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On today’s show I have music and an interview with bassist Todd Ronnin of the band King Karma.
I’m a fan of all genres of music. Being from the South, I have a longtime love of the hard rock stylings of bands like Lynyard Skynyrd, Deep Purple, and Led Zepplen. Well recently I added King Karma to that list. The band boasts a lineup of incredible mu
sicians with guitarist Markus Wolfe, Rick Fedyk on drums, powerful vocals by Shaun Williamson and bedrock strong bass guitar riffs by my guest tonight Todd Ronnin.
The band had the opportunity to work with legendary music producer Jimmy Johnson. Jimmy was a member of Aretha Franklin’s band and later when on to produce albums for Lynyrd Skynrd, Blackfoot, The Rossington Band, Bob Segar and Paul Simon. He was also part of the famous Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, otherwise known as the Swampers.
In our interview you’ll get to hear about the recording process, inspiration for many of the songs on the album, as well as stories of working with Paul Rogers of Bad Company and playing at the infamous Sturgis motorcycle biker rally.
All songs from their self titled album “King Karma”
Midnight Sun
Breath
Devil’s Road
Into The Everlast
Heavin’s Burning
I’m Listening
Shake My Bones
Blue Monday
Twilight Child
The weather outside today is absolutely gorgeous and it’s almost a shame to be inside recording a podcast. However one of the things I love better than the springtime weather in Charleston is listening to great blues and independent artist music. The past few episodes have been devoted to interviews and feature length content of a single artist. So today I felt like mixing it up once again with new and old songs. Like I’ve said may times, the blues make me happy so today’s lineup is blues heavy along with some alternative rock and funk.
An artist that I love to open the show with is Brad Wilson and his song Something Goin’ On from his album “Rocking The Blues“. Reverend Zen then laments the fact that they’re the victim of having a Bad Attitude.
My good friend and tremendous session drummer Bill Ray sent me the new album from Ernest Lane. Both Ernest and Bill were members of Ike Turner’s band for many years and I always like hearing what Bill has been doing. So I spin up a two-fer featuring Bill, first with What Kind Of Love from Ernest Lane’s upcoming album “Born With The Blues“. I then play a track from a recent project of Bill’s with Sheila Sondergard and the title track from her new album called Spoke Too Loud.
Another of my favorite artists is Sarah Ayers and her song Get It From Me from “3am Epiphany“, followed by the Kelly Richey Band and Nothing To Do With Love. The Josh Kirkland band gives a good electric-blues tune called Hard Time Blues.
“Mean” Gene Kelton and the Diehards does a fine rendition of Poke Salad Annie, a tune originated by Tony Joe White and later made famous Elvis Presley. After that I was still hungry so I pulled into Fat Eddie’s Diner by The Bluescasters.
Struttin’ around the old hen house is a favorite theme of blues artists and a fine example comes to this week from The Phantom Blues Band with their song Barnyard Blues. Patty Reese tells us all about her Man Boy, which is another great tune from her making it’s first appearance on The Big Break.
Another pop-jazz tune from Kerry Politzer off her album ‘You Took Me In” called Always helps lead into the close of this week’s show with the funky stylings from The Band That Saved The World as they take us on for a ride on the Funk Bus.
Promos: Karmynkast, Lovespirals Remix Contest
This week I again get the opportunity to revisit a previous featured artist on The Big Break Music Podcast with music and an interview with Los Angeles based solo artist Shane Alexander.
Shane has a brand new CD titled “The Sky Below” and I caught up with him right after he had the official album release party at the Troubadour Club in Hollywood, CA. In this episode we get to hear some fascinating stories of how several of the songs came into being.
Songs from The Sky Below
Amsterdam
Difference Of Opinion
Outside The Lines
Coffee Kiss
The Sky Below
Feels Like The End
Homesick
We close out the show with a song from recent interview guest Ruby James. This time it’s an excellent cover of the Chris Isaak’s song Wicked Game off Ruby’s new CD “Desert Rose“.
Promo played: Chillin’ With Lovespirals