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May 4, 2020 In Family and Friends of QVR, Interviews

The Immediate Family Picks the Essentials

This week on The Pods & Sods Network – The Immediate Family each pick some of the essential songs from their favorite artists, talk about their careers, new album & more! Tune in at https://podsodcast.com/

Monday 5/4: Danny Kortchmar Picks the Essential James Taylor

Tuesday 5/5: Russ Kunkel Picks the Essential Bob Dylan

Wednesday 5/6: Leland Sklar Picks the Essential Official Billy Cobham

Thursday 5/7: Waddy Wachtel Picks the Essential Keith Richards

Friday 5/8: Steve Postell Picks the Essential David Crosby (& more)

TO LISTEN: https://podsodcast.com/

November 14, 2019 In Family and Friends of QVR, Interviews, Music, Press Release

Edgar Winter Billboard Interview on Tribute Album for Brother Johnny

Edgar Winter’s interview with Billboard on the upcoming tribute album for his brother Johnny Winter is one to read! Below is a snapshot from Billboard. You can read the full interview here: FULL INTERVIEW.

 

Winter says the 16-song set will include a mix of Johnny Winter originals as well as some of his signature covers, such as Chuck Berry’s “Johnny B. Goode,” the Rolling Stones’ “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited” and Rock Derringer’s “Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo,” which Johnny Winter recorded first, in 1970.

Guests include Joe Walsh, ZZ Top’s Billy Gibson, Buddy Guy, Joe Bonamassa, Robben Ford, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Bobby Rush, with others to be announced in the future.  The as-yet-untitled album will be released by Quarto Valley Records.

“I think I see Johnny in a totally different light than other people do,” Winter says. “He first and foremost loved the blues, but he had a great voice, and in the early years when we were playing together he would sing beautiful ballads like ‘Cryin'” by Roy Orbison in a completely clear, beautiful voice. So I’m going to do some of those songs that are my personal favorites, too.

“I think everybody’s gonna love this album, Johnny’s fans as well as mine.”

CONTINUE READING ON BILLBOARD

October 23, 2017 In Interviews

Total Prestige Magazine Interview with Bruce Quarto

What do you do when you are “too young to grow old”? If you are Bruce S. Quarto, you take the same passion you had to grow a start-up business into a million dollar company and translate it into a completely new business sector.

Quarto established himself in the business world as an IT manager and business owner. In the early 2000s, after sitting on the board of directors at LERETA, Quarto entered early retirement after the business was sold to a billion dollar company. However, not content with just relaxing, Quarto followed his passion for entertainment and music. What resulted was a chance to produce an album by the band Heaven & Earth. After getting a taste for the music industry – the good side and the bad – Quarto believed he could help change the record business for the better. He established Quarto Valley Records in 2012, and the label’s first record, “Dig” by Heaven & Earth, went on to critical acclaim.

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