DittyTV's Insights | Music Interviews

John Oates is best nown for his chart-topping hits with the best-selling duo of all time, Hall & Oates, but he has always had a deep passion and love for Mississippi Delta Blues. His last studio album, "Arkansas", is a fantastic collection of Mississippi John Hurt covers. He just released a live version of that album, featuring Sam Bush. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Part of...

Music producer/engineer Terry Manning catches-up with Amy Wright to talk about his early years at Stax and Ardent Studios, and his more than 20 years at The Studio! at Compass Point in the Bahamas where he recorded some of the biggest acts and albums of all time. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Part of Pantheon Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch...

Longtime drummer for Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins passed away on Sept. 23, 2020, so we thought it would be great to hear from him one more time. Here is a special repeat episode from 2015, where we sat down with Fluke to swap memories from his more than 40 years with Johnny Cash. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Part of Pantheon Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

Gretchen Peters is a two time Grammy nominee and 2014 inductee Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. Beauty tempered by dread, sorrow buoyed by hope, these are the ever-present tugs of war that make life worth living and songs worth writing. And they are the over-riding themes that make Gretchen Peters one of her generation's most compelling singer/songwriters. Recorded May 2018 See omnystudio.com/l...

Tatiana Z catches up with cosmic country artist Daniel Donato on the Red Carpet for the 2018 Americanafest Awards Show. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

we'll hear from Greg Carey and Wade Jackson, the two Australian filmmakers behind the hit music documentary, Waiting: The Van Duren Story. Their story centers around an artist named Van Duren, a Memphis-based musician that they felt the world needed to know about, so much so that they set out to make a documentary about him. It turned out to be an amazing film, and we recommend that you check it o...

Tatiana Z catches up with Fantastic Negrito on the Americanafest Awards Show Red Carpet in 2018. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Led by a modern-day Linda Ronstadt, Granville Automatic writes songs the Associated Press calls “haunting tales of sorrow and perseverance.” With influences as diverse as Emmylou Harris, Ryan Adams, The Smiths and Dawes, Granville Automatic has created a one-of-a-kind sound that revolves around their passion for storytelling. The duo, comprised of Nashville songwriters Vanessa Olivarez and Elizabe...

Ed Romanoff is an American singer-songwriter, corporate story-teller and entrepreneur. Ed’s eleven song, self-titled debut was a Roots Radio Top 100 Album for 2012, has been played in 13 countries and ranked as high as number 12 on the European Americana Charts. Recorded Jan. 2018 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sam Shansky sat down with Wilkes to discuss his recent collaborations with artists like Shemekia Copeland, Dan Auerbach, and the Squirrel Nut Zippers, as well as his Fat Possum Records-released album, Fire Dream, and the role that folklore and mythology plays in his writing, which includes his graphic novel, The Vine That Ate the South. Recorded Jan. 2018 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...

Tatiana catches up with I'm With Her on the Americanafest Awards Show Red Carpet in 2018. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

DittyTV brings you exclusive behind-the-scenes conversations with a father that has played an unusually big role in the fashion of rock and roll. It’s Hal Lansky, of Lansky Bros., the clothing brand that’s been in business since 1946, when Bernard Lansky opened up on Beale Street in Memphis, TN. Since then, they’ve stitched threads for Elvis Presley, Isaac Hayes, Rufus Thomas, and thousands of oth...

On his last two albums, Jason Eady earned major acclaim for his ahead-of-the- curve take on classic country, a bold departure from his earlier excursions into blues-infused Americana. The Mississippi-bred singer/guitarist merges his distinct sensibilities into a stripped-down, roots- oriented sound that starkly showcases the gritty elegance of his songwriting. Recorded July 2018 See omnystudio.com...

Jared Deck takes life one fight at a time. "The battle has always been internal, overcoming my own failures and working to improve." Raised on the dusty plains of an Oklahoma family farm, Jared worked in the fields as well as the town grocery, owned by his parents. "In a community of 1,200 people, big dreams seem impossible. We're taught to manage expectations, put our nose down, and get to work."...

Nashville cosmic country songwriter, Daniel Donato visits with DittyTV host, Sam Shansky, where they discuss Daniel’s background, his current creative endeavors, as well as what he has planned for the upcoming year. Recorded Dec. 2018 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elizabeth Cook is a Nashville-based Singer Songwriter from Wildwood, Florida. As a critically acclaimed live act and recording artist, the New York Times lauds her “a sharp and surprising country singer”. A veteran SiriusXM Outlaw Country Radio DJ, hosting her own show, Apron Strings, nationwide for the last 10 years, she is also a favorite of David Letterman, a regular performer on the Grand Ole...

Jaime Wyatt’s newest release Felony Blues, whose title is a nod to records like David Allan Coe’s Penitentiary Blue, is largely an autobiographical collection of convict love stories, prison songs, and honky-tonk laments. Wyatt is a striking figure with an old soul and a voice like a force of nature. Regardless of genre, the Los Angeles-based Wyatt is a dynamic performer, who sails naturally betwe...

Sam Shansky sits down with GRAMMMY award-winning artist, Dom Flemons, whose new album, Black Cowboys, is available online, and in stores now. They discuss Black Cowboys, Dom’s background in roots music, and a great deal of history, revolving around minorities in the old west, trains, the pony express, and all sorts of other fascinating topics. Recorded May 2018 See omnystudio.com/listener for priv...

Spitting stories of love, loss and pain, Nashville’s Great Peacock⎯⎯ comprised of lead singer and guitarist Andrew Nelson, guitarist Blount Floyd, drummer Nick Recio and bass player Frank Keith IV ⎯⎯ challenge the very notion of genre, dismantling tradition and blurring the lines between rock ‘n roll, conventional folk music and true Americana. Having earned praise from Paste, the Nashville Scene,...

Jeremy Short is a Kentucky based songwriter who’s breaking out in the blues-rock and Americana scenes right now. He fronts a band called Short and Company, and while their music leans into the good-time jam sound a bit, there are some dark themes at play, including drug addiction and death. You know, the fun stuff… Tune is as Jeremy and Sam Shansky discuss Short & Company’s debut album, Lost in a...

Courtney Marie Andrews spent over nine months of 2017 on the road, with multiple trips across the US, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. That's nothing new for Andrews, though. She's been touring relentlessly since leaving her Arizona hometown at 16. It's a life that inspired much of her 2016 breakthrough album, Honest Life. While that album's themes spoke to the isolation and rootlessness...

Named by RollingStone.com as an "Artist You Need To Know", and dubbed a "rising country star" by Fox & Friends, one might say the future of Jamie Kent looks quite promising. Drawing on influences from modern country rock artists like Jason Isbell and Will Hoge, as well as paying tribute to classic greats like Bob Dylan and Tom Petty, Kent’s perfectly mellifluous tunes are roll-the-windows-down, so...

Fate began his music career with a pick-worn guitar he bought from a pawn shop, busking the sidewalks of Denver, Austin, New Orleans and Nashville and working side jobs when he could. One day a laborer, the next a carpenter, the next a valet. He spent time as a deckhand on the lineboats that took him up and down the Mississippi River. Equally restless and observant - Fate was always mindful of his...

Drivin' N' Cryin' have been rockin’ the scene since the 80s, and music fans around the world have come to recognize and appreciate their no-frills approach, maintaining a steady balance of Americana & Roots music, and all-out rock and roll. Recorded Sept. 2018 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dobro master and 14-time GRAMMY winner Jerry Douglas is to the resonator guitar what Jimi Hendrix was to the electric guitar, elevating, transforming, and reinventing the instrument in countless ways.  Additionally, Douglas is a freewheeling, forward-thinking recording and touring artist whose output incorporates elements of country, bluegrass, rock, jazz, blues, and Celtic into his distinctive mu...