Madame Perry's Salon

This will be a place to hang out, talk about the election results, and share news and new music. Please join in.

“I want to take my fans to where their toes are just barely touching the bottom. They know where they are but they are excited by what’s next.”

Ry Bradley is an award-winning country music artist who brings his dynamic stage presence and innovative country sound with him wherever he goes. Winner of the 2014 LA Music Award for “Country Artist of the Year,” Ry states, “it feels great to be recognized for what I do when inside I still feel like an 11-year-old kid with a guitar, excited to play my songs.”

Ry earned a bachelors degree in music at the University of California. Merle Haggard, Dwight Yoakam, and Johnny Cash were a few of the most influential artists. “As I was becoming my own person, experiencing the ups and downs of life, those artists gave a voice to the feelings I didn’t yet know how to express myself. There was rock, and there were blues, but it was always country music that truly called out to this heart.”

Author and film critic Gemma Files is a contributing writer to the latest horror anthology from Crystal Lake Publishing - Tales From The Lake Volume 5. 

Tonight's sponsor is recording artist Ry Bradley, and you can find his music on Spotify.

Lucy A. Snyder is a five-time Bram Stoker Award-winning author. She wrote the novels Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress, and Switchblade Goddess, the nonfiction book Shooting Yourself in the Head for Fun and Profit: A Writer’s Survival Guide, and the collections While the Black Stars Burn, Soft Apocalypses, Orchid Carousals, Sparks and Shadows, Chimeric Machines, and Installing Linux on a Dead Badger. Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, Italian, Czech, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as Apex Magazine, Nightmare Magazine, Pseudopod, Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Scary Out There, Seize the Night, and Best Horror of the Year. She lives in Columbus, Ohio and is faculty in Seton Hill University’s MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction. Snyder is featured in the newest anthology Tales From The Lake Volume 5 from Crystal Lake Publishing. 

Theme music for Madame Perry's Salon composed and performed by Denton Perry.

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Shapechangers and sorcery. Ancient gods and tomorrow's technology. Laura Blackwell writes speculative fiction, better known as science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

Blackwell is featured in the newest anthology Tales From The Lake Volume 5 from Crystal Lake Publishing. 

Theme music for Madame Perry's Salon composed and performed by Denton Perry.

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Tommy B. Smith is a writer of dark fiction and the author of Poisonous, Pieces of Chaos, and his newest book The Mourner's Cradle.

His short works have been featured in numerous publications to span the years.Smith previously worked with Morpheus Tales as editor of both the Dark Sorcery and Urban Horror special issues of the magazine.

Steampunk Friends - it's time to raise your teacups high and join me in welcoming Madame Askew and The Grand Arbiter to the genie bottle!  Madame Askew's Temporal Entourage is a fine assemblage of time traveling, tea drinking aficionados who are very fond of sharing their madcap brand of tea centered merriment at Steampunk events.  From special events to interactive improvisational theater to informational panels, Madame Askew, the Grand Arbiter and their team of good natured rascals love to encourage new friends to jump into their energetic blend of games and community building.

Theme music for Madame Perry's Salon composed and performed by Denton Perry.

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So excited to have the remarkable musician and performer Luanne Hunt as my guest tonight. She is best known for her chart-topping single, “Christmas Without You,” which was recently named by Sweden’s largest daily newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, one of the top 25 Christmas songs of all-time

                                                                                                                                    

“Christmas Without You” also landed on two "Best of 2015 Female Country Holiday Songs" lists in the major online U.S. publications, Autostraddle and Truckers News. 

 

“Being on these lists with so many A-listers felt like a real accomplishment,” said Hunt, whose studio musicians have backed everyone from the Righteous Brothers to Kenny Loggins. “It’s a huge challenge to find success in the ‘big leagues’ as an Indie artist, so these honors were quite a validation for all the work I’ve put into my craft.”

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Powerhouse drummer James Kottak returns to Madame Perry's Salon to announce the Kingdom Come Tour starting in September. Kingdom Come, formed in 1987 and quickly signed to Polydor Records, released their first single “Get It On” which had a stranglehold on AOR radio in early 1988, prompting their self-titled debut album to ship gold. The quintet comprised of guitarists Danny Stag and Rick Steier, bassist Johnny B. Frank, drummer James Kottak, and singer Lenny Wolf, were part of the North American “Monsters of Rock” Tour alongside Van Halen, Scorpions, Metallica, and Dokken.2018 marks the 30th anniversary of the release of that classic album prompting James Kottak to revive Kingdom Come. Along with original members Danny Stag, Rick Steier, Johnny B. Frank, a tour to commemorate the success of the band and album is born. Original singer Lenny Wolf has declined to participate in the tour, but wishes the rest of the guys the best, and all the success in the world! Keith St. John (formerly of Montrose & Lynch Mob) will be stepping up to fill the void, “but is definitely up to the job” according to band members.

Drummer Campbell Irwin or the LA band White Tar joins me as co-host tonight.

Author Kenneth W. Cain Returns to Madame Perry's Salon with a fresh novel A Season In Hell and an anthology from Crystal Lake Publishing. Cain is the author of four novels (The Saga of I trilogy and United States of the Dead) and four short story collections (These Old Tales, Fresh Cut Tales, Embers, and the forthcoming Darker Days). He is also the editor for Crystal Lake Publishing’s Tales From The Lake Volume 5. Early on, shows like The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and One Step Beyond created a sense of wonder for the unknown that continues to fuel his writing today.  Cain resides in Chester County, Pennsylvania with his wife and two children.