{"id":46850,"date":"2022-10-01T00:30:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T22:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lahoradelblues.com\/entrevista-a-mick-kolassa\/"},"modified":"2022-10-15T17:22:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T15:22:49","slug":"interview-to-mick-kolassa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lahoradelblues.com\/en\/interview-to-mick-kolassa\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview to MICK KOLASSA"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row css_animation=”” row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”full_width” angled_section=”no” text_align=”left” background_image_as_pattern=”without_pattern”][vc_column el_class=”justificar”][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”full_width” text_align=”left” css_animation=””][vc_column_inner width=”1\/4″][vc_single_image image=”1970″ img_size=”full” qode_css_animation=””][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner el_class=”justificar” width=”3\/4″][vc_column_text]INTERVIEW TO MICK KOLASSA BY MONTE ADKISON, “THE BLUES STALKER”<\/strong><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]MONTE ADKISON’S BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

MONTE ADKISON\u2019S BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE<\/p>\n

Monte Adkison, aka \u201cthe Blues Stalker,\u201d has been listening to the blues since her teenager days . Along with many other young perople who grew up in the southern United States in the early 60\u2019s, she listened to powerful Nashville, Tennessee WLAC radio deejay \u201cJohn R\u2019s\u201d popular blues radio show after midnight every night.<\/p>\n

As a high school social science teacher in Florida during thirty years, Monte was the recipient of a scholarship in 1995 from the Florida Humanities Council to study blues music at the University of Tampa where she met the late Tampa Bay harmonica, Rock Bottom, and the late \u201cDiamond Teeth\u201d Mary McClain. Amazed that \u201cDiamond Teeth\u201d Mary had been written up in European blues magazines but not in American, she vowed to change that.<\/p>\n

Taking a summer pilgrimage to the Delta to study at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, she spent time researching Mary in the Blues Archives and met David Nelson, then editor of Living Blues which is based there on the Ole Miss campus. She asked David if he knew Mary and he said he had seen her perform at the W.C. Handy Awards in Memphis in \u201992. When asked if indeed his magazine was true \u201cLiving Blues\u201d, if she wrote about Mary performing on her 95th birthday, would he publish it? The answer was yes and Living Blues did and then went on to write an article on Monte\u2019s Blues in the Schools program in a \u201997 issue.<\/p>\n

Monte began writing a regular column for the Suncoast Blues Society newsletter, the Twelve Bar Rag under the moniker \u201cThe Blues Stalker.\u201d She is still writing about talented blues artists who are under appreciated and often ignored by the mainstream press. She also covers other aspects of the blues music industry besides the musicians themselves. Her photographs can be viewed on the\u00a0Suncoast Blues Society website\u00a0<\/a>as well as photographs of the popular annual Tampa Bay Blues Festival.
\nMonte\u2019s commitment to keeping the blues alive is evident in her articles and photos, and was present in her classroom in Ocala, Florida where every inch of her walls were covered with snapshots and autographed posters of blues musicians that she has met. As she puts it, \u201cIt\u2019s my way of sneaking the heritage in -when you\u2019re bored with the lessons and look up on the walls and see Kenny Neal, Eddie Kirkland, or Sista Monica- you might just give a listen later in live and fall in love with the music just like I have. It is another small way of keeping the blues alive\u201d. You can visit her\u00a0personal website<\/a>\u00a0site too.<\/p>\n

I am really satisfied and proud to have at \u201cLa Hora del Blues\u201d staff, directly from USA, the valuable support, help and collaboration of this great blues expert and lover, known as \u201cThe Blues Stalker\u201d. I am sure you will enjoy this page with all her interesting and juicy interviews and photographs, so I can only encourage you to visit it regularly.
\nWelcome aboard! Monte\u2026.<\/p>\n

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Free Range Blues
\nby Monte Adkison aka the \u201cBlues Stalker\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Interview<\/em><\/p>\n

There are musicians that play the blues and there are bluesmen. Mick Kolassa, aka \u201cMichissippi Mick\u201d is indeed in the latter category and is the entire package. A genuine bluesman feels, as well as exhibits, a compassion, love and dedication to the musical genre -not to just play it to fulfill an ego trip on stage or to collect revenue but instead seeks to educate, embellish, devour, and immerse oneself in the love of the music and to share that joy with others. Born in Michigan, Mick Kolassa lived in Mississippi for three decades before recently locating to Memphis. For the past 50 years his history includes playing acoustic and electric guitar, being a prolific songwriter and storyteller, vocalist, blues scholar, blues advocate (former Board of Directors of the Blues Foundation), producer and head of Endless Blues Records, and overall hardcore blues fan. His debut CD in 2014, entitled \u201cMichissippi Mick\u201d was followed by an impressive discography of ten releases including a Christmas album in 2021 (\u201cUncle Mick\u2019s Christmas Album\u201d) that charted well and included a stellar group of 100% Memphis musicians. His 11th<\/sup> and newest release \u201cI\u2019m Just Getting Started\u201d includes some of my favorite musicians- Jeff Jensen, Dexter Allen, Reba Russell, Bill Ruffino, and Brandon Santini, so this fan felt like she had hit Lotto when listening to it the first time. If this is Mick\u2019s idea of him \u201cjust getting started\u201d, then I need to stock up on flame retardant as he indicated that he has several more albums in the works.
\n<\/em>As with all of Mick\u2019s albums, his generosity and love of the blues is exemplified by the fact that all proceeds from sales of his albums goes to help support the Blues Foundation\u2019s HART fund, which helps blues artists and their families with medical and funeral expenses and Generation Blues, which helps fund young musicians under the age of 21 to attend blues music camps.
\n<\/em>I recently caught up with Mick after he had been in Rockland, Maine, for the North Atlantic Blues Festival where he had been working with Midcoast Music Academy students for several days before they performed at the annual festival to ask him about his new release \u201cI\u2019m Just Getting Started\u201d. As always, he proved to be a refreshing, dedicated warrior for the blues and a very talented artist.<\/em><\/p>\n

Blues Stalker: As you know, I attended an acoustic performance of yours recently at the Heartwood Soundstage in Gainesville, Florida, with local favorite Paco. You guys blew the audience away with your synergy and held the audience in the palm of your hand with the interaction and storytelling. How does playing in an intimate venue like Heartwood compare to a large festival or club for the type of music that you play? Do you have a preference?<\/em><\/p>\n

Mick Kolassa: Two very different kinds of satisfaction! In a small and intimate setting like Heartwood I try to have an actual conversation with the audience members, spending time talking about each song, so I\u2019m sure they understand not just the song but often why I wrote it or decided to sing it. That\u2019s pretty hard to do from a festival stage. In a smaller setting you can have direct conversations with people without losing the rest, not so on a large stage. But the satisfaction, or adrenaline rush, you get when a large audience likes what you do is different, not better or worse, just different. I think most performers would agree that the act of performing is a powerful drug, the feeling you get when an audience likes what you do is really hard to match. Whether the audience is small or huge, if I can make them happy it makes me even happier!<\/p>\n

B.S.: Jeff Jensen produced and played guitar on your new release as well as previous ones. You guys seem to create magic together. How did that relationship come about?<\/em><\/p>\n

M.K.: Of the 12 albums I\u2019ve done so far, Jeff has produced 10 and played on all but 1, so we\u2019ve become quite a team. I met Jeff when he was playing with Brandon Santini, they played at the Bluesberry Caf\u00e9 in Clarksdale during the Juke Joint Festival. My brother-in-law and I were putting together a show in Spokane, where he lived, and thought that they would be a great addition to the show. During that show one of the other acts invited me to sit in with them and when Brandon and Jeff played, they also invited me up so I did a couple tunes with them. After that they would bring me on stage when I was at one of their shows.\u00a0 I started doing some of my original songs with them and Jeff said I should think about recording them, and things just grew from there. The partnership has been good for both of us because we have very different musical backgrounds that work well together.<\/p>\n

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B.S.: You have been quoted as saying about your songs \u201cI want to tell a story\u201d. My favorite bluesmen tell a story with their songs. Lyrics and audience interaction play a huge role in that for the listener. At venues with loud guitars and loud talking audiences, is story telling possible. Do you adjust your set list accordingly?<\/em><\/p>\n

M.K.: I can usually get the stories in, even in a large venue I will set up each song, giving a little background or history. It\u2019s honestly more difficult to do that in a loud bar than it is on a large stage. I think that one thing that helps is that I spend a lot of time on stage looking at the audience, not just playing or singing to them. I try to make eye contact so that the individual people feel that I\u2019m singing to them -because I am!<\/p>\n

B.S.: On a personal note, we both have been impacted by great losses recently. Due to the pandemic, not only have the careers of our friends been impacted, but we both have lost spouses as well as numerous close friends. You also have relocated to Memphis after a lengthy residence in Mississippi. How are you coping with your loss? I certainly feel your pain but can\u2019t express it like you can in your music.<\/em><\/p>\n

M.K.: It\u2019s a struggle, for sure, and even though I knew that Molli was dying and I was prepared intellectually but I sure wasn\u2019t ready emotionally. My family and friends helped me amazingly, but being able to work through the pain and questions in my songs really helped. I\u2019ve always done that \u2013my songwriting is often me just thinking, and putting the thoughts into words. Because I have standards and \u201crules\u201d for my songs I\u2019ll often get creative with the story I lay down, but it works for me. Coming to terms with Molli\u2019s alcoholism turned into the song \u201cBaby\u2019s Got Another Lover\u201d, which is still my most streamed and downloaded song \u2013the song was my way of working through it and understanding it. I wrote the song \u201cNothing Left to Lose\u201d as was way to try to understand Robin William\u2019s suicide. Of course, the last couple years have given me a lot to write about.
\nBut it isn\u2019t just the bad things, I write happy songs and love songs, sometimes leaning back on my younger years when Molli and I first got together, but also writing to or about an imaginary muse who I can write about or to with very low risk.<\/p>\n

B.S.: On a lighter note, your new release \u201cI\u2019m Just Getting Started\u201d is a sure winner with me but you also indicate more are in the works. Can you tease us a bit by telling us what we can look forward to?<\/em><\/p>\n

M.K.: Sure, In August I will release an acoustic album entitled \u201cThey Call Me Uncle Mick.\u201d The only musical instrument that was plugged in was a vibraphone, which has an electric motor that rotates the baffles. It was wonderful knowing that there would be no pedals or effects. That album has some very old songs, one by Bo Carter and one by Hank Williams. I was joined by some amazing people on the album, Watermelon Slim played and sang with me on a bluesy version of Woodstock, Bobby Rush played harmonica on an acoustic version of my song Wasted Youth, Doug McLeod played on 2 of my originals, and I was also joined by Chris Gill, Brad Webb and Alice Hasan. The idea was to show the versatility of acoustic music.
\nThat album will be followed by one I\u2019m working on right now. Called \u201cFor The Feral Heart\u201d, it\u2019s a collection of love songs, some original, one very classic old standard and a couple well known rock songs that, when played slowly and a little mournful, are amazing paintings of love going off the tracks.<\/p>\n

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B.S.: With the price of gasoline, lodging, and in general all expenses increasing, are more musicians foregoing tours and streaming live shows? With club owners and fans all affected by inflation, how are you and fellow musicians coping?<\/em><\/p>\n

M.K.: Right now, musicians are just trying to figure out what\u2019s going on. While most of the festivals are back online many venues have closed and some have stopped booking touring acts, so routing a tour is tougher than ever before. As for streaming live shows, some have done it and a few with large and loyal fan bases have done OK, but it\u2019s not the same as a live show. I know many musicians who haven\u2019t jumped back in yet, making money some other way and trying to book tours for next year.<\/p>\n

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B.S.: Can you tell us about Endless Blues Records in Memphis and how that came about and your role in it<\/em><\/p>\n

M.K.: Endless Blues Productions was the creation of my brother-in-law, Ted Todd, who passed away about 7 years ago. We put together several shows and were in the process of incorporating the business when he died. I decided to keep it going with the record label, starting with my own work, the album 149 Delta Avenue. Once that was in place, I reached out to some friends to see if they would be interested in releasing their work on the label. Several said yes, in some cases they brought the finished product to me and I helped them to release and promote the album and in other cases I financed it and sold the individual CDs to the artist. To date I have really held it to be with people I know well. We queued up four big releases, Tennessee Redemption, Tullie Brae, Eric Hughes and Kern Pratt, just in time for Covid to shut things down and put the brakes on CD sales, the vast majority of which are sold at live shows. To top that off we lost Kern to Covid in 2020.
\nSince then, the album releases have been mine, Dexter Allen and Chris Gill, and we have really had to manage that carefully. Fortunately, every release on the label has charted well and gained attention and some pretty good sales.
\nSo far, my role has been to be pretty much every job. Anne Bello has come onboard, initially to help with my own music but has expanded her work with all the artists on the label. Dexter Allen and Jeff Jensen are working with me to take things forward, and we have come cool projects in the works that could help us make up for 2020!<\/p>\n

B.S.: You recently worked with young blues artists at the North Atlantic Blues Festival in Maine as you have in the past. Can you tell us about that experience?<\/em><\/p>\n

M.K.: That was simply magic! When I played the North Atlantic Blues Festival in 2016 Paul Benjamin asked me if I\u2019d like to spend a couple of hours with the students at the MidCoast Music Academy, where they have an intensive week-long blues camp to prepare the students to play a short set to open the second day of the festival. I was really impressed by the kids when they played. Last year I went back to the festival because I had a few people from the label playing, and Paul asked if I\u2019d like to stop by the academy for a couple hours again. While there I brought up the idea of spending all or most of the week with them this year and they thought that was a good idea. It was so fulfilling to work with these young musicians, some were experienced and others just starting but all were enthusiastic.
\nMy main role was to supplement their training in music theory and some technical skills with educating them about the blues, the culture and history as well as the music, and to coach them as they worked though the songs. I hope to go back next year and do it again.<\/p>\n

\"Interview
\n<\/em>B.S.: I see that one of my favorite venues in your schedule for the fall with \u201cCamping with the Blues\u201d in Brooksville, Florida. Any other appearances that fans should be alerted to?<\/em><\/p>\n

M.K.: Camping with the Blues is a great event. I did it with my Taylor Made Blues Band in 2019 and loved it. I\u2019ve been working with Dexter Allen to put some shows together so for Camping With the Blues Dexter\u2019s band will back me up for my set (Dexter, who is an amazing blues artist, played bass and some guitar on my most recent album). Dexter will then do a set of his own great music later in the program. We will be playing together the week before at the Bradfordville Blues Club.
\nWhile we are looking for other opportunities, I\u2019ll be doing some local shows in the Memphis area with different musicians and have a few solo shows and runs set up. I should be at Little Village in Pensacola in August, The Twisted Tail in Philadelphia PA in late September, and a few other shows in that area. I\u2019ll do a few shows in Clarksdale and plan to get to Michigan a couple times to do some shows. I\u2019m still debating on whether to form a new band or not, we\u2019ll just have to see what works out in that regard.<\/p>\n

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B.S.: You were on the Board of Directors of the Blues Foundation when they raised money for the Blues Hall of Fame and you also have been an advocate for helping save the historic Riverside Hotel in Clarksdale. Can you update us on the status of that project? I know that a Gofundme account raised some funds to help it reopen.<\/em><\/p>\n

M.K.: The Riverside is a wonderful piece of American history and I urge people to check into it. The Ratliff family, which owns and runs the hotel, are dear people whom I\u2019ve known for many years. When it looked like the hotel might not be able to keep going, because of Covid and some damage from an ice storm, several of us who love the place got together to start the GoFundMe campaign. Teeny Tucker and I wrote and recorded a song about the hotels, laying out the amazing history of the place and the need to keep it going.
\nThe campaign has been fairly successful but what really made the difference is that the National Park Service has awarded a very large grant to help us rebuild it and keep it going. We will still be raising money to preserve the place where Bessie Smith died and where Rock and Roll was born!<\/p>\n

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\n<\/em>B.S.: A young \u201cKingfish\u201d is certainly exciting to watch, as are David Julia, Ben Levin, Veronica Lewis and so many other talented young artists. Care to reflect on the future of the blues? Working with Generation Blues, you have a rare opportunity to see what talent the future holds.<\/em><\/p>\n

M.K.: I\u2019ve known Christone since he was about 8, and he simply amazed me from the beginning. I\u2019ve also been a supporter of the Pinetop Perkins Foundation and their work with young artists, many of whom I\u2019ve got to know over the years. That\u2019s how I got to know David Julia and Cole and Logan Layman, each of whom have played on one of my albums, as well as Dylan Salter and Grace Kuch, and so many more. I love their enthusiasm for the music that I love, and their talent blows me away. I\u2019ll keep doing whatever I can to support young musicians who want to play the blues.<\/p>\n

B.S.: Thank you, Mick, for your sincere love, support, and dedication to the blues and your wicked sense of humor. You are an inspiration to me and to others and for that, I am grateful. Your support of the HART fund and Generation Blues during this rough economic period could not be more needed or appreciated. See you on the blues highway soon.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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