Here’s the archive of our new segment Off The Record! Each week we'll feature a person involved in the Louisville music scene, be it a musician, blogger, writer…you get the idea. We'll ask our guest what 5 songs are foremost on their mind. Perhaps it's the 5 songs in heavy rotation on their ipod, or maybe it's their 5 favorite bands of all time. The choices are limitless!Our Guest this week is singer/songwriter Tamara Dearing. Her CD What Animates You release show is Saturday September 4th at the Vernon Club. 
She also has a in-store performance that same day at Ear-X-Tacy. According to her bio:
Playing musical chairs with genres comes quite naturally to Tamara Dearing who at age three developed an ear for music with the gift of a toy piano. After years of pleading with her mother she began piano lessons at age seven. However being a Navy brat made it difficult since the family was often uprooted and separated from both piano and teacher. During this time Tamara was exposed to New Orleans’ jazz and hurricanes, San Francisco’s earthquakes and symphonies and finally settled into the lush steamy summers and gloriously white winters of Southern Indiana where her father retired. Tamara began performing her music at the age of 17 when a friend asked her to play keyboard in his band.
After completing a B.A. in Theatre at Hanover College Tamara moved to Louisville, KY to intern at Stage One Children’s Theatre. She has remained ever since, building her musical repertoire and experience resulting in her most recent work, “What Animates You.” The latest album is a much more polished mature sound combining Tamara’s signature rhythmic lyrics and characteristically upbeat layered vocal arrangements with fun beats against a lavish orchestral backdrop.
Here are Tamara’s five “uplifting” picks:
This week’s Off The Record guest is Ron Whitehead. His latest book is titled The Storm Generation Manifesto and it’s release will be celebrated this Thursday at The Green Building. He will also be holding a poetry/music event at The Rudyard Kipling on August 27. According to his bio:
Ron Whitehead is a poet, writer, editor, publisher, organizer, scholar, professor. The son of Edwin and Greta Whitehead, he grew up on a farm outside of Centertown, population 323, in Ohio County, western Kentucky. He graduated from Ohio County High School in 1968. He attended Georgetown College, Western Kentucky University, The University of Louisville, and Oxford University (England). As undergraduate and graduate student he was the recipient of numerous scholarships, grants, fellowships, awards, and prizes including The Dean’s Graduate School Citation at UofL and The English Speaking Union’s Oxford Scholar Award plus the Joshua B. Everett Oxford Scholar Award. At Oxford he studied with Dr. Valentine Cunningham, Head of English Literature, at Oxford’s International Graduate School. As poet and writer he is the recipient of numerous state, national, and international awards/prizes including The All Kentucky Poetry Prize and The Yeats Club of Oxford’s Prize for Poetry. In 2004 he was inducted into Ohio County High School’s Hall of Fame. In 2006 Dr. John Rocco (NYC) nominated Ron for The Nobel Prize in Literature. (Read more at Ron’s official website.)
Here are Ron’s five picks:
Our guest is busy Louisville-based folk musician Rebecca Williams.
Rebecca is an international touring singer-songwriter hailing from Louisville, KY. She has released one EP titled “The Lion and The Unicorn.”
Here Are Rebecca’s five picks:
Our Guest for this week’s Off The Record is “Honey” Roy Carter. According to his bio:
My music career began in the streets of New Orleans, LA where I played harmonica for tips. After getting some curbside lessons, I hitchhiked through the Florida Keys and stayed for the Winter. Spring returned, and I headed North taking a brief pit stop in Ocala National Forest for a Rainbow Gathering. Things get a little fuzzy at that point, but I do remember making some money in little Five Points Atlanta, GA before returning to my hometown of Evansville, IN. From there I fronted my first band which was an inspiration. We moved to Bloomington, IN and quickly disbanded. I put together a new group, and we received the honor of being voted best local band by a reader’s poll. The Bloomington Voice sent us to Memphis, TN where we opened for Tonic at Beale Street Park during the Crossroads Music Showcase. We also opened for Train in B-town right before they became superstars. I left Indiana to study music theory and marketing in Oregon. While snowboarding at Mt. Bachelor, I earned my degree and was once again voted best local band. In Bend, OR, I recorded the first CD which actually captured my sound. The songs from that CD continue to sell via internet through a digital distribution deal with CD Baby. Now as a father of two boys and a girl I hope to pass down this heritage just as my father has done with me. My Dad and I continue to do gigs together whenever we can, and I pray that he’ll be around long enough to see my kids join us. I’ve got a new CD that I’m selling at our live shows.
You can catch Honey Roy At Qdoba on Bardstown Road at Eastern Parkway on Friday, August 13th, 7-9pm. Here are Honey Roy’s funky picks:
Our guest this week is long time Louisville singer/songwriter Butch Rice. You can catch Butch at his regular Thursday night gig at BW3′s in Saint Matthews and he’ll have a CD coming out soon. According to his bio:
I sing and I write a song every now and then. I’ve lived in Louisville, KY for most of my life and I love music. As long as I can remember there has been music in my life, music all around me, music inside me. It’s always been there. I don’t really know where it started or how I got hooked. I close my eyes to remember and I find myself at my Granny’s player piano with her playing while her brothers and sisters gathered around her singing along. I’m listening to my Great-Grandmother humming next to me as he wrote in her diary. My Grandfather is blasting Big Boss Man on the 8-track of his 1978 Pontiac Bonneville as we drove down a country gravel road. I’m sitting in front of my Aunt’s stereo listening to her copies of the Beatles Sgt. Pepper and Rubber Soul. My Mom is playing Stevie Wonder’s Greatest Hits on the way to my Grandparents for the holidays and my Dad changes the tape so Marvin Gaye, Sly and the Family Stone, and Earth Wind and Fire sing to us on the way back home. Mtv is on and I can’t get enough. I can remember trying to sing along with it all. (Read more at Butch’s website).
Here are Butch’s favorite “dark” love songs:
Our guest today is the lead vocalist for the Louisville duo A Lion Named Roar. They released their debut CD Said And Done in February and also 
performed on WFPK’s Live Lunch in support of it. As the group’s Myspace page notes:
Chris Jackson and Tyler Anderson have been collaborating on songs since they met in high school in 2003. Wandering in and out of several bands, all with their own unique styles, they are no stranger to songwriting and touring. The years of pursuing their dream of playing music are finally paying off, and they’re willing to wager their time in return for your feedback…(read more at their Myspace page).
A Lion Named Roar will be part of an outdoor Christian music festival called Shepherdsfest on Saturday August 28th in Shepherdsville, KY. Here are Chris Jackson’s Off The Record picks:
This week’s Off The Record guest is Amber Garvey of sonaBLAST! Records, located here in Louisville @ The Green Building. They represent
such artists as Ben Sollee, Lucky Pineapple, The Seedy Seeds (who will be part of this Friday’s Live Lunch at noon on WFPK), The Pass and more. Amber works with artists to see their albums through production, works on licensing, contracts, etc. Amber has noticed this record hot summer in Louisville as have the rest of us, so her theme is weather related. She’ll start with some heat, build up to a storm and then cool things down:
On the eve of what will be the biggest Forecastle Festival since it’s start in 2002, our guest is once again the Festival’s “Captain” JK McKnight. 
This time around JK’s theme are songs that make him think of travel – both in the literal sense and in the “moving through life” sense. Three of his song choices (Rocket, Do You Realize & I Put My Camera On) are by bands that will be performing at this years event:
Our guest for this week’s Off The Record is Noah Hewett-Ball, leader of the Louisville group Cabin which just released a new CD called 
Among the Rectangles and Changeable Parts. According to the band’s Myspace website Noah was:
A musical late bloomer, Hewett-Ball taught himself to play piano in the practice rooms at Murray State, where he attended college. “They were open 24 hours a day but I noticed that the talent didn’t practice past midnight,” he says. “That was when I could sneak my jam box in and learn Yann Tiersen by ear.” The guitarist, pianist and singer returned to his native Louisville, Ken. with a degree and the desire to start a band so he hooked up with a cousin and two high school friends and wrote, recorded, and released an album, 2005’s “Govern the Good Life.” Shortly thereafter Hewett-Ball’s band mates began to fall away one by one and were replaced by Welder (violin, viola, keys, vocals), Chale (drums) and Lease (bass). That lineup recorded the “I Was Here” EP in 2007 and began to stretch their touring legs. Cabin began to get traction but decided in mid-2008 to take a break from playing out. “We had spent the last two years back peddling with each new member while touring and hadn’t really become a band of our own,” Hewett-Ball says. “We decided to put touring on hold until there was a new record to support.” “Among the Rectangles And Changeable Parts” features ten songs tracked by Chale, a former recording engineering student at Indiana University’s prestigious School of Music, in the band’s rehearsal studio. Cabin’s new material treads thin lines; they are romantic but not saccharine, knowing but not cynical, lyric but not pretentious.
Here are Noah’s five Off The Record picks:
Our guest for this week’s Off The Record is guitarist and veteran of the Louisville rock music scene: Wayne Young. According to his
MySpace bio:
Young started his music career in the late 1950s with the Carnations, and in the 1960s joined Soul, Inc. for two tours with the “Dick Clark Caravan of Stars” and nights opening for Bo Diddley, Paul Revere and the Raiders, and The Byrds. In the 1970s and 1980s, Young began to hone his blues licks with The Heavyweights and later toured extensively with his own group, Midnight Special. In the Nineties, he created and performed the popular Slow Hand, and Eric Clapton tribute show, and reunited with his Soul, Inc. band mates to put out a CD under the name The Shufflin’ Granddads. Wayne Young currently performs regularly throughout the region with Wayne Young and The Louisville Legends.
Wayne Young & the Louisville Legends will be preforming at the Jeffersonville River Stage Friday July 16th, at 8 to 10:30pm
Spring & River Road in Jeffersonville, IN.
Wayne recently discovered a project he worked on as engineer/guitarist (and some vocals) back in 1970 called “For Now.” It was a two album set of gospel songs “modernized” for younger audiences. Besides Wayne, Dennie Lile provided some of the lead vocals, Marvin Maxwell on drums, Ray Barrickman bass & vocals, and Ronnie Bedenbaugh, keyboards. Here are Wayne’s 5 picks taken from those two albums:
Our guest this week is the long time host of ‘Best Coast Jazz’ heard on WFPK 10:00-11:00 on Sunday mornings. John La Barbera brings 
over thirty years of professional composing/arranging experience to his weekly show featuring the best of the big bands and large jazz ensembles. Sometimes interspersed with personal anecdotes and glimpses of the real inside of the jazz world. From Duke to Gil Evans, Dizzy to Woody, and Basie to Thad Jones, the show has a broad appeal and should satisfy the listening tastes of all age groups.
It began with a cornet in his hands at the age of five and a musical family (his brothers Pat and Joe have their own great stories to tell). From there, trumpeter John LaBarbera forged a name for himself as a performer, arranger and educator. During his tenure with Buddy Rich in the late sixties, John learned that he loved to compose and arrange. He is now one of the most respected artists in the field of large ensemble Jazz arranging. John’s Grammy nominated big band CD “On The Wild Side” and his latest “Fantazm,” on the JazzCompass label, have been met with tremendous artistic and commercial success and are on the way to becoming a jazz big band standards. Besides his work with Buddy Rich, John has had works performed and recorded by a host of well known musicians including Woody Herman, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Phil Woods and many others.
John LaBarbera is also a noted music educator. He is the former Director of Jazz Ensembles at Cornell University and is now a Professor of Music at the University of Louisville where his vast experience has led to the development of courses in Music Industry, Computer Techniques in music, and of course, Jazz.
Here are John’s 5 picks:
Our guest for this week’s Off The Record is a veteran of the Louisville music scene. A member of the likes of the Java Men and currently with the group 
Squeeze-bot, he’s keyboard and accordionist Todd Hildreth. As Squeeze-bot’s Myspace page says:
Before the electric guitar ruined rock and roll, accordions, banjos and tubas had their rightful place in music. Driven underground by their oppressors, the great accordion/banjo/tuba bands have kept largely quiet, playing late night, speakeasy style concerts in underground clubs deep in the country, far from the ever vigilant ears of oppressive electric guitarist. In the year 2006, one such underground band would run no more, and have emerged from the underground with bold new stylings, not afraid to show how music should have been played all along. This band is Squeeze-bot.
Squeeze-bot has begun their Sunday nights at the Nachbar series from 8-11 every Sunday from Memorial Day to Labor Day weekend.
Also, Squeeze-bot plays at Clifton’s every Trolley hop Friday from 7:30-10:30.
Here are Todd’s five picks:
Our guest this week is Tara Anderson. She is a writer, a radio host, a mama, a wife, a wannabe chef, and a happy resident of Louisville –
again. She spent the last 10 years in New York City at public radio station WFUV, and moved back to Louisville last year for a saner life and to be closer to her family. She’s currently working as a substitute host at Classical 90.5 WUOL (using her college education in music performance) and at 89.3 WFPL (using her college education in journalism). She sings in the car, goes to concerts as much as she can, and really, truly, honestly loves just about every kind of music.
[podcast]http://archive.wfpk.org/OTR/20100524-Tara_Anderson.mp3[/podcast]
Here are Tara’s five Off The Record picks:
[podcast]http://archive.wfpk.org/OTR/20100517-Dennie_Humphrey.mp3[/podcast]Our guest this week is the owner of The Monkey Wrench, Dennie Humphrey. Since it’s been open 
The Monkey Wrench has seen some wonderful shows. Dennie has ties to Bowling Green Ky as he says in his bio:
I am looking for people who used to go to Western Kentucky University. I worked at a place called “Baker Street Cafe” which is what inspired me to open my own. I have a passion for this business and would encourage anyone out there who ever passes through Louisville Ky to check this place out. The concept is very industrial sheik with a New York Lounge feel.
Dennie talks about some of his favorite performers:
This week’s Off The Record guest is Lee Troutman. He’s a singer/songwriter and guitar player in the band Several Hundred People. According to his bio, he grew up a gypsy, spending his youth, and some of his adult years, as a beach bum, living up and down the coast of California, and driving around the United States. He spent the other half of his life in the bluegrass hills of Louisville, Kentucky, where he devoted the majority of his time to pickin’ the local bluegrass music, and taking lessons from local guitar slingers.
The band is getting 
ready to celebrate a 2 day CD release event. Friday May 14th they’ll be performing at The Rudyard Kipling and Saturday May 15th they will be throwing down at The Hideaway Saloon. Here are Lee’s 5 picks:
Our guest this week is Sara Havens and Sara is the Bar Belle for LEO Weekly and writes about everything from the Louisville nightlife and hangover cures to the latest bar trends, cocktails and watered-down American swill. When not frequenting local watering holes, she doubles as the Arts & Entertainment Editor for LEO. You may also spot her behind the bar from time to time — she occasionally picks up bartending gigs around town, including at WFPK’s Waterfront Wednesday. She enjoys bourbon, happy hours and long walks on the beach. Here are Sara’s “Non-WFPK” song picks:
[podcast]http://archive.wfpk.org/OTR/20100503-Sara_Havens.mp3[/podcast]
[podcast]http://archive.wfpk.org/OTR/20100426-Michael_Dufresne.mp3[/podcast]Our guest this week is Michael Dufresne. He is an acoustic and electric bassist that has been living and playing in Louisville for the past 
decade. He currently plays with Arnett Hollow and the Slow Charleston. Former bands/projects include Zongo, People Noise, Days of the New and The Bill Barnes Trio, among others. He & Arnett Hollow will be playing Derby Eve (along with Lucky Pineapple) at the Vernon Club. Here are 5 songs that helped to set Michael’s music in motion:
[podcast]http://archive.wfpk.org/OTR/20100419-Sirens.mp3[/podcast]Our guests this week for Off The Record are The Sirens. Together as the Sirens since 2007, singer songwriter Hettie Mays and poet Kri Martin create great music with a unique sound blending folk, hip hop, soul, and spoken word with gorgeous vocals and deep lyrics. According to their bio:
Everything the Sirens do is out of Love first. They emulate love, gratitude, and empowerment they evoke emotions from every chakra. The Sirens are based out of Louisville KY and are ambassadors of the grass roots organization Mighty Kindness. The Sirens are the winners of the 2009 National Women’s Music Festival’s Discovers Talent Competition. They reflect their childhood dreams into realities, blending their love of written and spoken word with beautiful melodies and rhythms.
Before they left for a tour of the western United States Hettie & Kri were nice enough to give me 5 songs for Off The Record:
Our guests for this week’s Off The Record are five dancers with the Louisville Ballet each talking about a Prince song. Why? Because the 
Louisville Ballet and Leo Weekly are sponsoring an all evening fundraiser called “Let’s Go Crazy at Thunder Party” happening Saturday, April 17th. The event includes food, bar, full view of Thunder Over Louisville and local group Wax Fang performing Purple Rain. WFPK is giving you & three friends a chance to do Let’s Go Crazy at Thunder in style; register to win at WFPK.org. But hurry because Laura Shine will announce the winner between 3 and 6pm on April 15. Here are (Left to right) Ashley Thursby, Eduard Forehand, Tawnee Thompson, Brian Grant and Kirsten Allman (in front) and their Purple Prince Picks:
Our guest this week is a familiar name to long time WFPK listeners: Heidi Howe. She was the first guest to perform on WFPK’s Live Lunch series, and 
according to her Bio:
Heidi Howe is a singer, songwriter, music educator and mom from Louisville, KY. She has recorded 5 full length CD’s (2 on the Ear X-tacy label) and has played clubs across the country. Most recently, she produced the Louisville Lullabies CD with Gill Holland (of sonaBLAST! Records) as a benefit for the Home of the Innocents.
Heidi is also the founder of Louisville Preschool for the ARTS where she makes music with kids and their parents.
Here are Heidi’s five “Non Traditional” Lullabies:
Our guest this week for Off The Record was busy heading to SXSW with his band Lucky Pineapple back when this originally aired in the Spring of 2010. He is also the guiding force behind Another 7 Astronauts and you can catch Another 7 Astronauts at the Glassworks Rooftop show on Sept. 3rd, 2010. .He’s drummer JC Denison and here are 
some fun facts about him he’d like to share:
-I play drums for Lucky Pineapple and Invaders
-I write and record (mostly) instrumental music under the name Another7Astronauts
-Invaders have a new album recorded which is awaiting release
-Another7Astronauts music will be accompanying my photos at Highland Coffee throughout the month of March. “Music for Photographs” will be available then.
-I will be DJing as ClifTones w/ DJ Narwhal every Sunday afternoon on the rooftop of the Monkey Wrench starting in late April. We will be playing jazz, funk, soul, lounge, and tropicalia records to accompany the bloody mary and mimosa bars. All of this, when combined, will ideally cure Louisville’s hangover week to week.
-I have an affinity for sweaters
-I recently made the switch from soy milk to almond milk
Here are JC’s 5 picks:
Our guest this week is upcoming singer/songwriter Audrey Cecil. As Her Bio states: 
Audrey Cecil, a Louisville KY singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, got her start playing the coffee shop circuit in her college days as part of a female acoustic duo called A-Squared. These days, Audrey has graduated to playing well over 100 shows per year as part of two Louisville KY bands: an acoustic duo (Amanda Lucas and Audrey Cecil) with music partner, Amanda Lucas; and a band called Two Cent Penny, which Lucas is also part of.
Audrey just released her self-titled CD and will be performing with her band at Phoenix Hill Tavern on March the 10th and Ear-X-Tacy on Saturday, March 13th starting at 12:30pm. Here are Audrey’s five Off The Record picks:
Our Guests this week are members of the Louisville band The Ladybirds. The group originally started as a project between 
vocalist SARAH SWAIN and bassist-songwriter JAXON LEE SWAIN in 2004. As their bio states:
While drawing die-hard inspiration from classic Rock & Roll music of the 1950s and 60s, the ‘Birds songs are injected with doses of classic Punk Rock, Soul, Garage, Americana and Girl Group sounds, crafting an adventurous repertoire that has shown itself to be truly unique. Since cutting and self-releasing their first collection of songs, “WHISKEY& WINE” (sporting 10 tracks recorded in mono), in 2007, THE LADYBIRDS are now a quintet featuring Hammond organ slayer ANTHONY FOSSALUZZA and drummer/percussionist BRETT HOLSCLAW. Recently signed to Departure Records, THE LADYBIRDS are in the process of writing songs for a new album to be released in summer, 2010!
The Band will be opening up for the group Those Darlins at the Zanzabar on March 6th. Here are the band’s five picks:
Our guest this week is Dawn Landes. While she now lives in the Big Apple, she was born & raised in the ‘ville. Dawn came back through 
town a few weeks ago supporting the release of her criticly acclaimed album Sweetheart Rodeo. While here she took a few moments to talk about five women performers from the 1950s to the 1990s who have inspired her:
Our guest this week is Colin Brown who is the owner & chief engineer of C.B. Sound Studio located in Goshen Kentucky. As a person who 
records many local artists (Colin recorded Bloom Street’s CD Pure Goodness for example) I thought it would be interesting to know what he listens to in his down time – and how a recording engineer “hears” music:
Our guest for this week’s Off The Record will also be our guest for this week’s Live Lunch: Andrea Davidson. This talented Louisville singer/songwriter is 
coming out with a new CD she is super stoked about and will have a release party at the Vernon Club the evening of February 20th.
Here are five songs that have really touched Andrea’s heart:
Our guest this week is familiar to Tuesday afternoon WFPK listeners and to movie lovers across Louisville because he is the owner of Wild 
and Woolly Video Store, Todd Brashear. Before Todd started Wild and Woolly in 1997, he had been the bass player for the seminal Louisville indie rock band Slint. His playing can be heard on the amazing 1991 record Spiderland. Todd came up with a unique theme for his Off The Record: A exploration of the importance of the English rock band Faces who are largely forgotten by American music listeners save for the band’s lead singer, Rod Stewart. Here are Todd’s choices (with a emphasis on Face’s members not named Rod Stewart):
Our guest this week is one of the guitarists for long time Louisville band Bloom Street, Joe Bowers. Joe and the band will be celebrating 
Bloom Street’s 13th anniversary with a show at Headliners Music Hall on March 12th. You can also catch them February 13th at Longshot Tavern. Here are Joe’s five Off The Record pics:
This week’s Off The Record focuses on Louisville group Second Story Man who have a new CD out called Screaming Secrets. In a recent 
review in Leo Weekly, Paul Schwartz described Screaming Secrets as:
“Equal parts punchy rock and harmonic sweetness, littered with violins, banjos and other interesting textures, it may be their breakout album.”
Second Story Man will be our guests on WFPK’s Live Lunch on Friday, January 29th. Here are their group picks:
Our guest this week is blogger Samantha Miller. Her blog is called The Hoyden (Musings From A Loudmouth Girl) wherein she reviews
music, books and whatever else she feels like. As her Bio states:
As the Steve Earle song goes, I’m the other kind and am always looking for others.One of the best compliments ever paid me was that I am childlike without being the least bit childish. I am a Louisvillian by birth and inclination and am happy to be back in the Bluegrass State after 15 years away. As a smart friend once told me, “The horizon is the portal to the dream”.
Here are Sam’s five picks for Off The Record:
