Bands To Fans
Cris Cohen interviews professional musicians to get the stories behind every beat, chord, and lyric.
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I spoke with AJ Dean of The Wandering Hearts. We discussed:Deja Vu (We've All Been Here Before), their reimagining of the album by Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young.The rare thunderstorms that bookended their recording sessions in the California desert.Veering away from the obvious choice of who should sing lead on a son
I spoke with the band Sister Hazel, specifically Ken Block, Drew Copeland, Jett Beres, and Ryan Newell. (Drummer Mark Trojanowski was warming up because they were about to go on stage.) We discussed: - Their new album... Sand, Sea & Crash Debris - Co-writing a song with Emerson Hart of Tonic - Ken co-writing a song wit
Vulnerability with volume. Talking about the song "Wild" with Kelsy Karter.
Matt Scannell of Vertical Horizon (excerpt) - "The Echoes of Angels That Won't Return"
Talking with Matt Scannell of Vertical Horizon about the song "Everything You Want"
I interviewed Peter Holsapple, best known for his bands The dB's and the Continental Drifters, as well as his work with groups like REM and Hootie and The Blowfish. Topics and pull quotes: His new album, The Face of 68."You want to kind of go for feral performances if you can. You want it to jump out of the grooves of
“Sometimes the moment that you think is the worst moment, the worst thing to happen, turns out to be, in hindsight, something that was necessary, maybe even profoundly a gift.” I spoke with Jim “Soni” Sonefeld of Hootie and The Blowfish. We discussed: His autobiography, “Swimming With the Blowfish: Hootie, Healing, And
