Interview with Matt Gary

Interview with Matt Gary

CL: I’m Christian Lamitschka and today I present you Matt Gary. Matt, welcome  to the show.

MG: Thank you  for having me, I appreciate it.

CL: Matt, since  the last time we met each other, a lot stuff has happened to you.  An example is you have a new 6-Pack EPK out which is called “I’m Just Sayin'”.

MG: Yes, since we last spoke, I have a new single out, which is called “I’m Just Sayin'” written by Frank Myers, Gary Baker, and Billy Montana. If you’re not familiar with them, they are incredible songwriters from  songs like “I Swear” and “Front Porch Looking In”. You might  have heard of them. They were the writers on this project, which  was awesome as a newcomer, being able to work with such incredible songwriters. The song is kind of a fair warning song telling that  girl you’re in the wrong relationship, he treats you bad, I would  treat you so much better than he would. I’m just saying that’s what this song is about. That’s the song out right now, and we are all over the country, visiting radio stations and everyone has been so receptive. It’s been great.

CL: Let’s talk a  little bit about this EPK again. Folks, you can see what it looks  like…..

MG: … and  it’s  now on iTunes, and Amazon and all digital outlets.

CL: That’s cool  and there is also a video on this EPK, let’s talk about this videotape a little. Witch song did you video tape?

MG: The song  that  is on the EPK is the song that is on there. An introduction to me  on telling me where I’m from with behind the scenes footage and that type of stuff.

CL: Is there  any exciting news you can share with us?

MG: Yea, everything is great.

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Interview with Michelle Turley

Interview with Michelle Turley

CL: I am Christian Lamitschka and today I present you Michelle Turley. Michelle, welcome to the show.

MT: Thank you very much, pleasure to be here.

CL: Michelle, can you please introduce yourself to the European country music fans who may be hearing about you for the first time?

MT: Sure, I am Michelle Turley, I’m originally from New Mexico in the US, a little tiny town and I’m kind of new to country music. This is my second CD that will be released in June. We had much success with our first CD with two number-one hits. “Caroline” and “Hard Times” both on the Indie World Country Chart and also New Music Weekly as high as the top ten. I’m real happy about that. We’re just releasing our second single called “My X Husband” and you can follow that through a lot of the websites www.michelleturley.com and www.myspace.com/michelleturley and keep your fingers crossed. We’ll see what happens.

CL: The title “My X Husband”, am I allowed to ask if it’s about you?

MT: Well, I think it’s pretty self-explanatory don’t you? (laughing) Yes, it is, it’s inspired by my ex-husband. I didn’t write this song, I can’t take credit for it. My brother wrote the song, it’s a family affair, we do everything together. I have two brothers that are involved producing and writing as well. He wrote this song based on my relationship based on my ex-husband. We released it on Valentine’s Day. How apropos!

CL: Did he get a lot of insight stories from you about your marriage about you and your ex-husband or?

MT: Yes he did, there is a little bit of embellishment as well, but it makes for a fun song, I think everybody that listens to it, regardless on going through a bad relationship or not. It’s more of a spoof than a comedy than anything, just to laugh at the whole idea of divorce instead of being sad about it.

CL: Let me ask you, what uniqueness differentiate you to other artists?

MT: Oh my voice, my voice is very unique and the style of writing the music. It’s definitely more old-style country, which I prefer the traditional style with a little bit of update with the production and everything. My heart belongs to the old-style of traditional country and I don’t think there really has been a large market for that lately, and I certainly hope to try to be the one to bring that back. I think that’s about it, unique that way.

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Interview with Due West

Interview with Due West

CL: I’m Christian Lamitschka and today I present you Due West. Welcome to the show you guys.

DW: Thank you. Glad to be here and thanks for having us.

CL: Could you please introduce yourself and our viewers who might be hearing of you for the first time.

DW: I’m Tim Gates from Utah; I’m Matt Lopez from Wyoming; I’m Brad Hull from Arizona.

CL: You guys have a new album “Forget The Miles” on the market. Folks who have an idea about what we are talking about that’s the album you can buy everywhere, on Amazon, on your website and wherever you find the store. Let’s talk about the music. What kind of music is on the album?

DW: Country music! Five of the six songs we all wrote together or separately and they are song that been really important to us. We finally get to put them out on a CD. We’re a three-part harmony, like Alabama, Diamond Rio, and so on.

CL: Let’s see if you all three have the same personal favorite on the album.

DW: (Brad) My personal favorite is the new single, which is “When The Smoke Clears”. I love that song, it’s got a haunting melody and a beautiful production and the harmonies are really cool on that song. It has a great message.

CL: What’s the story behind it?

DW: The song is about somebody is faced with an opportunity to make a bad decision and it kind of goes thru what can happen if that bad decision was made. It was written by Mat Lopez here and his friend Don Rollins; it’s just a beautiful piece.

CL: What is yours, the same one or another?

DW: (Tim) Mine is probably “Country Music Made A Man Out Of Me”, it’s probably one of the most cleverly written songs in Nashville. A friend of mine over here, Tim Gates Wrote it and if you listen to that song, it’s got 21 classic country titles that are all used as a sentence. It’s telling a story using those titles about how country made a man out of him.

CL: Wow, yes, and yours?

DW: (Matt) I’m a man too, (laughing) because of country music. I would say “When The Smoke Clears” is also my favorite too, exactly what Brad says, it has a good message, it’s a Waltz, a country song and it’s heavy.

CL: What can country fans expect to see if they see one of your shows.

DW: High energy, lots of interaction with the crowd; we like to involve everybody and we all have big party and a good time and relate to our fans. Make them feel comfortable. We always feel if performers are comfortable on stage, the audience is comfortable. If performers are nervous, shaky, it makes everybody feel nervous and shaky.

CL: So probably all country fans like to know, are you still available, or have a girlfriend or anything?

DW: (Brad) I just got married last week as a matter of fact.

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Interview with Flip Grater

Interview with Flip Grater

Ch.L.: Folk Music has many new fans in Europe, who may be hearing about you for the first time. How would you describe yourself and the music you play to someone who'se never seen or heard you before.

F.G.: I make sad music. Of a kind of indie-folk variety. With a little alt-country thrown in.

Ch.L.: What's your latest CD and how's it doing?How did you choose the title for the CD, is there a story behind it?
   
F.G.: It's called While I'm Awake I'm At War. It's gone really well at     home and has just been released in Germany. The album is named after a song on it that is about melancholy and the comfort that can     be found with a lover.

Ch.L.: Who do you look up musiccally and how deep do your musical roots run?
   
F.G.: I love all kinds of music and bands but my heart has always been     in folk music. My father taught me to play guitar when I was a child     and he taught me all of his favourite songs like Bob Dylan, Cat     Ste    vens and Neil Young songs.

Ch.L.: As an artist you have to do so many different things such as recording, touring, doing interviews etc. What do you like best, what's your favorite activity?
   
F.G.: I do all those things and have always been independent in New     Zealand because I run my own label there. I love all aspects for     diffe    rent reasons. I love being at home writing. I love being in the studio     working with amazing musicians. I love being on tour and meeting     new people and playing to new audiences.

Ch.L.: What inspired you to become an artist?

F.G.: Hmm.. I never intended to make music for a living. I had learned     guitar when I was a kid and as I got older it was a hobby. When I was     20 years old I met a Swedish guy, fell in love and moved to Sweden.     Eventually he broke my heart, I returned to New Zealand miserable     and started writing and performing music.

Ch.L.: What moments in your career stand out in your memory as highlights and achievements which you're proud of?

F.G.: I played at SXSW in Austin, Texas a few years ago and     performed after Kris Kristofferson and before Luke Zimmerman. That     was cool. Also I'm really proud of this new album.

Ch.L.: When you get time off, how do you like to relax?

F.G.: I love to cook.

Ch.L.: What can your fans expect to see when they see you in concert?

F.G.: I'm doing this tour solo so it's a very intimate show. Playing     alone means it's stripped back to the basic song, 1 voice, 1 guitar. It's     a very honest way to hear an album performed.

Ch.L.: Many music fans today get their information about artists via the internet. Do you have your own website and what will fans find there?

F.G.: I have a site and I'm on myspace but I mostly use Facebook and     Twitter. () (). I'm a little bit of a facebook junkie actually.. and when     I'm touring I tweet a lot!

Ch.L.. What message would you like to send your European fans?

F.G.: Can't wait to meet you! Keep an eye out online for my tour     dates because I'm coming back to Germany again in summer.

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Interview with LoCash Cowboys

Interview with LoCash Cowboys

CL: I’m Christian Lamitschka and today I present you LoCash Cowboys! I hope you’re doing good.

LC: Yeah! We are doing fantastic.

CL: Since the last time we met each other, there was something big going on around you, can you tell us what is happening now?

LC: We got our single ["Keep In Mind"] right now on 35 on Billboard and Keith Urban cut one of our songs that we wrote and is number two on his album “You Gonna Fly”. We’re watching the single going up on the charts.

CL: Here we have a sampler of four songs from them. They are getting ready to release a new album. At the moment the CD Cover is a big secret. Let’s talk about the album and the four songs we have on the sampler. At the moment he is signing the guitar for my friend named Georgia and she has well known in Atlanta. She is doing the biggest Charities you have ever saw around Atlanta and maybe nationwide. That’s an unbelievable autograph. I can read it. That's good! Let’s talk about the songs. One called “C-O-U-N-T-R-Y”. What a great title.

LC: It’s one of those fun songs that we had a little adult beverages while writing this song with Jeffrey Steele. It’s probably the most fun we ever had writing a song. That one is a crazy one - up beat, makes you dance, and it’s pretty cool. It’s a good one.

CL: There is another song called “Keep In Mind”. Is there something we forget and we have to write it down?

LC: We wanted you to "keep in mind"! Jeffrey Steele is our producer and we went to the studio one night. Shane Miner, and Jeffrey Steele, put this song together.

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Interview with Jeremy Parsons

Interview with Jeremy Parsons

CL: I’m Christian Lamitschka and today I present you Jeremy Parsons. Jeremy welcome to the show.

JP: Thanks for having me, pleasure to be here.

CL: Jeremy it’s your first time for CRS now the way we are giving interviews. Would you please introduce yourself to the European Country Music fans who might be hearing about you for the first time.

JP: Yes, sir, my name is Jeremy Parsons and I am from San Antonio, Texas. I play traditional country music. Old school style, like Hank Williams Senior.

CL: What brought you to country music?

JP: My voice if you take a listen to the CD, it’s just complete old school. If you hear my voice, I have no other choice but to sing country music.

CL: Jeremy, let’s talk about the CD. The title is "Doggondest Feelin'". How did you find this title for the CD?

JP: Well, doggone is an old southern word for ‘I got that feeling’, or ‘gosh darn this feeling’, it’s got that southern thing, if you look it up it’s another form a cuss work, but we won’t get into that right now. I just randomly thought of that title. Somebody said ‘doggone’ and I’ve always loved that; a lot of old song like Carl Smith “Doggone it Baby, I’m in Love” and I thought I write me a doggone song, so I came up with"Doggondest Feelin'".

CL: There are couple of songs on it, which is your personal favorite?

JP: My personal favorite is on track one, “The Night Hank Williams Died”. I’m a huge Hand Williams Senior fan, he’s my hero who inspired me to write and sing my own country songs. I finally had an idea, I always wanted to write him (Hank) a song. I had an idea one night, woke up and wrote it. That song is very special to me, in fact you hear a lot of Hank Williams Senior songs, they are saying ‘I just pulled a Hank last night’ meaning you I got drunk, talking about his certain disabilities. But this one talks about the impact he (Hank)left on country music and how he influenced so many people and how no one will ever be able to fill his shoes.

CL: What’s the better job, to be on stage or to be in the background writing songs?

JP: They’re both fun, but you can’t beat the stage, especially if you have a killer crowd and they’re just loving it. There’s nothing like that feeling. You feel like you can get off stage and fly to the moon. You can do anything after you get off stage.

CL: Which age did you start your music career?

JP: Actually, I’ve always loved music since I was a little kid, but I actually did not start taking it seriously ‘till I was in high school 17 or 18 years old.

CL: What are you your experiences now since you started the music business?

JP: I’ve just gotten out there and learned how to work on stage presence. I am learning about the publishing and all about the music road dealing; getting into studio and charting out the music. All the main stuff you need to know, so now that I’m getting schooled on that, it’s great and eye opening too, ‘cause you’re always learning something new, which is great. You’re always going to be learning something, you never know everything I should say.

CL: It would be interesting to know how it was to record this album. Tell us a little bit about picking out songs for the album and how it was to record it in the studio.

JP: This is my first studio work, so it was very exciting for me. I didn’t sleep a wink when we were recording.

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Interview with Jeremy McComb

Interview with Jeremy McComb

CL: I am Christian Lamitschka and today I present you Jeremy McComb. Jeremy welcome to the show.

JM: Hey, good to see you guys, thanks for having me.

CL: Jeremy, you’re well known here in the US, but, Europe might be hearing about you for the first time. Can you please introduce yourself and tell them who you are and what kind of music you are playing?

JM: Absolutely, I’m a country artist, grew up here in the Northwest out here in the good ol’ USA. Been in Nashville here for six years. I started off in radio doing the disc jockey thing and music director. Before I knew it, I was out on the road with Larry the Cable Guy and Blue Collar Comedy Tour doing their comedy stuff. I wrote a lot of stuff for Warner Brothers and that’s when I got my record deal. I worked on the record and it’s kind of an edgier side of the country stuff. Paul Riddle from the Marshall Tucker Band produced a record, I had three singles off of that. “This Town Needs A Bar” really did really well for us. Just releasing a brand new single called “Five To Midnight”, which I’m really excited about and just got done shooting a movie and have a lot of great stuff going on.

CL: Tell us a little bit more about the song.

JM: “Five To Midnight” is a brand new song written by Travis Howard, who’s had a lot of success with Miranda Lambert’s past records. It’s one of those songs when I first heard it, I just connected with it immediately. I write most of my stuff, but it was just this one where it kind of hit me. It’s kind of a second chance, trying to figure love out song like everybody else.

CL: You don’t walk around like typical country artist.

JM: No, the Fedora (hat) is a little different and curly hair; I can’t do much about that. My dad is a cowboy, like a real cowboy; he grew up on a ranch, the cowboy hat and all. I just never felt right about wearing one, ‘cause I’m more just kind of a hillbilly country kid than anything. I save the country hats for the real cowboys.

CL: Can you tell us a little bit about your experience you made since the time you were in the music business?

JM: Yea, you know it’s been a crazy ride, coming into town on the tour bus with Larry The Cable Guy; and going from holding comedian spit cups on red carpet events to coming to Nashville and doing my own record and touring on my own. You know making that jump from doing band tours with your band in a van to busses and going out and doing arenas with some of the bigger acts in country music. It’s been a blast and it’s been sort of those things where I always wanted to get to Europe, so I hope to get over there and play for some of the guys over there.

CL: There are Festival in Switzerland during Springtime, you probably have to go to, but I believe there are many female music fans who like to know if you are available or not.

JM: Well, I’m not married, so I guess that’s a good way to put it.

CL: But we are now smart not sharing your number. (laughing).

JM: Keep it a secret, I’m 30, just turned 30.

CL: But they can meet you on My Space or Facebook?

JM: Yea, Facebook.com/McCombover, which is one of my favorite things, but just go to www.jeremymccomb.com. Folks can also see the movie trailer for big Country bues at www.bigcountryblues.com.  

CL: Are you Tweeting too?

JM: Yea, I do the Twitter thing. I learned a couple of years ago I really didn’t know what a twitter thing was, so I had a 14 year old girl to show me how to use it. I’m getting pretty good at it.

CL: By the way, you were with this cable guy on the road, I believe he’s crazy. I met him one time, so I know how it is. Any good road stories?

JM: We’ve got a ton of them. I remember we were doing Blue Collar Two, the second Blue Collar movie in Denver, Colorado and we had a bunch of pop bottles on the bus, like Diet Coke bottles and one was full on the table, so I put it in the fridge, I was cleaning stuff up for after the show. One of the crew guys comes onto the bus and was like ‘I’m dying I need something to drink’, I said just grab the diet coke out of the fridge. He grabbed it, opened it, and took a drink. He spit it everywhere cause it’s was the cable guy’s chew spit, which I thought was the full diet coke. (laughing)

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Interview with Chase Rice

Interview with Chase Rice

CL: I’m Christian Lamitschka and today I present you Chase Rice. Chase, welcome to the show!

CR: I appreciate it, thanks very much.

CL: Chase, most Americans know you, but the European fans might be hearing about you for the first time. Can you please introduce yourself to them, what type of music you’re playing and show us a little bit about your personality?

CR: Yes, my name is Chase Rice. I do a kind of a country rock thing. We got a new EP coming out, it’s called “Country Is Me.” It will be coming out March 8 on iTunes. I really love music. I love doing it. You might know me from the TV Show “Survivor.” I was on “Survivor-Nicaragua.”  Now, it’s just all about music. I’m releasing an EP and doing shows. I’m really looking forward to getting the music out there.

CL: Chase, you have a new single out there, called “Buzz Back”. Please tell us something about this song and what inspired you to pick up this song.

CR: I didn’t pick up this song; I wrote the song. It’s called “Buzz Back.” I wrote it with Jesse Rice and Brian Kelley. It’s just a song about getting rid of a hangover pretty much. In the second verse, it talks about other ways to get your buzz back. Do you get it back by going out and having some drinks or do you get a buzz when you get a new girlfriend? Basically, it asks what do you do to get that everyday buzz. It’s got that cool feeling.

CL: Chase, what brought you to country music?

CR: I’ve been huge fan of country music my whole life growing up listening to Garth Brooks and Chris LeDoux. I’m a big Kenny Chesney fan as well. I started playing guitar my sophomore year in college just for fun. In my junior year, my dad passed away, so the only way to deal with that was to write a song about it. And I wrote that song, then another song, then another. People were liking what I was doing, so I just continued to do it. I never thought it would be a career, but right now it’s going well. This new EP coming out is going to be a real big for me.

CL: What’s more fun, to be an artist or a songwriter.

CR: Well I’m doing both and I’m having a blast right now.

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Interview with Jackie Ardondo

Interview with Jackie Ardondo

CL: I’m Christian Lamitschka and today we have on the show Jackie Ardondo. Jackie, could you please introduce yourself to all my piers who may be hearing about you for the first time?

JA: Hi, I’m Jackie Ardondo, vocal coach turns country singer, I’m very proud of that. I have a single right now, it’s called “Insane”, very refreshing music, you want to check it out, we’re at www.jackieardondo.com to find a little bit about my story, my music, or you can write to me and ask me questions.

CL: Let us talk about your current single, what’s the story behind the song?

JA: It was a bubble gum/pop song that I always thought that had country potential. I always heard fiddlers in there. Actually, we were experimenting with it and when we had a rough final product and we saw what we’ve been able to do with that, we had sent it out to get some feed back to listening parties. Everybody just fell in love with this song and it’s a very catchy song. I think it’s a song not only young age could relate, but also the middle age class as well. It’s important for us to be able to get into a variety of different ages. Now a days in this day and time where music is such a fusion now a days.

CL: As a vocalist you are more in the back ground and now you are in the spotlight. What inspired you?

JA: Actually I was a truck driver and I fell in love with the country music on the road. When you leave Florida and all these wonderful radio stations start popping in. When I heard the wonderful stories and how easy it was for me to relate to those stories as for whatever I had gone thru in life. I just thought, one day if I ever sing anything, I’m gonna sing country music.

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Interview with Deborah Allen

Interview with Deborah Allen

CL: I’m Christian Lamitschka and today I present you Deborah Allen. Deborah, welcome to the show.

DA: It’s so great to be here, I’m so glad to see you again.

CL: Deborah, what has happened since the last time we met each other?

DA: I guess it’s been about two years right, which is super hard to believe how time just flies the way it does. I’ve been so busy. I’ve been writing a lot of songs and I’ve been getting my new album together to release on Delta Rock Records, which is a partnership; it’s got a lot of arms to it, it’s got a publishing company, production company and a record label. My new record is on Delta Rock Records. The new single is called “Anything Other Than Love”. It’s a song that I wrote with my good friend Gary Burr and we’re just super excited about it. It’s just to kick off the album, there are a lot of ballads and things in it, but this first song I think you’re going to like it because it’s a real kind of rocking country fun shuffle. So I’ve been working on that, and also I've been  discovering some new talent and producing a new artists as well named Margaret Phillips, that I am proud of.

CL: You are working at the moment as a songwriter, as an artist, and as a producer.

DA: Oh yes, you know I’ve always produced my own music. Luckily I’ve had some great co-producers along the way, but I’ve been very hands-on, no matter whose name is on it. It’s just a natural evolution for me to continue on with the production. Of course songwriting is like the air that I breathe, I'm going to be writing songs every day no matter what.

CL: Deborah, let me ask you something. I know you have a big, big heart for children and I can remember by the last time you told me something about supporting children. What’s going on there?

DA: Well, you know through the mentoring program that I did in Mississippi that I met the new artist I am working with now, Margaret. It’s just going really great. You know a lot of kids that I’ve worked with have gone on to really explore their song writing. To be honest with you, I am not making quite as many trips to Mississippi; that started off as a three-month thing that I was going to do. It was so exciting to me and it was so fulfilling it wound up lasting about 2½ years. So that was good, right now I’ve kind of tapered off and I'm spending most of my time helping Margaret and working on my new record and spending more time in Nashville. I do have a big heart for children, and I do have a foundation called The Art Of Dreaming, which I’m hoping to build. It’s a very fledgling foundation right now. As my career takes back off and things go well, I’m hoping to be able to fund other children through that.

CL: Let’s talk about your album again, how many songs on it and what’s your personal favorite. Not the single please.

DA: I think there are like 12 or 13 songs on it, I can’t remember; but there’s a full album worth of material. I have some favorites on it. I do like the single because it’s fun and it’s rocking, it’s a great way to open the doors to country music again. I guess some of my favorites are some of the ballads that are on there. There is a song on there called “There’s A Last Time For Everything”, which is one of my favorite songs, I’ve had it for a little while now. That’s why I’m so excited about this album because finally it’s coming out and it’ll be available to everybody. “Last Time For Everything” is just a song about valuing life and others around you; how precious time really is.

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Interview with Glen Templeton

Interview with Glen Templeton

CL: I’m Christian Lamitschka and today I present you Glen Templeton. Glen, welcome to the show.

GT: Thank you very much for having me, Christian.

CL: Glen, you are well known here in the US, but maybe some of the European Fans don’t know you, so can you please introduce yourself and the music you are playing to someone who never heard nor seen you before?

GT: Yea, I’m Glen Templeton and I was born and raised in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, which is in the southeast part of the US. I was raised in an ordinary working class family; my mother worked in the coal-mines and my dad was a traveling musician. He kind of instilled the love of country music in me with a song he recorded in the early 70s or 80s called “California”. He had a little bit success with it. Our music is a style of music that comes from the roots, how I was brought up in that working class environment. It also has a little bit of edge to it. Today’s country music radio here in the US; just blends in those lines of that music. It has a lot of heart and soul in it. We had such a good time making this record and we have good time listening to it. With this new single we are getting ready to release I can be the one, a guy who has certain amount imperfection, like all of us boys do… but still has at the end of the day confidence to say I can be the one. There is a couple of songs I had written, kind of related to my past. First song “Country Boys For Life” is a song that’s pretty much tell us about a guy and his buddy riding in the car for the first time. The freedom and the feel that you get out of, the first set of keys you own. I think this record is a record that everybody can relate to. It takes you to different places in your life; it takes you places, it takes you back to that time. Every song has something to it that will take you “…I remember when I first that… so we’re really excited about getting this thing out, hitting the radios out there.

CL: Glen, that we can get a better idea about who you are, can you show us your personality more?

GT: You mean a big smile.

CL; Well, I like girls… so…

GT: Well, well… me too…. (laughing), we have that in common!

CL: But give us an idea about your social work and what brought you to country music. Where your parents supportive? By the time they know you were in the business, which is very scary sometimes.

GT: Absolutely! You know, my parents have always been supportive. I always had this urge to get out and meet people or reach other people and my social life is kind of an ordinary life. I lead the same life as an ordinary common man in the world. I lead the same kind of life style. My family has always been supportive with anything that I do. I was raised by my grandmother all my life, so I was raised in old-fashioned with an old-fashioned view on everything. I was brought up on good country cooking. Here in town I’ve got met a lot of great people who opened some doors to a different kind of a professional lifestyle. They really taught me a lot of being an artist. You know it was never what I was looking for, I wanted sing songs, go out and play live; meet people and have an open relationship with everybody.

CL: By the way, how do you look musically and what is your favorite stars, like, would you like to be like this guy or that guy…

GT: Some of my influences where the real great who study great songs; great songwriter. Some of the people like Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Conway Twiddy.

CL: Sound like you’re more the old-school guy.

GT: Yea, you know I was raised that traditional style family. I was brought up on good country music. As time went on, I became a teenager and listened to a lot of Hip Hop also. There was somewhat of an influence. For the most part, my heart has strictly been in country music.

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Interview with Eden's Edge

Interview with Eden’s Edge

CL: I’m Christian Lamitschka and today, we haveEden's Edge. Eden’s Edge is a new band on Big Machine Records and they have out their first single.

EE: Yes, we actually are releasing our first single next month, it’s called “Amen”. We are going on Tour this Summer with Brad Paisley.

CL: That’s awesome! Maybe somebody doesn’t much about you, can you please introduce yourselves to our readers, listeners, and our pears here?

EE: Of course! My name is Hanna Blaylock; I’m Dean Burner; I’m Sheryl Greene.

CL: Can you tell us a little bit about what kind of music you are playing?

EE: Yea, we are all from Arkansas and we kind of came from three different backgrounds of versions of country music. I came from American/Folk type of country, back ground to what I grew up with. Dean grew up with more of rock kind of country background, and Sheryl grew up with more of a bluegrass driven background. So we all mold those together to what Eden’s Edge is sounding is. It’s very acoustic instruments driven, harmony driven; lot’s of vocal up front. It’s organic rootsy country.

CL: Tell us a little bit about how it is to be on the road, in the studio, and spending time with two beautiful girls.

EE: (Dean) It’s a pretty rough life (laughing) I’m kidding. We have been together seven years. It’s really a family dynamic that we have going now. I grew up with two brothers and getting to have kind of two sisters in my life. It’s been educational. It’s been a lot of fun. (Hanna) His wife better thank us one day, which’s all I can say, haha. We’re in the same for each other. Like we say “your husband, better thank us” it’s like being married being in the band. Being siblings, married, all that stuff.

CL: How did you sign to Big Machine Records?

EE: (Sheryl) We were playing in Arkansas for several years before moving to Nashville and we were out there, we were entering songs into this songwriting competition and this famous songwriter out of Nashville discovered us and wanted us to meet with her. She kind of encouraged the three of us, the young ones in the group too, to move to Nashville. If you really wanna do it, you really have to move here. We lived here for years, and last year, she got inducted to the Country Music Hall Of Fame of this songwriting association. She got us to play a medley of her hits, which have been hits on Barbara Mandrel and Sylvia in Nobody. Really great songs! Basically, we hadn’t played out in Nashville at all, so the whole music industries haven’t heard from us until of us until that night. That night, Scot Rochetta from Big Machine saw us there with his head band, Alison and he told Alison, find out and sign them (Eden’s Edge) tonight.

CL: Can you tell me something about the background about the song you are releasing next month?

EE: (Hanna) Sure, we wrote this song basically what it would be like to grow up in a small town. That’s where we are from, we all grew up in a triangle atmosphere.

Interview with Burns & Poe

Interview with Burns & Poe


CL: I’m Christian Lamitschka and today on the show we have Burns & Poe, Welcome!


B&P: Hey good to see you again.


CL: Yea we met each other now how many times? I’ve forgotten.


B&P: Oh several times, several.


CL: So what’s been going on since the last we met each other.


B&P: Rehab! No I’m just joking! (laughing). I’m just trying to break the ice, Chris.


CL: Do we have that to do?


B&P: What….


CL: To break the ice?


B&P: That was just it. (laughing)


CL: So what been happening?


B&P: Oh we finished the record.


CL: Oh hey folks, new record it’s really really cool with a lot of songs on it.


B&P: It’s a double CD actually. Show him (Chris) the back of it.


CL: How many songs are on it?


B&P: Seventeen total, sixteen songs with a bonus track, a live medley.


CL: Let’s talk about the live Medley, which is a nice thing, ten minutes and fourteen seconds long. Can you tell us a little bit about it?


B&P: It’s sort of a medley of duets of people that we have admired in the past like Kenny and Dolly; Sonny and Cher; Frizzel and West. We did it live in Bowling Green, Kentucky. It’s just fun stuff. It showcases our personality.


CL: Since the first time we met each other, you just started your career, where is it now. I got this news you are Independent Artist of the Year? That’s cool! Yea! So it might be next year Major Artists of the Year?


B&P: Well, you know, we’re hoping. All we can do is write the best music we can and put out the best songs we can put out, work really hard. We surrounded ourselves with a great team. Hopefully let the chips fall where they may. We got a really high budget going in the next four weeks or so, to shoot our first high-budget video. Just trying to stay up; the label Blue Steel Records, we want to anny up. I know Michelle is and I am too.


CL: Let’s see if you pick up the next song like you would be next, which is your personal favorite on the CD?


B&P: (Michelle) My personal favorite is probably one we actually did not write. It’s an outside song it’s called “Is This Lonely”. It’s really sad and for some reason I sing those really well. (Keith) She’s sad, look at her, she’s got a dark cloud over her…. Ooh…♫♪ ..raindrops keep falling on Michelle….…♫♪♫. (laughing)


CL: Hey we have sunshine suddenly outside.


B&P: I know it’s nice.


CL: A few days ago we have had a lot of rain!


B&P: It’s been the worst Winter that I ever can remember since I moved to Nashville in 1990, this is the worst Winter that’s we’ve had. So we are ready for some sunshine.


CL: I believe!


B&P: (Michelle) Can’t wait for Spring!


CL: Let’s hope during Fan Fair is a little sunny.

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Interview with Karli Whetstone

 Interview with Karli Whetstone

CL: Karli, welcome.

KW: Thank you so much for having me.

CL: Please introduce yourself to our readers that may have been hearing about you for the first time.

KW: Well hello everybody, my name is Karli Whestone and I have been in Nashville for 4½ years now. I’ve been lucky enough to be the opening act up for some of the best artists in Nashville like, Taylor Swift, Phil Vasser, Joe Nichols, and Darryl Worley to name a few! I recently wrote a song called, “Ohio,” about my home state! It talks about Ohio and of course the Ohio State Buckeye Football team! It’s been really excited for me because the head coach of the Buckeyes, Jim Tressel loved my song, “Ohio,” so much he plays it every Saturday at Ohio Stadium during football season! It’s really thrilling to think over 105,000 hear, “Ohio” ever Saturday! Currently, I am very excited to have my second single out right now called “I Didn’t”. It’s an up-tempo, in your face, sassy song talking about a girl who is over her know it all boyfriend, the hook of the song goes, “What finally tore our love apart was a matter of religion! He thought he was God And I Didn’t!” So it’s a really fun song and people seem to really enjoy it. We are having a great time going around performing it, and it’s doing very well for us here on the Charts and is playing on almost 200 radio stations!

CL: Sounds good. If people like to get more information about you, what do we have to do.

KW: Go to my website www.karliwhetstone.com this would be a great place for everybody to find me and my social networking pages. On Twitter I’m @KarliWhetstone and on Facebook you can find me at www.facebook.com/KarliWhetstoneMusic. My music is on iTunes, you can find that on my website also. My website can take you everywhere you need to go so stop by www.KarliWhetstone.com

CL: In short, are you working by yourself on this social network websites?

KW: You know, I do have a lot of help, but any email or twitter reply always come from me. I always do the best I can to answer people immediately but, sometimes I need a day. Just know that within a day you will get a response from me personally.

CL: That’s wonderful! Tell us about the experience since you have been in Nashville.

KW: It’s just great to be in a place like Nashville. I’ve learned so much about becoming a better singer, songwriter and performer! I absolutely love it here and feel very grateful to be living my dream! 

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Interview with Lucy Angel

Interview with Lucy Angel

CL: I’m Christian Lamitschka and today I present you one of the awesome girl bands here in Nashville, I believe they will not call themselves a girl-band, but it’s Lucy Angel.

LA: Hey!

CL: Hey girls. Would you please introduce yourselves to the country fans in Europe who might be hearing about you for the first time. Who of you would like to start.

LA: Hey guys, I’m Emily. Hi, I’m Lindsey. I’m Kate. Together we’re Lucy Angel. We are all related. Lindsey and I are sisters and this is our mom.

CL: I think it’s a hard job to tour with a mom, but with two of you (daughters) might be a harder job. So tell us about experience.

LA: (Kate) Do I have to step out? (laughingly)

CL: No you can be here, your welcome!

LA: You know we would be hanging out anyway as a group, even if we weren’t on the road performing. She’s truly my best friend. Lindsey and my mom really do get along and have a great time.

CL: Definitely, I know that girls need a little bit longer in the bathroom. I believe it’s a hard way when you’re touring. I believe it’s a hard way when you’re touring. Is there a lottery who can go first?

LA: No, we actually have it down, Mom goes first, then it’s sort of a toss-up between who goes next because if we’re gonna wash our hair that day, then that’s who goes. We alternate washing the hair days every other day. So always mom, and then either Lindsey or I. But here’s the main issue that we have is, there is not enough outlets near the mirrors in all the hotels. The first question when we are booking (at a hotel) is how many mirrors do you have and are there plugs by the mirrors. (Laughingly).

CL: Let’s come to the music you are playing. Could you give us a little idea about what kind of music you are playing?

LA: Yea, I would say it’s country with a groove. With our harmonies we have a lot peddle tone harmonies, kind of like Blue Grass harmony. Up against some rocking guitars. There’s some amazing just production and arrangements on the five song-EP (extended play) that we have. They are all different, not just one style.

CL: I know you have an album on the market, please tell us about the songs and what’s the title of the album?

LA: It’s self-titled.

CL: Well self-title, wooow. How many songs are on the CD?

LA: It’s EP that we have out right now and there are five song. We are going back into the studio and record a few more, to finish off the album. Then there will be a title on the album to the album on that one. We didn’t want to blow the title on the EP. When the full album comes out it’s to be a cool name on the title.

CL: Interestingly you are married. And you (Emily) are single.

LA: I am.

CL: Okay!! Private phone number please! (Laughing) No. I’m kidding. When fans like to get more information about you, do you have My Space, are you on a website?

LA:  www.lucyangel.com is our website. You can actually access our Facebook, Twitter, My Space. We have a U Tube Channel, which you should absolutely check out. We upload a new video each week, it’s called Lucy Angel on Safari. It’s just all sorts of adventures that a day in the life with Lucy Angel, yes.

CL: What is the best road story?

LA: That we can tell. For a couple of weeks we got pulled over three times by the police for speeding. Our road manager, the driver. You know you’re not from that town and sometimes there is a different speed limit and than it changes, so they catch you. Once police comes towards both sides of the car and they were like, ‘Mam, can you but both your hands on the steering wheel. I was looking for the registration in the glove box. And he says ‘can you put your hands on the dash board’. I asked if there was a problem and he asked. The officer asked for the passenger’s license; all of us asked why her, she is not driving. Then he asked for all our license. It ended telling him we were in a Band on radio tour and checked all our licenses and CDs, (laughing) and he didn’t give us a ticket.

Another time, actually our car broke down in Jackson, Tennessee. We ended up taking it to the Ford Dealer Ship and everyone was coming out of the woodwork because we were a band. We were signing CDs and then they asked if we would sing for them. Literally we sang at the service center and we were not charged.

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Interview with David Allen Burns

Interview with David Allen Burns

CL: I’m Christian Lamitschka and today I present you David Allen Burns. David, welcome to the show.

DAB: Thanks for having me.

CL: David, you’re well known here in the US, but maybe Europe might be hearing of you for the first time; please introduce yourself and the music you’re playing to them.

DAB: Yes, I’m David Allen Burns, I grew up in a small town called Sherwood, Arkansas. My folks took me to see George Straight when I was three years old. Some reason, right then and there, I said that’s what I want to do. I started playing at nursing homes and anything I could in my hometown shows. Went on a high school bands and clubs. I pretty much grew in honky tonks, I guess at 16. I made a venture to Nashville back in 2007, signed my record deal, now we’re pushing my first single in country radio.

CL: You have a bran new album called “Premium Country”. It’s an unbelievable great album. There are no numbers on the back, so how many songs are there?

DAB: There’s 14 songs on. My first record was a box set, apparently.

CL: Tell us something about the songs please.

DAB: I wrote 10 out of the 14. The first one is called “Sweet Distraction”. Josh Thompson, I’m sure you heard of him, wrote it. It’s the kinda country I grew up on. I was a 90s baby and I grew up with Mark Chestnut, Keith Whitley, and George Straight. It’s just kind of my version on a lot of that kind of stuff. If I was going to buy a record, that’s the kind of stuff I want to hear.

CL: Of all these songs, which is your favorite?

DAB: Actually my favorite on it (CD) is called “More Afraid To Live”.

CL: What’s the story behind it?

CAB: One of my great friends and one of my great song writing mentor, Rick Tiger wrote it. I just like that crying steel guitar, crying. That slow stuff, I’m sucker for it. It’s just a powerful song It’s very well written, it’s just a guy going thru a break-up and that really really down point, and the more afraid to live than dying. If you ever been there, you know what it’s talking about.

CL: By the experience you made with all the major stars in the past, is there a story you can share?

DAB: As far as the record you Mean.

CL: Yes.

DAB: There is one called “Any Other Way”, I co-wrote and when you live in Nashville, you write every day with these big guys, you kind of held to a standard of writing. You try to find clever lines, or some markability thing. So like I said, I grew up in a small town, kinda old school raised with a real close family. So went to writing and one day, I just want to write something for me. One line in there is ‘we don’t call a truck a truck, unless it’s four wheel drive; food ain’t food if it ain’t fried’. That’s pretty much how was raised in Arkansas. That song really hits home to me.

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Interview with Bryan White

Interview with Bryan White

CL: I’m Christian Lamitschka and today I present you Bryan White.

BW: Thank you very much, always good to talk to you.

CL: Bryan, since the last time we met each other, a lot of stuff has happened to you. Can you tell us a little bit about it?

BW: Oh, I’ve been so busy, Christian. I have been traveling the world. I’m doing a lot of dates, all over the place. Just performing and promoting my new DC “Dustbowl Dreams” and I also am a songwriter, I am very active writing songs when I’m home. On top of all of that, I’m a dad. Playing the roll of dad when I get home as well. I also own a studio, so I’m sort of struggling all of those things together. I never have a dull moment; I’m pretty busy all the time.

CL: Let’s talk about the new single, what’s the story behind it and how did you find the title for it?

BW: Which song are you talking about?

CL: Your current single.

BW: You know, the single that we released recently was a song called “The Little Things” and we had a top-forty record with that. It was a song about my wife. It’s one of those songs that just brings light to the small thing in our life that we can sometimes overlook. It just is an emotional song that I wrote around the time when we found out we were going to be parents you know. I’m not real sure exactly right now what the next single is going to be. You can pick one for me.

CL: That’s a good thing, by the way, the last time we met each other was for years ago, so since that time a lot of things went wrong in Nashville. What’s the best thing it was?

BW: In terms of the music industry?

CL: Yes.

BW: I think things changed significantly and are continuing to change. If I can say it’s a good thing, the fact that labels are sort of going away, at least the old model that we were used to. It has leveled the playing field in terms of how we all as artists make music. It’s sort of to each its own, we’re all sort of doing our own thing, which is a good thing in a lot of ways. Probably a lot harder work you know because we’re manning our own chips these days. I would say it’s a good time for music because the kind of a new frontier right now. We are also waiting to see what happens next.

CL: Which song you wish you recorded and why?

BW: Wow! That’s a tuff one. I maybe say “Grown Men Don’t Cry”, “Love That” it’s a Tim McGraw song, it’s one of my favorite songs. I wish I would have recorded that one, I love that song. There’s so many of them, Chris, maybe a Ronny Milsap song “No Getting Over You”, I love that song. “I Believe In You” by Don Williams. There is a ton of them out there. If I sit here long enough I could probably think of 50 songs you know.

CL: Well let’s see if the next question is easier to answer. By all the songs you wrote, which is your personal favorite and please don’t say the last one I wrote.

BW: Yea, that’s always hard. You’re always pretty partial to what you just wrote. But by all the things that I have written the most personal and definitely my favorite it “Dust Bowl Dreams”, it’s the title track of my latest CD.

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