About the book
To listen to audio and to read transcript extracts, please follow this link to the main page of the ‘Talking to Kinky and Karlheinz’ Online Companion
Virtually anyone who is anyone in music has been interviewed on The Music Show. Its archives, a treasure trove of insights, wit and wisdom from musicians from around the world, are now opened in Talking to Kinky and Karlheinz – 170 musicians get vocal on The Music Show (ABC Books).
Feted for its broad definition of ‘good music’, The Music Show, presented since 1995 by Andrew Ford, has always been willing to break down traditional categories of music. 
All styles are covered in the program, from medieval chant to the coolest of jazz. Guests on The Music Show have included Emmylou Harris, k.d. lang, Harry Connick Jr, Baaba Maal, Paul Kelly and Bryn Terfel.
In Talking to Kinky and Karlheinz, Anni Heino draws on the amazing archives of interviews conducted over the years and weaves them into fascinating chapters that cover a range of topics. What makes a jazz singer? How can you put political messages into music? What sorts of relationships do musicians have with their instruments? How do famous musicians cope with fame? Everyone has a voice, from Yehudi Menuhin to Bob Geldof, Chad Morgan to Karlheinz Stockhausen, 
Mavis Staples to Pete Seeger, and in The Music Show studio they try putting into words this most intangible and abstract form of art. They have been serious and funny, irascible and easy-going, shy and articulate, brilliant and profound, but above all they have been immensely passionate about what they do; about music and how it is made.
Anni Heino is a Finnish-born journalist and musicologist. In English she writes predominantly about music, in Finnish she writes on a wide range of topics, from music essays and articles to foreign correspondence, travel features and stories about life in rural Australia.
For an online companion with audio clips and transcript extracts, please return to the main page of the K & K blog. For a full list of interviewees in the book, check out this subpage. To see inside the book, please see these sample pages from an interview with the novelist Nick Hornby.
Talking to Kinky and Karlheinz - 170 musicians get vocal on The Music Show is available from ABC Shops from 7 March 2008 (RRP $32.95). To buy the book online, please follow this link.
