Interviews with notable New Orleans musicians - Jonathan Freilich Presents Jonathan Freilich

Tony Green is a rare frontman in a city of sidemen and women. He really delivers in a live situation, but is persistently involved in interesting recording projects. Here he talks about his newest projects as well as his start early in New Orleans and on the streets of London, England.

Here the duo often known as the self-righteous brothers run a comedic ramble through their origin story.

Discussions of his involvement in Cajun music, the album recently released and another by acid-folk icon, Peter Stampfel.

How all her interests feed or inform each other; productiveness, or lack of, during Covid-19 stay-at-home order; more on adding creative outlets; writing poetry; Novel writing and publishing short stories;  creative takes on Sherlock Holmes; Ernst Bloch; Albert Einstein’s problems with counting in music; releasing singles; working with Johnny Sketch and the Dirty Notes recently; Coronavirus situational songs;

Part 3

Return to New Orleans; the poor claires; playing with Ancestro and music from Peru/Bolivia/Chile/Honduras/Guatemala/ Ecuador/Argentina; Nueva Cancion movement; Functioning with A.D.D.;signs of getting better; split screen jam sessions and jamming with the dryer; Hybrid Vigor album; focussing on eking out a living on the internet; jamming with the dryer; mixing or fusing styles; the magpie; approach to lyrical content; reaching an emotional point that stopped the songwriting; writing fiction; learning style and fleshing out the writing; urban fantasy; shape shifting and whether or not Beth is a werewolf; her novel, The Wild Harmonic

Konokol; Shruti boxes; Southall; South Indian Composers; Subbarama Dikshitar; Thyagaraja Swami; Cajun Beatles; getting involved in Celtic archaeology; Ogham; learning Irish music by total immersion; learning the etiquette and manners of playing sessions and round buying; getting back to Louisiana in 1994 and reverse culture shock; OJ trial and Kill Barney; Josh Paxton; The Poor Claires; Hitchhiking the British Isles collecting tunes; stories from the different regions; in Oban; to Glasgow or bust; to Wales; slagging in Belfast; in the Isle of Man and speaking Manx;