Country

Laura Bryna

5/13/2010
Lauren Jessen

International recording artist Laura Bryna is busy recording her second album, working on television projects, serving as spokeswomen for the National Guard, and is a True Country host. The beautiful singer took time out of her hectic schedule to sit down with TheCelebrityCafe.com to discuss her current and future projects, singing, and her birds!

TCC: You are busy with a lot of different projects. What are you loving the most?

Crystal Gayle

9/30/2003
Dominick A. Miserandino
Crystal tells us a little bit about her musical style, why she likes standards and why she's not cut her hair yet!

DM) You're current album is a bit of a change from your country music past.

CG) Yes, it's full of standards. I did an album a few years back called, "Sings the Heart & Soul of Hoagy Carmichael" and I just loved it. I always loved those standards and it was so hard to narrow down which of these songs to do. There are so many that I loved. I worked closely with the music director, Charles Cochran and we went through some of our favorites and came up with these.

DM) You've sung country in the past, but your last few albums have been off the country path.

Tucker, Tanya

10/21/2002
Dominick A. Miserandino
Country legend Tanya Tucker talks about the evolving music scene over the span of her career, acoustic versus produced, and 'feeling' the music from the heart.

DM) How has your career changed over time?

TT) That's a loaded question because there's lots of things that have changed. One thing about music is that it's constantly changing, and we've just been able to roll with the changes. Maybe it's because of my age, maybe it's because I'm trying to be hip to what's going on... Definitely the music is technically better, it's gotten so much better, but some of the feel might not have gotten better. We might have lost some of the feeling along the way. But for me, I always try to keep it in there because that's me, that's what I do.

Ingram, Jack

11/29/2000
Dominick A. Miserandino
Jack Ingram is one of country music's newest voices. In this interview, Jack talks about what is truly country and riding on the tangents of country.

DM) To me, country music can reach out to many other genres of music. It's no longer exclusively the stuff typical to "Hee Haw" and the style from 30 years ago. What do you consider to be country music?

JI) I can't define it for everybody, but for me it has to do with the lyrical content.

Andrews, Jessica

11/29/2000
Dominick A. Miserandino
Jessica Andrews famous from her debut album 'Heart Shaped World' talks about touring, growing up and moving out on her own.

DM) What has been going on in your career lately?
JA) My first album came out in 1999, this one came out in February 2001... gosh, it's almost been a year... and yes, I had a song on the "Prince of Egypt" soundtrack. Yes, it's been an exciting two years for me. I've had lots of experiences. A lot of great things and great people.

DM) I've heard a lot of stories about you and fears of losing your childhood starting this at 15 years old and earlier. Do you agree with that perspective at all?

JA) Oh goodness no. You're right, I started my first album at 15 years old.

Skaggs, Ricky

11/29/2000
Dominick A. Miserandino
He's been called 'The man who put bluegrass back on the map'. Ricky Skaggs is as famous for his country western music and countless hits as he is for his current label which has done tributes to Bill Monroe with the likes of Dolly Parton, John Fogerty and Bruce Hornsby.

DM) I understand that you've been very busy lately.

RS) I can't say it's been stressful, but we've been trying to get into a house we just bought, and we've been doing a complete renovation. It's just been "Stress Central" for the last two to three months. A lot going on with the new record label (Skaggs Family Records/Ceili Music ) ... it's good stuff... growing pains. We've had a lot of stuff that we could have done better, but being a young company and not going belly-up after two to three years is really good.

Monaghan, Brendan

9/6/1999
Dominick A. Miserandino
Bet you didn't know there was a big country music band in Ireland! Look out Texas, here comes The Cattle Country.

DM) Was music always a part of your life?

BM) I was brought up with lots of music around me and that is why music is a big part of my life. As soon as I could I got a band together and just worked very hard playing around bars etc. Then I started to record my own material and took it on from there.

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