After a year on tour, Barbara is home for Christmas and took time out for a chat.
In the spirit of Christmas Barbara’s father Hans shared the above photos with all of us. Of course the photo on the left is Barbara as an adolescent and the other is from Sep 2008 with Barbara sitting at Jimmy Smith’s favorite B3 (I’m guessing that Hans got it from Pete Fallico.)
This year I had the good fortune to see the recording studio that Hans set up for Barbara while she was still living at home, and he played several early tapes he recorded. With time he became a very skilled sound engineer and he has a wealth of high quality recordings of Barbara, going all the way back to the beginning. We fans can only hope that eventually Barbara will allow him to put together a CD Anthology box set – he even has some early club recordings. So keep your fingers crossed for that!
Because this has been such an eventful and busy year for Barbara, it seemed like it would be a good idea to ask her about some of the highlights. Normally I do print interviews, but I thought you fellow fans would enjoy hearing Barbara, so we decided to do a podcast interview. Please excuse the background noise on one of the telephones, if you have trouble understanding headphones will help. Also for any German speaking fans, I left a little bit of our post-interview conversation for you.
Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Or click right and download the MP3 file below.
2008 Year End Review Chat with Barbara Dennerlein
Finally, here is a WMA file you can down and or play with Windows Media Player
