Midwest BEAT

Midwest Beat host Tom Lounges talks with Joel Ratajack the founder and producer of the charitable annual music festival "ROCKOPELLI," now in its fourteenth year.

Midwest Beat host Tom Lounges is joined by the founding member of Chicago's 1960s hit-making group, THE BUCKINGHAMS Carl Giammarese.

Midwest Beat host Tom Lounges talks with children's book author Linda Stone.

Midwest Beat host Tom Lounges talks with Northwest Indiana singer and songwriter Mario Samaniego.

Tom Lounges talks with Uli Jon Roth, who's U.S. tour starts this week.

Each week's program finds producer and host Tom Lounges blending together various styles and eras of the blues -- from the old school legends, to the top contemporary players of today, along with some of the up and young guns deserving to have their music heard. Audiences will hear the guitar greats, the harp blowers, the piano pounders, the singers, and the shouters. Some of club-hopping Northwest Indiana and Chicagoland's regional players also get showcased on this program.

Remember the 1980 dual A-Side 45 single -- " This Beat Goes On" / "Switch Into Glide"-- by Canadian rock band, THE KINGS?

My guest this evening is Northwest Indiana singer/songwriter T.J. AUBUCHON whose debut CD -- "EDGE OF NIGHT" landed at #8 on my 2022 annual listing -- Tom's Top 10 Regional Albums of the Year -- published in The Northwest Indiana Times daily newspaper.

Join Tom as he talks with author and Chicago media journalist/broadcaster Rick Kaempfer about his new book "THE LOOP FILES" (Eckhartz Books), detailing the ups, downs, highs, lows of classic Chicago Radio Station -- THE LOOP -- through the words of the colorful characters who were there to create it's history as one of rock radio's most influential stations.

Each week's program finds producer and host Tom Lounges blending together various styles and eras of the blues -- from the old school legends, to the top contemporary players of today, along with some of the up and young guns deserving to have their music heard. Audiences will hear the guitar greats, the harp blowers, the piano pounders, the singers, and the shouters. Some of club-hopping Northwest Indiana and Chicagoland's regional players also get showcased on this program.