When did you get the music bug ? I don’t know if it started as a bug. My parents made my siblings and I all take piano lessons and we had to play a band instrument as well. I think […]
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When did you get the music bug ? I don’t know if it started as a bug. My parents made my siblings and I all take piano lessons and we had to play a band instrument as well. I think […]
How did you come to fix on the Fleur-de-lis as moniker / title for your new release? It seemed to name itself at the last-minute of the last recording, which is atypical from my previous works. Last autumn, I had a couple of […]
What was the first album you ever purchased and how do you rank it today? Not sure what the first one I bought with my own money was but the first CD I was given was Queen’s Greatest Hits 1 & […]
When you think about the new disc Goodnight Stranger in general terms, what’s it about? Hmmmmm, well that’s a pretty loaded question… or more so a loaded answer, lol. This was a really hard and personal record for me to write and […]
What was the first guitar you ever owned and what was the best thing you recall about it? My very first guitar was given to me by my teacher, Father Duffacy at Saint Francis Cabrini. I was 13. It was […]
How did Esquela come together? John ‘Chico’ Finn and Keith Christopher have a long history together. And so, when John wanted to start his own band, it only made sense for Keith to be his partner in crime. While recordingEsquela’s first album, “The […]
1.0 – Labels aside, the music on Tracks is hard to pin down, is that part of your vibe as a dude? I don’t think so. Maybe more now than the years previous. We started recording Tracks in 2010 and you could […]
1.0 – What’s the first song you recall moving you as a kid? The first song that I remember moving me was a tune by Lester Young called ‘PC Blues’, I heard it at home on my mothers HiFi. When […]
1.0 – What is it about rock & roll that makes people feel good? For me its the feeling I got when I heard Lou Reed “Walk On The Wild Side” on the radio when i was a boy has […]
1.0 – What’s the best thing about Barn Sessions? Perhaps that it’s real, it’s live, and you can see a mouse suddenly appear behind John’s lovely head in the “Hiding”‘ video. That’s just my personal opinion. 2.0 – Did you have […]
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