Review Fix Exclusive: Louie Fontaine Talks The Sun Ain’t Black And More

Review Fix chats with singer/songwriter Louie Fontaine who discusses his origin in music, new album, The Sun Ain’t Black and his upcoming tour with Samantha Fish.

About Louie Fontaine:

Louie Fontaine’s album, The Sun Ain’t Black, is the culmination of three decades of experience playing and recording a wide variety of music. The Sun Ain’t Black is primarily an Americana record with blues, country and even art rock finding their way onto the disc.

Review Fix: How did you get involved in music?

Louie Fontaine: Listing to my brother’s records with my uncle when I was 12 I bought a guitar with Rick Heart but could not play so I bought a bass instead. I started to write songs after a couple of years and fast found out that’s what I want to do.

Review Fix: What are your influences?

Fontaine: I like good songs no really matter what genre, Blues, rock or whatever. Bob Dylan is one of my heroes.I love John Hiatt, JJ Cale, Tom Waits, Neil Young just to name a few.

Review Fix: How has your sound evolved from when you first started singing?

Fontaine: I was a natural born singer. I slowly made Louie Fontaine. When there is a strong storyline in a song, it gives me more freedom to fool around with my vocals.

Review Fix: What makes your brand of music special?

Fontaine: Me.

Review Fix: Why do you think people should enjoy it?

Fontaine: The songs are compelling – I’ve been writing songs for 25 years and I like to think that I got good at it.

Review Fix: What inspired The Sun Ain’t Black (The album)?

Fontaine: I wrote the entire album all alone in my Norwegian cabin. I was inspired to write story songs by people that I bumped into. Women are always good to write about. Many of my songs are true stories and others are made up.

Review Fix: Is there a story behind “Ain’t the Right Girl For You Girl”?

Fontaine: Yes. It’s about a girlfriend who leaves me for another girl, but I’m ok with that just suggest she find a better girlfriend because the one that she has is mean. We just finished the video last night, so you will see how these two ladies gang up on me.

Review Fix: How do you want that song to affect people?

Fontaine: I want them to smile and get goosebumps.

Review Fix: How does it feel to tour with Samantha Fish?

Fontaine: Great. I like Samantha as a person and she is a killer player. It will be a good tour I’m very thankful she is taking me along.

Review Fix: What are your goals for 2018?

Fontaine: Play, play, play, and play.

Review Fix: What’s next?

Fontaine: I started already writing so I guess another CD and a January tour with Lord Bishop.

Review Fix: Anything else you’d like to add?

Fontaine: Come see the show!

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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