AN INTIMATE CONVERSATION WITH STEVE FERRONE AND MICKI FREE
FROM TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS, AND AMERICAN HORSE TRIO
Join drummer Steve Ferrone of Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Eric Clapton, Average White Band and American Horse Trio, along with Micki Free of Shalamar and American Horse Trio for fun stories about the music industry, their careers and once in a lifetime moments.
Steve Ferrone is the drummer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and a former member of the Average White Band. He has recorded and performed with numerous other high-profile acts, including Duran Duran, Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, Slash, Chaka Khan, Eric Clapton, Bee Gees, Scritti Politti, and Johnny Cash.
Chances are you've heard MICKI FREE play guitar before--and remembered it, even if you didn't know it was him.
It might have been on Shalamar's Top 20 smash “Dancing in the Sheets” from the Footloose soundtrack, or its Grammy Award-winning “Don't Get Stopped in Beverly Hills” from Beverly Hills Cop. Or maybe it was with Crown of Thorns, the hard-hitting band he and the Plasmatics' Jean Beauvoir fronted during the early '90s. Or perhaps it was on albums by Janet Jackson and Wendy O Williams.
Suffice to say the guy's been around awhile. And now, after five years of making award-winning and spiritually enriching Native American flute music, FREE is back and rockin' with AMERICAN HORSE, a fierce thoroughbred of an album whose 11 tracks remind us of the singular musical talent he possesses.
Moderated by Jono Manson
Jono Manson is a veteran performer, songwriter, producer and audio engineer, with a long track record that includes major motion picture soundtracks, music for network television shows, national advertising campaigns and major-label album releases on three continents. He has produced records for Grammy winners and local heroes, American Idol finalists and Folksingers, Italian pop stars and Pakistani Sufi folk-rockers... As a sideman, he as played with everyone from Bo Diddley to Pete Seeger, Joan Osborne and John Popper. During a career spanning four decades he has also performed everywhere from the local dive to Madison Square Garden, and beyond.
Since moving to Santa Fe in 1992, he has been closely connected to the New Mexico music community as an instructor in the College of Santa Fe's Contemporary Music Program, as the host of a weekly radio show devoted to local music, as a bandleader, producer and performer, and as an advocate for initiatives aimed at supporting the arts and social programs in New Mexico.
Manson is the founder and chief engineer at The Kitchen Sink recording studio, located in the heart of downtown Santa Fe, and has three times been named “Producer of the Year” by the New Mexico Music Awards.
