The BoDeans have been going strong since forming in the mid-1980’s. Over a half dozen tunes have landed on the music charts and they have built a loyal fan base throughout the years. In 1987, a Rolling Stone magazine readers poll tapped the BoDeans as the Best New American Band. Award-winning program director, Ray White, catches up with BoDean’s frontman Kurt Newmann in May of 2018, to talk about their latest album – Thirteen, and about working with some of the top recording producers in the industry. In our “showcase segment” we feature the long-time singer for Journey – Steve Perry, who’s released his first solo album in nearly 25 years titled Traces. For more information about our show, visit www.classicartiststoday.com
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!
