Rock 'n' Roll Fridays

Nov 14 2024 57 ep. 20 mins 2
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Everyone has a music story. I interview fans just like you and me who have had great encounters with their musical heroes! 15 minutes of straight talk on a cool musical story. Maybe because of musical karma….Famous people like to run into me. It’s just really fun to talk with Ben Harper in a park about life, have a beer with John Welsley Harding at a Philly bar, kiss Juliana Hatfield (it happened), drink with Michael Buble in Osaka Japan, meeting the legendary blues-man James Cotton backstage, get pulled onstage by Sharon Jones, and watch the world series in San Francisco with The Black Crowes, here’s to more Musical Encounters…as we are all really Almost Famous.

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