1.0 Are your earliest musical influences the most pervasive or do others break through along the way? The early ones in the formative years are still the Mount Rushmore for me of songwriting….but there certainly have been people that have […]
1.0 Where did your affinity for traditional rock & roll begin? I was a young teenager, living out in the country. A record store in the nearest town opened up, and I’d go there to special order hard-to-find stuff like […]
>1.0 Since “Live In Europe” is your 2nd live album, what led you to the decision to record again live? The project was originally supposed to be a DVD project. A web stream company had rigged up a multi camera […]
>Okay, maybe it’s just me, but who isn’t just a little bummed to hear that Keith Richards is now breaking bad on band mate Mick Jagger in his autobiography, “Keith Richards; Life“? My wife picked up a copy last weekend […]
1.0 How does your new release Goodnight Lane differ from your previous releases? It feels and sounds much more like I intended it to. For one thing, I had musicians playing on it that had played the songs with me […]
1.0 What are you working on presently? Getting this album, by a fellow named JD McPherson, out on my small label, Hi-Style Records. We recorded the album in my analog recording studio over the last year. The sound is killer. […]
1.0 – Your most recent record was titled “More Like Me”, is that an admission or an affirmation? Both. I wrote the song “More Like Me” first. After the album was complete, I thought that best described it, as there […]
Interview with John “Chico” Finn: 1.0 Being an ‘upstate’ NY band, is it easy to identify with, or actually be influenced by, “The Band”? Well, a little of both. I can certainly identify with them as for how they got […]
1.0 How was it recording with Eric “Roscoe” Ambel? Recording with Roscoe was a great learning experience. As a producer Roscoe demands a lot, but his results speak for themselves. It was a real challenge to step up to his […]
1.0 Why are people more open to an artist’s music if they are exposed to it by a friend? Everything needs to go through a filter. There’s just too much out there. That includes food, vacations and people. 2.0 Where […]
