Ghalia Volt is a total bad ass. I came across some videos of the Belgian guitarist playing hard-driving slide guitar and a drum kit simultaneously and needed to learn more. That’s what led to this interview. It wasn’t this video, but close enough.
Ghalia Volt , who now live sin New Orleans, has a new album. Burn The House Down on Ruf Records. It was produced by JD Simo and recorded in Nashville, and pushes her sound further. She has a punk energy and swagger to her blues that took me back to my love of psychobilly bands like The Cramps and the Meteors. I find her totally enthralling and wanted to learn mote. I hope you all find it interesting as well. There’s a part 2 of the interview coming where Ghalia gave me a tour of her guitars.
Brothers and Sisters: the Allman Brothers Band and The Album That Defined The 70s was my third straight book to debut in the New York Times Non-Fiction Hardcover Bestsellers List, following Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan and One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band. My first book was Big in China: My Unlikely Adventures Raising a Family, Playing the Blues and Becoming a Star in Beijing, about my experiences raising a family in Beijing and touring China with a popular original blues band. It was optioned for a movie by Ivan Reitman’s Montecito Productions. I am also a guitarist and singer who fronts two bands, Big in China and Friends of the Brothers, the premier celebration of the Allman Brothers Band.
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