This weeks guest on ‘The A Side” is Ray Reach. Ray is the Director of the Student Jazz Programs for the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame and is also the Director of The Jazz Hall of Fame All Stars.
Starting out as a classical piano player Ray wound up playing in rock and roll and R n B groups during his early years. Finally making his way onto the Jazz scene he is now working on a huge new solo project and is currently on tour subbing as the piano player for James Taylor.
This weeks guest on “The A Side” is Damon Johnson. Damon was born in Macon Georgia and grew up in Alabama. As a young boy he struggled to figure out if he would ever become a musician or not. Now his musical paths have crossed many roads playing and working with such artists as Pat Upton of The Spiral Starecase to Brother Cane, Alice Cooper and Thin Lizzy just to name a few. As a singer, writer, and rock guitarist he is now working on a new project with his band Black Star Riders.
This weeks guest on “The A Side” is a member of the Alabama Jazz Hall Of Fame and guitar player extraordinaire…Eric Essix. We take a look into Eric’s life and career as well as his new CD release “The Gospel Sessions”. This project was recorded in the famous Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals and features some of Alabama’s finest musicians like Candi Staton, Kelvin Wooten, Sean Michael Ray and American Idol winner Ruben Studdard just to name a few. Sit back, listen and enjoy “The A Side”
This weeks guest on The A Side is the talented Rick Kurtz!
Rick has played guitar most of his life traveling from town to town playing with bands such as The Mortals and with the great singer songwriter, piano player, Mike Duke of Mike And The Maximums. Then moving on in his career he wound up playing guitar with Amercan blues and rock singer Delbert McClinton. I hope you enjoy this weeks show as we talk with Rick about his life, his health, and his career.
This weeks guest on The A Side is the multi talented Bobby Horton from the legendary Alabama group “Three On A String”. We discuss his expertise with early Civil War and American music as well as film scoring and working with one of the best documentary film makers of all time, Ken Burns.
From Birmingham to Chicago to Nashville and back home again. Buddy Causey is one of the original Blue Eyed Soul Singers of Alabama, and is Marc’s guest on episode 2 of “The A Side”
On the first episode of “The A Side”… Marc Phillips interviews Rick Carter, a founding member of one of Alabama’s most popular bands “Telluride”… plus they talk about his solo career and the release of his new CD “Change”.