Music Path is a podcast about places in the U.S. where your favorite music was conceived, your favorite artist lived or died, whether blues, bluegrass, country, or rock. It's also about finding your path to writing, performing and getting your music heard. You'll hear from musicians about life on the road and in the studio.
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World Class drummer, WS Holland provided a steady beat and a sober hand for Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash, on stage and off. A bear of a man with love in his heart, he tells us about his life on the road, from Jackson, TN.
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America’s roots music preservation begins with a screen door slam, a beer and a plate of BBQ. Aubrey Preston’s one-man mission to save America’s music culture, its historic buildings, shacks and stories is an international movement to provide an accurate guide for visitors from foreign lands. .. searchers from the British Isles, France or Sweden on…
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Deborah Allen is a Memphis Girl who woke up one morning in Elvis’s bed with a dream to perform and then lived that dream. With major record deals she wrote and recorded in Nashville, New York and Los Angeles. She lives in Nashville, surrounded by friends, writers and performers. She’s married to Raymond Hicks.…
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Dave Pomeroy, AFM Leader, named in 1991 Studio Musician of the Year, is a muscian's rights advocate. He's played electric and acoustic base on more than 500 albums in his more than 33 years in Nashville. Dave has established himself as a world class bassist, performer, wrtiter and producer.저자 John Reitzammer -- Music Path
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Andy Marshall built a business from Tennessee’s most precious natural resource. It's a story of a grocery that became a restaurant that became an important music venue. His affinity for songwriters and performers and their opportunity to engage and connect with their audience, at Puckett’s Grocery, is magic! You hear the story behind the song, but …
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Richie Albright tells us about meeting, playing and sharing a musical ride with Waylon Jennings. As Waylon’s drummer from the first Chet Atkins produced album, to the last one, "Never Say Die", Live from the Ryman Auditorium.Along the way we hear about the Dukes of Hazard, Daisy and a musical admission of guilt -- for a fan base that’s still out th…
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If you listened to Episode 6 you already heard how Ricky Ray came to music and Nashville from the Muscle Shoals area of Alabama. He tells us what he knows about the trees that become guitars and the guitars that become priceless classics of sound reproduction, and a guitar he bought for a friend from the same tree as Trigger. They sing Ricky’s song…
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Ricky Ray is an accomplished musician, living, writing, producing, and thriving in the music industry in Nashville, Tennessee. His first fuzzy memory is a guitar on his granny’s lap, being played slide with a butter knife. Forty years ago he drove his red 1966 pickup truck from Alabama to Centennial Park in Nashville. Initially, that was his home w…
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The Perkins Brothers Band, was formed when Carl Perkins asked his brothers Jay and Clayton, to form a band with him in Jackson Tennessee. In this Episode Carl shares his childhood dream of success in music and his first meeting with Sam Phillips at Sun Records. When Carl met Elvis they discovered they shared a favorite music artist, Bill Monroe. Yo…
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James Fron “Sonny” Throckmorton is an American country music singer songwriter who grew up in Texas. When he came to Nashville and signed with Tree Publishing (Sony ATV), he was fired after none of his songs became hits. He returned to Texas, leaving his catalog of songs and demos behind, but within 9 months, 170 of this songs were recorded, were h…
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John Lee Curtis “Sonny Boy” Williamson grew up in Jackson, TN. He introduced the harmonica as a solo instrument for blues performers and electrified its sound with a $200 public address amplifier. Billy Boy Arnold met Sonny Boy and asked him to teach him to play the harmonica. Before Sonny Boy was killed in Chicago, he taught the eleven year old Bi…
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In 1962 it was unusual to have an international hit record. It was the early stirrings of rock music, and a record named "Hey Baby" rolled out the red carpet for Bruce Channel and Delbert McClinton as the concert headliners in London. Bruce and Delbert shared a dressing room with their warm up act, a talented cover band getting started: John, Paul,…
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Bobby started performing with the Rolling Stones in 1970. Between tour dates he returned to Nashville, TN over a 10 year period to compose and perform on an album, produced by his friend Ricky Ray. In this first episode of Music Path you hear about the process of writing and recording this album and some of the tracks.…
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