Incredible Night: Ken Stringfellow on El Vagon Alternativo!!!

What a special night yesterday was. Ken Stringfellow (http://www.kenstringfellow.com/) stopped by to the Metro Stereo radio station(www.lametro.com.ec) to be interviewed! Ken walked in at about 10pm(Ecuadorian time) and gazed at the posters inside the room, shook my hand and with a smile on his face, proceeded to sit down and start our interview. He praised that my radio show was conducted in a manner that college radio stations are done. Ken brought along some music to share with my listeners. World exclusives were new material from his band The Disciplines (http://www.thedisciplines.com/) and his other band the Posies (http://theposies.net/). We talked about the different things he has been doing in the year since I last interviewed him. Other music he shared was a band he worked with in Argentina who were the Super Ratones (http://www.superatones.com/). He actually sang in Spanish in one of their tracks which was heard last night. Ken talked about his favorite discs he was hearing right now and one that jumped out was Serge Gainsbourg's Le Historie de Melody Nelson. We talked about the importance of this album and the influences that it had on modern music today. Ken also talked about his association with local Quito band Can Can (http://can-can.org/) The last two weeks Ken has been producing Can Can's new album. they have been working as he sadi, "From sun up to sun up." This partnership came about last year when Ken was touring South America last year and he made contact with local band Mama Vudu (http://www.mamavudu.com) to play Disicplines songs with local bands across South America. From there he met Can Can and the partnership began. Two members of Can Can were at teh radio station also. Daniel Pascuel and Denisse Santos. They expressed the experience Ken has and they were grateful to have him in the studio these last two weeks.

Though Stringfellow did bring in his guitar to do a solo acoustic set, it was not to be. The interview which was to last 30 minutes went to a full hour and he needed to head back to the studio (http://www.laincreiblesociedad.com/esociedad.com/ with Can Can to finish up some things before he left this morning (6:40 am to be exact) to Miami. We wrapped up and I immensely thanked him for stopping by the station to do this interview with me and for my listeners to hear what a great person he is. I hope that Ken returns to Quito and we get another chance to interview him and quite possibly hear him perform (he mentioned that his plan is to bring either The Disciplines or The Posies to Quito).

What a class act you are Ken Stringfellow!!!