2020-09-08

Casey Wayne McCallister

Casey Wayne McCallister (Charlottesville, Virginia)

Originally from Baton Rouge, multi-instrumentalist Casey Wayne McCallister spent years in New Orleans playing with multiple bands in the nuevo roots/country scene, including Hurray for the Riff Raff, before relocating to Charlottesville, Virginia. Over the years, he slowly began to do increasing amounts of composition for film, and now he has multiple feature film scores under his name, including the independent films Ghostbox Cowboy (2018), Western (2015), the Ross Brothers’ Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (2020), and Socks on Fire (2020. He is also a skilled refurbisher of vintage organs.

Interviewed by Holly Hobbs, 09/08/2020.

Holly Hobbs

Music; United States; Covid-19 Pandemic

Charlottesville, Virginia

Musicians in America during the Covid-19 Pandemic

Society for Ethnomusicology