Interviews


The RB fansite did an interview with Richard Bennett about "Tall Tale Tunes"


Richard Bennett interviewed for The Guitar Show with Andy Ellis , Legends Series :

In this episode, Richard recalls how he began his recording career as a teenager, describes the music that inspires him, shares stories about recording with Knopfler and his ace band in London, and more :


==>Richard Bennett was the guest at the Everyone Loves Guitar podcast to talk about his new album Tall Tale Tunes. Richard talked about his career and the Tall Tale Tunes tracks. You can listen here :


==>Richard Bennett was the guest at the Craft Brewed Music podcast to talk about his new album Tall Tale Tunes.
Several songs from Tall Tale Tunes where played and Richard talked about his career and the Tall Tale Tunes tracks.
Here's the link . Or you can listen here :



==>Richard Bennett was the guest at WXNA in Paul Burch's radioshow to spin platters and talk about his beautiful new album Tall Tale Tunes.
Thanks Paul and Richard for the permission to post this.
Several songs from Tall Tale Tunes where played and Richard choosed a few other songs , talked about his career and the Tall Tale Tunes tracks.
Here's the link . Or you can listen here :




Interview with Richard "Dave & Ethan's 2000" Weird Al Podcast" :

Dave and Ethan’s interview with legendary guitarist and record producer Richard Bennett, who performed with Neil Diamond for seventeen years, has toured with Mark Knopfler since 1994, and recorded with Weird Al on his early recordings! (Oh yeah, he’s also the brother of Jon “Bermuda” Schwartz!)
In his career spanning over 50 years, Richard has worked with everyone from Billy Joel to Barbra Streisand, Ringo Starr to Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill and much more! Fans of Weird Al will recognize him as Bopcat Bennett on the Placebo EP version of “Happy Birthday,” early demos, as well as first-album classics such as “I’ll Be Mellow When I’m Dead.”
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Part 2 :


In the September 2020 edition from Guitar Vintage magazine appeared an interview with Richard about "Code Red Cloud Nine" , the vinyl edition , here's the link : "Vintage Guitar Magazine September 2020"
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Richard did an interview with The Craft Brewed Music Podcast :



Richard Bennett interviewed by Craig Garber for his podcast , 2020: In the September 2020 edition from Guitar Vintage magazine appeared an interview with Richard about "Code Red Cloud Nine" , here's the link :


Nashville Cats : salute to Richard Bennett :



The RB fansite did an interview with Richard Bennett about "Ballads In Otherness"

Ballads In Otherness review in : Premier Guitar

Ballads In Otherness review in : mobilefidelity-magazin

Steve Earl about Guitar Town at : clevescene.com

Interview with : 372WN

The RB fansite did an interview with Richard and Nick Bennett, hope you enjoy the interview with Richard and Nick Bennett interview as NDRRT members 2017

Grand Guitars 2016: interview with Richard Bennet in Grand Guitars for German readers

Vintage Guitar 2015: Contrary Cocktail album review

Guitar Player 2015: an interview with Richard

David Kerns 2015: an interview with the MK band

About Lee Ann Womack's Trouble In Mind (2015): Grateful Web and Rolling Stone

About Iris DeMent's The Trackless Woods (2015): Mixonline

Guitar Player 2014: read

****RINGER OF THE WEEK****Richard Bennett: Code Red Cloud Nine, For the Newly Blue :
In Jazz Weekly is Richard's album "For The Newly Blue" the Ringer Of The Week, you can read it here.

An interview with Richard from Peter Cooper :
Recently Richard did an interview with "Peter Cooper" ,
Peter is a musician himself and writes also for The Tennesean, you can read the interview "here" .

You can find a good interview from Richard with Epiphone here

Richard was amongst the people that were interviewed by David Kerns about the Royal Albert Hall accomodation.

We did an interview with Richard about his latest album "For The Newly Blue" , you can read it here .

Vintage Guitar 2012: read a review about Pieta Brown's Mercury

The Guitar Show with Andy Ellis :2009 click here and 2010 click here

Interview with Richard Bennett :
Here you can find an interview with Richard Bennett that whe did in Februari 2010 when he released his third solo album called "Valley Of The Sun" : Interview about "Valley Of The Sun"

Vintage Guitar 2007: read

Interview from 2006: read

Questions from Neil Diamond fans answered by Richard (2004):
read here

12 questions from Reverend Guitars :read here


An excerpt from the book : High Lonesome : the American culture of country music



From Bilboard 1994:



In the book "Chet Atkins in Three dimensions" , volume 2 are some wonderful words from Mark Knopfler about Chet Atkins , on page 359 he talks also a bit about Richard and Chet , wonderful words :




Richard appears in the book Waking Up In Nashville from Stephen Foehr :