During an interview with Little Richard he blessed me. So I got that goin’ for me, which is nice.
I’m a features writer/columnist for the Bradenton Herald. Our parent company, McClatchy Newspapers, publishes my work worldwide.
My Bradenton Herald blog Buzz Worthy.
I also freelance for Blues Revue/BluesWax.
Over the years, I’ve written, edited and taken photos for publications from Florida to California.
I have written lifestyle pieces for Maxim, breaking news for New York Daily News and stories for alt-country tome No Depression as well as articles for numerous other publications.
BluesWax Spotlight On Southern Hospitality
Photo By Dusty Scott
BluesWax Spotlight On
Southern Hospitality
A Southern Traveling Wilburys
By Wade Tatangelo
There’s a new entity in the blues world, a diverse, powerful group with enormous potential. Blind Pig recording artist Damon Fowler has joined forces with fellow Florida guitarist/singer JP Soars and Memphis-based piano man/singer Victor Wainwright. Dubbed Southern Hospitality, the band of friends and like-minded musicians made its official debut opening for Buddy Guy on August 14 at the Heritage Music Blues Fest in Wheeling, West Virginia.
Remembering former Allman Brothers Band drummer David “Frankie” Toler
My debut story for international publication Blues Revue about the celebratory Frankie Toler memorial.
Older sibling Dan Toler, the guitar hero who played with Frankie in the Allman Brothers Band, the Gregg Allman Band, Dickey Betts’ Great Southern group, and several other projects, led the righteous send off. He took the stage not long after the sun had dipped below the dense tree line in rural Southwest Florida. Although barely able to speak because of a swollen vocal cord, Dan began his set with a moving prayer that ended with a message of gratitude. Seated due to other health issues, the grieving brother then blessed everyone packed into and around the juke joint-style shed with one sizzling, emotive guitar lick after another on the ABB classic “Hot ’Lanta.”
Interview: Andrew McMahon on Reuniting Something Corporate
Cover story for OC Weekly—a Village Voice Media publication covering Orange County and Long Beach, Calif.—that hit newsstands March 25, 2010.
Andrew McMahon On Restarting Something Corporate
Jack’s Mannequin front man talks candidly about his cancer, remains cagey about how long the reunion of his old band will last.
Bar Tab: Steak-Out good conversation and beer
My last Bar Tab column for the Fort Collins Coloradoan. I only did a few for them but enjoyed writing, “researching” and photographing each one.
“How’s it going?” asked the Old-timer as he sat himself down in the stool next to me. The gray-haired man with the wiry frame offered a warm smile. I pushed my newspaper away, lifted my glass of gin and replied, “Better now.”
Interview: Rachael Yamagata
Lengthy Q&A I did for Denver Westword with Rachael Yamagata.
WW: I love the lyrics to the title-track of Elephants. It’s such a striking metaphor about memory pain — the kind that comes from good love gone bad. What inspired that song?
RY: That was one of those strange, kind of gift-from-above sort of songs. I really was at this crossroad of being at a very vulnerable place initially because of a heartbreak and feeling, I don’t know, all this longing and depression and all those feelings that come after a breakup. But I was taking this run outside here in Woodstock and it was just this amazing spring day and there were different animals about and the trees were beautiful and the temperature was amazing. It was the kind of day that just made you feel stupidly giddy to be alive. Somehow that, mixed in with where I was emotionally, produced these lyrics that almost felt like they were out of nowhere. This person that I was kind of thinking about had sent me a card with elephants on it. He was the one who had told me about their capacity to always remember things. And I was playing around with that idea and it just spring from there. I literally wrote the whole song on my down this mountain and had it. Yeah, I don’t know where that came from [laughs].
Record review: Adam Lambert, ‘For Your Entertainment’
Glambert delivers a fabulously fun debut
There are delightful dance tracks with thumping disco beats and soaring, fist-pumping rockers that swing. There are even power ballads for when that fourth glass of cabernet kicks in and it’s time to sloppily slow dance with a complete stranger—or make out on the sofa.
Interview: Taylor Locke of Rooney
For all 37 Metromix sites nationwide.
Guitarist Taylor Locke wants to talk about his band’s new tour…not his famous exes
If the band is best-known for “When Did Your Heart Go Missing?”, Locke is best-known for his love life. First, there was a long-running relationship with the Donnas’ guitarist Donna R., aka Allison Robertson. More recently, his breakup with actress Mischa Barton, star of “The O.C.”, made headlines.
Interview: Neko Case Q&A for St. Petersburg Times
Ran Thursday in Weekend section.
For the first time in more than a decade Neko Case is coming to Florida.
The alt-country chanteuse’s sixth solo record, Middle Cyclone, debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 pop chart in March, and Amazon.com has already crowned it best album of the year. On the phone, though, calling from her farm in rural Vermont, the charming Case sounds like an eager, unsigned artist, chatting about inspiration in household chores.
Interview: Kevin Bacon and Michael Bacon
For the St. Petersburg Times:
Though best known as a movie star — and the subject of the Six Degrees game that’s ingrained in pop culture — Kevin Bacon is a talented singer-songwriter and guitarist whose band performs catchy roots rock sweetened by Philly soul flourishes. Kevin and Michael, who were raised in the City of Brotherly Love, spoke to the St. Petersburg Timessimultaneously by phone from their respective homes in New York.
