Virginia dirt | Mo Ho Sessions S5E03 | Live at The British Country Music Festival 2025

Season 5 kicks off at the British Country Music Festival 2025 in Blackpool with the transatlantic duo Virginia Dirt (Miss Dirt + Mr Dirt): an American storyteller from Virginia and an Italian guitarist/producer who first met… in a tattoo parlour. We dig into the making of their EP Miss Dirt To You, why storytelling matters more than shredding, and how an online jam app during lockdown pulled a global cast of collaborators into their sound (recorded between London and Italy).They talk arranging songs “like a kid with toys,” militant endings, the tension between vinyl-era albums and streaming’s 24-hour attention cycle, the life-or-death value of festivals and merch for independent artists, supporting Sunny Sweeney, and (yes) the great pineapple-on-pizza debate. We also get an exclusive live performance of their unreleased murder ballad “Marvin.”HighlightsOrigin story & the name “Virginia Dirt”Building the EP with a drummer from the Netherlands, bluegrass friends in London, and producers in RomeSongs: “Call The Preacher,” “Old Bones,” “Burden of Truth,” “Woe Betide,” “Had It Coming,” “Stockholm,” plus the live exclusive “Marvin”Albums as journeys vs. single culture; AI in creativity; why listening rooms like Green Note matterFollow Virginia DirtInstagram: @virginiadirtmusicMusic & merch: link in their IG bioMo Ho SessionsYouTube (full video): youtube.com/@MoHoSessionsInstagram: @mohosessionsHosted by Linda Conway • Produced/filmed/edited by DC Brown LiveTagline: You never know how a Mo Ho is going to start — and we don’t do short form