Author: Brant Buckley

“The web industry is full of musicians. My theory on it is that music is both an art and a science.”

Otis Taylor discusses instruments, songwriting, new album ‘BANJO,’ being featured in films, his school program, and more!

An in-depth interview with Dylan Galvin on his songwriting style, working with Paul Simon, his voice-over/acting work, and more!

Bill says of his instruments, “I want to make a guitar that will make you play better than you can.”

“I do think it uses similar parts of the brain. Drumming is math as you are dividing time.”

His books include Chicago Blues: Portraits and Stories, Southern Soul-Blues, Blues Legacy: Tradition and Innovation in Chicago, and Always the Queen: The Denise LaSalle Story.

If you are a musician, you already have the fundamental skills and necessary rational thinking and feeling processes to become a competent computer programmer. Music, like programming, is all about knowing basic theories, forms, and structures.

Inspired is a game where you play as an aspiring musician. It is set in a city reminiscent of Seattle in 1992 where the world is on the edge of change.

“This is my third or fourth CD on my own label. I think ‘Hard Times’ is one of the better ones that I have written.”

Editor’s note: This is part two of our interview with the scholar, memoirist, and blues harmonica player. You can find part one here. Adam Gussow is perhaps best known for his partnership with Mississippi born guitarist Sterling “Mr. Satan” Magee as the duo Satan and Adam. A full-length documentary titled Satan & Adam premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and streamed on Netflix from 2019 to 2021. The duo toured with Bo Diddley and opened for Buddy Guy, David “Honeyboy” Edwards, Otis Clay, Johnny Winter, and Jimmy Thackery. A scholar and memoirist, Adam is a professor of English and Southern Studies at the…