Had a chat with Stan today that covered a lot of ground including a new prog solo album and reissues of the first two Happy The Man albums. Seems they found the master tapes for the debut....
****For Episode #90 our guest was Happy The Man guitarist Stanley Whitaker. He has a new prog solo album in the works we got the scoop on. We also took a look back at his years with Happy The Man including early touring and the bills they were part of, the influence of the fusion bands of the era, ECM artists and Canterbury groups as well. We discussed soon to be released reissues of the debut Happy The Man album and it's follow up, Crafty Hands. Stan talks about his influences as a guitarist and shed light on HTM's compositional process. Stan retells the story of Peter Gabriel, fresh out of Genesis, auditioning HTM to be his solo band and much more...
There was a slight delay during our chat so please excuse a few moments of overlapping talk...
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