J-man: I talked to you after a show last July I believe it was, in Ann Arbor, MI. We talked about your van with all of your equipment being stolen. We talked about your purchase of an RV and it breaking down. We also talked about how you barely made it to that show in Ann Arbor, due to a break down. Here it is eight months later and we find you in a similar position. Having cancelled several tour dates, due to more car trouble. What’s going on with all of this? How does it effect you?

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J-man: Thanks for taking the time to do this.

J-man: In my opinion you’re playing with some of the top artists on the scene. At what point did you realize that your projects would come together in the fashion that they have?

Will: Let’s see, I started going down to Jazz Fest in New Orleans about… I think eight years ago. That’s where I first started plating with Robert Walter and Stanton Moore and that became a long term relationship. I guess, I mean; there has been a lot of stuff before that, including the Charlie Hunter project.

J-man: I appreciate you taking the time to do this.

Krasno: Of course, yeah.

J-man: Soulive is in it’s 10th year as a band, what’s changed since that first year?

Krasno: Man, so much. Um, you know it’s funny because I think in a lot of ways we’ve grown so much but now we’re kind of like coming back in a  way, at least to the instrumentation, that we started with. Um, and over the 10 years we’ve obviously experimented with a lot of different sounds and a lot of collaborations. And I think that, you know; that obviously helped us grow as a band, and definitely collaborating with different artists adds a lot of depth to what we do. And also, you know; just trying different sounds and touring with different people and actually now, we’re just much more experienced. I think our writing has changed a lot too. I think, you know; basically we never wanted to put boundaries on it. I think when we first came out a lot of people saw it as a throw-back band, you know? Like, and organ trio that does the music of Grant Green and shit, you know? I think, uh, we wanted a lot more than that, you know? We grew up listening to so many other types of music. So, what we wanted to do was to take that instrumentation and infuse all other sorts of influences with that, you know?

Tim, I appreciate you taking the time to do this...

*So, Kung Fu*

J-man: How has the Monday night residency at Stella Blues with Kung-Fu been?

Tim: It has been awesome. Good turnouts, great music. Its been a perfect starting point for this new project. We are ready to take this to new places.

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Dave Ghent interview with Todd Jones, organizer/producer of Dragonfly Music & Arts Fest September 26, 2009 Reading, PA - Todd Jones quotes indicated in quotation marks.

Last night I spoke with Todd Jones, the producer of Dragonfly Music & Arts Fest (Saturday, September 26). Thinking he might be busy putting out all kinds of last minute fires, I asked Todd how things were going. His answer gave insight to a key factor in any successful music festival. “I’m glad I already had every thing setup. I’m anal about planning and organizing. Things were done so far in advance I could’ve done [Dragonfly] weeks ago.” Todd booked I Yahn I Arkestra and Juggling Suns in December ’08. “If you want the bands you want to play, you have to do that. Summer festival season fills up so quick on a bands schedule.”

July 21st will see the debut of Assembly Of Dust’s new album ‘Some Assembly Required’.  I sat down with Reid Genauer, songwriter extraordinaire, via phone to talk about the new album and what’s in store for AOD this year.

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