Before you read another word, click here for all my super cool cassette archives!

I have posted podcasts featuring the segment Let’s Go Back with Matthews where I feature some amazing radio audio from decades ago. All of those archives can be found here.

I am currently alphabetizing all these interviews and will soon replace this section with “Interviews M through Z.” Many of these links are broken so I am in the process of reconnecting them as I create the new section.

I have had the honor of interviewing many musicians over the years.  When I worked at a country radio station, a lot of the up and coming artists used to stop by. This is a page featuring interviews and other interesting stuff I have saved on cassette. That old technology didn’t last but maybe this page will. Enjoy a trip into my cubbyhole (phrasing!) and remember I used to go by the name MATT Michaels. It’s okay. It’s all going to be okay.

SOUTHERN CROSS

This band was amazing and unfortunately there’s no trace left any where of them, not even on the Internet.  I had the chance to interview them and I recently found the cassette from that show.  The second part features a song they covered by an amazing singer/songwriter and wonderful guy named Jimmy Adams.  Sadly, he passed away in 2012.  He will be sorely missed.  The guitarist for Southern Cross, Jonathan Raffeto, unfortunately also died much too young.  You can hear him on this interview, too.

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Part 2

VENTURA AND THE VISITORS

I had an idea for doing an old time radio Orson Wells type alien invasion show back in 1997.  This was the first and only part, but James Wortman, whom you can find on the Into An Interview page, did an awesome alien invasion show for Halloween that featured a lot of Ventura County actors.  I only had one actor for my production, me, so enjoy all my strange voices…

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MARK McGUINN

Mark was a flash-in-the-pan country singer/songwriter whom I had the honor of meeting early in 2001.  He and I looked like brothers since with we both had similar glasses, goatees, and a penchant for wearing reverse berets.  He came in with a couple other guys and played for us just using the mic’s in the studio.  You can hear this interview along with the Mike’s Daily Podcast show it was on by clicking below…

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VARIOUS COMEDY BITS AND RADIO CUTS

On this effizode of MDP I looked back at comedy bits I recorded for the radio in the early 90’s and I featured cuts from when I was on B95.1 in Ventura County, California, where I spoke with callers in the mid 00’s.  Enjoy all the insanity and lack of banality here…

Part 1

This one features some more early 90’s comedy cuts plus a song I wrote, sang and produced in the late 80’s that I try to sing along with on this show…

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MARTY RAYBON of SHENANDOAH

I found this cassette in 2015 and was blown away. Marty Raybon, the lead singer of a very popular Country band from the late 80’s and early 90’s called Shenandoh, had stopped by my old radio show The Santa Fe Cafe in 2000 to discuss his self-titled solo album. He actually let me sing one of his songs to him! Gosh, that was nice of him (gosh, I was stupid). Enjoy the two parts of this interview and the podcasts they were on here…

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Part 2

RHETT AKINS

Rhett had a couple hits on the Country Music charts in the 1990’s including the number one hit “Dont’ Get Me Started.” He also gained a fan in David Letterman with his hit “That Ain’t My Truck.” Listen to our interview from 2003 here along with the podcast effizodes they were featured on…

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RADNEY FOSTER

Radney wrote some big songs for Country Music superstars like Collin Raye, plus he had his own hits with “Nobody Wins” and “Just Call Me Lonesome.” I got to speak with him in late August of 2002, just about one year after September 11th. He talked about that day and some of the songs he’s written. Click here to hear the interview along with the podcast it was featured on!

That’s all for now! Check back to listen to more great moments from my cassette collection!  Thanks for putting up with the tape quality! More “Classic Mike” to be added from the cassette collection soon! Till then, go back to the home page by clicking here!

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