Ivan Neville, son of Aaron Neville and nephew of the other Neville Brothers, has been on the national music scene since 1983. You'll find him on albums by his band Dumpstaphunk, his Dad, The Neville Brothers, Bonnie Raitt, The Rolling Stones and many others. Ivan is a multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. Multi-award winning program director Ray White, sat down backstage with Ivan to talk about his new solo album - Touch My Soul, his collaborations, the possibility of a next generation Neville Brothers Band and much more. In our showcase segment we close out 2023 with two other bands who had excellent albums during the year: Duran Duran with Danse Macabre and Ann Wilson (Heart) with Another Door. Crusin' into the New Year with the CAT!
Denny Tedesco is director of the films The Wrecking Crew and the brand new release Immediate Family. Both of these documentary films are about world-class musicians that you'll find on hundreds of albums and thousands of songs by artists who are in numerous Hall of Fame's and won hundreds of Grammy awards. Played in film festivals around the United States, Immediate Family has garnered well over a dozen awards and is released to theaters everywhere on December 15, 2023. Multi-award winning program director Ray White caught up with Denny at the Virginia Film Festival in October of 2023 before the viewing of this fantastic film. They talked about his background growing up (son of The Wrecking Crew member Tommy Tedesco), briefly on The Wrecking Crew film and various aspects of the brand new Immediate Family (Danny Kortchmar, Leland Sklar, Russ Kunkel, Waddy Wachtel & Steve Postell) film. We'll take you on a journey back to the heyday of Rock and Pop music on this episode. Be sure to listen to Episode 143 too, where we're joined by Waddy Wachtel of The Immediate Family! Don't miss this show (or film)!!