Welcome to the new Black and Wyatt podcast episode! This week, host Mike McCarthy and I talk with singers-songwriters, Amy LaVere, and her husband, Will Sexton. Mike and Amy talk about 25 years of friendship and collaborations, including films and videos, such as “Destroy Memphis”, “Tupelove” and “Pointless Drinking”. Amy and Will play several new songs, as they get ready for a live concert recording at the Green Room at Crosstown Arts at 8 PM on September 13, 2025.

The new Black and Wyatt Records Podcast is out! Join hosts Mike McCarthy and Kristen Hobbs this week for Part II of a conversation with Grifters bass player, Tripp Lamkins, and Impala lead guitarist, John Stivers, as they continue to talk about their Memphis bands with emphasis this time on “Fraysia” and the “Total Strangers” with bandmate, Jared McStay. We’ll close out with Fraysia’s “So It Ends”.

The new Black and Wyatt Records Podcast is out! This week, hear Part I of an interview with Grifters bass player, Tripp Lamkins, and Impala lead guitarist, John Stivers. Tripp and John talk with Mike McCarthy and co-host, Kristen Hobbs, about growing up in “Rockin’ Raleigh”, forming the band, Bob, with Greg Harwell and Stan Gallimore, the Memphis music scene of the 80’s and 90’s, and the days of Camelot Music, the Mid-South Coliseum, and Memphis Comics and Records.

This week filmmaker and sculptor Mike McCarthy talks with musician Tim Prudhomme. Tim discusses his various rock ‘n’ roll bands over the last 30 years and the road that led him to Memphis.

The new Black and Wyatt Records podcast is out now! In this episode (Season 2, Episode 4), host Mike McCarthy talks with Colin Wilson and Michelle Karl from the Memphis industrial psyche punk band, Pop Ritual, about their new vinyl release, “The Columns”, on Black and Wyatt Records. Be sure to join us at the record release party on May 3rd at 8 PM (doors open at 7 PM) at the historic Mollie Fontaine Lounge, 679 Adams Ave, Memphis.

In this Black and Wyatt Records podcast episode, hosts Mike McCarthy and Frank Bruno talk with Memphis guitar slinger, Steve Selvidge, as he reminisces about growing up in Midtown Memphis, the Memphis punk rock scene of the eighties, and playing in numerous bands, such as Big Ass Truck, Amy LaVere, Uncensored, Fingers Like Saturn, Bash and Pop, and the Hold Steady.

Welcome to the Black and Wyatt Records Podcast.

This week our guest Justin Thompson interviews our regular host Mike McCarthy about his upcoming 'Faces of Bowie' sculpture project.

Mike also talks about a new soundtrack re-issue, a new screenplay in the works, and other Memphis projects.

This week host Mike McCarthy and co-host Frank Bruno talk with legendary Memphis drummer Ross Johnson. Ross shares stories about his life and career working with Alex Chilton on the album 'Like Flies on Sherbert', Tav Falco and the Panther Burns, Jeffrey Evans, Cordell Jackson, The Cramps, New York Dolls, Lester Bangs, and much, much more!

This week filmmaker and sculptor Mike McCarthy talks with Marvin Stockwell, the co-founder of the Coliseum Coalition, as well as co-founder of 'BEEVO' (that's Baron Von Opperbean) and so much more! Marvin recounts the formation of the Coliseum Coalition, a grassroots activist group that saved the Mid-South Coliseum. Marvin also talks about his involvement with the non-profit, Friends of the Fairground, that has now led to the new Coliseum Conservancy. Marvin believes Art and Community can be a creative driver for business and culture in Memphis. He also discusses these things on his very own podcast "Champions of the Lost Cause."

This week, filmmaker and sculptor Mike McCarthy talks with Kristen Hobbs-Chavira, a long-time friend and now Executive Director of the Memphis Listening Lab. Kristen talks about life, love, and career paths between New Orleans and Memphis, along with personal stories about her favorite music and musicians and a playlist from The Compulsive Gamblers, Rufus Thomas, The Cramps, Guitar Wolf, and many more!