Marco Benevento

What the heck, I'll give her an introduction anyway.

Our guest on episode 18 is Karina Reichman, the singer, bassist, songwriter, guitarist, et cetera, from her own band, as well as from Marco Benevento's trio.

I've known Karina for... two or three years now since I first covered her first show in Philly for Relics, which we talk about a little bit in this conversation.

And just over time, you know, it's been awesome to see the awesome stuff she's been up to, whether it be, you know, her many sit-ins with with My Morning Jacket and any number of other bands, to workshopping new tunes, to playing bigger venues like Webster Hall, which she just played for the second time and sold out, which is freaking amazing.

I mean, I'm not above that.

No.

So, when I was with Marco Benevento in 2019, we played a festival in Japan.

But they put us up for a week.

Other side of the world, but not in the UK.

Marco Benevento.

Pudini on Big Crown.

Thanks to Matt for that one.

He's also done a lot of extensive work with Rich Robinson in his solo efforts as well as the beloved Magpie Salute.

Beyond this, he's worked with countless musicians and built quite a portfolio, including his 90s group Darla Hood, also with artists including Marco Benevento, Tracy Bonham, and currently touring with Mercury Rev.

Please welcome to the State of Amorica podcast, Mr. Joe Magistro.

Joe, thank you for joining us.

So being like, you know, in the backing band, America's Got Talent, Seth Meyers, was there like a turning point or something happened where you realized that like, I can do this under my own name, make my own band? Like, was there something that happened that kind of ignited that for you?

Well, we have to definitely, we have to go back to joining Marco Benevento's band when I was very, very young.

And that, before that, I was in a lot of bands that were sort of, you know, a little bit directionless, if that makes sense.

Like, just bands that...