Sticky Jazz Interview Jonny Couch

Jonny Couch spent most of his career behind the kit, keeping time for other people’s songs. Then he decided the view from the back was no longer enough. He reinvented himself, stepped to the front, and started singing his own material with the kind of restless energy that only comes from someone who’s waited long enough. The sound he landed on is pure sugar-rush 1980s: new wave snap meeting big, grinning rock hooks — Cheap Trick’s swagger tangled up with The Cars’ cool precision. It’s the kind of music that still feels like Friday night even when the calendar says otherwise. He’s already shared stages with Josie Cotton and The Plimsouls. He came within a breath of opening for Modern English, which would have given him the full *Valley Girl* soundtrack trifecta. Instead he kept writing, kept playing, and kept showing up. website Facebook instagram bandcamp #jonnycouch #psychedelicfors #cheaptrick #josiecotton #wherethesidewalkends #jonnycouchmusic We talked songwriting, the long road from drummer to frontman, the records that shaped him, and the particular madness of hovering over ticket prices at the last possible minute for a band still trying to hold onto world-class status. Through it all runs the new album, *Where The Sidewalk Ends*. One full listen is enough to wake up the part of you that still remembers when this stuff felt urgent, fun, and a little bit dangerous. Jonny Couch isn’t chasing the past. He’s dragging the best of it into the present and making it sing. This program may contain copyrighted material which has not always been authorized by the copyright owners. We use this material of the artists we feature for interviews. This is done to promote these artists, and thus we believe that this constitutes "Fair Use" of copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US copyright Law. There is NO copyright infringement intended.