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Listen to the five songs played on this podcast and you will understand “Queen of the Blues” or should I have said Queen of Rock or both. With all the work she has done for animal rights, she must have the Heart of a Saint.Maria Daines and Paul Killington are the musical wonders that create all the great music. Paul even plays almost every instrument on their cd’s. The awards they have won are almost as staggering as the amount of music they have recorded.

International Online Music Awards gave them Artist of the Year 2006, 2007 and Best Female Vocalist 2006. Then there are all the Golden Kayak Awards and many other awards we don’t have time to go into. Listen to any blues podcast and they won’t go more than two to three shows without playing one of their songs. Then there are the rock, country, and love songs that get played on other podcast.

The songs played on the podcast are:
Intro: Save Our World
1. Rollin’
2. Business Ain’t Music
3. Save Our World
4. I Would If I Could But I Can’t
5. PowerTomorrow

Texas Humane Legislation Network Humane-itarian Award 2006

I’ll have the interview with Maria Daines and she talks about her soon to be released blues cd. Yes I read that twice too, we have a blues cd on the way from Maria and Paul.

Till then check out their website, and MySpace page.

Don’t forget to get their CD “Brothers of the Road” at CD Baby’s Website.

After you check out Maria Daines Website, MySpace page and buy some of her great cds it will be time for you to get another podcast.
Check out my friend James McGee at the website “Blues in the Night”. One hour of blues, some rock, jazz, and whatever else he finds that is outstanding. James doesn’t waste your time with a lot of talking because he wants to cram as much music into one hour as he can. You may even hear Maria Daines singing “House of the Rising Sun”. Remember “Blues in the Night”

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Art’s creation’s are interesting songs you have to really hear to under stand his talent. Some songs are series, some funny, and some sound like someone else. So instead of me trying to explain Art (yell, like I really could) listen to the podcast and check out his MySpace page.

Like Art’s music his interview was interesting, insightful and funny at times.
You will know Art Linton for better after this interview.
The interview is very long so it’s on another page but I really encourage you to read it. If he ever quits music he would be a great writer.
Q: What were some of the bands that inspired you to get into music?
Art: I grew up listening to cheesy AM radio here in Atlanta
(this kind of dates me, I know).. before FM really got
big.. WSB was my parent’s favorite radio station..
they weren’t really big music fiends like me.. they
thought very little of The Beatles and Elvis..
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Art Linton’s latest CD just came out. It’s called “Time Heals All” and is available
for download at iTunes, Amazon.com, and several other outlets.
Hard copies are also available from Decatur CD in Decatur, Georgia404-371-9090 or www. DecaturCD.Com (they ship anywhere in the country).

Buy ART LINTON: Enemy Lines from CD Baby

Buy Time Heals All at Amazon.com

Check out Art Linton’s MySpace page

Chris Juergensen - Big Bad Sun“Big Bad Sun” – Traditional in nature, contemporary in sound, “Big Bad Sun” is a bold departure from the blues you may be familiar with. Passionate guitar playing and good story telling makes this CD destined to become a true modern day, blues classic.”
The above is from the Chris Juergensen Website.Chris will be spotlighted as soon as he gets some of his new songs recorded. Till then pick up this great cd “Big Bad Sun“.

Conclusion of the interview with John Hughes.Q: Broken Arrow was the Neil Young cover band you once performed in. Tell us about the show you did in Rome at Neil Young’s 60th Birthday Celebration.
John: There were several acts there including Billy Talbot from Crazy Horse. I had a good time there. Everyone had a great time. I played “I am a child”, “Double E”, and “A man needs a Maid”. All solo acoustic. At the end of the show, we played “Keep on rockin in the free world” and I played harp on it and sang with Billy.
Photo by Chris Smith from the www.FunkFactor.Com

Q: What do you want the listeners to know about you and your music/cd?
John: I had some great guys in Nashville playing with me on this and my producer, Joe Hardy, he pulled the whole thing together for me. I can’t thank him enough. I was frustrated after trying to get this project done for about 2 years. After I met Joe, it came together quickly. I’m going to need to find a band soon to go out and do these tunes with. Overall, I just want folks to hear it. I hearing from them, love to hear and read their comments. It’s interesting. Thank you John for taking the TIME to talk to us.In the summer of 2006, Neil Young called out publicly looking for protest songs against the Bush Administration and the War in Iraq. The approved songs would be posted on Neil’s official website. John wrote and recorded the single “Bring ‘em On”, which remained 1 on Neil Young’s list of protest songs for the better part of a year (along side such names as Pearl Jam, Kris Kristofferson, Steve Earle and Pink among others). John was invited to perform in Hollywood with some of the other performers from Neil’s list.

The above was taken from his website.

Check out the John Hughes Website and MySpace page. Don’t forget to get John’s brand new cd “Time” at his website or at iTunes

This is the continuation of the interview with John Hughes.

Q: Could you tell us something about the song “Company Town” – (nice Tom Petty like sound)
John: I started to write it one morning about something quite different. It took a different turn, and started telling a different story than I had originally intended. That’s how it goes. The songs write themselves. Funny about your Petty comment. When I was writing it, it was sounding too “Steve Earle” to me. CopperHead “Roadish”. Never turned out that way, I guess. If Steve sang it with his twinge accent, it just might.

Photo by Chris Smith of the Funk Factor

Q: Could you tell us something about the song “Ginned Up”
John: Who knows? It’s just all in fun. The characters are all fictional. I do have a buddy I used to drink a lot of gin and tonic with who moved to Reykjavik, but it was a guy, not a girl and the answer is NO, before you ask…..LOL. Cool thing though, he and his wife drank gin and tonic and home sick and Reykjavik just happen to rhythm.

Q: How about the song “Runaway “– (The words sound like it should be a sad song but the music is very up beat and fun.)
John: Not intended to be sad. Well, no sadder than, say, Homer Simpson would be if his character wasn’t portrayed in a humorous fashion. The character in this song is pretty much telling the listener what a bad husband he is, and he’s so dumb, that he doesn’t even realize it. “If you come home, I’ll let you hold the T.V. remote?” Ha! This is anything but serious. I wanted the song to sound “campy” a “porch song.” When Tony Harrell (keyboard player on the album) asked me, ” would you mind if I tried some accordion to see how it would sound?” I said sure…let’s hear it. I liked it. I love Zydeco music and I have a stack of it here in my cd collection. I call the genre for Runaway, “Trailercana”.

Tomorrow will be the conclusion of our interview with John Hughes.

Till then check out the John Hughes Website and MySpace page.Don’t forget to get John’s brand new cd “Time” at his website or at iTunes