Archive for 2022/06


Re-Billy Strings

Hey Bob I don’t think you’ll be surprised that we’ve been fortunate enough to have hosted Billy several times at Newport Folk.  Hell, we even had him play two different sets/days last year coming out of covid. One where he played a “traditional” set dedicated to the bluegrass masters before him and one where he […]

More Blackwell

I was island EVP/General Manger for Chris for two years and while the comments talk about his A&R expertise and his tremendous ability to foresee the way music was going, I’ll write about Chris as a label chief. He gave the staff extraordinary freedom to market and promote, never interfering or second-guessing what we did. I never had such […]

Richie Furay-This Week’s Podcast

Richie Furay was a member of Buffalo Springfield, Poco and the Souther, Hillman, Furay Band and has a new album of country covers produced by Val Garay. Richie is open and honest and tells a good story. You’re gonna dig the insider truth. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/richie-furay/id1316200737?i=1000564949441 https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/9ff4fb19-54d4-41ae-ae7a-8a6f8d3dafa8/episodes/5dfe49ad-da21-465c-a151-d70b52db04ce/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast-richie-furay https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-bob-lefsetz-podcast/episode/richie-furay-203695341

Billy Strings

He’s big everywhere but Texas. And maybe Santa Barbara. But in the rest of America HE SELLS OUT! This is the artist development story of the year, and it’s been growing for the last half decade. Strings is finally breaking through. You might have seen him briefly during the Grammy telecast, then again he was […]