Before The Cheering Started with Budd Mishkin Podcast
1) AMY ARBUS: Seeing Life Through The Lens
Send us a text AMY ARBUS Seeing Life Through The Lens You might think that a life in photography was always a given for Amy Arbus since her mother Diane Arbus was a photography icon and her father...Show More
2) SUZANNE VEGA: “Flying With Angels”
Send us a text It’s been forty years since we first heard Suzanne Vega on record. That haunting, lyrical sound is still there on her latest album “Flying With Angels.” The songs are poignant and per...Show More
3) BACK TO THE GARDEN: A WOODSTOCK SPECIAL
Send us a text A little bit of a different Before The Cheering Started episode this weekend. A mid August weekend always brings memories of Woodstock. It was a pleasure and privilege to create and h...Show More
4) JUDY BATALION: Inheriting Holocaust Trauma
Send us a text Author Judy Batalion knows from Holocaust trauma, growing up with survivor grandparents in Montreal. So when she chanced upon a book written in 1946 about a female resistance fighter i...Show More
5) STEVE FORBERT: From Meridian to MacDougal
Send us a text I always smile when I think of the apt title of Steve Forbert’s terrific debut album “Alive on Arrival.” Because he was. “Alive on Arrival” speaks to the excitement of coming to the b...Show More
6) PETER ASHER: A World With Love Of Music
Send us a text Peter Asher has been part of the music that has elated and sustained me for some 60 years. The songs of Peter and Gordon as part of the 1960’s British Invasion still sound fresh and ...Show More
7) LUIS MIRANDA JR.: Relentless
Send us a text Luis Miranda Jr.’s story is a great American story. It’s a great New York story. It’s a great Puerto Rican story. Long before Hamilton became part of our vocabulary, Luis Miranda Jr....Show More
8) LARRY CHARLES: Comedy Samurai
Send us a text Larry Charles’ comedy journey has taken him to some of the familiar places for a comedy writer, such as on set for Seinfeld, Mad About You and Curb Your Enthusiasm. At other times, i...Show More
9) WILLIE NILE: Every Spirit Raised
Send us a text Willie Nile is a musical lifer, still going strong in his late 70’s with a new album “The Great Yellow Light.” He’s been a New York singer songwriter who has traveled the country and t...Show More
10) ART SHAMSKY: Still Amazin’
Send us a text The story of the 1969 New York Mets, the Amazin’ Mets, has been told for more than five decades. It will no doubt be told for decades to come. Art Shamsky has experienced it as a pl...Show More