Live music and touring have been on lockdown and fans as well as artists are going through withdrawals. We wanted to come up with something fun to help bridge that distance between fans and artists right now. What we came up with is something called The Lockdown Lowdown and it’s a Q&A session with fun questions for artists to answer. They’re not your typical interview questions, so it gives you a peek inside of the artists themselves. We’re big music nerds here at I’m Music Magazine and we love learning things like this about the artists that we love. We’re pretty sure that you’ll get a kick out of these, so we hope you’ll take the time to read them. In this installment, we sat down for a fun Q&A session with Mason Heck of Jive Mother Mary.
How have you been doing during the pandemic and how are you spending your time? Have you been working on new music?
During the pandemic I’ve just been spending my time playing guitar and hanging out with my dog! We’re typically a band that spends all of its time on the road, so it’s been quite the change of pace. Luckily, the break in touring gave us a chance to record 7 new songs we will be releasing soon. We also backed our friend on his record and I got to record guitars on tracks for 3 other groups as well!
5 albums that changed your life:
Southern Harmony and Musical Companion- The Black Crowe’s
Diamonds & Debris- Cry of Love
Shaking Hands- Medusa Stone
Mad Dogs and Englishmen- Joe Cocker
Axis: Bold as Love- Jimi Hendrix
5 artists that influenced you as a musician:
Oh man, this is tough! Early on in our career when we were youngins’, we modeled the band heavily after Medusa Stone and The Steepwater Band. Both amazing Power Trios. The Black Crowes were huge to me. When I saw Gov’t Mule that was also an eye opener as well. And of course Led Zeppelin
Your 5 favorite live albums:
Live at The Greek- Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes
Live!- Donny Hathaway
Mad Dogs and Englishmen- Joe Cocker
11/7/70- Elton John
Double Live Gonzo- Ted Nugent
Life on the road; 5 of your craziest/funniest/scariest tour stories:
-We once broke down in a national forest in Wyoming.
-Playing with a notable Outlaw country artist and having the staff tell us they removed all glass from the area so the crowd “couldn’t throw bottles at us if they decided they don’t like us.”
-Having a woman jump into the sound booth and shake the mixing console by the cables until the building was rumbling.
-Had a toilet from upstairs continuously dump gallons of water down below on to the stage for the entire 90 minute show.
-we played a frat party once and they kept squirting the power boxes up front with water guns just to see what would happen.
-More drunk people, falling through stages, fights than you could ever imagine.
Your 5 favorite movies:
Oh Brother! Where art thou?
Fargo
The Departed
Pulp Fiction
Not a movie, but been heavily into the Sopranos lately.
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