Rockers In Recovery Host John Hollis said during his interview with Ricky Byrd “Folks I just listened to the mastered version of the song it went right to the heart and had us all in tears.“Broken Is A Place” will touch many people and help many people find a new way of life”.
“Broken Is A Place”- the new song written by Ricky Byrd/Richie Supa ,Co produced by Ricky Byrd/Bob Stander, Drums: Shawn Murray, Bass: Bob Stander, Guitars: Ricky Byrd Vocals: Ricky Byrd, Keyboards: Richie Supa, Mixed: Bob Stander, Mastered: Ray Kennedy in Nashville.
“Broken Is A Place” is a must for any download collection. Ricky went to a place only one who has been there can write about and though this song can let others know change is possible.
Ricky Byrd Bio:
Lotta dues Jim, Lotta dues
That’s a line from a play about Lenny Bruce, and man oh man ain’t that the truth!!
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining! I’ve had an unbelievable career so far and I’m very grateful.
Imagine a 13 year old sitting in his bedroom with his first guitar that “almost” stays in tune. He’s dreaming big dreams, hoping someday……you know the rest!
Well I got my wish. I’ve traveled the world with Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, had a couple of hit records and played guitar for two of my favorites–Roger Daltrey and Ian Hunter. I’ve also had the damn good fortune to have shared a stage with everyone from Jimmy Page, Leslie West, Steve Marriott to Rufus Thomas (I got to “Walk the Dog”)
I’ve had artists who I love and respect cover songs I’ve written ,and even got to decorate a wall in Byrdland with a few gold and platinum records.
Nice huh?
Problem is I’m not the kind that can rest on my laurels (you know how painful that can be!).
This is now and now I’m a solo artist–playing my songs, making my music and fighting my battles!
To be honest I’m feeling a little punchy from all the fighting.
But I promise you this…they’’ll have to carry me out of the ring still swingin’ and still singin’.
Let’s face it the music business (what’s left of it) is not for the faint of heart. it can break your spirit and leave you bitter.”It was you Charlie…you shoulda watched out for me. I coulda been a contender!”
Sorry, I had a Brando moment!.
Anyway as the saying goes… you buttered your bread now you gotta sleep in it…or something like that.
Where was I? Oh yeah
These days I have no illusions or expectations other than making the coolest music I can and have fun doing it.
So keep your eyes and ears open cause sooner or later I’ll be coming to your town. It might be a stadium,a theatre,a club or maybe even a coffeehouse, but you can bet the farm I’ll have a big ass grin on my face and be happy to be there.
Christine Ohlman Sunday Night June 5th at 7:00PM EST will be our guest on Rocker In Recovery. She’s the current, long-time vocalist with the Saturday Night Live Band.
We will be talking about Christine’s new CD “The DEEP END” and up her coming appearance at the 12 Step Music Fest.
Christine Ohlman is scheduled to play The 4th Annual 12 Step Music Fest which is a campout for ALL 12 step fellowships. It will be held November 3-6, 2011 at Sugarloaf Key (mile marker 20) KOA Campground in the Florida Keys. The entire campground will be closed to the public.
The heart of Christine Ohlman has belonged to rock n’ roll from just about the moment she could walk and talk. By the time she traveled from Boston to New York on an overnight train to make her first record at the age of 16, writing the “B” side on the way to the studio, she was already a veteran of the local coffeehouse circuit around New Haven, Connecticut.
“The first guy who ever signed me flew down from New York City to hear the band; he signed us the same day,” she says. “We were in the studio practically before we knew what hit us recording a version of Al Kooper’s ‘Wake Me, Shake Me.’ The next thing we knew, we were on the charts and I was in heaven!”
Christine was a founding member of The Scratch Band, legendary throughout the Northeast for their incendiary and eclectic live shows, and her stark, piano-accompanied version of Dusty Springfield’s “I Only Want To Be With You” from their first LP was a turntable hit in the U.K. Beginning in September 1991, a portion of The Scratch Band reunited in the studios of NBC’s Saturday Night Live with Christine joining guitarist/vocalist/musical director G.E. Smith and bassist Paul Ossola, both former Scratch Band members, in the SNL band. At one point, the 11-member group, featuring in its repertoire a heavy dose of Christine’s favorite music—southern soul—took the stage (joined by Ry Cooder, Steve Cropper and Maceo Parker) as the house band for The Rhythm & Blues Foundation Pioneer Awards, a performance that was, in Ohlman’s words, “just about the biggest flat-out thrill of my life. We were doing ‘Tell Mama’ and I looked around to catch Steve Cropper’s eye only to spot Clarence Carter, who wrote the song, standing in the wings waiting to come on. I thought—well, it just doesn’t get much better than this” (although she admits that the 2003 Central Park Summerstage Tribute To Janis Joplin, where she fronted both Big Brother & The Holding Company and the Kozmic Blues Band, and the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Tribute Concert, where she sang with George Harrison, among others, edge out everything for sheer historical vibe).
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While touring and recording with Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez are the main focus, Ohlman has other all-star concert appearances to her credit, including the Lincoln Center “American Songbook” Series (with Sting and Lou Reed), the 2009 Obama Inaugural Gala, and Celebrate Brooklyn’s Tribute to Bill Withers (with Nona Hendryx and My Morning Jacket’s Jim James). She continues to perform with the SNL Band, appearing with Al Green on the show’s 25th Anniversary Special and in the hilarious 2010 commercial parody “Carter n’ Sons Barbeque.”
She is a sought-after studio guest vocalist, appearing on Ian Hunter’s Shrunken Heads (named one the Top 20 CDs of 2007 by the New York Daily News), Big Al Anderson’s Pawn Shop Guitars, and two CDs by esteemed Irish punk group Black 47. Labor of Love: The Music Of Nick Lowe features her vocal collaboration with Marshall Crenshaw on Lowe’s “Cruel To Be Kind.” And her commitment to the blues runs deep, as her scorching duets with the legendary Eddie Kirkland on his CD’s Where You Get Your Sugar and Lonely Street; her guest-shots with Charlie Musselwhite on his Grammy-nominated One Night In America; and her appearance on the Songs Of Willie Dixon (with Sonny Landreth & Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown) and Grammy nominee A Tribute To Howlin’ Wolf (with Taj Mahal & Lucinda Williams) give statement.
Listen Live To Christine Ohlman Sunday Night June 5th at 7:00PM EST Click On Link:
May 28, 2011 1PM-7PM EST Rockers In Recovery Free Concert at 1st Step Sober House in Pompano Beach is going to be an event you don’t want to miss. We will be streaming live here all day. So if you can not join us in person, join us here through our live concert streaming located on the right side of this page.
Free Concert May 28, 1PM-7PM Memorial Day Weekend Picnic -Free Food Free Music. Music Brought To You By Rockers In Recovery, Food By Miami Subs and Grill. Location: The 1ST Step Sober House Of Pompano Beach 450 S.W. 2nd St. Pompano Beach Fl. 33060. Call 954-826-4920 For More Information. Music By Ricky Byrd and The Recovery Rockers Featuring Richie Supa and , Kasim Sulton. Plus Johnny B. and The Road Dogs, Keep Coming Back Band, Thrown Alive and Rhetoric find out more by calling 877-799-8773
The following is our lineup for the Concert:
4:45-6:45 PM EST
Singer-songwriter-guitaristRicky Byrd’s new CD which he describes as “one part acoustic soul, one part rock n roll” -marks quite a departure from his days with Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. Byrd is still rail-thin, still has the haystack of hair and a truckload of attitude, but maturity has served to deepen and expand his talent. Byrd says that the work on his latest project with producer Ray Kennedy “is a natural progression. I went back to the college of musical knowledge, listening to the songs that still, to this day, raise the hair on my arms. Digging deep, trying to find the secret ingredient, studying the craft of songwriting. Now I feel like I’ve got a pretty cool batch of my own songs and I’m ready to show them to the world.”
Billboard described Byrd’s last effort, a limited edition live CD called, with typical Byrd-esque humor, “Tough Room This World”: For many, Ricky Byrd needs no introduction. For others, a brief step back in time may be needed. After…Byrd parted ways with the Blackhearts (he) found himself collaborating with the likes of Roger Daltrey (and) Ian Hunter.
Apparently, others discovered what Jett had known all along: Byrd is one accomplished musician, singer and songwriter.” In fact, Jett and Daltrey (on his solo release “Rocks In The Head”) are among the many artists who have cut covers of Byrd’s material he’s had over 45 of his songs recorded by others — and his music has also been featured on television and in films.
Download Ricky Byrd’s new single “Broken Is A Place” to a CD and bring it with you to the The Memorial Day Weekend Free Concert Saturday May 28, 2011. Ricky will signing the downloaded CD’s at 6:30 PM EST.
Singer/songwriter Kasim Sulton is recognized and respected the world over for his work with other artists, including Todd Rundgren and Utopia, Meat Loaf, Joan Jett, Hall and Oates, Patti Smith, Patty Smyth, Mick Jagger, and Celine Dion to name just a few. His level of involvement has ranged from playing bass, keyboards, and/or guitar, to adding vocal harmonies, singing lead, and contributing as a songwriter, to producing entire albums, as he did with the Meat Loaf VH-1 Storytellers CD, released in 1999. There isn’t much he hasn’t done in his 25 years in the music industry. Visit Kasim at his website at: http://www.kasimsulton.com/
Richard Supa released several albums under his own name, including “Supa’s Jamboree” (1971, Paramount 6009), “Homespun” (197?), “Lifelines” (1976, Epic PE34277) and “Tall Tales” (1978, Polydor PD-1-6155). Richard’s song “Stone County Wanted Man”, which appeared on the “Supa’s Jamboree” album, was recorded by Johnny Winter for his “Saints and Sinners” album.
A longtime friend of Aerosmith, he has made a number of musical contributions to the band and has offered moral support. He temporarily replaced Joe Perry when he left the band in 1979 until a replacement was found. Additionally, he helped co-write several songs, including the hits “Chip Away the Stone” (1978), “Lightning Strikes” (1982), “Amazing” (1993), and “Pink” (1997), among others.
Supa co-wrote most of the songs on Bon Jovi guitarist Richie Sambora’s second solo album Undiscovered Soul. He also wrote the song “Misery” for the album Missundaztood by Pink, on which Aerosmith’s singer Steve Tyler and Richie Sambora collaborated and co-wrote the song “My Interpretation” from Mika‘s debut album Life in Cartoon Motion. He also co wrote Back on Earth for OZZY.
Keep Coming Back is a Hollywood, Florida, based acoustic duo consisting of Chris Waddell and Ed Walsh, both on guitar and vocals. Both Chris and Ed come out of the Jam Band scene, heavily influenced by improvisational bands like The Grateful Dead and Phish. They also share a love of American roots music ranging from folk to blues to rock, jazz, bluegrass and country.
Chris is a veteran of South Florida bands The Wheel, Campfire Nightmares and Sage and Spirit, while Ed plays in Sunflower Conspiracy, formerly known as Second Helping. They both have played all over South Florida for over ten years.
The two musicians stepped up to the plate when they were asked to be featured performers at The Friendship (12-Step) Club in Miami Lakes, which provided the spark to form the group Keep Coming Back.
Johnny B. 2:50 Pm – -3:30PM EST
R&B , Classic Rock -N-Roll sound that brings you back 40 years. Johnny B. commands as a great front man to put a grip on the crowd that shows by the electricity in the air while him and the road dogs play their music. Johnny B. and The Road Dogs preform all over south Florida with a very large following coming out weekly to see their live shows.
Rhetoric 2:00 PM-2:40PM
Rhetoric was formed originally on Jan. 25th 2008. Rhetoric is Currently being managed by Simone Management Christopher “Token” Simmons The band prides itself in it’s diversity of sound with influences ranging from Alice in Chains, BB King, Pink Floyd, Bob Marley and so many more. Rhetoric is currently focusing on South Florida, but has its sights on getting signed and bringing great music to the WORLD!
Thrown Alive 1:15 PM-1:40
Thrown Alive enjoys a 20-year musical partnership between guitarist / vocalist, Roger H. and drummer, Joe D. at its core. The music ranges from the hook-filled hard-rock sound of “Yesterday” and “The Insanity” to the softer, nearly Country music sounds of “Won’t Get High” and “Another Side to Mountains”.
The Venue: 1st Step Sober House:
The 1st Step Sober House 450 SW 2Nd st. Pompano Beach, Florida 33060 Telephone: 954 942 7414
Rockers In Recovery thanks the 1st Step Sober House for letting us use their venue for our second live concert production. This Concert Is A Rockers In Recovery Radio Production and Holistic Lifestyles Radio Network Production Please Call 877-799-8773 or 954-826-4920 for more information on this event or go to http://www.holisticlifestylesradio.com/.
by Holistic Lifestyles Radio on May.09, 2011, under Home
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As our industry continues to change, we at Everlast Productions dedicate ourselves to stay on the cutting edge of technology to better serve our clients in all aspect of the production process. With our competent and creative staff we are redefining expectations from start to finish of the event. We take pride in giving our client and the audience an experience that they will never forget. Please take a few moments to explore this site and see what Everlast can do for you.
Everlast Productions is a leading supplier of lighting, audio, staging, video and projection to the corporate meeting and special event industries for both rental and sales, offering turn-key event production services.
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by Holistic Lifestyles Radio on May.02, 2011, under Home
Everlast Productions is a full production company
With all our talented and experienced staff we are equipped with all the necessary tools and skills required to allow us to take full advantage of an event small or large to the next level quickly, efficiently and safely.
We are the professionals that producers, artist, event planners, hotels and other audio visual companies turn to for their production needs.
As our industry continues to change, we at Everlast Productions dedicate ourselves to stay on the cutting edge of technology to better serve our clients in all aspect of the production process. With our competent and creative staff we are redefining expectations from start to finish of the event. We take pride in giving our client and the audience an experience that they will never forget. Please take a few moments to explore this site and see what Everlast can do for you.
Everlast Productions is a leading supplier of lighting, audio, staging, video and projection to the corporate meeting and special event industries for both rental and sales, offering turn-key event production services.
Everlast Productions serves a wide range of markets, including: • Live events • Television • Theater • Red-carpet media arrivals • Tradeshow exhibits • Social Events • Houses of worship • Fashion Shows • Corporate meetings
People, process, experience and dedication to detail are all reasons why Everlast Productions is the brilliant choice.
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Everlast Productions – Supplies for Events by Holistic Lifestyles Radio on Apr.25, 2011, under Home
Everlast Productions is a full production company With all our talented and experienced staff we are equipped with all the necessary tools and skills required to allow us to take full advantage of an event small or large to the next level quickly, efficiently and safely. We are the professionals that producers, artist, event planners, hotels and other audio visual companies turn to for their production needs. As our industry continues to change, we at Everlast Productions dedicate ourselves to stay on the cutting edge of technology to better serve our clients in all aspect of the production process. With our competent and creative staff we are redefining expectations from start to finish of the event. We take pride in giving our client and the audience an experience that they will never forget. Please take a few moments to explore this site and see what Everlast can do for you. Everlast Productions is a leading supplier of lighting, audio, staging, video and projection to the corporate meeting and special event industries for both rental and sales, offering turn-key event production services. Everlast Productions serves a wide range of markets, including: • Live events • Television • Theater • Red-carpet media arrivals • Tradeshow exhibits • Social Events • Houses of worship • Fashion Shows • Corporate meetings People, process, experience and dedication to detail are all reasons why Everlast Productions is the brilliant choice. Contact us today to discuss your projects. Everlast Event Productions 59 S.W. 12 Ave, Suite 109, Dania Beach, Fl 33004 Phone: (954) 456-7167 Fax: (954) 456-1243 info@everlastproductions.com
East Coast Music Scene Special Guest Rooster by Holistic Lifestyles Radio on Apr.20, 2011, under Home
Bubba Mac Join the East Coast Music Scene at 2PM on April 21, 2011. Bubba Mac and Kevin King will be interviewing Rooster. There are entertainers, musicians, singers, and comedians, but there is only one Rooster! He can lift your spirits and empty your pockets all in the same song! Bawdy humor is not a stranger to Bourbon Street, but Rooster brings it all together musically with a strong Mississippi Delta blues influence like nobody else! As Rooster a/k/a/ Curtis Wheeler (born October 5, 1937) explains on “Born in Mississippi”, his classic blues outing, “I was born in Mississippi, raised down in New Orleans; I ate red beans and rice, made love to a Cajun queen.”† It’s Mississippi Delta electric blues meets Big Easy soul and musicianship, a brand of stone-cold originality that makes even the blandest-sounding blues arrangement sit up and bark at the moon. Rooster has worked at many jobs and has been successful in the workaday world, but the attraction of the blues brought him to playing guitar and singing full time later in life. After traveling the United States for several years, Rooster landed on Bourbon Street, and the place has not been the same since. From his “One man show”” to his high energy blues band, he can create excitement whenever he takes the stage.
Past Guests The “Holistic Lifestyles Radio Network”, is multi media and has over 300,000 online listeners and or blog readers, We are live on the air 15 hours per week on the 50,000 watt mega station WWNN 1470AM Radio, where our signal reaches 6 counties in South Florida with a potential listening base of 50,000 per show. Holistic Lifestyles Radio Networks WWNN 1470 AM streamer has an average 600 live listeners online per hour totaling out at 36,000 live online listeners per month. Holistic Lifestyles Radio Network on Blog Talk Radio has had over 108,000 archived download listeners in the year of 2010, on top of the live streams and AM Radio listeners we average 9000 archived show downloads per month. We have produced over 750 live shows in two years grab a seat and enjoy some of our guests we have interviewed below. Holistic Lifestyles Radio Network produces several different shows to help balance out our listening base. Some of these are: Rockers In Recovery, Holistic Lifestyles Radio Show, East Coast Music Scene, That Sci-Fi Show, The Shift Guru, The Legal Hour, and Defend Your Money Radio. Click On Picture Of Guest Listen To Archived Show:
Christine Ohlman singer of the Saturday Night Live Band will be our guest March 20, 2011 at 8PM EST on Rockers In Recovery and the East Coast Music Scene. Christine Ohlman will be talking about her 30 yearplus musical career.
2010’s The Deep End, her first CD of original material in five years, featuring special guests/duet partners Ian Hunter, Dion DiMucci, and Marshall Crenshaw, plus Levon Helm, GE Smith, Andy York, Eric “Roscoe” Ambel, Catherine Russell, Big Al Anderson, and others) with her band Rebel Montez (Michael Colbath-bass; Cliff Goodwin-guitar; Larry Donahue-drums). “I’ve come here tonight to set your souls on fire,” she’ll tell an audience. And she will. Rockers In Recovery and the East Coast Music Scene is honored to have Christine as a guest.
The heart of Christine Ohlman has belonged to rock n’ roll from just about the moment she could walk and talk. By the time she traveled from Boston to New York on an overnight train to make her first record at the age of 16, writing the “B” side on the way to the studio, she was already a veteran of the local coffeehouse circuit around New Haven, Connecticut. “The first guy who ever signed me flew down from New York City to hear the band; he signed us the same day,” she says. “We were in the studio practically before we knew what hit us recording a version of Al Kooper’s ‘Wake Me, Shake Me.’ The next thing we knew, we were on the charts and I was in heaven!”
Christine was a founding member of The Scratch Band, legendary throughout the Northeast for their incendiary and eclectic live shows, and her stark, piano-accompanied version of Dusty Springfield’s “I Only Want To Be With You” from their first LP was a turntable hit in the U.K. Beginning in September 1991, a portion of The Scratch Band reunited in the studios of NBC’s Saturday Night Live with Christine joining guitarist/vocalist/musical director G.E. Smith and bassist Paul Ossola, both former Scratch Band members, in the SNL band. At one point, the 11-member group, featuring in its repertoire a heavy dose of Christine’s favorite music—southern soul—took the stage (joined by Ry Cooder, Steve Cropper and Maceo Parker) as the house band for The Rhythm & Blues Foundation Pioneer Awards, a performance that was, in Ohlman’s words, “just about the biggest flat-out thrill of my life. We were doing ‘Tell Mama’ and I looked around to catch Steve Cropper’s eye only to spot Clarence Carter, who wrote the song, standing in the wings waiting to come on. I thought—well, it just doesn’t get much better than this” (although she admits that the 2003 Central Park Summerstage Tribute To Janis Joplin, where she fronted both Big Brother & The Holding Company and the Kozmic Blues Band, and the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Tribute Concert, where she sang with George Harrison, among others, edge out everything for sheer historical vibe).
While touring and recording with Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez are the main focus, Ohlman has other all-star concert appearances to her credit, including the Lincoln Center “American Songbook” Series (with Sting and Lou Reed), the 2009 Obama Inaugural Gala, and Celebrate Brooklyn’s Tribute to Bill Withers (with Nona Hendryx and My Morning Jacket’s Jim James). She continues to perform with the SNL Band, appearing with Al Green on the show’s 25th Anniversary Special and in the hilarious 2010 commercial parody “Carter n’ Sons Barbeque.” She is a sought-after studio guest vocalist, appearing on Ian Hunter’s Shrunken Heads (named one the Top 20 CDs of 2007 by the New York Daily News), Big Al Anderson’s Pawn Shop Guitars, and two CDs by esteemed Irish punk group Black 47. Labor of Love: The Music Of Nick Lowe features her vocal collaboration with Marshall Crenshaw on Lowe’s “Cruel To Be Kind.” And her commitment to the blues runs deep, as her scorching duets with the legendary Eddie Kirkland on his CD’s Where You Get Your Sugar and Lonely Street; her guest-shots with Charlie Musselwhite on his Grammy-nominated One Night In America; and her appearance on the Songs Of Willie Dixon (with Sonny Landreth & Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown) and Grammy nominee A Tribute To Howlin’ Wolf (with Taj Mahal & Lucinda Williams) give statement.
Dedication to preserving the soul in rock n’ roll has been the hallmark of Christine’s work from the days of The Scratch Band through a stint with Christine Ohlman and The Soul Rockers to her present band Christine Ohlman & Rebel Montez’ (Cliff Goodwin-guitars, Michael Colbath-bass, Larry Donahue-drums; original guitarist Eric Fletcher passed away in May, 2006). Her earliest idols were Etta James, Ray Charles, and Jackie Wilson. “My mom taught me to love those artists,” says Christine. “When she was growing up she used to frequent Cafe Society in New York City to hear Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Lena Horne. I just naturally picked up on blues and jazz through her. Then of course there was Elvis, and Jerry Lee, and the artists on Stax and Atlantic. At some point I also began to listen heavily to Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Elmore James. So my songwriting reflects influences old and new. I always tend to lean toward wild guitar bands—you know, the ‘crazies’.” (Ohlman continues this fascination with musical tradition via her work as a music writer and musicologist. She was an original editor of the All-Music Guide, edited legendary producer Andrew Loog Oldham’s 2002 autobiography 2Stoned, and is a cover-story-writing contributor to Elmore Magazine)
Ohlman has released six CDs with Rebel Montez. The Hard Way, Radio Queen, Wicked Time, Strip, and 2008 career retrospective Re-Hive are joined by 2010’s The Deep End, her first CD of new material in five years. Co-produced gby Andy York (John Mellencamp), it featuresduets with Ian Hunter, Dion DiMucci, and Marshall Crenshaw and guest shots by Levon Helm, Big Al Anderson, G.E. Smith, Eric “Roscoe” Ambel, and others.
No stranger to tragedy, Ohlman suffered, in addition to the loss of longtime musical collaborator Fletcher, the death in 2005 of her mate and producer of more than 25 years, Doc Cavalier. Re-Hive is dedicated to his memory (as The Deep End is to Fletcher’s. .Following Cavalier’s passing, she produced a memorial concert at legendary rock club Toad’s Place in New Haven, Connecticut that featured 26 acts and nearly 100 musicians pivotal to the professional life she shared with him. “This is a time of reordering in my life,” she said recently. “There are no words to describe the empty spaces left by these losses. I feel I honor the memory of Doc and Eric by creating, by writing, and by performing. It hasn’t been easy by any means. But friends and fellow musicians have been extraordinary in their generosity and support. Michael Colbath, Larry Donahue, Cliff Goodwin and I look forward to the next record and to future collaborations.” Ohlman says, “The songs on The Deep End deal, in some ways, with the subject of loss, but much more importantly with the ways that love intersects with life to bring a kind of joy into one’s heart that is sometimes bittersweet.”
With her trademark mile-high platinum beehive hairdo and enviable collection of sequins and rhinestones, Ohlman looks like a lady to be reckoned with, and when she opens her mouth to sing, the truth comes out. But underneath it all lurks a no-frills approach to music. In her own words—”I give it to an audience straight, which is the way I like it myself. Yes, I like to shout, and I like to croon, and I love to wail. I just need to get in the groove and rock—not think too much about it– tear it up or soothe it over. I’ve loved rock n’ roll since I was a little girl, and I’ll love it forever. It’s my greatest kick and my greatest privilege to be able to get up on a stage and rip it apart. That’s rock n’ roll to me. I’m here to set your soul on fire.”
