A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
NOTE: This program is available for streaming in the KPFA archives until August 4. Tonight: interviews and rehearsal music from the Rhythm Devils, who are currently on tour and will be for the rest of the summer. We’ll talk with Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, guitarists Davy Knowles and Keller Williams, and bassist Andy Hess … Read more
Tonight: Mark Karan is my guest for the full two hours (8-10pm PST). He brings with him a double handful of digital recordings from recent performances by Jemimah Puddleduck, Ratdog, and other special musical events. We’ll talk about his new CD Walk Through and Fire and his upcoming gigs with Jemimah Puddleduck. Don’t Let Go … Read more
Week of July 27, 2009 Part 1 41:35 Introduction Interview: Mark Karan Mark Karan, Walk Through the Fire ROCK YOUR PAPA Interview: Mark Karan Mark Karan, Walk Through the Fire LOVE IN VAIN Interview: Mark Karan Mark Karan, Walk Through the Fire LOVE SONG Interview: Mark Karan Mark Karan, Walk Through the Fire LEAVE A … Read more
Tonight: an exclusive interview with Mark Karan and studio performance by Jemimah Puddleduck, both recorded yesterday (6/30/09) at John “JT” Thomas’ studio in Reseda CA. Here are some photos of the session from Alan Hess. Interview with Mark Karan, featuring these songs from Walk Through the Fire: Rock Your Papa Love in Vain Love Song … Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Because live music’s what it’s all about… Jemimah Puddleduck will celebrate the release of Mark Karan’s Walk Through the Fire by playing on David Gans’ Dead to the World show on KPFA on July 1st, 2009, from 8 pm to about 9:30 pm. You can hear the program live on kpfa.org; it … Read more
This just in from Maile Hatfield, wife of Mark Karan: Just wanted to share the joy… Mark has just gotten the results of his latest MRI.. ALL CLEAR!!! That’s one year now… and we’re grateful every day. Now on with the music!!!!! He’ll be performing with RatDog in Jamaica later this month, then working to … Read more
Just a reminder that we post a show from the Grateful Dead Hour archives on DeadNet every Wednesday. Today’s post is GD Hour #977, part 1 of a June 2007 interview with Ratdog lead guitarist Mark Karan. Part 2 will go up next Wednesday. Happy holy daze, everybody!
Susana Millman posted a couple of nice photos from the 12/10/08 Boris Garcia live broadcast w/ Mark Karan.
From John Metzger’s online magazine The Music Box: Last year, Music Box correspondent Douglas Heselgrave sat down with Ratdog‘s Mark Karan to talk about the guitarist’s unique role within the band. A few months later, Karan was forced to withdraw from the road in order to seek treatment for throat cancer. Following up on their … Read more
From the ratdog web site: our lead guitarist 2/12/08 Short and sweet, Dog Heads: If you were wondering who’s playing lead guitar for our upcoming spring tour, it would be one Mark Karan. In the words of our fearless leader Senor Weir, “Mark’s back. It’s pretty much a miracle.†Mark added, “with much gratitude after … Read more