Dave Lawrence Interviews

HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence welcomes back reggae legends Third World and their founder/guitarist Stephen "Cat" Coore as the group tours the islands since the pandemic. They are at Uncle Robert's Awa Bar in Pāhoa this evening and doing two shows at the Blue Note Hawaii tomorrow. Not only do we learn what's happening at these concerts, but get into the fascinating family background...

This week, HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence offers up a very special treat for blues fans! Kenny Wayne Shepherd returns to the show, and this time, with his partner on their new album, "Young Fashioned Ways," fellow Louisiana bluesman Bobby Rush!

We're offering examples of interviews from the show going back to 2010, including this sampler of HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence speaking in 2014 for the first time with Judy Collins; the folk icon would go on to appear many more times over the next eleven years. Find lots more interviews on our website!

We're offering examples of interviews from the show going back to 2010, including this sampler of HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence speaking in 2017 with the son of late rock legend Gregg Allman, Devon Allman. Find lots more interviews on our website!

We're offering examples of interviews from the show going back to 2010, including this sampler of HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence speaking in 2015 with Alice Cooper manager and Maui resident Shep Gordon. Find lots more interviews on our website!

We're offering examples of interviews from the show going back to 2010, including this sampler of HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence speaking in 2015 with Creedence Clearwater Revival/CCR legend John Fogerty. Find lots more interviews on our website!

We're offering examples of interviews from the show going back to 2010, including this sampler of HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence speaking in 2011 with Toad the Wet Sprocket's Glen Phillips. Find lots more interviews on our website!

We're offering examples of our work right now, including this sampler of HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence speaking with Third World's late vocalist, Bunny "Rugs" Clarke, in 2012. Find lots of interviews on our website!

HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence welcomes back singer/songwriter/guitarist John Oates, ahead of an appearance alongside Ron Artis II & Friends at the Hawaii Theatre tonight. One half of the most successful musical duo in history, Hall and Oates, John shares stories about how he built a connection to Ron, plus takes us into some cool stories about The Temptations, Tina Turner, Mick Jagg...

HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence remembers filmmaker and meditation enthusiast David Lynch, who died last week at 78. In 2010, at the time his foundation was helping to fund a meditation program on Kauaʻi, he was a guest, in a chat focused on this passion of his, including a story taking us back to 1973, and his introduction to Transcendental Meditation. He would remain a strong suppor...

HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence welcomes back gifted storyteller and rock legend Billy Gibbons! The guitar and voice of ZZ Top returns to the Blue Note Hawaii Friday through Sunday with his Billy Gibbons and the BFGs, and returns today to the show with Dave for more incredible storytelling. It comes from a chat quite a bit beyond a half hour, which we've also included for your listeni...

HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence continues two days with Foghat drummer, original member Roger Earl, this time in the HPR Atherton Studio! When Foghat recently played dates in Hawaiʻi, Roger stopped by for an hour-long-plus chat, which concludes with more remarkable stories of their connections to blues legends, including having dinner with Willie Dixon and his family at their home!

HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence welcomes back Foghat drummer, original member Roger Earl, this time in the HPR Atherton Studio! When Foghat recently played dates in Hawaiʻi, Roger stopped by for an hour-long-plus chat.

HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence sends off percussion master Zakir Hussain in style today. The tabla legend died Monday at age 73, of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence honored late Grateful Dead icon, bassist Phil Lesh, with an interview feature including highlights from their 2001 chat backstage at a show in Boston. For our End of Year celebration, we're celebrating his life and the lives of some of our beloved guests who we lost this year!

HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence honored entertainment legend and Valley Isle resident Kris Kristofferson with an interview feature including highlights from their 2011 chat, following his passing earlier this year. For our End of Year celebration, we're celebrating his life and the life of some of our beloved guests who we lost this year!

HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence honored Brazilian music legend Sergio Mendes with an interview feature including highlights from their 2018 chat, following his passing earlier this year. For our End of Year celebration, we're celebrating his life and the life of some of our beloved guests who we lost this year!

HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence honored blues legend John Mayall with an interview feature including highlights from five conversations, going back 21 years, following the Bluesbreakers founder's passing last July at home in California. He was 90. Now, for our End of Year celebration, we're celebrating his life and the life of some of our beloved guests who we lost this year!

HPR All Things Considered Host Dave Lawrence welcomes a true music legend for his first time on the show! Michael Shrieve is known to millions around the world for his breathtaking drum solo at Woodstock '69, and a rich collection of some of Santana's best albums, and subsequent reunions and released music. In the 80s he went on to briefly have Novo Combo, a rock/pop band, and today he explains th...

HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence welcomes back original War member, keyboardist and vocalist Lonnie Jordan, ahead of their shows Nov. 21 & 22 at the Blue Note Hawaii and Nov. 23 at the MACC. Lonnie shared stories about cool previous gigs in the islands, like in the Diamond Head Crater! We also hear about Jimi Hendrix's last night on Earth, when he sat in with Lonnie and War!

HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence welcomes back Soul Asylum singer and guitarist Dave Pirner, as his '90s alternative rock band returns with a new album, "Slowly but Shirley," which for car enthusiasts, has a very special connection. Plus we get into fun stories about Dave's son Eli, Ivan and Art Neville, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed and much more!

HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence got a special surprise visit in the studio from recent guest, original Foghat drummer Roger Earl, who dropped by ahead of their shows tonight at the Blue Note Hawaii at 6:30 & 9 p.m.! The band is also playing Kauaʻi's Anaina Hou Park in Kīlauea Saturday at 6:30 p.m.! Since Roger dropped by, we grabbed a chat in our Atherton Performing Arts Studio, which...

For the fifth time since July, HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence remembers a guest - this time Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead, who a week ago it was announced had died at 84. Phil was a guest twice over the years relatively early in Dave's career: 2001 in Boston and 2005 here in Honolulu. Topics included Phil's philanthropic side; the 1978 Grateful Dead concerts in Egypt at the pyramids...

HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence welcomes musician Matisyahu back to the show ahead of his dates in Honolulu on Jan. 25 and 26, at 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. each night. We learn about his large family that joins him on tour, including some young children! Also, we get into his fascinating story of how he discovered his musical passions via a Phish concert, which would lead to him playing wi...

HPR All Things Considered host Dave Lawrence welcomes back original Foghat drummer Roger Earl ahead of the band's first show in the islands since 1977! They play the Blue Note Hawaii Thursday, Nov. 7 at 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.; it comes as their latest album, Sonic Mojo, has spent over 30 weeks on the Billboard Blues Album chart since its release last year. As we'll hear, the record has also been sub...