Records & Rockstars

Another special session in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests, and a condensed version of the original episode, with song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, from Toronto, powerful performances and conversation with the principle members of Joan Smith & The Jane Does, Joan Smith and Tom Juhas, including a scorching cover o...

Another special session in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests, and a condensed version of the original episode, with song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, From Port Hope, Ontario, not simply a recording artist, but an outstanding tattoo artist too, Nickola Magnolia comes with her guitar, and delivers two live renditions of...

The return (after 4 years) of the wise beyond her years 2023 "Southern Rock Artist of the Year" at the Josie Music Awards in Nashville. Thing is, she is southern, but Southern Ontario, and in this one on one convo with Jeff, we learn a bit more about her unique guitar buying strategy, (two heads are better than one, apparently), we learn of word of her reach farther and wider still as evidenced on...

A heaping helping of country punk/alt folk complete with stand-up bass, banjo, acoustic guitar, and drums, Run the Plank (formerly Murky Waters) makes a stop at Wild Woods Blue Studio on the eastern leg of their Thrasberta Tour, as these wandering spirits from Calgary with roots in Ontario, perform three songs live in Jeff's attic, and tell tales about being a working band, road-testing songs, mak...

We're back into into the recurring four-parter featuring long-players out April, May and June of '74, and this "Second Helping" gives you a diverse playlist that'll take you to the Bridge of Sighs, with Diamond Dogs, in an Endless Summer of Good Vibrations, with solid weirdo bands from Budgie to Sparks, and a bit of my conversation with Paul Rodgers on the formation of the band who were the first...

Another special session in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests chatting with Jeff and delivering song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, fresh from an evening gig on the shore of Georgian Bay, Bernadette Connors delivers two outstanding original song performances, pulled from the 46 minute original session of episode #148, inc...

Compared to MOST years since the seventies, 1994 gave us so much more than most -- a year of some of the finest albums in rock, and one of the most impacting years in music. This is the podcast version of Jeff's weekly music radio show, charting around the world and enjoyed by music fans who love to hear what made artists tick, plus the stories behind the songs. This episode features an excerpt fr...

Another special session in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests chatting with Jeff and delivering song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, lotsa laughs and talent too, pulled from the 56 minute session of episode #163, wherein the update features highlights from one of the finest and most diverse rock drummers around, showing hi...

One of the most intimate and moving performances yet, it's another special episode in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests chatting with Jeff and delivering song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, pulled from the full 90 minute album premiere special (Episode 182 May 2023), we “head for the hills” with an excerpt from it, featu...

It's another special episode in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests chatting with Jeff and delivering song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, pulled from the original Feb 2022 full 51 minute episode #123, from Toronto, it's the incomparable Eamon McGrath, sharing songs from the accliamed album “Bells of Hope”, and more. Eamon,...

Here's the fourth in a recurring series we call “Performances”, featuring past guests, and how it works is we go back to those sessions, and pull out a bit of the introduction, along with the artists song set-ups and stories, followed by the live performances they delivered at Wild Woods Blue, this time featuring multi-award-winning artist and songwriter Dani Strong, who brings her guitar and her...

I remember this day vividly. November 1997, when I was still recording artist interviews to quarter inch tape, and using a razor blade to move stuff around and add in the perfect songs, to get the special ready for radio. In walked Angus Young. He wasn't alone. In fact, he was dwarfed by the presence of two people, sitting on either side of him, across the recording console. Their presence seemed...

Somehow, I had never been to Las Vegas. Then along came the opportunity to talk to Carlos Santana, September 3, 2010,when I got to the Hard Rock Hotel with guitar in hand—a black Gibson SG, knowing that the SG was the model of guitar Carlos had long ago played, and it’s truly one of the classic models (also associated with Angus Young of AC/DC and Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath). Carlos happily autog...

Is that a pocket full of kryptonite or are you just happy to see me? This time, the third in a recurring series we call “Performances”, and what a performer he is! A guitarist whose talents and hits would land him on the cover of Rolling Stone (Jan 1993), and on stages all over North America to this day. Joining Jeff Woods in-studio, solo, for a chat and impassioned acoustic performances, it's Spi...

Here's another in a recurring series of special episodes, Records & Rockstars Performances, taking you back to select sessions, as we pull out songs and set ups and stories to go with, as delivered at Wild Woods Blue, this time starring Jeff's special guest, from Toronto and playing left-handed, it's Delyn Grey with two stellar performances of original songs. Runtime: 17 minutes. (For more, th...

From Jeff's personal archives, it's all things Rolling Stones, with one-on-one conversations with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards in Toronto (1998), talking about the Stones in concert (including playing Russia for the first time), Ronnie Wood in New York (2010) talking about art and music, playing guitar and playing bass, and Jeff Beck (Toronto 2010), with the story about how he "auditioned", so t...

Not one but two tall drinks of water, as Gregory Childs and his wife bring along crack guitarist Jonathan Billings and band, to Wild Woods Blue to play a couple new songs, and one long ago made famous by Waylon and Willie, plus Greg opens up to Jeff about the who, what, when, where, why and how of his need to write and sing and play. Sometimes a school-teacher's doubt is just the thing a kid needs...

With fans like David Bowie and Bob Dylan and Robert Plant, and close friends that included Chris Cornell, Jeff Buckley was an artists revered the world over for his unique talent. In the 1990’s Jeff got signed to Columbia Records, and made an album called GRACE, that can only be called essential. And then suddenly without warning in May 1997 Jeff Buckley was gone. At the time of his death, he had...

My Special Guests mini-series, this time featuring Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Excerpts from one of my favourite chats with Robert, from 2002, and bits of 2 conversations from 2015 with Jimmy Page, about all things Led Zeppelin. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

This is a first in a recurring series of special episodes featuring past guests, and how it works is we go back to those original sessions, and pull out a bit of Jeff's introduction, along with the artists song set ups and stories, followed by the live performances they delivered at Wild Woods Blue. Hence the name "Performances", and this time starring Miss Emily. Runtime: 13 minutes. (for more, t...

So many reasons to do this show for you. Including the fact that of the thousands of concerts and shows I've seen none were more engaging visually and sonically, than Beatles Love - starring Cirque de Soleil. That and that fact that within the 384 pages of my first book, Radio, Records and Rockstars, there are 398 mentions of Beatles. Not simply by me, but by the vast majority of artists featured...

He's a winning combination of Jujutsu black-belt and soul singing prowess, with an affinity for Black Crowes, Keith Richards, and Tina Turner, and he brings a new single plus a another original and plays both plus a classic cover, inside of a 57 minute special, as Nelson Sobral from Toronto, with the ever-worldly percussionist Kunle, join Jeff at Wild Woods Blue Studio for conversation and perform...

1974 the year in rock is in the spotlight this time, for the first of a four part recurring theme, this time featuring nothing but albums out in the first 3 months of '74. Everyone from a Toronto trio, to the mutual admiration club that included Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Lightfoot, plus what a future Whitesnake singer was doing, the first #1 from the Doobie Bros, and a wise warning from a famous F...

Where would the bands we love have gotten were it not for their determination and tenacity -- their persistence and their perseverance? For that matter, where would any of us be. But they're the rockstars who made the records we love, so they get an episode. There's a million stories of perseverance. Here's a handful in a theme we'll come back to when the wind blows just right. See Privacy Policy...

This is the story of rock's ultimate supergroup which happened by way of a happy accident. Warner Bros. Records’ International Department had asked that George Harrison come up with a B-side for “This Is Love,” a single from his  Cloud Nine  album. What happened next, was all of this. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/priva...