ers, t-shirts, etc.).

STEAM With cam-paigns like this, don’t donors get something in return for their support?

JW Yes! In return for your donations to-ward our goal, we have some FANTASTIC perks lined up; including exclusive digital downloads, access to a password-protected TOUR BLOG, signed copies of our EP and t-shirts, etc. And my favorite perk… The Tour Booklet! At the end of the tour I will be making special scrapbooks for our dedicated supporters and fans that will lay out the whole adventure from beginning to end.

STEAM So what’s the future hold for you?

JW The whole point of planning this ex-tremely grass-roots, independently-built mu-sic tour is continue the overall goals I have for my musical career over the next five years. 2015 is the beginning of a five year process where I will continue to travel, rec-ord, travel, record and work as hard as I can to push my music as far as it will go.

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Jimmy Willden, award-winning writer,

filmmaker and songwriter, returns after a six-year hiatus with his brand new CD, "Melodies of the Aftermath - The EP" (released December 2014)! The journey through that long hiatus included personal struggles and setbacks that directly influenced and inspired Willden. In return, the songs that came from that period of upheaval are some of his most accomplished, and most intimate.

But of course, that journey started somewhere. For Willden, it began with the release of his debut album "Beginnings" at fourteen. Since then, he has released four solo albums, two EPs, toured the western half of U.S., and attracted the attention of MTV, with one of his songs making it onto the soundtrack of the popular

dating show, 'Next'.

In his spare time, Willden has also founded the #ccsongwriters group in Corpus Christi, and has written and directed a handful of award-winning films. Willden is ready to share his new music with the release of "Melodies of the Aftermath-THE EP" and Willden plans to hit the road to promote the new record!

STEAM You took 6 years off, so how long has it been since you toured?

JW The last time I hit the road for a nation-al tour was 9 years ago, 2006, with fellow songwriters David Martinez (Corpus Christi, TX) and Hope Cassity (Nashville, TN). The tour was highly successful, leading to several contacts and opportunities for me over the next few years, including signing a licensing contract with MTV to use my songs in the

soundtracks of several of their television shows.

STEAM Where is this tour taking you and when?

JW I will be hitting the road, beginning in late-May and traveling to 10 states and 16 cities all throughout the eastern half of the Unites States. The tour begins May 25 in Oklahoma City, then I will travel back down through several cities in Texas (Dallas, Aus-tin, Corpus Christi). In June, I’ll be off to Nashville, Tennessee, followed by Indianapo-lis, Indiana; Chicago, Illinois; Madison Heights, Michigan; Cleveland and Lakewood, Ohio; Pittsburg and Philadelphia, Pennsylva-nia; Washington, D.C. and finally, New York (New York City and Seacliff).

STEAM What do you plan to do differently on this tour?

JW This time, I plan to include a major radio and in-store promotional tour in the midst of the show dates, to further promote the tour, the music, and my brand. And I hope you guys support the journey!

STEAM I know taking on a tour is very expensive, how are you planning to fund this project?

JW We are running an IndieGoGo.com campaign to raise the initial funds to hit the road through May 21. All of the funds will go directly to the travel expenses of the 5,400 mile trek (including gas, lodging and food) and tour marketing materials (posters, stick-

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It’s a very cool cocktail party with your friends and family, where you get to ex-change funny stories, post crazy pix and videos, argue about politics, announce your happenings, and keep up with inti-mate family news and updates. Oh, and have 1000 people wish you happy birth-day! However, when it comes to doing busi-ness, nothing is more effective than your own website. That said, Facebook has become the lazy man’s business card, and many artists & entrepreneurs, even pros & CEO’s seem to think that their Facebook page is enough. Here’s why it’s not: Facebook is Mark Zuckerbergs’ web-site, designed how he wants it to look and function. Your Website is designed exactly how you want it to look and function. It should reflect your style and that of your brand, and make available your art and com-merce. Mark’s Website: if you launch a post on FB you HOPE that your fans, clients and customers see it—as they quickly scan through many others—spreading “Likes” like flower petals. And the illusion is that those “Likes” will translate into dollars. Your Website: If you send a weekly email or blog directly to your fans, clients and customers you KNOW they’ll see it—then you can entice them to visit your site, ex-

perience your art, consider your new offer-ings, and make a purchase. Mark’s Website: FB advertisers target your followers much better than you do. They stalk your fans and customers and lure them into clicking on those targeted ads that mys-teriously show up at just the right time. Your Website: Your fans and customers are there because they have chosen to visit your site and discover more about who you are and what you have to offer them. Mark’s Website promotes petty distraction and provokes habit-

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Montreal troubadour Jesse Stone made the move to Brooklynn to ply his trade with his mixture of Dylan and The Boss, and to record his debut album Break Of Day. This is a ten-song alternative roots album that was recorded and mixed in Montreal and mastered in Brooklyn. Stone called on a bevy of great players to create a big band sound on the record, including drummer Josh Trager of Sam Roberts Band. There's also David Carbon-neau on Trumpet, Dave Lines on keys, Josh Zubot on fiddle, Guy Donis on ban-jo, and a couple of guitarists. The clean sound was recorded by JUNO Award winner Joseph Donovan, who produced The Darcys, Sam Roberts, and The Dears; it was mixed by Dave Sturton, who pro-duced James De Salvio of Bran Van 3000 and Jean Leloup.

The opening track, “Love on Charles Bridge,” is a rambling two-beat barrel-house that sets the tone for Stone’s tongue-in-cheek, self-deprecating lyric style. The horn section ushers in that E Street Band style for “Promises.” Stone then goes old timey on “Fisherman,” with the banjo and snappy twang-filled guitar from Alex Sitarski making a fine

JP HENNESSY

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Guitarist/singer-songwriter JP Hennessy immi-grated to Seattle from Ireland in 2012, the for-mer member of the successful rock band the VooDoos released his self-titled debut EP in December of 2014.

The four-song set of power soul, and rockin’ blues was recorded by Steven Bell at Top of the Hill Studios in Duvall, with the purpose of show-casing the immerging talent of the young gun and forging his stake in the Northwest music scene.

A jagged Stevie Ray Vaughan -styled guitar riff kicks off opening track “Overdose,” followed by a muscular rhythm section and sizzling horns, as Hennessy pleads his case for getting clean from too much bad love. The band really swings dur-ing “Done Being Yours,” which feature trade-off solos between Hennessy and Sax Man Ted Dortch. A touch of his Irish lilt shows thru on the enticing circus-flavored tango “Trouble,” co-written by drummer Fionn Hennessy–Hayes, who got to play all his toys.

The tender “I’ll Watch Over You” closes the set, with Hennessy pouring his heart out and doing his best Roy Orbison. Expect more good things to come from this proud Irish son.

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July Picnic moves back home to Austin this year, taking place at the Austin 360 Am-phitheatre at the Circuit of Americas Racetrack. Joining Willie is a huge list of artists including Merle Haggard, Eric Church, Kacey Mus-graves, Sturgill Simpson, Jamey Johnson, Leon Rus-sell, Jason Isbell, Ray Wylie Hubbard, and Billy Joe Shaver, just to name a few. Tickets are available at all Ticketmaster outlets.

In other Willie news, on

June 2nd, he and Merle Hag-gard will release ‘Django and Jimmie,’ an album of country duets, cover songs and new originals. Recorded in less than a week, it's the latest in a long line of collaborations by the two country legends that first teamed up for 1983's ‘Pancho & Lefty’ and recently co-headlined three shows at the Whitewater Amphitheater in New Braunfels. "We've been talking about it for about 18 months," Haggard recently told Rolling Stone Magazine. "We've been back and forth on the phone about what kind of song we needed to find, and we even wrote a couple of songs on the phone. When we got into the studio, it was probably three or four days, max." The album's title tips its hat to Django Reinhardt and Jimmie Rodgers, two major influences on Nelson's guitar playing and Hag-gard's songwriting. ‘Django and Jimmie’ also finds the two singers paying tribute to each other, with Nelson singing lead vocals on a new recording of Haggard's "Somewhere Between" and Haggard returning the favor with a cover of Nelson's 55 year-old classic, "Family Bible." Buddy Cannon, the album’s produc-er, helped write or co-write five songs, including "It's All Going to Pot." Willie sang a short snippet of the tune when he guested on the Jimmy Kimmel show during his SXSW taping in Austin in March.

The next new singer songwriter making waves on

Texas charts is 28 year old William Clark Green. His last CD, ‘Rose Queen,’ had two Texas radio Number Ones, "She Likes the Beatles" and "Hanging Around." His brand new album, ‘Ringling Road,’ takes its name from a long-forgotten circus train's rest stop in Eastland, Texas. "The story I've heard is that Ringling Bros. bought this property in Eastland, like 400 or 500 acres. Their plan was to build an amuse-ment park, but it didn't happen and this land was just vacant. So what I've heard is they would come through on the train and let their elephants and every-body out to rest a while. It's public land now and you can see there's old tracks that come right up to the lake, and you can just picture it in your head." He told this story to pals Ross Cooper and Randall Clay, who was once a circus roustabout, and the story be-came a song. Green's song turns the innocent circus

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Speaking of the Jam, the

lineup was just released for this year’s Americana Music Jam, host-ed by Gruene Hall and KNBT-FM. All the regulars are returning, like Cody Canada & the Depart-ed, Walt Wilkins & the Mys-tiqueros, Terri Hendrix & Lloyd Maines, Randy Rogers, Seth James and Cody & Willy Braun. The new faces this year are Mid-night River Choir, Paul Cauthen and Bart Crow. I’m happy to see Tom Gillam back in the line-up, he was on tour in Germany last year and had to miss the fun. A full list of all the acts, plus ticket info can be found at gruenehall.com.

The ACM Awards celebrated their 50th

Anniversary by pulling up stakes and moving the entire show from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas to AT&T Stadium in Dallas. Bringing the show from a casino arena to a football stadium was a major undertaking, but it allowed more fans to attend. After all, the ACM’s are fan voted awards so it’s only fitting that more fans be in the audience. The awards featured many players from the Dal-las Cowboys as presenters and the world famous cheerleaders acted as stage hostesses. Texas gal Miranda Lambert racked up an armful of trophies, just like she has for the past several years. She took home Song of the Year Award for ‘Automatic’ and Album of the Year for ‘Platinum.’ To no one’s sur-prise she also won for Female Vocalist of the Year. She didn’t get Entertainer of the Year as many predicted, that one went to Luke Bryant.

In other Miranda news, she was recently

asked by actor Reese Witherspoon to per-sonally write a song for her new movie, ‘Hot Pursuit,’ co-starring Sofia Vergara. The tune, "Two of a Crime," marks the first time she has written a song for a movie. "Reese texted me and told me about the movie and wanted me to write something or sing or both. I got inspired," Lambert recently told Ryan Seacrest on his radio show. "It was a bit of a Thelma and Louise theme and that's totally up my alley. It is really so fun to be part of it." The song is available on iTunes and the movie hits the theaters on May 8th.

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Texas in 1969, you’d

heard tales of Townes.

Do you

remember the first

time you heard your

song on the radio.

Oh God, I don’t

remember. I think the

first one of my songs

was probably not me doing it, it was

Johnny Lee; a song called “When You

Fall In Love”. It has the dubious dis-

tinction to be the first Johnny Lee

single that did not go to number one.

It did make it to number eight, but it

did get on the radio. That was the

year Justin was born and I thought

that maybe Justin wasn’t going to be

raised on food stamps all his life.

(laughing) I was in Nashville some-

where when I heard that.

You are a true all

around artist! Besides being a Gram-

my winning songwriter you have writ-

ten your autobiography, a novel,

books of poetry, and you paint.

Hey, I’m just trying to make a

living. The music business isn’t as big

as it used to be and you have to do a

lot of things to piece together a living.

I’m kind of headed towards Broadway

right now. I live in New York and am

in the very beginning pro-

cess of developing Wash-

ington Square Serenade

into a Broadway musical,

because I think that’s

where the monies are go-

ing. It’s going to go back to

Broadway where it origi-

nated, because the record

business is going to col-

lapse.

So along

those lines, where do you

see recorded music fit in?

CDs are going to be

gone in five years. They’ll

be for kids and people who

are into pop music and

buy five or ten at a time,

but for most people it’s

Thanks for taking

some time out and

talking with us. I

know the show at

the House Of Rock

here in Corpus

Christi came up

real quick and I

believe it’s been a while since you

played here.

Yeah, it’s been a while; I think

it’s been 15 years since I played the

Executive Surf Club. This will be the

second pass through Texas and I’ll be

back a third time in late summer for

Austin. But yeah, I don’t get south of

San Antonio much.

I think we’ve only

played Corpus

Christi two times;

once with Rosanne

Cash in 1987 and I

think the next time

I played there was

at the Executive

Surf Club and I

haven’t been since.

As a kid growing

up in San Antonio

we’d go for vacation in Port Aransas.

We went to Gardner State Park a few

times, but by and large people in Hou-

ston go to there, whereas San Antonio

people go to Padre Island or Port

Aransas.

That’s very true. The

reason we distribute in San Antonio

and Austin is because this is where

they vacation, and they want to know

what’s going on down here.

Actually, I was on Padre Island

when got my ear pierced. I was 15

years old and there was a girl with a

needle in the middle of the night. It

hurt like hell; there was no ice in-

volved, just hurt like hell. (laughing)

That’s too funny. So the

next question I have for you is what

drew you to Townes Van Zandt?

Well, I was 14 when I figured

out who he was. It’s because I’d start-

ed playing at the Gatehouse Coffee

Shop in San Antonio at 14. And what

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first started I was playing Donovan

and Bob Dylan songs. At the time I

didn’t know there was much of a dif-

ference between Townes Van Zandt

and Bob Dylan; I learned about him

at the coffee house because all the

folkies would sit around and talk

about him in hushed tones. So when I

went to find his

records they were

sitting right next to

Bob Dylan’s, so

really I didn’t know

any difference be-

tween Townes and

anyone else who

had their records in

a record store. So

he was a big deal to

me as I started go-

ing around and

playing at other places. There was a

service club coffee house in San Anto-

nio that I played at and the

guys there pointed me to a cof-

fee house in Killeen ran by GIs;

then I started hearing about a

bar in Houston, The Old Quar-

ter, where Townes played by

that time.

The first time I was ever in a

room with Townes, I was crash-

ing Jerry Jeff Walker’s 33rd

birthday party in town. I was

not invited. I had overheard

John Edmondson tell a girl

where this party was, so I lied

to this other girl about being

invited because she had a car

and I had hitchhiked there and

needed a ride. I just went in,

stayed close to the wall with my

hat down over my eyes, and

hope that nobody realized I did-

n’t belong there; by then I was

17.

Milton Carol was there, so was

Rusty Weir, BW Stevens, and Jerry

Jeff. Of course Townes came in in the

middle of the night and started a

craps game where he lost the jacket

he was wearing, that he had just got-

ten for his birthday a week earlier,

and all of his money and I thought

“my hero”.

That’s a cool story! You

know, I had wondered how a young

kid would’ve picked up on Van Zandt.

I had an uncle that was five

years older than me, but playing in

rock ‘n roll bands and I wanted to

sound like Jimi Hendrix. My dad

wouldn’t let me have an electric gui-

tar, so I gravitated to more acoustic

stuff; and my uncle was horrified be-

cause he didn’t raise me to be a

“folkie.” Of course the other thing was

that I was too young to play in places

that served liquor. You know if you

were in a coffee house anywhere in

“I remember standing

in a cow pasture with

a bunch of cowboys

that used to kick my

ass listening to the

same music.”

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Dallas, TX…The

38th Annual Dallas International Guitar Festival will be held Friday,

May 29, Saturday, May 30, and Sunday, May 31 at Fair Park in the Automobile Building and sur-rounding areas.

The Dallas International Guitar

Festival is the largest and oldest guitar show in the world, blending musicians, fans, collectors and celebrities together into one musi-cal extravaganza. Visitors can buy, sell, trade, or just browse among the thousands upon thousands of new and vintage guitars, basses, amps, banjos, mandolins, straps and strings, effects pedals, key-boards, music memorabilia and more.

Listen to the best local and

regional bands at the festival’s indoor and outdoor stages. Enjoy performances by more than 70 local, regional and national artists performing on the festival’s four music stages, including such guitar greats as past festival performers Johnny A, Rick Derringer, Bugs Henderson, Johnny Hiland, Eric Johnson, George Lynch, Greg Martin, the New Bohemians, Ted Nugent, Joe Satriani, Andy Tim-mons, and many more.

Last year the Dallas Interna-

tional Guitar Festival had the hon-or of being one of the last concert venues for the late, great Blues legend Johnny Winters, who per-formed an unforgettable concert on the outdoor stage.

Catch the best in new young

talent at the “Texas 10 Under 20” contest finals. Ten finalists under the age of 20 will be chosen, from competing bands and solo artists across all genres of music, to per-form in the live showcase Sunday, May 31.

The festival features 800 booths

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and exhibits, where you can rub elbows with guitar legends and up-and-coming artists and get tips from the very best musicians at instructional clinics throughout the show. Also featured again this year is the Unplugged Room, especially for acoustic instruments.

A single day ticket price is $22 for

adults and children 11 or older; free for children under 10. Two-day passes are $37, and three day passes are available for $47 each.

Admission to the Friday night con-

cert, starting at 7 p.m., will be $10, or free with a two-day or three-day pass. The Saturday night All Star Jam, start-ing at 8:30 p.m., is also $10, or free with a two or three-day pass. The two-day pass includes either the Friday night or Saturday night concert, and the three-day pass includes both Friday and Sat-

urday night concerts. Student tickets are available at the door only for $15 one day ticket; $30 for two day stu-dent pass and $40 for a three day student pass.

More than 20,000 people are ex-

pected to attend the Dallas Interna-tional Guitar Festival at Fair Park, with over $3 million of instruments and memorabilia trading hands. For more information, please visit the website.

VIP passes that allow ticket hold-

ers to sit in the front few rows of all concerts are also available for single, two-day or three day admission tick-ets, priced at $40, $70 and $90. All tickets are available at the door. Advance tickets to the Dallas Inter-national Guitar Festival are also avail-able online at www.guitarshow.com.

Featured Guitarists Include: Clint Strong is a legend in Texas and no doubt one of the greatest and most influential guitar players of his generation. Widely known for his remarkable technique, ideas, and musical vocabulary; his influence upon the musical styles of country, jazz, western swing, and bebop music stand unprecedented. Clint is one of the few jazz players to completely conquer the country music world, while simultaneously setting bebop players on their ear; he easily makes the list of America’s most astounding players.

Grammy award winning guitarist Redd Volkaert left a successful career in Nashville for Austin, where he has played with Merle Haggard’s band the past 10 years.

Blues guitarist Innes Sibun began playing guitar at the age of 12 after hearing B.B King. His first band the "Blues explosion" rec-orded the album "That’s What The Blues Can Do" with legendary producer Mike Vernon. In 1993 Innes was asked to join Robert Plant's band for his "Fate Of Nations" tour. During the U.S dates he was able to meet and play with many of his blues heroes as well as jamming at Antone’s Blues Club in Austin Texas. His guitar playing can be heard on Plant’s "66 to Timbuktu" & "Nine lives".

Gary Hoey’s first break came in 1987 when Ozzy Osbourne was looking for a guitarist. Although he did not get the gig, he did take Ozzy’s advice and moved to LA. In 1993 Hoey recorded “Animal Instinct” which included a cover of the Focus hit, “Hocus Po-cus”. Not only did it rocket into the Billboard Top 5, outpacing all other singles as the most frequently played rock song of the year, but the album went on to reach classic rock notoriety. It’s no wonder Gary Hoey is listed as one of the top 100 guitarists of all time.

George Lynch is one of the most recognizable names in the world of heavy metal guitar. With a career spanning more than 30 years, George has recorded more than twenty albums, toured the entire globe many times, and is the one of the most recognizable endor-sees of the world’s finest guitars and equipment.

Rick Derringer was just 17 when his band The McCoys recorded the No.1 hit "Hang On Sloopy" in the summer of 1965. Rick merged his talents with Johnny Winter in 1969 forming Johnny Winter And (And referring to the McCoys). In '71 Rick was fea-tured on three records, "Johnny Winter And", "Johnny Winter And-Live" and "Edgar Winter's White Trash". "And" featured the first version of Derringer's "Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo."

Forrest Lee Jr. played his first gig at 7 years old. By the 80's in his teens playing 7 nights a week from TX to WA. In the mid 90's living in Nashville, his hybrid Speed Twang style was fully devel-oped and his reputation grew. Wielding his B bender axe, he's torn up the US, Canada and Europe.

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STEAM How did you get interested

in the Blues genre and how long have

you been playing?

RP I've always been a fan of Blues

but I first heard the real stuff live in

the 80s- I'd go listen to Blues guitar

monsters like Howard McLaughlin or

The one and only Rocky Benton - few

blues greats of South Texas. I came

from a musically diverse family and

grew up listening to Country, Blue-

grass, Mariachi, and Spiritual music (I

could only catch on the am station). I

was very young when I decided that

making music would be my life, we're

talking kindergarten when I sang at an

"ice cream social" at Prescott Elemen-

tary and then a little cantina my dad

use to run. I would sing on top of the

bar hustling tips. I later joined my first

band at 12 years old with Ida Saenz &

Her Country Boys. Fast forward 20

years I moved

to LA and

then Austin

where I did

nothing but

dedicate my-

self 100% to

my music and

soon found myself playing next to

greats like Pinetop Perkins, doing

shows with Bobby Blue Bland, Merle

Haggard, I couldn't be more grateful

for what music has done for me nearly

my entire life.

STEAM Tell me about your band

members.

RP I'm blessed with a great team of

musicians here in south Texas as well

as North Texas, California and upper

the East Coast. When I'm working the

Texas Circuit I play with one of the

tightest rhythm sections around. That

would be Antone Perez on drums, who

has played with some of- if not the best

blues players to ever roll to Texas. And

Art Galvan on Bass, who is a Tejano

Music Hall of Famer. There's Austin

native Jack Payne on Key, who is an

amazing musician and I convinced to

move to Corpus for the fishing. There's

also my Cajon drummer Julio Gomez

Rejon owner of Toro de

Lidia Tequila which is a

pretty darn good thing

to have on your team –

the owner of a Tequila

company that is!

STEAM Tell me about your original

songs. What inspires the music you

write?

RP I'm usually inspired by life experi-

ences or people’s conversation whether

it be interesting story, a

rant it, heck it could be

just something clever that

someone says whether it's

a child or 90 year old.

Sometimes I'm lucky

enough to wake up from a

dream after hearing a real-

ly good, cool melody or groove then

jotting it down while it's still cooking

up in my thinker.

STEAM Tell me about your last al-

bum.

RP My last album, This Hell, was just

a blast to do and is a collection of origi-

nal songs that I wrote that pertain to

the struggles of life, truth, and redemp-

tion. I went through some dark times

and God and music saved my life. I'm

very grateful for what I have and hope

to achieve in the future.

STEAM I know you’ve gone back in the stu-

dio, so tell me about your current recording pro-

ject?

RP I'm currently working on a new project

adding some of my favorite songs from some of

my favorite guitar Superheroes. I recently began

recording at Del Mar College under the engineer-

ing of Richard Cruz; great guy! I will also be

traveling to LA once again to be produced by....

I can't say now, it's a BIG

surprise!

STEAM Regarding the

cover songs you do, how do

you choose which songs fit

your style?

RP Whenever I do cover material I first have to

feel the tune, I don't like to play stuff I don't

groove to. I like to play what will move the lis-

teners without selling out.

STEAM We know you play at venues and festi-

vals all over Texas, what are your plans for tour-

ing? Do you have any road trips planned for the

summer?

RP This should be a pretty busy Summer for us

here at AMFMSTUDIOS! We've got a tour

planned now for Louisiana, Mississippi, and Ken-

tucky. In Biloxi we’ll be at the famous Julep

Room, where Elvis Presley played, and in Louis-

ville at Stevie Ray’s which is a Number Juan

Tequila Promotions show. The owners of Num-

ber Juan Tequila are Ron White and, Latin

Kings of Comedy RedNexican, Alex Reymundo.

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the water and the waves, and of course ath-

letes and their egos.

STEAM I’m sure you’re like us and do

research before you go do a shoot either

somewhere you haven’t been or with a

groups you don’t know.

JS Oh yeah, especially for places I haven’t

been to. You have to have your shots and

passport in order and your visa paperwork

ready to go. You know the over to Mexico

and back is a farce. You screw up in China

while you’re shooting the river, you ain’t

getting out dude. That’s all there is too it.

STEAM You travel all over the world, so

do you follow the surfing circuit?

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people don’t want a camera in their face all

the time; it’s those special moments that

you work really hard to capture. That pho-

to really means a lot to me because it

means she felt comfortable with me. And

the reason I included that one is that she

plays ukulele in front of a lot of people. In

fact she and her dad teach ukulele. They

are bad asses!

STEAM Have you been the Island of La

Reunion in the French Indian Ocean where

a boy was attacked and killed by a shark

just last month?

JS No, I haven’t been there yet.

STEAM This is probably a silly question,

but have you seen a shark?

JS OH yeah, yeah!

STEAM So when you’re out there that

has got to be an anxiety or an adrenaline

rush!

JS For sure, there is energy with those

things. I’ve seen them, I’ve felt them be-

fore, and we’ve swam with them a bunch

of times.

STEAM So if you want to surf that’s just

part of it.

JS Yeah, it’s just part of it. It depends on

how much you want it and, you know,

when it’s your time it’s your time.

STEAM I think that’s what separates the

amateurs and the pros.

JS Yeah, you pick your

battles wisely. But you

know I have hundreds

of friends all over the

world that have been

doing this for a long

time and our water

time percentage is

through the roof so it’s

like how many of us

have been bitten? It’s

extremely rare. It all

depends on where

you’re at. We were in

the Galapagos and

there are sharks every-

where, but they are

busy, they’re done, and

they don’t want you.

There is a big ol’ turtle

there that they can get

after. And then you

have those places like

Florida where you just

get little leg hits all day

long. It’s all part of the

job.

STEAM I guess it

isn’t too much of a

redundant question

now is it?

JS No, it’s a real deal

and they are beautiful

creatures and they are

really respected.

STEAM Have you

been to South Africa?

JS No, that’s one on

my list, so are Norway

JS No, more like the seasons. I wanted to

see the world and that’s why I started to do

this work. As a young kid I just started

checking off places I’d see in magazines

and say, “I’ve got to go; I’ve got to see that

wave and surf it!” So, basically what we are

doing is chasing seasons. What it

boils down to now is 6 months in

Hawaii in the winter and 6 months

in San Clementi for is the summer

swells, and I’ve been in San

Clementi for like 15 years now.

I’ve been bouncing back and forth

and throughout the year I’ll jetti-

son to other locations and like I

said I’ll be there for three weeks

or a month, so I really get to know

the people and the places and

that’s how you get portraits. By

learning the culture, interacting

with the people; you miss a whole

lot if you’re just flying in, shoot

the wave, and

leave.

STEAM You

have such an

ability to cap-

ture the mo-

ment and the

personality of

your subject,

whether it’s in

action or a still.

For example

looking at the

picture of the

little girl looking

so admiringly at

her dad just

evokes the feeling of

love.

JS Well, that’s what

I’m getting at. That’s

one of my team riders, Gavin Beschen, and

that’s his family opening up to me, because

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and Ireland. Ireland just because that’s where

my family is from and my uncle is a genealo-

gist. I also want to go to Germany and drink

beer; my dad lived over there during the war.

My grandma just passed away so we’ve got

all her stuff and the other night Dad was

showing us her passport and how important it

was when the war broke out. It was your free

pass on a boat out, this is good for food ra-

tions at checkpoints you could get to, and just

crazy stuff you wouldn’t believe. We have no

idea what people were dealing with then. I’ve

always really liked

history like that.

STEAM I’m sorry for

the loss of your grand-

ma, but it is really cool

that you can get a new

understanding and

perspective of what

people really went

through.

Ok, back to your job.

So obviously you’re in

the water while you’re

shooting. How do you

keep your lenses clean

and what do you do if

your battery dies?

JS Well first thing you

learn is to have two of everything with you

out there. As for the lens there are a few tricks

we use like a drop of JetDry keeps the lens

good. We’re kind of like Batman in the water

with these utility belts full of gear, because

every shoot is different.

STEAM What about injuries and such?

JS Oh yeah, that’s just comes with the territo-

ry. I was a Boy Scout and a lifeguard here and

my dad is a doctor, so I just learned to always

be ready for everything and have the mindset

of anything and everything will happen.

We’re surfing places we don’t know and

pushing our limits, so we’re dealing with

waves and consequences. Things get broke,

boards and bones; one of my girls fractured a

vertebra in Alaska.

So yeah, things hap-

pen and we just try

to be ready for it.

STEAM My last question; we hear about the

pollution in the oceans, that it’s near a crisis

level, and the Great Pacific Garbage Patch; so

does pollution get in your way while your

shooting?

JS Oh for sure. Being out in the Galapagos it

was a big concern not because they are losing

a lot of their garbage off boats, but because

the currents are taking it there and it’s not

even their garbage. I was hanging out with

Jean Michel Costeau and he was saying the

same thing is happening to Midway and other

locations, so unfortunately it isn’t them it’s

other humans and garbage makers that are

causing their problems.

That’s one of the reasons I started doing

shows and invite Surfrider Foundation or

Waves For Water, because you always want a

platform to educate, entertain, and enlighten.

So that’s what I’m doing by turning these kids

on to how to take care of this by showing

them the beauties of the world. I think my

generation is more conscious than the last and

I think the next generation should be even

more so.

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You know the saying… April Showers Bring May Flowers? Well after all the rain and crazy weather we had last month – I expect LOTS of flowers… And not just for Mother’s Day! So the next best thing about big rain storms like April’s is how wonderful everything smells and looks. Fresh! Which brings me to May’s 3rd Coast Foodie restaurant… Costa Sur Wok & Ceviche Bar on North Padre Island! About as fresh as you can get! Have you been there yet? It’s a must go; not when you get time – make time! In fact when we called our “foodie teammates,” Lesha and Bill Jones, and explained where we were go-ing, they agreed before we finished talking. Turned out that Costa Sur is their favorite restaurant on the Island and that is a great recommendation!

For those who haven’t been, Costa Sur has a wonderful relaxing atmosphere that is great for

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intimate dining as well as meeting a group of friends to hang out with and have some amazing food and drink. And for those that haven’t been in in a while the first thing you’ll notice is that Costa Sur has under gone a major remodel and tripled its size! They now have a full bar that is proud-ly stocked and bartenders that defiantly know how to make all your fa-vorite drinks and then some; which we had to test! Of course patio seat-ing is available too and we highly recommend making reservations!

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tion you have. We had a lot of questions about Peruvian food as this was a brand new adventure for our taste buds! When we went, we were met by owner Alonso Mackrizz who explained that his brother Nick, the Executive Chef and mastermind behind the fusion, was off for the night. It’s always a bummer when we don’t meet the Executive Chef; however his staff had us in their capable hands and between them and Alfonso all of our questions were answered. The first thing they had to do was explain was Ceviche… a way of curing the fish in the citrus juices, like cold

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Next I stalked the Pescado Saltado! It comes with your choice of fish, so we stayed with the red snapper which was seasoned in Costa Sur’s chili mix, sau-téed, and served over white rice with aji amarillo dressing. This was my favorite. The flavors were mixed just right, nothing over powering the others and the texture of the fish and rice… Per-fect! Lesha had been waiting to try the next meal, so she was thrilled Alfonso had suggested it, Lomo Saltado. It was fun to watch them prepare the tender-loin as it flamed up in the wok with tomatoes and onions. This is then served over rice and homemade French fries with a sunny side up egg resting on the top; until you poke the egg yolk and it drizzles down the mountain of tenderloin adding its rich flavor. I take it back, this was my fa-vorite! As we started to dig into the Fish Ta-cos, made with red snapper (again, our choice) seared with peppers and topped with mango, avocado, salsa criolla, and spicy mayo Alfonso told us the story of how they were added to the menu… It wasn’t too long after they had opened the doors of Costa Sur and, of course at the end of a busy day. Just as they were about to close a woman came in and asked Nick if she could get fish tacos, which wasn’t on the menu. Well, he’d had an idea for this but hadn’t presented it yet, so he whipped up a plate for her. She claimed they were the best fish tacos she’d ever had, so after she left Nick made some for everyone to try and she was right! Fish Tacos were instantly added to the menu. Hmm, I think this is my favorite!

cooking, and that’s why the fish is highly infused with the fla-vors. Oh and is it ever!! We followed all of Alonso’s recommendations, because as I said we were newbies! We start-ed our meal with Ceviche Fu-sion which is a twist to tradition-al Ceviche with mangoes and avocados. Ours was with red snapper and if I had been at home I probably would have licked my plate. The twang in the citrus and fish were perfectly mellowed by the avocado and sweet mango. The chips were good, but the sweet potatoes were outstanding! So good that my husband asked for the reci-pe! And I’ve been trying to get him to eat sweet potatoes for years! Anyway, they bake them with a coconut milk, cinnamon, sugar coating and WOW! I could have stopped at this point and been a very happy camper, but no! There was more to come! That’s when they brought out our meals. The first thing you notice is how exquisite the plates look and the scents were enough to drive you crazy, but in a good way. We had to think twice be-fore pouncing, just in case peo-ple were watching! Now if you remember, the big rule to a Foodie is that everyone at the table gets to try all the meals. That way we get to tell you about a number of items on the menu and not just one. This was a very hard to follow rule! Because no matter which item you started with, it was wonder-ful and we didn’t want to move on! So I started with the Peruvi-an Poke. This is a very tradition-al style meal, but with flair! Sash-imi sliced fresh yellow fin tuna served over white rice drizzled with hot sesame oil, leche de tigre soy sauce, mangoes, and avocados. Heaven. My favorite.

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and I can’t do that because I’m sup-

porting half of the women in Tennes-

see. I also have a little boy with Au-

tism and he goes to a very expensive

school.

Speaking of your young

son, how has he influenced your

work?

Well, you know it’s a lot of work.

He was diagnosed at the exact same

time Allison and I were separating.

He thinks he lives in a house with a

train in the middle of it; when I’m

home, he’s with me, so I’m working on

touring less to be home with him as

he gets older. He just turned five and

he’s in a very good school with a lot of

one-on-one and is 40 hours a week,

going to be downloads strictly. For

people who listen to singer-

songwriters and rock music it’ll be

more like listening to jazz or blue-

grass and for them the formats going

to be vinyl with the download card,

which is what I’m doing now. I sell

CDs, but our home-based format is an

LP vinyl with download card and I’ve

quit putting 15 songs on my records

because that takes two discs; I’m also

sequencing them like I did when I

first started making records, with a

side 1 and side 2.

For you what is the best

part of putting out a project?

I don’t know, I think the thing is

that I’m really lucky to have a job

that allows me to do the things I love;

however, it does feel like a job. There

are deadlines and I need to get my

stuff done, but because I’m working I

can’t go to the baseball games or I

can’t watch girls. But then I get my

work done so the deadlines over and

I’m okay, but then there’s a new dead-

line to work on.

How do you deal with

writers block?

Well, I don’t really get it. I don’t

know why but I can’t really remember

ever having it. There’s always some-

thing to write. What I tell people to

fight writer’s block is don’t run

around the subway with earbuds in,

don’t bottle yourself in, and don’t cut

yourself off from input. Walk around

every once in a while unplugged.

Read. You have to take stuff in, to be

able to put stuff out.

Thank you. I think

that’s probably one of the best an-

swers I’ve had for that. How often do

you paint?

Boy, I haven’t painted in a long

time. There was a spurt about three

years back when I did a lot and I need

to start again because I’m single

again and nobody can bitch that I get

paint on stuff. I’ve got an apartment

that has got great light for painting;

southern exposure on the fourth floor.

I love the artwork on

your new album, Terraplane; do you

do your album covers?

Oh, no they are done by Tony

Fitzpatrick out of Chicago; he is a

much bigger deal as a painter than I

am.

I was reading an article

on Terraplane and it said that this is

your first blues album and that you

haven’t really done a lot of blues be-

fore.

Well, actually I have done blues.

This is just the first album that stays

in that territory.

I

was watching Da-

vid Letterman not

too long ago and

saw you perform

“You’re The Best

Lover I Ever Had”

off Terraplane. I

really enjoyed that. I think it will be a

song that people will quickly recog-

nized as yours, just like Copperhead

Road.

Well, will see. Supposedly the

song that has the most activity on the

streaming services worldwide is

“Galway Girl” and it has been for sev-

eral years; it gets more downloads

than any of my other songs because

there’s a lot of Irish, everywhere. In

fact, it’s one of those songs that are

played at almost every wedding in

Ireland.

This will be your second

summer doing Camp Copperhead;

what exactly is it?

Yeah, this is the second year I’ll

be teaching a songwriting a Master

class. It’s four nights, five days in the

Catskills where cell phones don’t

work. We have people coming back

from last year, new people, and I

teach every minute of it. Mornings are

long Master classes, while everyone’s

divided up into four groups for the

afternoons. One group will spend the

afternoon with me and the other three

will work with one of the graduate

students that I have coming or doing

other activities including learning

guitar. It’s a really beautiful place in

upstate New York.

So when you say Mas-

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No; this means that I’m the one

who teaches every day. There are dif-

ferent topics from structure to litera-

ture. We talk about Shakespeare, and

of course I make everybody write a

haiku, which makes some people cry,

but I think it’s a great exercise. I’ve

been teaching it for a while; I started

with it at the Old Town Folk Music

School about 20 years ago, but it’s

developed over the years.

Is this something you’d

like to teach at a university level?

Yeah, I would like to do that,

but right now it would be a cut in pay

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which is what kids with autism need

because that’s what works the best.

And luckily in New York there are not

only services for these kids but there’s

funding for them as well; which is

great for us because his school is ex-

tremely expensive.

You are very fortunate

in that.

We are very fortunate and it’s

becoming my main active point of

activism. In fact, a few weeks ago I

was doing a benefit for Autism Speaks

with Shawn Colvin, Stephen Stills,

and Neil Young. Stephen has a boy

with Asperger’s and, his wife, Kristin

is a huge autism activist in LA. So

a u -

t i s m

i s

going

to be

huge

p a r t

of my

l i f e

a n d

activ-

i s m

i s

going to be right there with it.

Being the parents of a

special needs person, I want you to

know how much we appreciated your

activism because it brings a spotlight

to all the kids, not just those with a

specific disability. We really appreci-

ate it as it helps everyone.

Oh, absolutely. And you know

this is why you need to pay taxes, so

everybody can take care of everybody

and use the resources that are there.

The costs are daunting and ridiculous.

There was a time at one point where

I left Willie Nelson even came back

and I remember standing in a cow

pasture with a bunch of cowboys

that used to kick my ass listening

to the same music. And then things changed and

you can’t blame it on me; I wasn’t there. Just

know, it wasn’t always like that.

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everyone was headed to-

wards having what they

needed and then suddenly,

across the nation, people

were unwilling to pay tax-

es and when we are suc-

cessful we want to keep it

all until we’re dead and

then pass it to our kids to

screw them up. You know,

I’ve always been kind of a

socialist and even more so

now.

Speaking of

which, with your political

views I have to say that

being a Texan and an op-

ponents

of capi-

tal pun-

ishment

h a s

p r o b a -

bly got

to be

one of

t h e

hardest

r o a d s

y o u

could choose.

Well, I was at SXSW

a few weeks ago. When

leaving the Austin airport

I walked by the statue of

Barbara Jordan; that’s

Texas I left in 1974, and

somewhere, something

happened. I can tell you

people did not even imag-

ine that Texas would have

a Republican governor

back then. When I left in

fact, Texas was becoming a

Southern California. When

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