Episode #2: Pete Berwick

Welcome to the second episode of the Troubled Artists Podcast. In today's episode, I'm interviewing Pete Berwick, an actor and musician from Chicago. Pete Berwick has nearly half a century of experience in all avenues of entertainment. He has recorded, produced, and distributed seven critically acclaimed albums of his original music via his record label, Shotgun Records, written and published five books, and has worked on the production side as well as acted in over 100 film and television projects since 1989. As an actor in film, he has earned seven Best Actor awards from film festivals across the globe.   He has worked with notables in the movie industry such as Samuel L. Jackson and Clarence Williams lll, and in the music industry, with Charlie Daniels and Travis Tritt. Berwick put together his first band, a punk rock outfit, in 1976, and by 1991 was signed to an independent record label in Nashville, where he made a respectful name for himself as an innovator and pioneer of alternative-country and cowpunk. He has managed and toured the nation with his various bands through the decades, while building an entertainment company called Big Top Entertainment, featuring variety acts, where he booked and produced 300 events a year for over 20 years.In 2008 he co-produced and starred in an episode of ABC’s reality series, Wife Swap, and in 2017 appeared as a standup comedian on NBC’s America’s Got Talent. Berwick is founder and president of BPI (Berwick Productions International), an entertainment company that offers management, talent representation, promotion, music publishing and licensing, consultation, and film and television production.Berwick’s most recent book is an exhaustive biography, titled Too Wild to Tame, a history of the Illinois music scene in the 70s, featuring a band called The Boyzz, who were at the forefront of the explosion of musical acts in the Chicago area being signed by major record labels from 1975-1980.He continues to sign acts to his record label, represent talent, and manage his music catalog through Pete Berwick Publishing (BMI, Nashville), licensing dozens of songs annually for film and television.We'll be discussing his creative start, how he develops his characters and much more advice surrounding his extensive career.Pete Berwick I AIN’T HIM: My Life in Show Business, Whoever I Am BOOK: https://a.co/d/6qGX5LaPete Berwick IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3251161/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_1_nm_7_in_0_q_pete%2520berwickPete Berwick Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/peteberwick1/Pete Berwick YouTube: https://youtube.com/@peteberwick?si=4Ac6UzmIvm8Ce9KyFilms featuring Pete Berwick:LOCKSMITH (2025)https://youtu.be/pyr942nuKfA?si=u0SlUL6R-tbP7WdoFANATIC (2024)https://tubitv.com/movies/100018444/fanaticDEGREE OF DIFFICULTY (2023)https://tubitv.com/movies/100026964/degree-of-difficultyTAGGED (2022)https://tubitv.com/movies/673391/tagged