Category 11 Questions to a Nashville Musician
11 Questions to a Nashville Musician: Dez Dickerson
For those of us who remember MTV when they played music videos, one image we all still remember is that guy with the red bandana playing guitar with Prince. Well, in case you didn’t know, or perhaps forgot, that guy is Dez Dickerson. During his five-year tenure with the Purple One, Dez found fame through […]
11 Questions to a Nashville Musician: Lilly Hiatt
Lilly Hiatt doesn’t hide the fact that she is the daughter of the great singer-songwriter John Hiatt. In fact, I have been lucky to see her open a few local shows for her Dad. Currently, the young Nashville songstress is making a major splash with her latest record, Trinity Lane, produced by Michael Trent of […]
11 Questions to a Nashville Musician: Chuck Mead
The city of Nashville should thank its lucky stars that Chuck Mead came to town. For if it wasn’t for he and his band BR5-49’s residency at Robert’s Western Wear in the 90’s, Lower Broadway would likely not have become the honky-tonk capital of the known universe. The band got so hot that David Letterman […]
11 Questions to a Nashville Musician: Peter Cooper
Peter Cooper has been a downright blessing to the Nashville musical community. From his newspaper days at The Tennessean through his current tenure at the Country Music Hall of Fame, he has always been someone whose views on all types of music has mattered to me. But, thankfully there is also a musical side to […]
11 Questions to a Nashville Musician: Bill Lloyd
Nashville’s Bill Lloyd is regarded as a noted maker of great power pop music and has released a solid catalog of solo records to prove it. He is also held in high regard as leader and founding member of Music City classic album re-creators, The Long Players. About once a month, you can hear Bill, […]
11 Questions to a Nashville Musician: Walter Egan
Of all the musicians that have found their way to live here in Music City, few have as many incredible tales to tell as Walter Egan. Starting out in teenage bands like Long Island’s The Malibooz, Egan later had a successful solo career in the 70s under the tutelage and friendship of the folks in […]
11 Questions to a Nashville Musician: Robyn Hitchcock
One of the most exciting recent musical transplants to Nashville is British singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock. With a career dating back to psychedelic-folksters The Soft Boys in the 70s, Hitchcock began a solo career in 1981 that has since produced 21 long players including his most recent self-titled album on Yep Rec Records that he recorded […]
11 Questions to a Nashville Musician: Bill DeMain
Bill DeMain is certainly no stranger to the Nashville music community. As a musician and songwriter, along with Molly Felder, their band Swan Dive created some of the best pop music ever to come out of Music City while in the process achieving major stardom in Japan and Korea. He is also a Grammy-nominated music […]
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