Podcasts by The VVN Music Interviews
The VVN Music Podcast includes reviews, features and interviews with the veteran music artists that have been recording for twenty years or more in pop, rock, R&B/soul, country, folk and blues.
All music samples used during this show are strictly for news reporting, editorial & review use and do not exceed 30 seconds in length, falling under the fair use clause of the copyright act.
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Dick Taylor of the Rollin' Stones&the Pretty Things from 2018-04-19T23:47:52
Dick Taylor started his career with school friends Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in a group they called the Rollin' Stones but left before they cut their first album to return to art school. <...
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Gary Brooker of Procol Harum from 2018-03-26T21:12:43
On March 23, Procol Harum released an eight-disc box set chronicling the band's history both in the studio and live.
The one person who has been there for that entire history is lead sin...
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Tommy Roe (2012) from 2018-01-30T03:50:50
This time, we go back to 2012 for an archive interview with Tommy Roe.
Tommy was one of the rare artists who was able to keep his songs in the top ten for most of the 60's, from 196...
Rachael Sage from 2017-11-06T23:30:30
Rachael Sage is a true Renaissance woman of the arts. Over her lifeshe has danced with the New York City ballet, taught herself piano, painted, acted, started her own record company and become a...
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Glenn Hughes of Deep Purple&Black Country Communion from 2017-09-25T21:43:53
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Glenn Hughes has had a long and very active career in music, first with the British group Trapeze and, starting in 1973, as a mem...
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Paula Cole from 2017-09-11T21:55:07
Paula Cole started her career in the clubs around her native Boston before being asked to join Peter Gabriel's Secret World Tour. Her exposure from that tour and her first album, Harbinger<...
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Carl Palmer of Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Asia from 2017-08-15T23:59:02
According to Rolling Stone, Carl Palmer is one of the ten best drummers in music.
He started his career in the late-...
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Ross the Boss of The Dictators and Manowar from 2017-08-10T23:03:26
Ross the Boss Friedman has been a mainstay of the music business for over forty years. In 1973, he was a founding member of the punk icons The Dictators and, in 19...
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Tommy Victor of Prong&Danzig from 2017-07-31T13:24:33
Singer and guitarist Tommy Victor got his start in music working at CBGB in New York as a sound engineer and, in 1986, got together with a fellow employee, Mike Ki...
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Jett Williams on Her Father Hank Williams from 2017-07-10T22:03:08
Jett Williams was born just five days after her father, Hank Williams died at the age of 29. Her birth mother gave her up for adoption and it wasn't until the ear...
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Patrick Myers of Killer Queen from 2017-06-26T22:30:49
Killer Queen have never recorded an album, yet they have fans around the world fo...
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Peter Cetera from 2017-06-12T19:55:30
Peter Cetera was one of the three main voices of Chicago, along with Robert Lamm and Terry Kath, from their beginnings until the album Chicago 17 and singing such ...
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Brian Tatler of Diamond Head from 2017-05-22T21:25:09
The British heavy metal band Diamond Head has had a major influence on the world of metal music over the last forty years.
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Carmine Appice from 2017-05-08T20:56:19
For our fortieth episode, we go back four years to a 2013 interview with classic rock drummer Carmine Appice.
Carmine...
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Melissa Manchester from 2017-05-01T20:57:14
Melissa Manchester has had a tremendous career as a singer-songwriter, scoring numerous hits and working with the best in the business.
Terry Ilous of XYZ and Great White from 2017-04-24T20:25:26
Terry Ilous and Patt Fontaine came to America from their native France in the mid-80's where they put together the rockers XYZ. Over the next six years, the band w...
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John Lodge of the Moody Blues (2015) / Martin Strange of Strange Karma from 2017-04-17T20:48:29
This week, we celebrate the upcoming second anniversary of the VVN Music Podcast by going back to our very first episode with John Lodge of the Moody Blues. Listen
Commander Cody from 2017-04-10T18:08:45
George Frayne has been playing music for fifty years, 46 years of which have been under the name of Commander Cody. With his band, the Lost Planet Airmen, he has ...
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Freddy Cannon from 2017-04-03T18:42:06
This week, we go back to 2012 for an interview with Freddy Cannon.
At the time, Cannon was promoting his memoir, "Wher...
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Michael Schenker (2017) from 2017-03-27T20:52:19
Michael Schenker returns to the VVN Music Podcast for the second time in a year with another live album.
Last ...
Steve Hackett (2017)&Ruthie Foster from 2017-03-20T22:00:40
We once again have a double bill this week on the VVN Music Podcast.
First up is a brand new interview with Steve Hac...
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Cindy Lee Berryhill from 2017-03-13T20:28:58
Cindy Lee Berryhill started her music career in the late 80's as part of the anti-folk movement, a term which she is credited with creating. In 1987, she released ...
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Tracy Nelson (2012) from 2017-03-06T21:12
This week we're going back to 2012 for an interview with singer Tracy Nelson.
Tracy started her career in the mid-60's...
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Punky Meadows from 2017-02-27T22:17:57
Punky Meadows was a part of the music scene from the mid-60's to the mid-80's as a member of The Cherry People, Bux and Angel.
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Chip Taylor from 2017-02-20T21:06:07
In the 60's, Chip Taylor wrote such hits as the Troggs' "Wild Thing", Merilee Rush's "Angel of the Morning", the Hollies' "I Can't Let Go" and Janis Joplin's "Try ...
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Paul Rodgers from 2017-02-12T23:29:08
We're going back to January of 2014 this weeks for an interview with the great Paul Rodgers.
Rodgers is one of those r...
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John Mayall&Anders Rönnblom of Killer Bee from 2017-02-06T14:31:06
For the first time, we have two guests this week on the VVN Music Podcast.
John Mayall is one of the greatest of the B...
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Jeannie Seely from 2017-01-30T22:18:07
Jeannie Seely is about to celebrate her 50th anniversary of becoming a member of the Grand Ole Opry, an honor that she says is one of the great achievements of her...
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Dennis Coffey from 2017-01-12T22:13:44
For most people, Dennis Coffey is best known for his early-70's hits "Scorpio" and "Taurus", but his many career highlights include studio work and production incl...
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B.J. Thomas (2013 Archive Interview) from 2016-12-14T21:03:24
B.J. Thomas has had an impressive career with hits in Pop, Christian and Country.
In 2013, he rerecorded a number of t...
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Henry Paul of The Outlaws and Blackhawk from 2016-11-21T21:49:51
Henry Paul has had success in not one, not two, but three bands over the last 44 years. He was a founding member of the Outlaws and has had a number of stints with...
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Mick Box of Uriah Heep from 2016-11-14T21:14:44
For 47 years, Mick Box has been the guitarist and the driving force behind the classic British rock band Uriah Heep.
B...
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Randy Bachman of the Guess Who&Bachman-Turner Overdrive from 2016-11-07T23:55
Randy Bachman is the only person to be inducted twice into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame (a fact he didn't know until this interview) as a member of The Guess Wh...
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Jesse James Dupree of Jackyl and Full Throttle Saloon from 2016-10-10T22:23:44
Jesse James Dupree was one of the co-founders of the southern rock and metal band Jackyl who have just released their latest album, Listen
John Corabi from 2016-09-10T20:04:01
John Corabi has gone from five years as the singer for Motley Crue to stints in Union, the Eric Singer Project (ESP), Twenty 4 Seven, Brides of Destruction and, no...
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The Return of Jon Anderson from 2016-08-10T22:24:35
When we last talked with Jon Anderson, he was releasing a new album with Jean Luc Ponty, Listen
Roger Earl of Foghat from 2016-07-24T20:07:35
Our guest is Roger Earl, longtime drummer for Foghat.
Roger was originally a member of Savoy Brown before breaking off...
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Michael Schenker from 2016-06-28T00:18:52
Our guest is classic rock guitarist Michael Schenker.
Schenker played his first gig at the age of 11 with his brother ...
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Bobby Rydell from 2016-05-12T21:45:53
Our guest for this episode is entertainer Bobby Rydell.
Rydell made a name for himself in the late 50's through the mi...
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L.J. Reynolds of the Dramatics from 2016-04-21T23:06:37
Our guest this episode is L.J. Reynolds of the classic R&B group the Dramatics.
In 2012, we wrote about Reynolds being...
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Marky Ramone from 2016-02-20T22:23:47
Our guest this episode is Marky Ramone.
Marky's memoir, "Punk Rock Blitzkrieg" was just published in paperback. We tal...
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Nils Lofgren from 2016-01-14T04:19:07
This is the second time we've had the honor to talk with Nils Lofgren (Listen
Steve Hackett from 2015-11-15T22:07
Our guest today is Steve Hackett who was the guitarist for Genesis from 1970 to 1976, later recording numerous solo albums along with playing in the band GTR with ...
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Jon Anderson from 2015-10-31T20:53:46
Our guest is Jon Anderson who is best known as the guitarist and singer for Yes with whom he played almost constantly from 1968 to 2008. Today, he is exploring ot...
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Michael Stanley from 2015-10-01T22:29:06
Lloyd Price from 2015-08-30T21:37:29
Drummer Anton Fig from 2015-08-20T23:03:40
Susan Cowsill and Vicki Peterson of the Continental Drifters&the Psycho Sisters (and the Cowsills and Bangles) from 2015-07-23T02:32:48
In the first of our archive shows, we go back to last year when we interviewed Susan Cowsill and Vicki Peterson as the Psycho Sisters, who were releasing an album 20 years in the making, "Up On ...
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Ted Kalo of the Music First Coalition from 2015-06-29T23:45:08
The VVN Music Podcast Episode 4 with Guest Ted Kalo of the Music First Coalition.
If you listen to any episode of the VVN Music Podcast, this is the one.
Veteran music artists are ...
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Dave Edmunds from 2015-06-15T23:05:43
The VVN Music Podcast Episode 3 with Guest Dave Edmunds (June 15, 2015)
00:00 - Introduction
01:00 - Reviews
Bobby Hart of Boyce and Hart from 2015-05-18T23:07:43
The VVN Music Podcast Episode 2 with Guest Bobby Hart of Boyce and Hart (May 18, 2015)
00:00 - Introduction
00:45 - Thanks and call for contributors.
01:10 - News of the Wee...
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John Lodge of the Moody Blues from 2015-05-06T03:12:39
The VVN Music Podcast Episode 1 with Special Guest John Lodge of the Moody Blues (May 5, 2015)
00:00 - Introduction
00:39 - The origins of VVN Music
03:15 - Top Five Stories...
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