The Jim Motavalli Interview Podcast

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The Jim Motavalli Interview Podcast

Jim Motavalli of WPKN features interviews new and archival - artists, movers, shakers, and more.

  1. Mark Weinstein: Restoring Our Sanity Online

    MAR 19

    Mark Weinstein: Restoring Our Sanity Online

    Mark Weinstein's new book is Restoring Our Sanity Online: A Revolutionary Social Framework, published by Wiley. Here, he dissects Web 1, until 2001, Web 2--our current state of "Surveillance Capitalism" with dominance by Facebook and Google--and the hopefully more enlightened and less privacy-invading states of Web 3 and Web 4.

    18 min
  2. Jazz Singer Stacey Kent Takes on an All-Jobim Program

    MAR 19

    Jazz Singer Stacey Kent Takes on an All-Jobim Program

    A subtle and exquisite jazz vocalist, Stacey Kent has long had a love affair with the music of Brazil, and especially that of Antonio Carlos Jobim. On April 12 she joins with Danilo Caymmi (long a member of Jobim's band) for a tribute to bossa nova's greatest composer.

    21 min
  3. Colin Newman (ex-Wire) and Malka Spigel (ex-Githead) Talk about their Immersion Performance at the 2025 Big Ears Festival

    MAR 18

    Colin Newman (ex-Wire) and Malka Spigel (ex-Githead) Talk about their Immersion Performance at the 2025 Big Ears Festival

    Colin Newman of Wire fame and Malka Spigel of Githead first recorded their electronic music as Immersion for the Oscillating album in 1994. They're set to play the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee on March 27. Here they talk to Jim Motavalli from Little Rock, Arkansas.

    21 min

  4. FEB 26

    Derek and Hannah Jeter Talk Family--and Cars

    Derek and Hannah Jeter were interviewed in upstate New York on the set of a commercial they were making for the Jeep Grand Wagoneer Obsidian Edition. They talked about family, and cars.

    30 min
  5. Phoebe White: African-American Country Yodeler

    FEB 26

    Phoebe White: African-American Country Yodeler

    Phoebe White is an accomplished yodeler, and demonstrates her skills in this WPKN interview. Her album is Cowgirl's Delight, and it includes appearances from Riders in the Sky and Suzy Bogguss. Six of the 10 tunes are her own. White could be said to part of the movement that includes Rhiannon Giddens and is not only reclaiming the African-American heritage in country music, but blazing her own path in forming its future.

    11 min
  6. Roots Music Exemplar Miss Tess in Louisiana

    FEB 26

    Roots Music Exemplar Miss Tess in Louisiana

    Miss Tess, one of our most talented roots singers, songwriters and multi-instrumentalists, has just put out Cher Rêve, an album dedicated to exploring Louisiana's southern Acadiana region and in specific the "magical" city of Lafayette, home of the Blackpot Festival (about music and food). Instead of the Big Easy, Lafayette is the sleepy "Little Easier."

    18 min
  7. Irish Singer Karan Casey's World View

    FEB 26

    Irish Singer Karan Casey's World View

    The Irish singer Karan Casey's most recent album is Nine Apples of Gold. She tours regularly in the US, where Irish music has a huge audience. Casey was a member of the popular band Solas, and is a founder of Fairplé, which works to achieve fairness and gender balance for female performers in Irish traditional music.

    21 min
  8. Syrian Clarinetist Kinan Azmeh Blends Jazz, World and Classical Music

    FEB 26

    Syrian Clarinetist Kinan Azmeh Blends Jazz, World and Classical Music

    The Syrian-born master clarinet player is now based in Brooklyn, and making his hard-to-characterize music--a meld of jazz, Middle Eastern and classical influences--with the CityBand. His latest album was recorded live in Berlin.

    17 min
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    Jim Motavalli of WPKN features interviews new and archival - artists, movers, shakers, and more.

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    • Creator
      WPKN, Jim Motavalli
    • Years Active
      2024 - 2025
    • Episodes
      19
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      © Jim Motavalli

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