Keith Howland is guitarist and vocalist for Chicago, gracing the stage for nearly 25 years. Launching his career with Rick Springfield in the mid-1990’s, Keith’s life in music has taken off ever since. You’ll find his guitar licks and singing on nearly a dozen albums from Chicago and has traveled the world with the band. When not touring or recording with Chicago, Keith has recorded several projects with his friends including members of The Doobie Brothers in the band Button. Chicago’s latest studio release is Chicago XXXVI: Now. Multi-award winning program director Ray White, talks with Keith backstage about his big break in the music industry and the latest with Chicago. In our showcase segment, we feature former member of Humble Pie and The Herd – Peter Frampton. Peter’s latest album debuted at number one on Billboard’s Top Blues Album Chart and is titled All Blues. To learn more about our show, visit us at Classic Artists Today.
Ray's passion for music and the musicians, started as a youth listening to transistor radios under the covers at bedtime. The bands and performers he liked, he followed throughout their career. In 2005 he was fed up with the evolution of a majority of the music the radio stations were playing and began investigating the bands he grew up listening to in the 1960's, 70's and 80's. Radio wasn't playing any of those band's "new" songs, just the "classic" hits. Researching the industry for a year, Ray launched Classic Artists Today syndicated radio show - featuring "new" songs by "classic" artists and included interviews and classic tracks too. The show was carried by several dozen radio stations in the U.S., Canada, Europe and the Caribbean. Featuring Rock/Pop musicians and bands, Ray and the show won several awards from New Music Weekly magazine. With the success of these shows, he launched Coool CAT syndicated radio show, 5 years later, featuring Soul/R&B/Smooth Jazz/Blues performers and bands. In 2017, Ray starting producing his show in a 30-minute podcast format. Today, you can hear his work at Sittin' In With The CAT and Sittin' In With The Coool CAT. The legacy continues!
