Basement Rocks’s Glen Braget talks with well known New York City DJ Pete Fornatale in August 2009 about his fantastic book about the 1969 Woodstock Festival titled Back to the Garden: The Story of Woodstock.
Pete Fornatale was a disc jockey who helped usher in a musical alternative to Top 40 AM radio in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s, presenting progressive rock and long album tracks that AM stations wouldn’t touch and helping to give WNEW a major presence on the still-young FM dial. Fornatale passed away in New York City at age 66 on April 26, 2012.
This time around on MN Arts on the Road,we present the husband and wife duo of the Blackburns. Art and Teresa Blackburn have been performing in various local, regional and national ensembles for many years. Together the Blackburns, they perform duets in a variety of styles. They are strongly influenced by the old brother duets of the Louvins, the Delmore Brothers, Bill & Charlie Monroe & others; early & classic country music of the Carter Family, Hank Williams, Hank Snow, &Johnny Cash; and more contemporary artists such as Norman Blake, Utah Phillips, & Gillian Welch, as well as the occasional original song. The show was recorded June 24 2013 outdoors at the Settlers Square in Warren, MN.
Glen Braget interviews Dillon Jones from the band Love Out Loud. Love Out Loud is a pop/rock band formed in 2009 as an electro side project and quickly formed into a full time job for five friends out of Minneapolis, MN. Love Out Loud has quickly established a name for themselves in the first year as a group. With the success of there last EP “A Story Worth Telling”, Love Out Loud sold 4000 copies in the first 6 months as an independent band.
Glen Braget interviews legendary David Bowie and T Rex Producer Tony Visconti in August 2005 about the release of the T-Rex concert film Born To Boogie and the life and music of the late T-Rex frontman Marc Bolan.
Buffalo, MN family band “Dale Dahmen and the Polka Beats” join Ron and Elsie Shereck for a Pioneer 90.1 Christmas tradition.
