Interviews with notable New Orleans musicians - Jonathan Freilich Presents

This is the full interview and has mild format changes from the last 12 years of episodes.

In this rambling conversation we get to the marvelous origin story of these two remarkable guitarists of New Orleans who frequently perform comedy/music pyrotechnics with the subversive group, The Self-Righteous brothers.

Topics-

Wayne Cochran; early guitars; musical background; the 60s; song and guitar modification; Hank Mackie

The beginning of slightly new formatting and interviews expanding to subject matter including things beyond New Orleans.

Guitarist/Producer/Songwriter Mark Bingham discusses how he came to be performing live again with the seminal band Michot’s Melody Makers

Part 4

How all her interests feed or inform each other; productiveness, or lack of, during Covid-19 stay-at-home order; more on adding creative outlets; writing poetry; Novel writing and publishing short stories;  creative takes on Sherlock Holmes; Ernst Bloch; Albert Einstein’s problems with counting in music; releasing singles; working with Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes recently; Coronavirus situational songs.

Part 3

Return to New Orleans; the poor claires; playing with Ancestro and music from Peru/Bolivia/Chile/Honduras/Guatemala/ Ecuador/Argentina; Nueva Cancion movement; Functioning with A.D.D.;signs of getting better; split screen jam sessions and jamming with the dryer; Hybrid Vigor album;  focussing on eking out a living on the internet; jamming with the dryer;  mixing or fusing styles; the magpie; approach to lyrical content; reaching an emotional point that stopped the songwriting;  writing fiction; learning style and fleshing out the writing; urban fantasy; shape shifting and whether or not Beth is a werewolf; her novel, The Wild Harmonic.

Beth continues from part 1 of a 4 pt interview.

Interview will be in 4 parts.

Earl Palmer and tap dancing; playing drums for a living; putting bands together; being on the road; being a lead singer; viewpoints on money in the music business; sacredness of songs and empathizing with the writer; song contest and The Who Dat song; David Torkanowsky; Allen Toussaint; playing music in the late 70s in New Orleans; looking after the DJs; going to LA; starting out as recording engineer; how he ended up with a studio; more on how he wrote the Who Dat song; selling the rights to Who Dat; 

Carlo talks here mainly about his younger years and coming up in music and awareness of the culture.

This was labeled as 3 for years and was sitting under the wrong episode description. Things are corrected as of 2/15/2020