America’s roots music preservation begins with a screen door slam, a beer and a plate of BBQ. Aubrey Preston’s one-man mission to save America’s music culture, its historic buildings, shacks and stories is an international movement to provide an accurate guide for visitors from foreign lands. .. searchers from the British Isles, France or […]
Deborah Allen – Memphis Girl
Deborah Allen is a Memphis Girl who woke up one morning in Elvis’s bed with a dream to write and perform music, and then lived that dream. With major record deals she wrote and recorded in Nashville, New York and Los Angeles. She tells us what inspired a few of her songs and the advice […]
Musician’s Rights
Dave Pomeroy, AFM Leader, named in 1991 Studio Musician of the Year, is a musician’s rights advocate. He’s played electric and acoustic bass on more than 500 albums in his 33 years in Nashville. Dave has established himself as a world class bassist, performer, writer and producer.
Puckett’s Makes Music
Andy Marshall built a business from Tennessee’s most precious natural resource. A story of a grocery that became a restaurant that became an important music venue. His affinity for songwriters and performers and their opportunity to engage and connect with their audience, at Puckett’s Grocery, is magic! You hear the story behind the song, […]
Waylon Jennings “Never Say Die”
Richie Albright tells us about meeting, playing and sharing a musical ride with Waylon Jennings. As Waylon’s drummer from the first Chet Atkins produced album, to the last one, Never Say Die, Live from the Ryman Auditorium. Along the way we hear about the Dukes of Hazard, Daisy and a musical admission of guilt — […]
Ricky Ray A Tree Becomes a Guitar
If you listened to Episode 6 you already heard how Ricky Ray came to music and came to Nashville from the Muscle Shoals area of Alabama. He tells us what he knows about the trees that become guitars and the guitars that become priceless classics of sound reproduction, and a guitar he bought for his […]
Ricky Ray – Granny’s Angels
Ricky Ray is an accomplished musician, living, writing, producing, and thriving in the music industry in Nashville, Tennessee. His first fuzzy memory is a guitar on his granny’s lap, being played slide with a butter knife. Forty years ago he drove his red 1966 pickup truck from Alabama to Centennial Park in Nashville. Initially, […]
Carl Perkins
Carl Perkins initially let Jay Perkins of The Perkins Brothers do most of the singing. Carl played lead guitar for the Perkins Brothers Band which, as Carl explains to us in our interview for Music Path, is difficult to do while singing lead himself. He tells us about being married to a woman who knew a […]
Sonny Throckmorton
James Fron “Sonny” Throckmorton is an American country music singer songwriter who grew up in Texas. When he came to Nashville and signed with Tree Publishing (Sony ATV), he was fired after none of his songs became hits. He returned to Texas, leaving his catalog of songs and demos behind, but within 9 months, 170 […]
Sonny Boy Williamson
John Lee Curtis “Sonny Boy” Williamson grew up in Jackson, TN. He introduced the harmonica as a solo instrument for blues performers and electrified its sound with a $200 public address amplifier. Billy Boy Arnold met Sonny Boy and asked him to teach him to play the harmonica. Before Sonny Boy was killed in […]
Bruce Channel – Hey Baby!
In 1962 it was unusual to have an international hit record. It was the early stirrings of rock music, and a record named “Hey Baby” rolled out the red carpet for Bruce Channel and Delbert McClinton as the concert headliners in London. Bruce and Delbert shared a dressing room with their warm up act, a […]
Rolling Stones Sax Man
Music Path is a podcast about music, and some of the places, in the U.S., where it was conceived and performed, where inspiration and life collided to generate blues, bluegrass, country, gospel, soul, rockabilly and rock and roll at the crossroads of American History and renowned scenic beauty. Whether you’re interested in Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana […]