Vertical Horizon launched in 1991 at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Hitting it big with their double platinum album “Everything You Want” in 1999, 4 songs landed on the music charts. Co-founder and lead singer Matt Scannell joins award-winning program director Ray White backstage, in July of 2012, to talk about the history of the band and their “Burning The Days” CD. Their latest release is titled “The Lost Mile.” In our Showcase Segment, we feature the 2000 Grammy award winner (with Carlos Santana), Everlast. His latest album is titled “Whitey Ford’s House of Pain.” Learn more about the latest with many of your favorite “classic” bands and performers 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!
