Stuck on Sound
Stuck on Sound is a podcast that delves into the world of sound, exploring its facets, including production, engineering, technology, and business. We also venture into the creative realm of sound, covering songwriting, recording, and performing. Additionally, we consistently focus on the evolving accessibility landscape within the sound and music industries. Hosted by Joey Stuckey, Stuck on Sound is a space where we embrace curiosity and go down exciting rabbit holes. Joey Stuckey is an award-winning artist, producer, and speaker whose multifaceted career transcends the boundaries of sight, sound, and genre. Blind since early childhood, Joey quickly found connection and inspiration in sound, and what started as a survival skill evolved into a sophisticated and almost supernatural talent. When legendary producer Alan Parsons called Joey “The best ears in the music business,” it was confirmation of what Joey’s fans and clients knew all along: Joey’s superpower is sound. The Joey Stuckey Band has shared the stage with legendary artists such as James Brown, the B-52s, and Bad Company, and Joey has received dozens of awards, including the Georgia Music Awards' Jazz Artist of the Year. Inducted into the Atlanta Country Music Hall of Fame, Joey also received the 2024 Macon Arts Alliance Cultural Award for his significant contributions to the arts community of central Georgia. As owner of Shadow Sound Studio in Macon, Georgia, Joey honors each artist’s vision while encouraging them to explore uncharted territory. He has engineered recording sessions with musicians including Randall Bramblett (Steve Winwood, Traffic Gregg Allman and Friends), Chuck Leavell (Rolling Stones, George Harrison, Train), and Mike Mills (R.E.M.), and written songs with Ed Roland (Collective Soul), Paul "Mad Dog" McGuinness (The Popes), and Will Morrison (Modern English). Joey is now expanding Shadow Sound to cement the studio as a destination for education, community, and recording in the birthplace of southern rock. As a speaker, Joey draws from his experiences as a blind musician and sound engineer, offering both technical advice and motivational talks on overcoming obstacles, living with purpose, and the importance of inclusion. His speaking engagements have spanned international conferences, university lectures, and global corporate events, blending his insights with performance to engage and inspire audiences. On stage, in the studio, or at the podium, Joey offers listeners a sense of belonging, reminding them that even in the dark, connection is always possible.
Episodes
In this episode of Stuck on Sound, Joey Stuckey talks with Ben Medina, the guitarist for 10,000 Maniacs based in Rockford, Illinois. Ben is in five other projects besides the Maniacs, from country and R&B to a pop-rock original band, and he describes a career built on never being able to say no to a good gig.
Ben traces his love of music back to a toddler-sized record player, but says the moment that made him want to be ...
In this episode of Stuck on Sound, Joey Stuckey talks with Shelby Lock, an audio engineer, producer, composer, and the owner of Silver Moon Sound, a boutique recording studio in California's Santa Cruz Mountains built around acoustic and classical music. Shelby has more than 250 commercial recording credits and a growing catalog of her own compositions, including a piece premiered at the Kennedy Center in 2022, but the conversation...
In episode 24 of Stuck on Sound, host Joey Stuckey welcomes his dear friend Daniel Keller, a musician, audio engineer, producer, and educator, for a conversation about building a creative life through curiosity and a willingness to learn. Daniel traces his journey from finding refuge in music and sculpture as a teenager to playing in bands, working at Los Angeles recording studios, producing artists in Germany, and teaching at the ...
In this episode of Stuck on Sound, Joey Stuckey sits down with his dear friend and fellow Recording Academy Atlanta board member Diane Durrett. Diane is a singer, songwriter, producer, Georgia treasure, and, as Atlanta Magazine put it, a modern-day Renaissance woman. Joey and Diane have a warm, wide-ranging conversation about a life built on original music, community service, and a stubborn refusal to quit.
Diane traces her ...
In this episode of Stuck on Sound, Joey Stuckey welcomes Gary Gottlieb. Gary is an AES Past President and Fellow, longtime professor, textbook author, New York studio engineer, and a man whose forty-year career spans so many disciplines that Joey jokes he must be a thousand years old. Joey and Gary have a generous and wide-ranging conversation about how the audio world works, how it is changing, and what it means to give back after...
In this episode of Stuck on Sound, Joey Stuckey sits down with his dear friend and mentor John Krivit. John is Past President of the Audio Engineering Society, an Emerson College faculty member, founder of the Hey Audio Student Facebook Group, and one of the audio world's most tireless advocates for education and international connection. Joey's conversation with John ranges from a Tascam 388 in a Boston apartment to a broken set o...
In this episode of Stuck on Sound, Joey Stuckey welcomes Jennifer Roe, the Executive Director of Folk Alliance International and a former Capitol Hill staffer turned passionate advocate for independent music and the artists who make it. The conversation focuses on community, advocacy, and what it actually takes to run one of the most beloved annual gatherings in American roots music.
Jennifer traces a career path that w...
In this episode of Stuck on Sound, Joey Stuckey welcomes his friend and colleague Grant Maloy Smith. Grant is a Billboard Top 10 Americana recording artist, MusicRow charting songwriter, Carnegie Hall performer, and one of the most thoughtful musical storytellers working in roots music today. The conversation covers history, craft, independence, and the unlikely intersection of visual art and song.
Grant traces his beginning...
In this episode of Stuck on Sound, Joey Stuckey sits down with Larry Villella, lifelong musician, Columbia University alumnus, and founder of ADK Microphones for a conversation that moves effortlessly between Boston recording studios, legendary jazz sessions, the obsessive craft of microphone design, and the pleasures of a life lived in a 500-year-old home in Lecce, Italy.
Larry's origin story begins with a piano at age five...
In this episode of Stuck on Sound, Joey Stuckey welcomes multi-Grammy Award-winning producer, composer, and performer Lonnie Park for a candid and inspiring conversation about a career built on eclecticism, faith, hard work, and a refusal to be boxed in by genre or geography.
Lonnie's origin story is one of the most memorable in the podcast's run. He grew up in a deeply conservative Baptist home where rock and roll, in fact,...
In Episode 16 of Stuck on Sound, Joey Stuckey reconnects with Tim Duffy, co-founder of the Music Maker Foundation, for a soulful conversation about roots music, cultural preservation, dignity, and the artists whose voices deserve to be heard.
Tim reflects on meeting Joey years ago at Adam’s Lounge in Georgia, one of those real musical places where history, community, and raw talent all collide. From there, he shares the missio...
In this episode of Stuck on Sound, Joey Stuckey welcomes Jonathan Wyner, mastering engineer, Berklee professor, past president of the Audio Engineering Society, chief engineer at M Works Studios, and head of artistic technology initiatives at Berklee's Emerging Artistic Technology Lab (BEATL), for a deeply thoughtful conversation about what it means to spend a life in service of other people's music and ideas.
Jonathan trace...
In Episode 14 of Stuck on Sound, Joey Stuckey sits down with acclaimed producer, musician, author, and creative strategist Michael Beinhorn for a wide-ranging conversation about records, risk, taste, technology, and what a producer is really there to do.
Michael reflects on his early years co-founding the New York musical collective Material with Bill Laswell, his work on Herbie Hancock’s “Rockit,” and the path tha...
In this episode of Stuck on Sound, Joey Stuckey welcomes multiple Grammy Award-winning producer, engineer, and mixer Ross Hogarth for a rich conversation about a four-decade career spent in the company of some of the greatest artists in rock, blues, reggae, and beyond. From the downtown New York punk scene to the California studios where legends are made, Ross's story is one of relentless curiosity, hard-won instincts, and an unsha...
In this episode of Stuck on Sound, Joey Stuckey sits down with the legendary Richard Blade. He's an Oxford-educated DJ, bestselling author, actor, and one of the most beloved voices in American radio. The episode features a wide-ranging conversation about music, adventure, identity, and the power of saying yes even when the odds are stacked against you.
Richard traces his journey from Torquay, England, where a transistor rad...
In this episode of Stuck on Sound, Joey Stuckey sits down with his dear friend Lachi, recording artist, music executive, Disability Culture champion, Recording Academy National Trustee, and author, for a conversation that is by turns hilarious, moving, and genuinely revelatory. Born legally blind, Lachi has spent her career using music, advocacy, and storytelling to bring Disability Culture into the mainstream, and this episode cap...
In Episode 10 of Stuck on Sound, Joey Stuckey sits down with music marketing strategist, author, educator, and Cyber PR founder Ariel Hyatt for a practical and deeply human conversation about what it really takes to build a lasting music career in the digital age.
Ariel traces her path from a childhood shaped by theater, art, dyslexia, and music to the early days of independent music marketing, where she cut her teeth in scrappy gra...
In Episode 9 of Stuck on Sound, Joey Stuckey sits down with educator, artist, writer, and longtime Berklee professor Ellen Francese for a deeply thoughtful conversation about creativity, self-worth, teaching, illness, community, and the human need to make art.
Ellen traces her creative roots to a childhood shaped by curiosity and artistic freedom, where there was no “right” or “wrong” way to explore visual ar...
In Episode 8 of Stuck on Sound, Joey Stuckey sits down with producer, engineer, musician, and lifelong studio craftsman Thom “TK” Kidd for a wide-ranging conversation about career conviction, recording philosophy, studio psychology, gear obsession, and the changing role of technology in music.
TK traces his path back to a ninth-grade guidance counselor form where he wrote that he wanted to work in a recording studio, a g...
Host: Joey Stuckey
Guest: Eric Alexandrakis - Part 2 of 2
Release Date: June 3, 2026
Episode Length: Approximately 1 hour, 17 minutes
Episode Summary
In Part 2 of this two-part episode of Stuck on Sound, Joey Stuckey continues his conversation with two-time Grammy-nominated artist, songwriter, composer, and producer Eric Alexandrakis.
Eric tells the story of how John Taylor of Duran Duran discovered him shortly after ...
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