Beth & Steve's Mondays

Multi Platinum singer-songwriter Harold Payne joins Beth and Steve for an hour of stories and tunes.  Harold has written songs for many major artists including Rod Stewart, The Temptations, Taj Majal, Snoop Dogg, Patti LaBelle, Sly Stone, 50 Cent, Leon Russell and Lana Del Rey to name a few.  He is also a unique master of improvising songs on the spot.  He even does one that we spontaeously asked him to do, a tune about an upcoming gig with Jeff Silbar and Jodi Siegel.  Scary stuff but not for him.  Oh and he averages 200 live gigs a year. I guess he likes to be busy!

Mark Turnbull joins Beth and Steve to reveal one of the great unsung jazz singer songwriters of the 20th and 21st centuries. Jack was a true hipster before hipsters became hip, someone who had everything needed to be famous and well respected except for that mythological big break.  No matter, he breaks big on this podcast. If you dig Mose Allison and Bob Dorough you wil love this.

A tribute to Steve's Father Jim who was a marvelous jazz piano player who gigged on the weekends and arrested bank robbers during the week when he was an FBI agent.

Beth and Steve interview Steve McIntosh and Jorg Dubin delving into the history of this wacky and wonderful Laguna Legendary band and spin some of the tunes that are absolutly on the B+S "Hits You Might Have Missed" Charts!

A Random sampling of music that includes or features members of the very Woody family tree of Wood.  Of course you've got Nate Wood originals but also a cut from a $300,000,000 project for Sony Classical that Steve produced featuring Sony Classical's 2 top tenors.  A totally misguided concept that flopped like Ishtar.  Also a song by the cheif of a tribe on Papua that Steve recorded with a handheld recorder.  Also hear Beth singing probably the only recorded version of a Jack Tempchin song called "Skateboard Johnny" produced by Honk bass player featuring Frank Cotinola, a bathtub full of chikens from the house next door in Laguna Canyon.  And that's just a start.

A fun and interesting mish mosh of a lot of our favorite local artists that though lacking in sales acumen, excel at the making of music including Grace Freeman, Leonard Thompson, Buck Naked and the Chapped Cheeks and Jason Feddy.  Give 'em a chance people.

Fresh off of winning awards for Best Band (133) and Best Legacy Artists at the first annual LAFFY awards Beth and Steve bask in glory and arrive at the studio hyped up on coffee.  Oh dear God, what a hot mess.  But all in fun they play a variety of material from local artists that should be famous as well as spouting stories of their musical adventures around the world.  And to top it off they play a song they wrote together that Steve sang as a duet with Vanessa Williams.  Did this really happen?

End of March brings the Spring and spring's the thing that makes the heart sing.  Songs of spring and March, even including a John Phillip Sousa March.  Hey, we think this is really fun.  Check it oot.

A speed of light voyage through Beth and Steve's musical universe featuring Beth's Tuesday artists Joyce Woodsen and Jim Quealy, favorites from their past and one of Steve's all time accomplishments...his commercial for Hot Wheels!  Things are warming up and it is really just fun music party time at the Wood's house except it's at a radio station.

Steve and Beth will be joining Jodi along with Jeff Silbar and Harold Payne for a night of stories and songs from songwriters who have had long and successful careers in the music industry.  Grammy awards, Oscar nominations, platinum records, big names; Dolly Parton, Ringo, Paul McCartney, Kenny Loggins, Snoop Dogg...you get the idea.  A lot of fun speaking with dear old pal, Jodi.