sonny Osborne and his influence on banjo playing then is joined by Sonny for trivia and fun.


  0:41:04
Trischka, Tony 05/31/2014 Banjo legend Tony Trischka calls Steve from his car out on the West Coast to talk about his new album, "Great Big World" which includes an eclectic collection of music and performers. Tony explains how each song came together, the instruments used including harp and cello banjo, and how he recruited the artists for each cut on the album.


  0:27:23
Trischka, Tony 09/16/2018 Listen as Steve chats with longtime friend Tony Trischka during Grey Fox 2018 about his latest projects including his just completed 16th album, This Favored Land, a Civil War saga, to be released later in the year, his website and online banjo school and something involving African safaris...? Tony explains all here.


  0:21:02
Trischka, Tony 02/14/2021 Tony Trischka has achieved legendary status in his 50+ years as a consummate artist. Steve chats with Tony about his latest project, 12 years in the making, titled Shall We Hope. A unique album combining narratives, stories and music about real life characters from America's past during the Civil War period, Tony talks about the tireless research that went into each song making this a work of historical fiction that tells tales of love, loss, and hope drawn from our nation's fraught history. The project is actually an outline for a future musical about the Civil War period.


  0:47:49
Trivette, Gary/Clay Bank Band 12/04/2016 Steve talks with Gary Trivette and a couple members of the Clay Bank Band while in Raleigh at the IBMA Convention about the band, it's young members and their debut album 'Playing Hard to Forget'which debuted at #8 on The Top 10 Bluegrass Albums chart.


  0:06:31
Trivette, Gary/Clay Bank Band 07/08/2018 Steve talks with Gary Trivette, bass player and founder of the ClayBank Band, about their 2nd album, No Escape, released on Mountain Fever Records, the current members of the band and their contributions to each track on the album

  0:25:35
Tuttle, Molly 08/13/2017 Steve and Molly discuss her career, the various factors influencing her music including studes and graduation from Berklee School of Music, performances at the recent Grey Fox Bulegrass Festival, her protege Clare Brown (see Clare's comments in the "B" archive) and the excitement of being the first female to receive a nomination as IBMA guitarist of the year (2017)

  0:24:21
Tuttle, Molly 06/02/2019 Steve and  award-winning Molly Tuttle discuss her latest album, When You Are Ready, covering the various tracks on the album that demonstrate her love for multiple types of music without consideration for any particular genre making this an interesting guitar recording

  0:16:37
       

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