Another special session in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests, and a condensed versions of the original sessions, with song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time not only a musician's musician, but a total people's choice player. Ottawa raised, Toronto based, Steve Marriner has been a blues harmonica player since the age of 11, and was just 13 and playing clubs, and only 14 when he won the Ottawa Blues Harp Blow-Off! In short, he's a monster player, but not just blues harp, but also guitar, bass, organ, and and he's a helluva singer and songwriter, and record producer/mixer too. We get into that a bit, in this performance focused cut of Steve's original album special session with Jeff, celebrating the release of his 2021 album Hope Dies Last. Steve delivers 3 live performances and talks about his evolving tastes and growth through listening and learning. Enjoy this 29 minute version of the original session.

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Another special session in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests, and a condensed version of the original episode, with song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, from Toronto, powerful performances and conversation with the principle members of Joan Smith & The Jane Does, Joan Smith and Tom Juhas, including a scorching cover of In the Pines (Where Did You Sleep Last Night). Runs: 24 minutes.

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Another special session in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests, and a condensed version of the original episode, with song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, From Port Hope, Ontario, not simply a recording artist, but an outstanding tattoo artist too, Nickola Magnolia comes with her guitar, and delivers two live renditions of original songs, including one she'd never publicly shared before, plus the one about just how much she “loves country music more than she ever loved ______”, and Jeff gets inside her unique story that comes with so much of her unique wit and charm and talent. Runs 24 minutes.

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The return (after 4 years) of the wise beyond her years 2023 "Southern Rock Artist of the Year" at the Josie Music Awards in Nashville. Thing is, she is southern, but Southern Ontario, and in this one on one convo with Jeff, we learn a bit more about her unique guitar buying strategy, (two heads are better than one, apparently), we learn of word of her reach farther and wider still as evidenced on Joe Bonamassa's “Cutting Edge Blues” playlist, plus a Records & Rockstars first revelation about her soon coming first tour in the UK. Guitar and slide in hand, we let a bit of the demon loose, as Madison Galloway performs two songs and Jeff happily plays you two additional songs direct from Madison's second long player (LP), simply called Madison Galloway, available far and wide as of June 27 2024! Get it on record and cd, plus there's merch and more at madisongalloway.com note: Madison's first appearance on Records & Rockstars is available as episode 55 (March 6 2020 for the Moon and Mercury album).

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A heaping helping of country punk/alt folk complete with stand-up bass, banjo, acoustic guitar, and drums, Run the Plank (formerly Murky Waters) makes a stop at Wild Woods Blue Studio on the eastern leg of their Thrasberta Tour, as these wandering spirits from Calgary with roots in Ontario, perform three songs live in Jeff's attic, and tell tales about being a working band, road-testing songs, making the best of break-ups, and co-writing music. Runs 44 minutes.

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We're back into into the recurring four-parter featuring long-players out April, May and June of '74, and this "Second Helping" gives you a diverse playlist that'll take you to the Bridge of Sighs, with Diamond Dogs, in an Endless Summer of Good Vibrations, with solid weirdo bands from Budgie to Sparks, and a bit of my conversation with Paul Rodgers on the formation of the band who were the first to come with an album on Led Zeppelin's Swan Song label.

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Another special session in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests chatting with Jeff and delivering song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, fresh from an evening gig on the shore of Georgian Bay, Bernadette Connors delivers two outstanding original song performances, pulled from the 46 minute original session of episode #148, including “Georgina” (and where that is), and “All the Way to Nashville”, plus what it was like growing up in a music store, the value of curiosity, and more.

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Compared to MOST years since the seventies, 1994 gave us so much more than most -- a year of some of the finest albums in rock, and one of the most impacting years in music. This is the podcast version of Jeff's weekly music radio show, charting around the world and enjoyed by music fans who love to hear what made artists tick, plus the stories behind the songs. This episode features an excerpt from Jeff's conversation with Jeff Buckley's mother, about her working with Chris Cornell to preserve the legacy of Buckley's music, plus we're hitting on all the heavy records of '94 from Grace to Superunknown, Vitalogy,The Division Bell, Wildflowers, Definitely Maybe, and so much more.

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Another special session in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests chatting with Jeff and delivering song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, lotsa laughs and talent too, pulled from the 56 minute session of episode #163, wherein the update features highlights from one of the finest and most diverse rock drummers around, showing his other side as a singer/songwriter and how that feels versus drumming, as Glenn Milchem performs two of his own songs, and tells of his feelings around stepping out from behind the kit to sing, of his tenure with Blue Rodeo and of their induction to Canada's Music Hall of Fame, and of giving life advice to his kids in the words to one of the two songs he does here. We also find out that we share in our love of what we're happy to call the finest live band around, and they're Canadian too. Here comes 38 minutes of pure music talk and performance, from Glenn Milchem.  

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One of the most intimate and moving performances yet, it's another special episode in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests chatting with Jeff and delivering song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, pulled from the full 90 minute album premiere special (Episode 182 May 2023), we “head for the hills” with an excerpt from it, featuring an outstanding acoustic performance of a stand-out cut from “Something Easy”, Justin Rutledge's tenth record. His story finds Rutledge having negotiated major life changes as he overcome numerous obstacles on his path to better ways forward. And his growth as a recording artist, engineer and producer has been immense, too. His 10th album “Something Easy” is a profound work, and you get a taste of it performed live right here. 

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It's another special episode in the recurring “Performances” series featuring past guests chatting with Jeff and delivering song set-ups and stories, and live acoustic performances from Wild Woods Blue. This time, pulled from the original Feb 2022 full 51 minute episode #123, from Toronto, it's the incomparable Eamon McGrath, sharing songs from the accliamed album “Bells of Hope”, and more. Eamon, on his Martin guitar, gives you two exceptional renditions of original songs, and tells of playing in a band backing Daniel Johnston (RIP), and covering his poignant and everlasting “True Love Will Find You in the End”, which is also included! Episode run time: 29 minutes.  

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