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Lex Medlin from ”CSI: Vegas” - Episode 982

Lex Medlin is best known for his characters Beau Finado from CSI: Vegas, Owen French in Drop Dead Diva, and Detective Andy Williams in Southland. He has also guest starred on countless shows such as Supernatural, Monk, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Hot in Cleveland, Castle, The Mentalist, Modern Family, Criminal Minds, Shameless, Mayans M.C. as well as over 100 national commercials.

 

 

Roger Earl from Foghat - Episode 981

Roger Earl is an English drummer best known as a member of the rock band Foghat. A founding member, along with guitarist and vocalist "Lonesome" Dave Peverett, guitarist Rod Price, and bassist Tony Stevens, Earl is the only member to feature in every lineup of the band. Foghat rose to superstardom in the 70's with hits like Slow Ride, I Just Want to Make Love to You, and Fool for the City. They've recorded over 15 studio albums, and their 1977 release, Foghat Live went double platinum.

 

Randy Jackson from Zebra - Episode 980

Randy is best known as the frontman for the rock band Zebra. Zebra has recorded four studio albums and had hits with the singles "Who's Behind the Door" and "Tell Me What You Want". (Which both had popular videos on MTV. The band still tours, and Randy also does solo shows and productions with an orchestra behind him playing classic rock songs.

Jesse Colin Young - Episode 979

Jesse Colin Young is an American singer and songwriter. He was a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s group the Youngbloods. After their dissolution in 1972, Young embarked on a solo career, releasing a series of albums through Warner Bros. Records, including Song for Juli (1973), Light Shine (1974), Songbird (1975) and the live album On the Road (1976). Young continued to release music in the 1980s with Elektra Records and Cypress Records before deciding to release music through his personal label, Ridgetop Music, in 1993. After the Mount Vision Fire in 1995, Young relocated with his family to a coffee plantation in Hawaii, periodically releasing music. Young received a diagnosis of chronic Lyme disease in 2012 and decided to retire from music. He began performing again in 2016 with his son Tristan, releasing a new album Dreamers in 2019 through BMG.

Greg Hawkes from The Cars - Episode 978

Grego Hawkes is an American musician and member of the Rock & Roll HOF for being the keyboardist and founding member of the American new wave band The Cars. He is credited with helping popularize new wave and synth-pop in American popular music. The Cars have sold over 23 million in the United States and had 13 singles that reached the Top 40. They also played both Live Aid and the US Festival.

Princess Goes - Episode 977

Princess Goes is the buzzy band led by the charismatic showmanship and signature voice of vocalist, lyricist, musician and actor Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Six Feet Under, Lazarus) alongside keyboardist Matt Katz-Bohen (Blondie, Cyndie Lauper) and drummer Peter Yanowitz (The Wallflowers, Morningwood). They released their latest album, Come of Age, earlier this month and embarked on a European tour and have a tour of the US coming up.

Maddie Corman - Episode 976

Award winning actress Maddie Corman had been working professionally since she was a teenager, appearing in "after school specials" and such classic 80s teen fodder as Seven Minutes in Heaven and John Hughes' Some Kind of Wonderful. She was also series regular on Mr. President starring George C Scott, All American Girl and Almost There and had a recurring role on Madame Secretary, Divorce, Younger and Bull. Some of her other work includes guest starring on TV shows or co-starring in feature films such as Ford Fairlane, PCU, Swingers, Mickey Blue Eyes, Maid in Manhattan, Nurse Jackie, Person of Interest, Damages and Law & Order. (All 3 of them.)

Courtney Taylor-Taylor from The Dandy Warhols - Episode 975

Courtney Taylor-Taylor, is an American singer-songwriter from Portland, Oregon. He is the lead singer and guitarist of alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols, a band he co-founded. He has written the majority of the band's songs. The Dandy Warhols The band gained recognition after they were signed to Capitol Records and released their major label album debut, ...The Dandy Warhols Come Down in 1997. In 2001, the band rose to new levels of fame after their song Bohemian Like You enjoyed extensive exposure due to being featured in a Vodafone advertisement. The Dandy Warhols were the subject of the 2004 documentary film Dig, along with The Brian Jonestown Massacre. They have released 10 studio albums, two compilation albums, six EPs, and and 28 singles to date.

Jesse James Dupree from Jackyl - Episode 974

Jesse James Dupree has spent the last four decades placing his personal vision in to forward motion, achieving success with the majority of endeavors he's chosen to commit his energies to. It all began back in 1992 with the platinum release of his debut JACKYL album (Geffen). Successful album releases followed both with the band and solo. In 2009, the first season of "Full Throttle Saloon" was broadcast on TruTV, featuring Dupree and partner Michael Ballard. Following a fire in September, 2015, the duo relocated Full Throttle Saloon to a parcel of land fifteen times the size of the original location where the largest biker bar in The World continues to flourish annually tied to the Sturgis rally. Dupree is a consultant immersed in the business of Harley-Davidson, the owner of Jesse James American Outlaw Bourbon, and a new venture tied to analytically monitoring data tied to the commercial radio industry. JACKYL continues to be an attraction at festivals, headline shows and rallies annually staging dozens of performances a year. He continues to place his energies towards a dozen or more ventures fueled by multifaceted personal interests.

John Fugelsang - Episode 973

He's been murdered on CSI, interviewed 2 Beatles on separate continents in the same week, and famously once got Mitt Romney's advisor to call Governor Romney an 'etch a sketch' on CNN. Actor, comedian & broadcaster John Fugelsang hosts 'Tell Me Everything" weekdays on SiriusXM Insight #121.  

He recently performed in 'The Bill of Rights Concert" alongside Lewis Black & Dick Gregory which aired on AXS.   He's also appeared at Montreal’s ‘Just for Laughs’ Festival, HBO’s U.S Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, hosted America's Funniest Home Videos for ABC and Bill Maher called him ‘one of my favorite comedians’.  

Film/TV credits include 'Price Check' opposite Parker Posey, "Becker," "Providence," "Coyote Ugly,"  the religious standup performance film "The Coexist Comedy Tour" (which won Best Documentary at the NYC Vision Fest film festival).  He appears in the upcoming features "The Girl On The Train," "Maggie Black," and he plays two roles in the romantic comedy ‘The Whole Truth’ starring Elisabeth Rohm and Eric Roberts.   

Musical Youth - Episode 972

Musical Youth are a British reggae band formed in 1979 in Birmingham, England. They are best remembered for their 1982 single "Pass the Dutchie", which was a number 1 in multiple charts around the world. Their other hits include Youth of Today Never Gonna Give You Up, and Unconditional Love, a collaboration with Donna Summer.  Musical Youth recorded two albums and earned a Grammy Award nomination before disbanding in 1985 after a series of personal problems. The band returned in 2001 as a duo.

Right Said Fred - Episode 971

Right Said Fred is made up of the Fairbrass brothers. (Richard and Fred.) They are best known for their smash hit, I'm Too Sexy, which spent 6 weeks at the No. 2 spot in the UK charts and 4 months is the UK top 10. On the US Billboard Charts it was 1 for 3 weeks and hit the top of the charts internationally in 32 countries. They have achieved 25 million sales worldwide and have won two Ivor Novello Awards and one BMI Award. They have released nine albums, shared stages with big names all over the world, achieved a Brit award nomination, played in front of the Queen and released a track for Comic Relief. 

Bill Wadhams - Episode 970

Bill Wadhams is best known as one of the lead singers and guitarist for the band Animotion. They had a top ten hit with Obsession and also found success with the singles Let Him Go, I Engineer and Room to Move. Bill left the band the band in 1987 but reformed it in 2001 and they still tour. Bill also plays gig around Portland and has been working on a one-man show titled Up In The Air - A Musical Memoir.

Ian Buchanan - Episode 969

Ian Buchanan is known for his roles as Dr. James Warwick in The Bold and the Beautiful, Duke Lavery in General Hospital, Dick Tremayne in Twin Peaks, Dr. Greg Madden in All My Children, Ian McAllister in Days of Our Lives and Ian McFyfer in It's Garry Shandling's Show. He has also appeared in various other TV shows and movies such as The Nanny, NYPD Blue, Quantum Leap, Port Charles, Panic Room, Alias, and Nip/Tuck.

Vini ”Mad Dog” Lopez from The E Street Band - Episode 968

Vini "Mad Dog" Lopez in a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame from his time playing drums with Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band. He appeared on the albums Greetings from Asbury Park. N.J. and The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle. After leaving The Boss, he has played in numerous Jersey Shore and Florida bands including the Wonderful Winos and the Hula Hula Boys.

 

Thaao Penghlis - Episode 967

Thaao is best known for his dual role as Tony DiMera and Andre DiMera on Days of Our Lives. He also appeared on Santa Barbara, and General Hospital where he played Victor Cassadine. He has also appeared on many major crime shows such as Kojak, Cannon, Hart to Hart, Tenspeed and Brown Shoe and Magnum P.I. plus he starred in the late 80's remake of Mission Impossible. An accomplished stage actor and master storyteller he has released book two books and his podcast, The Lost Treasures, will debut in September.

Shannon DeVido - Episode 966

Shannon DeVido has recently been seen co-starring in Lucky Hank that stars Bob Oedenkirk and High Desert which stars Patricia Arquette. Other credits include Manifest, Insatiable, Difficult People, Law & Order: Special Victims, Best Summer Ever and The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.

Kevin Rowland from Dexys Midnight Runners - Episode 965

Kevin Rowland is the lead singer for Dexys Midnight Runners. (Now called Dexys.) They are an English pop rock band from Birmingham, with soul influences, who achieved major commercial success in the early to mid-1980s. They are best known in the UK for their songs Come on Eileen and Geno, both of which peaked at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart, as well as six other top-20 singles. Come On Eileen also topped the US Billboard Hot 100, and with extensive airplay on MTV they are associated with the second British Invasion.

Elie Honig - Episode 964

Elie Honig joined CNN as a legal analyst in 2018 and is the best-selling author of two books, Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor's Code and Corrupted the Justice Department and the latest, Untouchable: How Powerful 
People Get Away with It, as well as the host of the podcast, Up Against the Mob. He has also worked for the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York, specializing in prosecuting members of the mafia and he 
rose to Deputy Chief of the Organized Crime Unit before moving over to the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office as Deputy Director of the Division of Criminal Justice.

 

David Sancious from The E Street Band - Episode 963

Long regarded as one of the premier musicians in the world, David Sancious was an original member of Bruce Springsteen 's E Street Band, toured and recorded with Peter Gabriel, Sting, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Santana, Seal and a long list of A-level musicians. He also created groundbreaking music with his band Tone. He is a member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and as a solo artist he has released ten albums.

Tommy Stinson - Episode 962

Tommy Stinson's group Cowboys in the Campfire recently released the album Wronger. He is the former bassist of The Replacements and Guns N' Roses (1998-2014) and has had a solo career and been in Soul Asylum, Perfect and Bash & Pop.

Liz Vassey - Episode 961

Liz Vassey is best known for her roles as Emily Ann Sago on All My Children, Captain Liberty in The Tick, Wendy Simms in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Nikki in the Web series Nikki & Nora. She has been a regular or recurring character in many other series including Maximum Bob, Brotherly Love, Necessary Roughness and Two and a Half Men. She has also guest starred or co-starred in many other shows such as Castle, Dharma & Greg, Dawson's Creek and Early Edition. Lately she has been writing and selling screenplays and TV projects, produced and directed the documentary The Human Race and acted in the last season of A Million Little Things and the two-part series finale of NCIS: Los Angeles.

George Lynch - Episode 960

George Lynch is a guitarist, best known for his work with the hard rock band Dokken and his post-Dokken solo band Lynch Mob. He is considered one of the most famous and influential 1980s metal guitarists and is known for his unique playing style and sound. He is ranked No. 47 on "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" by Guitar World magazine and No. 10 on "Top 10 Metal Guitarists of All Time" by Gibson.

Mike Peters - Episode 959

Mike Peters returns to CooperTalk.  Mike is best known for being the lead singer for The Alarm. Since 1981The Alarm that has had 17 Top 50 UK singles, a host of successful albums and over 6 million album sales worldwide. Following an initial breakthrough in the USA with 1983's The Stand along with Sixty Eight Guns that entered into the UK chart soon after, The Alarm headlined their own Spirit of '86 Concert before 26,000 fans in Los Angeles, that was beamed around the world via MTV's first ever live global satellite broadcast. Other hits of the band include Sold Me Down the River, Declaration, Rain in the Summertime, Rescue Me and Blaze of Glory.

Daniel Ash - Episode 958

As a founding member of the ground breaking Bauhaus, multi-instrumentalist Daniel Ash has distinguished himself in the world of contemporary music. He later went on to form Tones on Tail and Love and Rockets. Bauhaus were an English rock band formed in Northampton in 1978. Known for their dark image and gloomy sound, they are one of the pioneers of gothic rock, although they mixed many genres, including dub, glam rock, psychedelia, and funk. Love and Rockets were formed in 1985 by former Bauhaus members Daniel Ash, David J and Kevin Haskins after that group split in 1983. Ash and Haskins had recorded and performed in another band, Tones on Tail, between 1982 and 1984. 

Jeff Pilson - Episode 957

Jeff is currently the bassist for Foreigner. He joined the band in 2004. He was also a member of melodic metal bands Dokken, Dio and MSG. Additionally, he played in the band Wild Horses which also featured drummer James Kottack (Scorpions, Kingdom Come), guitarist Rick Steier (Kingdom Come, Warrant), and singer John Levesque. He formed his own progressive metal group called War and Peace in 1989, handling all of the vocals, along with his instrumental work. He has also acted, having appeared in the movie Rock Star. He played bassist Jorgen, of the fictional band Steel Dragon. The film also featured performances by musicians such as Zakk Wylde, Jason Bonham, Myles Kennedy, Brian Vander Ark, Blas Elias and Nick Catanese. He played in the film’s soundtrack and served as Musical Director for the film. His latest project is the band Revolution Saints who recently released an album.

Craig Bierko - Episode 956

Actor Craig Bierko’s film roles include Timothy in the 1996 action film The Long Kiss Goodnight which he credits for being cast in darkly humorous roles such as Max Baer in Cinderella Man opposite Russell Crowe, Tom Ryan in Scary Movie 4 (spoofing Tom Cruise throughout the film), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and The Thirteenth Floor. In 2000 Bierko made his Broadway debut as Professor Harold Hill in Susan Stroman's critically acclaimed revival of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man. He played “the jazz guy” Ray King, a love interest for Carrie Bradshaw in the fourth season of Sex and the City, attorney Jeffrey Coho on season three of the ABC television series Boston Legal and one of four newly divorced friends on Fox’s short-lived Unhitched. He was cast as Dave Lister in the pilot for the American TV version of the British show Red Dwarf and has appeared twice on TV's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - first as Andy Eckerson, a United States Deputy Marshal who is working with the SVU (and ex-flame Det. Olivia Benson) to recapture an escaped convict and several years later, a serial rapist. He also appeared for four seasons in the Peabody Award-winning series UnREAL as Chet Wilton, the eccentric, drug addicted, womanizing creator of a reality dating show. Recently, he appeared on The Blacklist as The Chairman, the coldly sociopathic head of an underground stock market for criminals and will be seen on season two of the hit Netflix show Sex/Life as a superstar literary agent.

Craig would love you to donate to Loma Linda University Children's Hospital: https://lluch.org/ways-give

Michael Lehmann - Episode 955

Michael Lehmann is probably most noted for directing the black comedy Heathers. He also directed 40 Days and 40 Nights, The Truth About Cats & Dogs, Hudson Hawk, Meet the Applegates, Airheads and Because I Said So. He also directs for television and has worked on the short-lived HBO comedy series The Comeback and NBC's The West Wing. He has guest directed on The Larry Sanders Show, Watching Ellie and Century City. Other credits include Big Love, True Blood, Californication, Snowfall, The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window, Veronica Mars, Jessica Jones, Blunt Talk, Tyrant, House of Lies and many more.

Nik Kershaw - Episode 954

Nik Kershaw exploded onto the UK pop scene in 1984 as a solo artist. A string of global hit singles – including ‘Wouldn’t it Be Good’, ‘The Riddle’ and his biggest hit, ‘I Won’t Let the Sun Go Down on Me’ – helped to propel him to 62 weeks on the UK Singles Chart through 1984 and 1985 – beating every other solo artist, together with performing at Live Aid. After stepping out of the limelight to concentrate on writing and producing, Nik wrote Chesney Hawkes’s ‘The One and Only’ and has collaborated with Elton John (including writing and producing one of the songs on the Duets album), Sia, Gary Barlow and Bonnie Tyler, whilst continuing to release his own well-reviewed studio albums, featuring his distinctive voice and highly personal lyrics. He also regularly plays festivals and performs live to his loyal and fervent fanbase.

Brian Thompson - Episode 953

Brian Thompson played the villainous Night Slasher in the 1986 film Cobra. His first named role was on Werewolf, a horror series that ran during Fox's inaugural broadcasting year of 1987–1988. Thompson has played several characters in the Star Trek franchise—the most notable being the Klingon Lieutenant Klag in which he informed Riker that “Gagh is always best when served live”, the Alien Bounty Hunter on The X-Files and Eddie Fiori on Kindred: The Embraced. In 2014, he produced, wrote and starred in the B-movie parody The Extendables.

Joe Genaro - Episode 952

Joe Genaro is a musician and songwriter, best known for the punk rock group The Dead Milkmen. The Dead Milkmen formed in 1983, evolving out of a home-recording project with a mythological back story that Genaro had begun in 1979. The members of the group regularly employed pseudonyms, and Genaro most frequently called himself "Joe Jack Talcum" (stemming from the character of Jack Talcum that Genaro had imagined as the leader of the band in their mythology) in the context of the group, although he also used the pseudonyms "Butterfly Fairweather" and "Jasper Thread" on certain records. The band's debut LP, Big Lizard in My Backyard was released in 1985, and their initial twelve-year career saw some college radio and MTV success, notably surrounding singles "Bitchin' Camaro" (1986) and "Punk Rock Girl" (1988). Genaro acted as the group's guitarist, co-lead vocalist and co-songwriter, and occasionally played keyboards and piano. The band originally disbanded in 1995 but have reunited since. 

Vincent Pastore - Episode 951

Vincent Pastore is best known for his portrayal of Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on the HBO series The Sopranos. Other credits include Goodfellas, State of Grace, Awakenings, Carlito's Way, The Jerky Boys, Law & Order, Bull, Gotti, The Practice, Pair of Kings, Hawaii Five-0, Wu-Tang: An American Saga and Gravesend. He also has been on Broadway in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway and has directed stage productions. 

Mike Tramp - Episode 950

Mike Tramp is best known as the lead singer from the band White Lion. Mainly active in the 1980s and early 1990s, they released their debut album Fight to Survive in 1985. The band achieved success with their No. 8 hit Wait and No. 3 hit When the Children Cry from their second album, the double platinum selling Pride. The band continued their success with their third album, Big Game which achieved gold status and their fourth album Mane Attraction. White Lion disbanded in 1992. Since then, Mike has been in the band Freak of Nature and also has had a solo career and toured with different line-ups of White Lion.

 

Ryan O’Nan - Episode 949

Ryan O'Nan is best known for his roles as Donno on the ABC hit Big Sky and as King George USA's Queen of the South. (He also is a producer for both.) Other TV credits include recurring roles in such shows as Ray Donovan, Fargo, Swimming with Sharks and Blackout and guest star spots on Animal Kingdom, The Last Tycoon, Proof, Person of Interest, The Blacklist and Wu-Tang: An American Saga. (Which he was a producer/writer on.)

Stephen Tobolowsky - Episode 948

Stephen Tobolowsky is an actor best known for film roles such as insurance agent Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day, and amnesiac Sammy Jankis in Memento, as well as such television characters as Commissioner Hugo Jarry (Deadwood), Bob Bishop (Heroes), Sandy Ryerson (Glee), Stu Beggs (Californication and White Famous), "Action" Jack Barker (Silicon Valley), Dr. Leslie Berkowitz (One Day at a Time), and Principal Earl Ball (The Goldbergs.) 

Sananda Maitreya - Episode 947

Sananda Maitreya, who started his career with the stage name Terence Trent D'Arby, is an American singer and songwriter who came to fame with his debut studio album, "Introducing the Hardline According to Terence Trent D'Arby". That album produced the hits Sign Your Name, Dance Little Sister and the number one Wishing Well. The album earned a Grammy and he appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone. Since then, he has released 13 studio albums and in most of his albums he plays all instruments and all songs are written, produced, arranged, performed and conceived by the artist, except where indicated. 

 

 

 

James Eckhouse - Episode 946

James Eckhouse has had a varied and distinguished career as an actor and director in film, television, and theater for over 35 years. He is best known for his role as Jim Walsh on Beverly Hills 90210. He has had guest starring roles on many TV series including Chicago Med, The Rookie, Station 19, The Affair, Code Black, NCIS, Major Crimes, Castle, The Good Wife, Southland, Criminal Minds, West Wing, and Once and Again and has also appeared in numerous movies such as The Avengers, S.W.A.T., Guess Who, One True Thing, Junior, Defending Your Life, 84 Charing Cross Road, Fat Man and Little Boy, Fatal Attraction, Cocktail, Big and Leaving Normal. 

Adam Ferrara - Episode 945

Adam Ferrara is an Actor, Comedian who Entertainment Weekly dubbed “Hilarious,” and co-hosted the critically acclaimed BBC sensation, Top Gear US, for six seasons. Some of his other credits include playing Chief Needles Nelson on the Emmy nominated FX drama Rescue Me, co-starred with Emmy Award winner Edie Falco on Showtime’s hit series Nurse Jackie and starring alongside Kevin James in the hit movie Paul Blart: Mall Cop. His new podcast, The Adam Ferrara Podcast is a breakout hit and considered a “must listen” by Hidden Remote and his new comedy album It’s Scary in Here, debuted number one on iTunes.

Jill Whelan - Episode 944

Jill Whelan is best known for her role as Vickie Stubing, the daughter of Captain Stubing, in the first nine seasons of the popular television series The Love Boat and for playing Lisa Davis, the young heart patient, in the iconic movie, Airplane. Through her career she has made numerous other appearances in shows such as Fantasy Island, Vegas, Trapper John M.D., Matt Houston and Battle of the Network Stars.

Matthew Laurance Episode 943

Actor Matthew Laurance is best known for starring as Ben Coleman in the Fox sitcom Duet and for his recurring role as Mel Silver on Beverly Hills, 90210. Other roles include playing Sal Amato is Eddie and the Cruisers and Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives, and Ron Dellasandro in St. Elmo's Fire. He was also a regular on Saturday Night Live for one season. He currently is an on-air sports radio personality for ESPN in Lexington, KY. 

Ed Marinaro - Episode 942

Ed Marinaro was a three-time All American at Cornell University and in 1971 was the runner-up for the Heisman Trophy and went on to play in the NFL for the Vikings and Jets. After he retired, he pursued acting. He landed a role in Laverne & Shirley and then went on to play Officer Joe Coffey for 6 seasons on Hill Street Blues. Other credits include Sisters, Dynasty, Falcon Crest, Amy Fisher: My Story, Dream On, Third Watch, Blue Mountain State, The Many Saints of Newark and numerous others.

 

 

Al Stewart - Episode 941

Al Stewart came to stardom as part of the legendary British folk revival in the sixties and seventies and developed the combination of folk-rock songs with delicately woven tales of the great characters and events from history. He has 19 studio albums between “Bedsitter Images” in 1967 and “Sparks of Ancient Light” in 2008, plus the live album "Uncorked" with Dave Nachmanoff in 2009. He is perhaps best known for his hits ‘Year of the Cat” from the Platinum album of the same name and the Platinum follow up album “Time Passages.” But his career spans four decades as a key figure in British music. He played at the first ever Glastonbury Festival in 1970, worked with Yoko Ono pre-Lennon and shared a London apartment with a young Paul Simon.

Vonda Shepard - Episode 940

Vonda Shepard talks with Steve Cooper. Vonda is best known for her work on Ally McBeal. She was the “Greek Chorus” for Ally’s emotions and thoughts. There were often cover tunes from the 50’s, 60’s and earlier back, but David E. Kelley (the show's creator) would always interweave her original songs throughout the five years of Ally McBeal. She sold over twelve million albums, has won two Golden Globes, two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actor’s Guild awards and recorded nine solo albums. She also holds the Billboard prize for selling the most TV soundtracks in history.  

John Cafferty - Episode 939

John Cafferty talks with Steve Cooper. John is best known for his work with John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band who began their career in 1972 and achieved mainstream success in the 1980s with the Eddie & The Cruisers - Motion Picture Soundtrack.  The hit single On the Dark Side held the Number-One position on the Billboard Rock charts and the MTV video charts for five consecutive weeks.  The album sold over 3 million copies and was certified triple Platinum by the RIAA. The title track from the group's 1985 follow-up album Tough All Over became their second Number-One single on the Billboard Rock charts and the song C-I-T-Y reached the Billboard Top 20.  John's solo track Hearts on Fire was featured in the Sylvester Stallone film Rocky IV and he received his second double Platinum soundtrack award.  Over the years John has placed 35 songs in major motion pictures. 

Kenny Wayne Shepherd - Episode 938

Kenny Wayne Shepherd is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.  He has released several studio albums and experienced significant commercial success as a blues artist.   From 1995 on, he took seven singles into the Top 10, and holds the record for the longest-running album on the Billboard Blues Charts with Trouble Is... In 1996, he began a longtime collaboration with vocalist Noah Hunt, who provided the vocals for Shepherd's signature song, Blue on Black. He has been nominated for five Grammy Awards and has received two Billboard Music Awards, two Blues Music Awards and two Orville H. Gibson Awards.

Scott Schwartz - Episode 937

Steve Cooper talks with actor Scott Schwartz. Scott is best known for his role as Flick in A Christmas Story and A Christmas Story Christmas and for co-starring with Jackie Gleason and Richard Pryor in The Toy. He's also in appeared in TV shows and movies such as Kidco, A Time to Live, Raiders of the Living Dead, 21 Jump Street and The Comeback Kids.

Rita Rudner - Episode 936

Rita Rudner is a house-filling favorite in Las Vegas since she opened as one of the hottest tickets in town in June 2000. Over the course of a multi-year run she sold almost two million tickets, grossed over a hundred million dollars and become the longest-running solo female comedy show in the history of Las Vegas. She was named Las Vegas’s Comedian of The Year nine years in a row and in 2006 received The Nevada Ballet’s Woman of the Year Award. In October 2017 she was given the Casino Entertainment Legend Award. Her first solo HBO special, Rita Rudner’s One Night Stand, was nominated for several awards, as was her eponymous English BBC television show that later appeared in the USA on A&E. Her two one-hour specials for HBO, Born to Be Mild and Married Without Children, were ratings standouts and she performed all over the country, filling Carnegie Hall in New York three times. In 2008 Rita Rudner: Live From Las Vegas was PBS’s first ever stand-up comedy special. She has written five books; her bestselling non-fiction titles, Naked Beneath My Clothes, Rita Rudner’s Guide to Men and I Still Have It…I Just Can’t Remember Where I Put It, plus the novels Tickled Pink and Turning the Tables. and recently completed her autobiography, My Life in Dog Years.

Deirdre Lovejoy - Episode 935

Steve Cooper talks with actor Deirdre Lovejoy. Deirdre is best known for her roles as Rhonda Pearlman on HBO's iconic series The Wire and Cynthia Panabaker on The Blacklist. Some of her other TV and film credits include Law & Order: SVU, Big Dogs, Raising Dion, Trollville, The Good Fight, NCIS: New Orleans, I Am Elizabeth Smart, Bull, Elementary, Shameless, American Gothic, Thirsty, Orange Is the New Black, Girls, American Horror Story, Bad Teacher, Bones, The Stepfather and Criminal Minds. She has also appeared in four Broadway productions including Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy starring Tom Hanks. 

Karen Duffy - Episode 934

Steve Cooper talks with author/model/television personality/actress Karen Duffy. Duff burst onto the scene as a VJ for MTV. She went on to have roles in films including Dumb and Dumber and Blank Check, working as a correspondent for the Michael Moore television shows TV Nation and The Awful Truth, and being a Revlon Charlie Girl as well as the face for Almay Cosmetics. In 1995 she was diagnosed with sarcoidosis and since then has written three popular books and recently was one of the producers on the movie The Greatest Beer Run Ever. 

Joe Lynn Turner - Episode 933

Steve Cooper talks with Joe Lynn Turner. Joe is best known for being lead singer of Rainbow from 1980-1984 and for his solo career. With Rainbow his vocals powered the seminal Difficult to Cure in 1981, going gold in the UK, France, and Japan in addition to cracking the Top 50 of the Billboard Top 200 and Top 3 on the UK Top Albums Chart. A year later, he ignited their Straight Between the Eyes, which spawned the Hot 100 hit “Stone Cold.” During 1988, a Polygram VP wanted him to extend his writing and singing skills to collaborate with legendary shred virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen for his project Rising Force. Their album, Odyssey, scaled the Top 40 of the Top 200. Not long after, he reteamed with Blackmore for Deep Purple’s Slaves and Masters [1990], reaching gold status in Switzerland and Japan. In addition, he has co-written for and appeared on classics such as Mick Jones’s Mick Jones, Riot’s The Privilege of Power and Lita Ford’s Dangerous Curves, to name a few. Not to mention, he lent his background vocals to Michael Bolton’s double-platinum The Hunger, Cher’s platinum Cher, Billy Joel’s Storm Front [1989], and many more.