It’s time for another Featured Artist! At SongCast, we’re always looking for new ways to help promote YOUR music. Check out this week’s Featured Artist interview with Lionel Ward.

What’s your first musical memory?

Singing my ABCs.  I wanted to sing everything.

What artist inspires you?

Elvis, Ricky Nelson, Roy Orbison, Hank Williams Sr., Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, little Richard

What’s your latest track or album?

“To All The Girls Everybody Knew”

What song or album do you HATE?

I like all kinds of music.

What’s a song or album everyone should be listening to right now?

Adele’s “21”

What profession would you choose if you couldn’t choose music?

What else is there. Music makes the world sing in harmony. It’s everywhere.

Tell us more about your local scene.

We travel a lot. We have our own tour bus so it is easy to tour from New York to the Carolinas. Tour Germany, Italy, Greece and the Fair Circuit in our area which is Virginia and sometime Las Vegas.

As a performer, what would be your ‘perfect’ live experience?

I enjoy the excitement of a live audience. You can feel the electricity in the air and on stage.

What aspect drew you to the particular genre of music that you now perform/write?

I love the 50s and 60s Rock & Roll. It was real with no gimmicks. You had to have talent or you would never make it.

Share one personal event in your life that greatly influenced a song/album that you have created during your musical career.

Meeting Wolfman Jack and being on the radio with him. I recorded two albums on his label Sonic Records. He was the worlds greatest DJ. Gave a lot of people a start in the music business. His producer Lonnie Napier actually wrote six songs for me which are in this album.

A big thanks to Lionel for speaking with us this week!  Check out Lionel on his personal website.

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