The Musicians Mentor

This week on the podcast, I talk to session guitarist/producer/songwriter - Brian Quinn

Brian is a career musician who has travelled the world performing in front of thousands of people at some of the worlds most high profile events and venue and, up until recently (and for almost a decade) was lead guitarist for multi-platinum Alt/Rock band Candlebox as both a touring and recording member, performing on their 'Disappearing ...

In todays episode of the podcast, I talk to Nashville based (but English born), Country-Pop singer/songwriter and actress - Twinnie Lee Moore. Known professionally as - 'Twinnie'.

Originally from York, England - Twinnie started down the show business path at a young age and has always been involved in entertainment in some shape or form. As an actress she has won a BCMA best newcomer award, appeared in British television...

This week on the podcast I talk with percussionist, composer, improv artist, multi media specialist, educator and cultural diplomat - Tom Teasley.

Tom is an American born musician who has lead a truly unique life as a career musician - working as both a drummer/percussionist and a composer. He started his music journey on a simple block of wood and has even represented the USA as a cultural diplomat across the world, where he ha...

In todays episode of the podcast I talk with hit songwriter - Clay Mills.

Clay is an Nashville based songwriter originally from Mississippi who has had his songs recorded by artists like Lady A, Reba McEntire, Trisha Yearwood, Diamond Rio and Darius Rucker. In fact he even had number one hits for both of the last mentioned artists.

During the course of Clay's career he has had over 200 songs recorded worldwide, received...

Today on the show, I talk with Swedish born digital music/tech visionary - Nick Holmsten.

Nick is a musician turned businessman who is the former 'Global Head of Music' at Spotify as well as the author of a great book entitled 'Fan Powered Futures'. He recently launched 'Belong' - a platform that aims to reward music super fans in a ever changing music world ,and is constantly looking to empower musicians...

In this special bonus episode of the podcast I'm proud to share part one of a conversation that my friend David Trahan from the 'New Orleans Musicians Dot Com' Podcast had with Mandeville, Louisiana born singer/songwriter - Karen Waldrup.

Karen was a top 5 finalist on Season 25 of NBC's 'The Voice', has been featured in forms of media like 'Rolling Stone Magazine, Netflix and the Hallmark Channel. He...

In this weeks episode of the podcast I talk with Lafayette, Louisiana based saxophonist/manager/entrepreneur - Dave Mouton.

Dave currently owns and manages the musical group Souled Out, which in addition to their own shows also acts like somewhat of a revolving door for a vast amount of local musicians, he also performs with his contemporary Jazz group, 'The Dave Mouton EXPerience' and even works as a sideman when he can fit it in....

In today's episode of the podcast I talk with New Jersey based drummer/musician - Jon Loree.

Jon currently plays for Alt/Rock bands Tantric, Smile Empty Soul and Billy Wilkins (from Dragonforce), runs a successful drum teaching studio and even makes hilarious social media content for the wonderful RTOM corporation, which can be seen via his instagram profile - @Jonsdrumstudio.

We talk about touring, teaching, content cr...

I'm beyond excited to announce than my guest on today's episode of the podcast, is former 'The Smashing Pumpkins' guitarist - Jeff Schroeder.

Jeff is a California based musician, who in addition to being a composer, producer and songwriter had been recording and touring alongside Billy Corgan for the last 16 years, until his recent departure (which we do talk about).

He has also been involved with acts like &...

In today's episode I talk with the extra talented multi instrumentalist/producer/composer/song-writer - Mr Dave Tweedie.

No stranger to the music business, Dave is a California based musician who has written music for a number of high profile television shows - including, 'So You Think You Can Dance', Nashville, Paris Hilton's My New BFF", Nash Bridges and many, many more.

Additionally he has played and...

In episode 65 of the podcast I speak with the incredibly talented Chilean-American multi intrumentalist and producer - Alain Johannes.

Easily one of my favorite musicians, Alain and has had an amazing music career working with artists like Queens Of The Stone Age, Them Crooked Vultures, PJ Harvey, Arctic Monkeys, No Doubt and late greats Chris Cornell and Mark Lanegan.

He also had an amazing debut into the 'band scene' along side nu...

In this weeks episode I talk with American drummer/producer/singer and career coach - Matt Starr.

A true pro (in every sense of the word), Matt is an extremely motivational musicians who has performed/played or toured as a drummer with some of the biggest names in Rock music - including Ace Frehley, (KISS), Mr Big, Michael Des Barres and Kevin DuBrow (Quiet Riot).

Additionally, Matt is a gifted singer and producer and al...

In today's episode of the podcast I talk with the very talented (and highly accomplished), multi-instrumentalist/singer/songwriter -St. Paul Petterson.

Among the huge list of St. Paul's credits you will see some massive 'superstar' type names like - Morris Day, Darryl Hall, George Benson, The Corrs and Peter Frampton, but the thing that needs to be brought to your attention (at least in my opinion), is the fact that...

Happy New Year and welcome to the first episode of Season 4 of the podcast.

In todays episode I talk with Victoria Theodore - an American pianist/music director/singer/songwriter and producer, best known for her work as keyboardist for multi platinum selling artist - Beyoncé, and keyboardist and background singer for music icon -Stevie Wonder.

Victoria was also the keyboardist and singer on the 2013 version of the Arsenio Hall ...

It's Christmas time and what better way to celebrate the end of the year than by finishing the years podcast content by talking to the one and only - Steve Newman.

In addition to his many solo releases - Steve is a South African born composer/guitarist/musician who rose to fame with his trio, 'Tananas' in the late 80's until the early 90's until the tragic untimely death of their bassist, Gito Baloi. As well as his frequent colla...

Surprise Episode !

We thought it would be fun to release an extra episode this month and what better way to do it, than to put out this collaborative-joint interview/chat with our friend Bree Noble from the popular 'Profitable Musician Podcast'.

In addition to the educating content Bree releases under the 'Profitable Musician Podcast', she also runs the 'Woman Of Substance' website and is the resident worship leader at her church...

In todays episode of the podcast I speak with 'Rock and Roll - Hall Of Fame inductee' - Mr Kenney Jones.

Kenney is a British drummer/musician who rose to fame in the 60's as part of the famous 'mod scene' with his group 'The Small Faces', eventually went on to play alongside Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart in 'The Faces' and even took up the drum position in 'The Who', after the unfortunate passing of original drummer Keith Moon.

I...

Roy Burns was an American born drummer and percussion manufacturer who sadly passed away back in 2018. He would have been 89 years old this week, so to celebrate all things Roy and thank him for years of personal inspiration I decided to use an unpublished/archived interview that I had done with him many years ago for episode #58 of the podcast.

Roy was the second person to grace the cover of the world famous Modern Drummer magaz...

In this weeks episode of the podcast I thought I'd change things up slightly from our usual types of conversations, and talk with musician turned tech/tour manager/lighting and audio engineer - Jo Coz

As a crew/tech type individual Jo has worked with some of the best in the industry on both a local and national level, some of these artists include - Eddie Money, Sebastian Bach, Rock Show Nola, Drowning Pool and many many more.

W...