Episodes

Eddie Martinez: CC #61 Behind the scenes with the sessions guitar king 14.05.2017 50:08

April 8, 2016 Here we are once again at World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. I’ve interviewed thousands of people and I’ve never met one more gracious than the guy who joins us today. You have heard Eddie Martinez guitar on dozens upon dozens of big hits. From Mick Jagger to Robert Palmer…yes that was him crunching “Addicted to Love.” He was one o...

J. MIchael Kearsey of Brothers of the Baladi: CC #60 - A long-awaited new album 14.05.2017 44:58

March 30, 2016 Welcome back to World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Gilsan in Portland for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. I’m Tom D’Antoni and this time I’ve got with me J. Michael Kearsey of the Brothers of Baladi, a band celebrating forty years of making their own special brand of Middle Eastern music. Their new album is called Gravity of Love…we’ll find out what that means. It has been...

Curtis Salgado: CC#59 on his brand new album 14.05.2017 1:00:12

March 24, 2016 Welcome back to World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan in Portland for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. We took a couple weeks off while I had some R&R. I’m OMN’s Tom D’Antoni. I’ve been looking forward to sitting down and talking with Curtis Salgado around the time his new album The Beautiful Lowdown is coming out. It’s always fun to talk with Curtis, he’s a brilliant g...

Chalie Gray: CC #58 - 2016 PDX Jazz Festival Jazz Master 14.05.2017 31:10

February 24, 2016 Joining me today at World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan is the man who is pretty much responsible for several generations of Jazz musicians in Oregon. I’m not exaggerating. Most of our greatest players have come out of Portland State University’s Jazz program. Charlie Gray invented it and was in charge for twenty-seven years until he retired last spring. He was named a...

Shawn Levy: CC##57 - Movies, books and Sophia Loren topless 14.05.2017 49:33

February 11, 2016 Welcome to World Cup Coffee and Tea for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. With me today is author and former Oregonian film critic Shawn Levy. Shawn’s 2014 book De Niro: A Life was an exhaustive, revealing portrait. It was his eighth book, others including Rat Pack, and Paul Newman: A Life. We’ll find out what he’s working on next, if he misses the daily grind of reviewing mov...

Heidi Shuler: C#56 Percussionist and Poet 13.05.2017 44:58

February 2, 2016 We’ve got a percussionist and a poet in the coffeeshop this week…all in the person of Heidi Shuler. The coffeeshop is World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan in Portland...and we'rewell into our second year of Coffeeshop Conversations. I met Heidi at the very first Mysti Krewe of Nimbus’ Mardi Gras Ball. She was the percussionist in Steve Kerin’s band. The 2016 Ball at the...

Keith Schreiner: CC#55 - From Dahlia to the power grid. 13.05.2017 42:21

January 28, 2016 Welcome back to World Cup Coffee and Tea, the coffeeshop home of OMN’s Coffeeshop Conversations. With me today is a gentleman who doesn’t do hardly any interviews. Of course this being a conversation, it isn’t really an interview. At least that’s what I told him. He is Keith Schreiner, you may know him as Auditory Sculpture, although he isn’t using that tag as much anymore. He was...

Ryan Meagher: CC#54 - Playing, composing and doing da bizz-i-ness 13.05.2017 46:24

January 22, 2016 In the coffeeshop with me today is guitarist, composer…and a lot more…Ryan Meagher. The coffeeshop, as usual is World Cup Coffee and Tea at Northwest 18th and Glisan in Portland. Ryan has just gotten back from New York and I’ll be asking about what he did there. He’s working on a new album, he’s one of the leaders of the Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble as well as its label PJCE R...

Pete Krebs: Coffeeshop Conversation #53 - The ride from Grunge to Ernest Tubb 13.05.2017 59:16

We're at World Cup Coffee and Tea at Northwest 18th and Glisan for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation…now in our second year. Today Pete Krebs is in the coffeeshop with me. Maybe you knew him as a Rock Star with the band Hazel and with Elliot Smith. Or maybe when he did a one-eighty and founded a Gypsy Jazz band in the late 1990s. The delicious Swing of Stolen Sweets followed that, followed by Ho...

Coffeeshop Conversations #52: Josh Malm - New beginnings for Redwood Son 13.05.2017 1:02:43

January 7, 2016 It's time for another OMN coffeeshop conversation. And the coffeeshop is World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan. With me in the coffeeshop is Josh Malm Tree leader of Redwood Son. Sometimes he IS Redwood Son…he’ll explain. But I have something else to explain. After checking out the recording gear before we started and making sure it worked, I went ahead like I always do. M...

Coffeeshop Conversations #51: Darka Dusty - blowing up the coffeeshop 13.05.2017 1:02:34

December 17, 2015 Back in World Cup Coffee and Tea at Northwest 18th and Glisan today for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. I’m Tom D’Antoni and with me today is Darka Dusty who is singer, songwriter, pianist, accordionist, producer and with her husband Miri Stebivka run Mirifoto, a commercial photography company known for their photos of musicians. She was previously one half of Darka & Slavko...

Coffeeshop Conversations #50 - Lynn Darroch - A music journalist speaks 13.05.2017 48:30

December 11, 2015 As usual, we’re at World Cup Coffee and Tea at Northwest 18th and Glisan in Portland. With me today is someone you’ve probably been reading for…well, decades. He’s best known as a Jazz Journalist but he’s also known for recording pieces he’s written to the accompaniment of some of our greatest Jazz musicians. He’s Lynn Darroch, he’s also a KMHD stablemate of mine, and for a while...

Coffeeshop Conversations #49: LaRhonda Steele - Stepping into the spotlight 13.05.2017 52:45

December 2, 2015 Welcome back to World Cup Coffee and Tea at Northwest 18th and Glisan in Portland. That's where we do these Coffeeshop Conversations. With me today is Blues/Soul/Gospel singer LaRhonda Steele. She’s one of our best, having come up in Norman Sylvester’s band…as have so many singers…sung backup behind the best and now taken her place in the spotlight with a new album with keyboardis...

Coffeeshop Conversations #47: Monica Nelson - A Punk Rock state of mind 13.05.2017 56:26

November 19, 2015 We are at World Cup Coffee and Tea at NW 18th and Glisan for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation, constantly raining edition. This time we’ve got singer Monica Nelson here. She was in the historic 80’s punk band The Obituaries here in Portland. She left Portland destroyed and in ruins and moved to New York where she lived for twenty years. She returned a few years ago and now lea...

Coffeeshop Conversations #46: John Rudoff - OMN Photojournalist....and a lot more 12.05.2017 53:41

November 12, 2015 Hi there welcome back to World Cup Coffee and Tea at Northwest 18th and Glisan for another Oregon Music News Coffeeshop Conversation. With me today is photojournalist John Rudoff. You have seen his work in Oregon Music News pretty much since we started in 2009. He’s not only a music photojournalist, having come back recently from covering the Syrian refugee tragedy on the Isle of...

Coffeeshop Conversations #45: Karen Lovely - Hard road/smooth sailing 12.05.2017 13:10

November 4, 2015 We're back in the coffeeshop this week. That coffeeshop being World Cup Coffee and Tea at Northwest 18th and Glisan in Portland. With me is Blues singer Karen Lovely who has a new album called Ten Miles of Bad Road…which sounds like the title of a Blues song because it is. A lot of people are saying this is her best album yet…and I’m one of them. We’ll play a little bit from it at...

Coffeeshop Conversations #44: Jaime Leopold - Short stories and tall tales from Dan Hicks' bassist 12.05.2017 48:39

October 21, 2015 After a week off while we ramped up for the new site, we’re back at World Cup Coffee and Tea at Northwest 18th and Glisan in Portand for another OMN Coffeeshop Conversation. With me is bassist/composer Jaime Leopold. You may know him from his current group Short Stories. If you’re real good, you know him from the legendary Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks. Jaime was on the scene in San...

Coffeeshop Conversations #43: Brian Foxworth - Getting inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame 12.05.2017 47:56

October 8, 2015 Hi there, we’re back in the coffeeshop this week…that being World Cup Coffee and Tea at Northwest 18th and Glisan in Portland. This time…in the days before he will be inducted into the Oregon Music Hall of Fame…drummer Brian Foxworth is with us. A member of the Curtis Salgado band for the past five years, also a member of the Roseland Hunters where he shows off his vocal skills…he...

Coffeeshop Conversations #42: David Vest - A Blues blast from the great white north 12.05.2017 48:33

October 2, 2015 We're not actually in the coffeeshop this week, we're on Skype with David Vest who after he left Portland for Victoria, B.C. became the best Blues pianist in Canada, winning the coveted Maple Blues Award in that category two out of the past three years. Before he moved to Canada, and even after, he was the piano player in Paul deLay’s band. David is not only a Blues and boogie woog...

Coffeeshop Conversations #41: Farnell Newton - Bootsy Collins, Jill Scott and perpetual motion 12.05.2017 44:04

September 24, 2015 Welcome back to World Cup Coffee and Tea at Northwest 18th and Glisan in Portland, Oregon. This time, not long back from two lengthy tours, one with Jill Scott and one with Bootsy Collins, with a new album out, one ready to go and one in production, one of the busiest musicians in Oregon, trumpeter/composer Farnell Newton. Or "Neutron Newton" as we will find out. He’s one of tho...

Coffeeshop Conversations #40: Enique Ugalde (Soriah)- Portland's own Tuvan throat singer 12.05.2017 58:34

September 17, 2015 You are in the coffeeshop with me and Tuvan throat singer Enrique Ugalde who you may know as Soriah. Once again we’re at World Cup Coffee and Tea at Northwest 18th and Glisan in Portland. You may not know what Tuvan throat singing is. You may not know where the hell Tuva is. If you don’t you sure as hell don’t know why Enrique, originally from California, now splitting his time...

Coffeeshop Conversations #39: Chance Hayden - Tales of touring Europe and a new project here at home 12.05.2017 49:13

September 10, 2015 Chance Hayden plays guitar in nearly every genre you can think of. The coffeeshop is World Cup Coffee and Tea at Northwest 18th and Glisan in Portland, You knew that. Chance recently got back from an extensive tour of Europe as part of Jarrod Lawson’s band. It was not their first tour and Jarrod is so hot over there that they played major festivals and large halls. But Chance is...

Coffeeshop Conversations #38: Kate Power - Back in PDX with husband Steve Einhorn and a new band 12.05.2017 55:14

September 3, 2105 Thanks for coming back to Oregon Music News’ Coffeeshop Conversations at World Cup Coffee and Tea at Northwest 18th and Glisan in Portland. With me is Kate Power...singer, guitarist, ukulele-ist or is it ukulele-ian…well she’s known for her ukulele playing too. Kate and husband Steve Einhorn came back to Portland in January. They had been gone for four and a half years. For decad...

Coffeeshop Conversations #37: Joe Cawley - turning Alberta Rose into a city instutution 12.05.2017 42:27

August 27, 2015 Welcome back to the coffeeshop, World Cup Coffee and Tea to be specific at northwest 18th and Glisan in Portland. Joining me today here in the cupping room is the owner of the Alberta Rose Theatre, Joe Cawley. The Alberta Rose has been an important part of Oregon’s music scene since Thursday, June 24, 2010 when he opened what had been a church, a couple of different movie theaters,...

Coffeeshop Conversations #36: Simon (Young) Tam of the Slants: Portland band v. Federal Government 12.05.2017 38:40

August 20, 2015 It's another Coffeeshop Conversation from World Cup Coffee and Tea at Northwest 18th and Glisan. With us in the cupping room is the founder of The Slants, Simon Tam also known as Simon Young…don’t worry, I’ll ask him about that… the purveyors of “Chinatown Rock” a combination of punk, synth-pop, rock and their own special sauce. Yes their name is a key factor, Simon chose it becaus...