Living On Music with Steve Houk

Ever wonder what it must have been like to see legends like Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck become part of a renowned rock band you founded called The Yardbirds? Or what it had to be like to launch a prog-rock classic band like Renaissance? Well get ready for a memorable ride with the one and only Jim McCarty, a seminal drummer who tells some wonderful stories about his part in rock and rol...

There aren't many more amazing moments that sitting an talking to a guy like Tom Rush, who as a seminal folk legend at 81 is still going strong, back playing all over the country, sometimes with people like Gordon Lightfoot, Dewey Bunnell from America, Jonathan Edwards, Tom Paxton, plus it's our second visit on the show! Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/living-o...

Quinn Sullivan's story began with an appearance on Ellen at 6 years old playing guitar...then after a chance encounter with Buddy Guy, who pulled him out of the audience when he was around 8 years old and invited him to play onstage, he wowed the crowd and launched his now-soaring career. Quinn has been traveling the world ever since, he has become a revered blues-oriented guitarist performing in...

So HUGELY honored to interview such a rock legend. I mean, he directly influenced drummers like John Bonham, Phil Collins, Joey Kramer, Neil Peart, and millions of others around the world...plus he started Vanilla Fudge, who became leaders in the edgy hard rock beginnings...he also played drums and wrote songs with Rod Stewart in his hey-day including on the seminal 70's record Footloose And Fancy...

I am SO excited that here a couple of weeks after Carly Simon was nominated for the R & R Hall of Fame, I have her longtime guitarist and close collaborator Jimmy Ryan on Living On Music. We take a great ride and talk alot about his truly wondrous times with Carly, his early days with 60s pop rock hitsters The Critters, plus his many experiences playing alongside Carly and also a slew of world fam...

Jake Shimabukuro has taken the ukulele to points previously thought impossible, and in the process, he’s reinvented the applications for this tiny, heretofore underappreciated four-string instrument, causing many to call him “the Jimi Hendrix of the ‘ukulele.” Over the past two decades, Jake has proved that there isn’t a style of music that he can’t play. While versatility for any musician is impr...

One of rock and roll's most durable musicians Willie Nile opens up about how he's dealt with the recent unprecedented times, how he been able to keep his energy, positivity and drive going, still releasing records and finding ways to keep busy. It's a fabulous conversation with this longtime rock and roll mainstay. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/living-on-musi...

Get ready and get set to take a rare walk-and-talk journey through a swath of coveted locations at The Birchmere -- one of the country's most revered venues -- along with the two co-authors of the brand new bio/chronicle book "All Roads Lead To The Birchmere" -- the venue's longtime owner Gary Oelze and author/journalist Stephen Moore. It's quite a memorable jaunt as the authors and host Steve Hou...