Making Sound with Jann Klose

EPISODE 26: Having created a deep impression on the acoustic blues roots and Americana scene with his last two Nashville recorded albums, Harleys gritty electric album ‘Roll With The Punches’, recorded in a remote chapel deep in the wilds of Pembrokeshire, takes country blues riffs to the electric bottleneck slide guitar and serves them with sweet vocal harmonies. It features some of the UK’s musi...

EPISODE 25: Detroit native and celebrated rock guitarist Mike Skill has been a working musician for more than four decades. Skill’s roots lay in 60's Motown, Traditional-Garage Blues and New Wave Punk movement. He spent his early days in New York City with one of his first bands, Motor City Rockers, playing clubs including historic CBGB with the New York Dolls, Syl Sylvain and friends in atte...

EPISODE 24: Larry Campbell is one of Americana’s most well-regarded multi-instrumentalists and producers. He's toured and recorded with Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson, and Hot Tuna. Larry (as Levon Helm’s music director for eight years) along with Teresa Williams, collaborated with Levon Helm on three GRAMMY® Award-winning albums. Steeped in traditional gospel and years of performing in...

EPISODE 23: Bakithi Kumalo (born 10 May 1956) is a South African bassist, composer, and vocalist. Kumalo is most known for his fretless bass playing on Paul Simon's 1986 album Graceland, in particular the bass run on "You Can Call Me Al". Bakithi was born in the Soweto township of Johannesburg, surrounded by relatives who loved music and actively performed. He got his first job at t...

EPISODE 22: Back in the heyday of vinyl, Andy VanDette started, as intern, at the legendary Masterdisk. After completing his degree in Tonmeister Studies, he was hired full time. During the explosion of the audio CD format, he created CD Masters and Radio Edits with mastering luminaries while observing their perspectives on processing and musicality. By the time the MFiT standard was introduced, A...

EPISODE 21: Joel A. Miller was born in Cambridge, England and grew up in Southern California.  He graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a degree in Art History. In 2006 he wrote, directed, and produced the film The Still Life. The film screened at over thirty film festivals and was distributed by Warner Bros. nationwide. As part of the film soundtrack, he co-wrote the son...

EPISODE 20: Mark Andes (born February 19, 1948) is an American musician, known for his work as a bassist with Canned Heat, Spirit, Jo Jo Gunne, Firefall, Heart, and Mirabal. As a teenager, he was an early member of Canned Heat, but left before the band was signed to a recording contract. Andes was a founding member of the band Spirit. He played bass on their first four albums and on some subsequen...

EPISODE 19: Tony Lucca is a Nashville-based singer/songwriter with a catalog of music that runs the gamut from soul-infused pop to tear-jerker folk balladry. Tony’s music has been featured in shows like “Parenthood,” “Friday Night Lights,” “Felicity,” and “Brothers and Sisters,” and he took third place on NBC's “The Voice,” where he earned himself a record deal with coach Adam Levine's 2...

EPISODE 18: Alicia Madison’s massive hit "Insanity" which was released on Revealed Records, surpassed 10 million streams on Spotify. After entering the viral charts in 4 different territories, "Insanity" was featured on "Mint" for over 3 months in a row, hitting #1 several times. "Insanity" was then in heavy rotation on SiriusXM after being selected as &quot...

EPISODE 17: One of the most sought after singers, writers, and performers in the entertainment world, Everett Bradley’s resume reads like a who’s who of show business. Spanning from multiple genres of music to theater and television, this Grammy-nominated force of nature has lent his unique blend of extraordinary talent, exuberance, and heart to every tour, session, Broadway show and TV program he...

EPISODE 16:  Kevin Mackie is a Grammy winning and twice Grammy nominated producer. He has been interviewed by CNN, TMZ and many other media outlets and has produced CDs that benefit non-profit organizations such as "Pacer" (anti-bullying organization), The "New York Coalition For Healthy School Food", The "I Have A Dream Foundation", and "Doylestown Hospice Care&...

EPISODE 15: Percussionist, Drummer and Vocalist John Mahon has been playing with Sir Elton John since 1997. He has performed over 1600 shows with the superstar, in over 70 countries in front of millions. John was voted #3 Percussionist by Modern Drummer Magazine 2010 Readers Poll. He has recorded numerous albums with Elton John, achieving both Gold and Platinum success and played on BB King’s Gram...

EPISODE 14:  Leslie Mandoki is a famous Hungarian/German producer, songwriter and drummer in Europe who's worked with some of the top rock, pop and jazz artists in the industry -- including Phil Collins and Lionel Richie. He also worked as a musical director for commercials, with clients including Audi, Daimler and Disney. In 1993, Mandoki founded a group called ManDoki Soulmates , which comb...

EPISODE 13:  James Maddock (born 1962) is a British singer-songwriter and performing musician. Originally from Countesthorpe, Leicester, UK, Maddock has been based in New York City since 2003 after signing with Columbia Records. Maddock's first public success in the U.S. was with his band Wood, whose album "Songs from Stamford Hill" produced multiple songs appearing on the hit TV sh...

EPISODE 12: Multi Billboard Heatseekers charting singer/songwriter Cassandra Kubinski has performed her whimsical, dramatic stories of ambition, connection, loss, and love from living rooms to Barclays Center, from NYC to LA to Thailand to Jamaica and beyond.  Always celebrating the 360 degree human experience, our joy and victories as well as our darkest struggles and desperations, her piano and...

EPISODE 11: Obsessed with music from an early age, singer/songwriter Jackie Venson immersed herself in its study, attending the Berklee College of Music to practice classical piano. However, it wasn’t until she switched to the electric guitar, that her long-simmering passion for emotive live performance was realized. Abandoning the straight-laced world of classical for the raw power of blues and s...

EPISODE 10:  Brian Gallagher is a singer/songwriter and musician whose album, ALL THAT’S AHEAD, debuted at #1 on the iTunes blues charts to rave reviews. Last year, he released his second LP, BROWNSTONE, a gritty, bluesy, horror-inspired concept record about a haunted four "story" brownstone in Manhattan's East Village. His next full-length concept album, THE GRIND SHOW, about a gro...

EPISODE 9:  Jon Tiven is a producer, songwriter, and musician based in Nashville, Tennessee who’s helmed projects by Wilson Pickett, B.B. King, Steve Cropper, P.F. Sloan, Don Covay, Alex Chilton, and Ellis Hooks, among others. Artists who have recorded his songs who he’s NOT produced include the Jeff Healey Band, Buddy Guy/Jonny Lang, Johnny Winter, Huey Lewis & the News, and many many more. T...

EPISODE 8: As an actor Michael O'Keefe has garnered both Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. He's appeared in the films Eye In the Sky, Michael Clayton, Frozen River, The Pledge, Ironweed, The Great Santini and Caddyshack. Television audiences will recognize him as CIA Agent John Redmond on Homeland and remember him as "Fred" on Roseanne. Other TV appearances also inclu...

EPISODE 7:  Ann Hampton Callaway is one of America’s most gifted artists in pop and jazz. A leading champion of the great American Songbook, she’s made her mark as a singer, pianist, composer, lyricist, arranger, actress, educator, TV host and producer. Voted by Broadwayworld.com as “Performer of the Year” and two years in a row as “Best Jazz Vocalist,” Ann is born entertainer.  She is best known...

EPISODE 6: Dan Beck is a writer, a producer, a marketer, a manager, a mentor, and an investor in a long line of trusted relationships. He dedicated 20 years in building and supporting the images for dozens upon dozens of artists on the roster at Epic Records, as head of publicity, as a product manager and SVP of Marketing and Sales. As President, he founded V2 Records in North America for Virgin e...

EPISODE 5:  Godfrey Townsend is a New York based guitarist, keyboardist, vocalist, musical director who has worked with many of rock and pop music’s most influential names. In the past 25 years he’s been recruited by major artists including: John Entwistle, bass guitarist of The Who; Jack Bruce, bass guitarist and vocalist of Cream; Dave Mason, guitarist and vocalist of Traffic; Alan Parsons, prod...

EPISODE 4: A native of New Mexico, Misty Boyce , took to the idea of a career in music at a young age, and began writing songs while in primary school. She would eventually go on to enroll at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, where she studied jazz piano. After moving to New York City, where she forged her craft both as a songwriter and player, she became a sought-after k...

EPISODE 3: Simon Frederick St George Kirke (born 28 July 1949) is an English rock drummer best known as a member of Free and Bad Company, the latter of which he has been the only continuous member since their inception. In addition to his work with Free and Bad Company, Simon has guested on a long list of recordings by other artists over the years, including albums by Wilson Pickett, Faces, Gov’t...

EPISODE 2: James Stanley McCarty (born 25 July 1943) is an English musician, best known as the drummer for The Yardbirds and Renaissance. Following Chris Dreja's departure from the Yardbirds in 2013, McCarty became the only member of the band to feature in every lineup. McCarty has performed and recorded with the Yardbirds, Together, Renaissance, Shoot, Illusion, the Yardbirds reunion band Bo...