Interviews: Salty Dog Blues N Roots Podcast

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded and released May 2025. Salty talks with Pete Cornelius about the highly anticipated and long awaited album SOUTHERN. An Americana delight from the depths of Tasmania. Produced by Matt Fell and Pete Cornelius. With Southern, Pete Cornelius has crafted an album of grit, toughness and beauty. His guitar playing is as lyrical and evocative as his vocal delivery and fea...

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded October 24, and released February 2025. Rag N Bone man is due to perform at Byron Bay Bluesfest at Easter 2025. Salty talks with Rory Graham, known professionally as Rag'n'Bone Man, an English blues, hip hop, soul songwriter and singer. He is known for his deep baritone voice. His first hit single, "Human", was released in 2016, and his first album Human was releas...

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded and released August 2024. Salty talks with singer/songwriter keyboard maestro Daryl Roberts about the album 'Keep On Moving'. Daryl talks all things Hey Gringo, his powerhouse band over the last few decades, and working with Jeff Lang as producer on this new project. We discuss the songwriting and production process, and what is needed to get new material out into...

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded May and released July 2023. Rare in-depth Salty interview with the Australian guitar blues legend and BMV Hall of Famer PHIL MANNING. We lead off with the top CHAIN single from 1971 'Black and Blue' then talk with Phil about growing up in Tasmania, the bands, the music and surviving the industry. Bookend with a track from 2023 - "Heart Starts Thumping". For over 50...

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded and released May 2023. Salty talks with Jesse Dayton about the forthcoming release "Death Wish Blues", a joint effort with Samantha Fish. Jesse (a Texan outlaw country, punk, blues and country legend) talks about working with Samantha, songwriting and bringing a new take on the blues together. The album is a killer, and we showcase a few pre-release tracks througho...

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded and released March 2023. Salty talks with International Blues Challenge winner (2023 solo/duo) Frank Sultana - an Australian representing the Sydney Blues Society. Salty Dog Blues n Roots podcast is a platform that features interviews with emerging and established blues artists. Listeners hear about their creative processes, influences, and experiences, which provi...

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded April 2007 and released as stand alone interview 18 January 2023. Salty talks with Renée over 90 minutes about her career, singing, the music industry, reception in the USA, Support Act, Paul Kelly and more. An in-depth and personal interview with Australia's undisputed Queen of Soul. RIP 11 September 1953 - 17 January 2023

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded November 2012, released 01 June 2016 and again 3 June 2022 as standalone interview podcast. RIP to the masterful Kelly Joe Phelps, passed 31 May 2022 age 62 years. In honour I am releasing this interview recorded with Kelly Joe nearly ten years ago. I recorded this interview at the Caravan Music Club in Melbourne Australia in early November 2012. Soon after Kelly J...

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded 16 September 2021, released 11 October 2021 as standalone interview podcast. Australia's 'Hendrix of the keyboards' has released a fabulous live in-studio album, complete with the full band, powerhouse horn section and top class women taking it to another level. We talk with Lachy about the recording, the band and planned tours with Pink Floyd in 2022. WOW! this al...

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded late 2020, released 28 January 2021 as standalone interview podcast. Dustin Arbuckle rose to fame as the singer and harp player with Alligator recording artists Moreland and Arbuckle. Now Dustin fronts his own band 'The Damnations' and Salty talks with Dustin about the new venture and latest album 'My Getaway'. Hailing from Wichita Kansas, we hear the stories of th...

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded 13 November 2020, released 23 November 2020 as standalone interview podcast. Two great Australian artists come together to record some new blues in the old traditions. Raw, analogue and in the moment. Josh Teskey and Ash Grunwald are giants in their own right, and together bring it right on home. How will this recording influence their future work? We track this an...

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded 21 October 2020, released 2 November 2020 as standalone interview podcast. Salty talks with the great Australian guitarist Jimi Hocking (Streaming Jets, Angels, Blues Machine) about everything Jimi - and his new release with the fabulous Blues Roulette. Sample cuts from the album throughout - and how did he get that name 'Jimi The Human'?

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded 26 August 2020, released 18 September 2020 as standalone interview podcast. "Sometimes people leave without saying goodbye" That's 'ghosting' - the title of Van Walker's fabulous new album. After a hiatus getting to deal with his demons, Van has emerged with a work of substance and power. Blues is poetry, indeed. Dawg certified! Enjoy! 320 kbps

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded 19 May 2020, released 9 June 2020 as standalone interview podcast. Salty and Joey Vincent (Joe Camilleri) take time out for a long fireside chat. Joey's new chart topping Bakelite Radio release "Rosary of Tears" is the focus, but we cover everything from the Black Sorrows, living in the pandemic to the reason why musicians never give up their muse. Some choice cuts...

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded 26 February 2020, released 29 April 2020 as standalone interview podcast. Salty talks with the fabulous Jimmie Vaughan about his new album 'Baby Please Come Home' and all things Texas blues, Stratocaster's, Fabulous Thunderbirds and some family music history. Recorded just before the planned visit to Byron Bay's Bluesfest 2020, which was cancelled due to the CV19 p...

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded 01 December 2019, released 18 December 2019 as standalone interview podcast. Salty talks with Australia's famed guitar wizard and blues ambassador Geoff Achison. Geoff talks 20 years performing in the UK with the UK souldiggers and the background to the latest album. We also discuss the famed Boxing Day Blues at Melbourne's Corner Hotel, and what it means to salute...

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded 22 August 2019, released 17 September 2019 as standalone interview podcast. Salty talks with Ash Grunwald - roots, blues, crossover master from Australia. After sold out shows on three continents, Ash took five years out to reignite the passion. A fascinating journey and a fabulous new album 'Mojo'. More https://ashgrunwald.com ... and check out Ash's podcast 'Soul...

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded 7 August 2019, released 11 August 2019 as standalone interview podcast. Salty talks with Milan Milutinovic - songwriter, guitar and vox for The New Savages out of Melbourne Australia. We cover the new release 'Seventh Son', roots in the Mississippi delta, touring and the spiritual base of the blues. Trance and drone! This is the goods tone hounds. More https://then...

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded 17 July 2019, released 20 July 2019 as standalone interview podcast. Salty talks with Ben Wicks the founder and driving force behind the great 'Blues Roulette'. Ben talks about the Roulette's origins and where it's headed, and the fabulous new EP 'Kings And Queens'. Choice cuts throughout. Dig it tone hounds! More: https://www.facebook.com/Bluesroulette/

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded 07 February 2019, released 13 April 2019 as standalone interview podcast. Salty talks with the fabulous Samantha Fish on the eve of her first visit to Australia and performances at Byron Bay's Bluesfest. At the age of thirty, Samantha has bent traditional boundaries to rise as a master guitarist, singer songwriter, band leader and label/record producer. Samantha ta...

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded 10 October 2018, released 21 January 2019 as standalone interview podcast. Salty talks with Rebecca Lovell from Larkin Poe. Great great great grand daughters of poet Edgar Allan Poe, Rebecca and Megan have burst onto the international roots scene with their brilliant take on old school blues mixed with C21 vox, style and musicianship. For Australian fans they will...

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded 20 July 2018, released 25 August 2018 as standalone interview podcast. Salty talks with fantastic blues guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Matty T Wall. We hear about the influence of 'metal' on Matty over the years, when the blues struck him down and the joy of working with no effects pedals! Tracks from the latest 'Sidewinder' album throughout. Yep, dig it tone h...

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded 22 June 2018, released 12 July 2018 as standalone interview podcast. Salty talks with Lloyd Spiegel about the new album 'Backroads'. Hear about the writing and recording process, and taking the new material on the road to sold out clubs and rooms. And what is Lloyd's secret passion? We divulge all. Great music throughout. www.lloydspiegel.com for more info.

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded 5 June 2018, released 19 June 2018 as standalone interview podcast. Salty talks with Justin Yap and Nardia Rose out on the streets of Melbourne on a fresh winters morning. We celebrate the release of the latest album 'Live in Newcastle', influences on the band, winning blues awards, and what it takes to keep independent music alive in the digital age. Wonderful mus...

Visit: www.salty.com.au Recorded 10 April 2018, released 2 May 2018 as standalone interview podcast. Salty talks with fabulous, world renowned Australian slide guitarist Dave Hole. With Dave's 'Goin' Back Down' being his first new release in ten years, we explore the new songs, production and what makes his guitar cut that groove so nice! First non American on Alligator records out of Chicago, so...