Sitting With Gianluca

About Sitting With Gianluca

Sitting with Gianluca will be a rotating cast of artists engaging in lively and fascinating conversation and – when they’re musicians – some live music as well. Expect these sit-downs to be more like co-hosts sitting around the record player than interviews.

Publisher

Gianluca Tramontana

Category

music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Dec 2018

Latest episode

21 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

50 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Oct 2026

   SWG Manu Therón & Occitan Music S1 E5

   Sitting with Gianluca will be Manu Therón, multi-lingual musician and journeyman. Manu is at the forefront of the Southern French musical movement to reclaim the Occitan indigenous language banned by Paris after the French Revolution. Manu explains the history, the resurgence of the language and the different bands that are reclaiming it - from reggae and ragamuffin to psychedelic rock and will play a song in the Occitan language.

2. 

   29 Sept 2026

   SWG Peter Blackstock on Old #1 S1 E4

   Sitting with Gianluca Peter Blackstock who has just published a book on late Texan songwriting legend (and former Sitting With Gianluca guest) Guy Clark’s ground-breaking debut LP Old #1. Clark was at the center of a 70’s Nashville songwriting scene that included Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle & Texan Jerry Jeff Walker that ushered in a grittier, road-weary type of roots music. Clark’s Old #1 re-wrote the rules of Nashville songwriting and has become a go-to source for artists looking for songs to cover for the last 50 years.

3. 

   15 Sept 2026

   SWG Banning Eyre & African Guitar S1 E3

   Sitting with Gianluca is writer, historian and musician Banning Eyre. Banning & Sean Barlow co-run afropop.org, the go-to music resource for any global non-western music. He’s also written books on African guitar styles and will take us on a journey through the African “guitar regions” and demonstrate the different styles from different regions on his guitar. From Detroit house music & hip-hop, old time banjo music, New Orleans rhythm & blues, rock & roll, jazz, flamenco, Mediterranean folk music and even some classical music - it all leads back to Africa. It was a real delight to have someone so knowledgeable connect the dots through the years and I’m sure it will set your mind on fire as much as it did mine.

Who has been a guest on Sitting With Gianluca

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Sergio Bacalhau
• Elie Coquard
• Deb O'Nair
• Arnie Goodman
• Brian Mitchell

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 20 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

27

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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Guest appearances

Books guests

Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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