Frets with DJ Fey
No lessons, no technique info. I just talk to people who play guitar.
- Update frequency
- every 21 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 48
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill - Long After the Fire
Vicki Peterson played lead guitar and sang vocals for The Bangles. Vicki was also in The Continental Drifters and the Psycho Sisters, both with Susan Cowsill. John Cowsill is the younge…
Rebecca Pidgeon – Singer/Songwriter, Guitarist, Actress
Rebecca Pidgeon has enjoyed a long, successful career as a singer-songwriter and guitarist as well as a very successful career in film as an actress. Her songs have also appeared in maj…
Crispian Mills – Kula Shaker’s Incredible Frontman
Crispian Mills was born into a family of actors, film producers and directors. He was exposed to a wide variety of music, but when he heard “You Really Got Me“ by The Kinks, it was an e…
Chris Stamey – Anything is Possible
Chris Stamey’s new album Anything is Possible releases Friday, July 11. Musicians who contributed to this record include The Lemon Twigs, Matt Douglas of The Mountain Goats, Marshall Cr…
Jefferson Hart – All in the Family with Secret Monkey Weekend
Jefferson Hart and his stepdaughters Lila and Ella are Secret Monkey Weekend, a family band who were the subject of an Emmy Award-winning PBS documentary. Jeff plays guitar, Lila plays …
Don Dixon and Marti Jones
Over the years, Don Dixon has produced some of the greatest albums of all time. Records by R.E.M., Marshall Crenshaw, The Smithereens, Guadalcanal Diary and Let’s Active. He’s also prod…
Tense Music Plays – Murray Attaway Returns
I was a big fan of Guadalcanal Diary, so when Murray Attaway appeared on Frets back in 2022, I could hardly believe I was talking with their lead singer and main songwriter. The band re…
Peter Holsapple Returns – The Face of 68
In June of 2024, I talked with Peter Holsapple about the reissues of two classic albums by the dB’s – “Stands for Decibels” and “Repercussion”. I had the pleasure of talking to Peter ag…
Paul Rappaport – Airships, Airplay & the Art of Rock Promotion
Paul Rappaport is an accomplished guitarist who first heard guitar when he was a kid in California, watching a live local TV show featuring country guitar players…a show that was broadc…
Steve Wynn – He Wouldn’t Say It If It Wasn’t True
Steve Wynn has released well over 30 albums during the last 25 years, with his bands The Dream Syndicate, Danny & Dusty, Gutterball, The Miracle 3, The Baseball Project and more with qu…
Chuck Mead – from Homestead Grays and BR5-49 to The Stalwarts
When Chuck Mead was a young boy, he and his sister moved with their parents to Lawrence, Kansas. He got a drum kit as a gift when he was 12, and soon after started playing in the family…
Syd Straw – Singer, Songwriter, Guitarist and a Wonderful Person
It was a wonderful experience talking with someone I've admired for so long. I love her songs, I love her voice. And she’s just incredibly cool. In additional to her solo work, there’s …
Beth Bombara – a Wonderful Songwriter, Guitarist and Musician
While growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a young Beth Bombara took piano lessons in grade school. By the time she was entering high school, she had become interested in another inst…
Peter Holsapple – The dB’s Then and Now
The dB’s debut album Stands for Decibels was released in 1981, the album was praised by critics and over time, came to be loved by many fans who consider it a landmark power pop jangle …
Brinsley Schwarz – from Kippington Lodge to The Rumour to…Brinsley Schwarz
Brinsley Schwarz met Nick Lowe at school in the 1960s. They played in various bands with different group names and different members. In 1969, the band took the name of their lead guit…
Tom Hartman – The Aerovons, Amazing Journey from St. Louis to Abbey Road
In 1968, St. Louis band The Aerovons were getting noticed in clubs around town. Still in high school, their leader and singer, Tom Hartman, was composing their songs. The band was being…
Rick Holmstrom – from Alaska to California to Backing Mavis Staples
Rick Holmstrom has played guitar in and with many bands over the years, backing West Coast blues and soul bands including William Clarke, Smokey Wilson, Johnny Dyer and Booker T. – He’…
Palmyra Delran – Pink Slip Daddy, The Friggs, The Coolies, Trash Pop Treasures & More
You might know her from some of the bands she’s been in or collaborated with, Pink Slip Daddy, The Friggs, Bubble Gun, Palmyra Delran and the Doppel Gang, The Coolies and more as well …
Richard Lloyd – Everything is Combustible: from Television to Today
A founding member of the profoundly influential band Television, Richard Lloyd has led a fascinating life. He covers a lot of that life in his book Everything Is Combustible: Television…
Tyler Armstrong – The Band Feel and a Man of Many Guitars
Tyler Armstrong grew up in Springfield, Illinois and as a young kid, started banging on pots and pans, developing a love for percussion. Through his parents, he was exposed to both Cont…