Country music comes from the heart of the south in our country. It speaks to the prairies and bogs and swamps and hoe downs that keep communities alive and full of life. Popular country music of today is represented by Cowboys who might look handsome and play the role but...

  Why was the book written was to set the record straight? This is important because at one time post Jim Morrison there was a a harmony between Manzarek, Kreiger and my guest….like a spear they blazed through and became a band of melodic invention with studio cats like Ray...

  Before interconnection and the mass marketing of music you had regional music. Music that was created in the real time with definitive characteristics of certain parts of the country and its rhythms. Some had urban feels like The Chicago Shuffle and the beat of Dixieland or the fact...

Intimacy, Humanity, Accessibility and Music. At this point my greatest journalistic accomplishment. Keep Your Lovelight On, JF     Listen to an excerpt of the Bill Cosby Interview: Bill Cosby [Download]   To become a member of the Jake Feinberg Show and gain instant access to...

  High above the seas lies The Geeta land. One that thrives on epiphanies, and work ethic and woodshedding like Sonship Woody Theus. It is a land found by some but only then do you become an innovator a continual seeker continual expansion of sound and mind, polyrhythms and with Ron...

  Individualism is key in all art. To be individualistic you must borrow from others which means you have to get inside their world and become more secure because of the insecurity. You are humbled not by the money or name recognition but because of the genuine article. The good Reverand...

  Save something for the children, so says my guest, maybe a song for Wounded Knee or the fundamental respect of basic human rights and the historical significance of the indigenous people. Let the Dove Fly Free so says my guest. On the wings of a dove which carries the melodic fiddle of...

  Deva Mahal is part of my generation. A generation that grew up better than their parents and had accessibility to see and hear and access more information then ever before.   In some respects if your an artist from our generation, because of this access, you tend to emulate and...

  The truth reveals itself…..it’s revealed in the body of work that you put out there to the masses. For musicians Before interconnection this was done via vinyl records, regional radio and lots of late night jam sessions with musicians who thrived on individuality, unique...

  On Detroit: “My mother sent me to school there to go to Cass. Tech. There were no segregated schools in Detroit, MI. There were no segregated colleges in Detroit, Mi. We were second to Juilliard and we were a high school! Juilliard recently celebrated its 100 birthday but they...

On my program the Bay Area has been a major focus of my journey to a land before my time. The heliport, Denny Zeitlin, Vovo, Sly Stone, Jacks on Sutter, Jimbo’s Bop City, Wally Heider Studios and so much more. Yet, another part of the Golden Bay is San Jose which had it own regional...

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  With the passing of Dave Brubeck this week it brought again to the forefront the idea of bold conceivers. Those who can compose and arrange and orchestrate. Those who can read music and those who have that element of street music the swagger, the smoothness, the focus. The ability to...

    Listen to an excerpt of the Paul Fauerso Interview: Paul Fauerso [Download]   To become a member of the Jake Feinberg Show and gain instant access to the full interview…        ...

As we approach an intergenerational Scatico reunion I won’t be able to take direct part in it. I thought it best to release an interview that has been tucked away in the vault for several years. It went down in the East Village of NYC with Brett Bush . Winter of 2012. Bush is a...

  Preservation is promotion when it comes to The Grateful Dead. Libraries are losing mass but not necessarily index when it comes to I formation. The layover is striking. The origins of taping began with Jerry Garcia taping Bill Monroe concerts where once the note was released it was for...

    RIP George Harper George had a notable and stellar career playing the Saxophone, Flute and Clarinet. He was inducted into the Savannah Coastal Jazz Association Hall of Fame in September, 2005 . Born in Savannah, Georgia he is both a composer and an arranger as well as a...

  Melodic invention- a word developed by another bass player named Putter Smith who defines this as European Swing coupled with African Rhythms. It doesn’t really matter where it started because it was sprinkled with Dixieland in the south Harlem Soul in the north  Blues in St...

  In the live music experience the most important aspects that can be conveyed to the audience are authenticity and individuality. True nature and differentiation. Not being a good rock star helps. You wear any old clothes and grab a hot meal not leaving on a jet plane but taking a bus....

While this host has primarily looked state side for hotbeds of regional music there were cities north of the border that were just as impressive.North of the motor city lies Toronto in Canada which was a mix of immigrants and hillbillies. Farmers and Fishers and Indians all there to seek...

Free your mind and your ass will follow so says the parliamentary head of funk while my guest is creating funk for your ass…. That southern fried home cookin….that homemade bread and biscuits and gravy and cobbler with a side of Harvey Mason or Jimmy Madison or Clyde Stubblefield...

  Do you know what SRP stands for, it’s an acronym for a very sterile system of learning that leads to followers, copy cating, no individuality…..in music SRP stands for Standard Recording Procedure. The way of confining musicians to make music they don’t want to...

  The latter portion of the sixties was a gymnasium of live venues which permeated sounds of acoustic instruments like Fritz Richmond’s washtub base or Paul Harris’ ivory for the evening. An even dozen sophisticated white musicians trying to play authentic roots music with...

Where have I known you before. The shadow of doubt that creeps into everyone’s psyche as they journey through life. Some check out early, some stay late some exercise the power of the drum to create melodic invention and a style of communication that is a talk with the spirits sight...

When the spirits call they do so with the understanding that I understand that I am merely part of the wave of history and that if I am to do a decent job covering ethnomusicology in the states then it my job to push that boulder up the hill a little bit at a time until the next cat comes...

  Just happy being myself so says the man who is held together by music. Music played with adherence to the world around us and the unique features of each enclave, village and Appalachian trailed that has been carved out by man. Sometimes I will travel back to Taiwan where my wife is...

The Jewish musician, often an afterthought in melodic invention. Italians, Blacks, Latino’s sure but prolific Judaic studio cats – get outta here. Still when you immerse yourself within the musical tribe you find that the brothers come in all shapes and sizes, creeds and colors....

I was still a Young Man When I was working @ tower records following a stint @ Boston University in the late nineties when I came across a compact disc of a band that seemed to fit inside the Jake Feinberg pocket. Nice melodies, contrapuntal piano techniques, power horns and the funk...