Co-founding member of the Atlanta Rhythm Section, Rodney Justo, rejoined the band in 2011 as a full-time member since parting the band in the early 1970’s. The lead singer sits down with award-winning program director Ray White in June of 2018 to talk about the bands’ formation and happenings with the current line-up. Throughout the years, the band has two Gold and one Platinum albums and five Top 20 singles. From The Vaults is their latest release. In our showcase segment we feature Bob Dylan, who recently made available previously unreleased recordings from the 1974 Blood On The Tracks sessions on More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol. 14. For more information on our show visit 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!
