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Southern Songs and Stories — 103 episodes
Bluegrass That Is Traditional and Transcendent All at Once: Ettore Buzzini
Be Comfortable With Yourself and Live Loud: Tift Merritt
Bringing After Dark and Charlotte’s Music Past Back to Light, Part Two
Bringing After Dark and Charlotte’s Music Past Back to Light, Part One
Introducing the Alabama Astronaut Podcast with Abe Partridge and Ferrill Gibbs
Violin’s Architect of Joyous Sound: Emanuel Wynter
Country That Contains Multitudes: Kelsey Waldon
Are You Experienced? Taking Stock of Music Festival Culture and History From Ancient Greece to Albino Skunk
Rock and Roots Collide To Make a Joyful Noise: SUSTO Stringband and Holler Choir
A Long Winter’s Night with The Ruen Brothers
New Stages for Time Sawyer and Their Hometown Festival
Discovering a New Setting for the Third Place With Wolf Jett
When the Party Meets Poetry: Ryan Bingham
Six Decades of Legacy and Love for an Ever Evolving Sound With Sam Bush
Pay Attention, Stop Listening To Yourself: The Wood Brothers
The Greatest Thing Is To Wake Up and Have a New Song To Sing: Jeff Tweedy
Feeling Like the Same Person on Stage and Off: The Jeff Tweedy Bonus Episode
Not Jazz, nor Funk, nor Brass Band: Exploring the Living Edges of New Orleans Music With Andrew Duhon
Where Are We at With the Blues? Dirt and Funk at Albino Skunk With Eddie 9V
Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key: The Return of Alison Krauss & Union Station With Jerry Douglas
Wrango Bites, Ken Writes: Ken Pomeroy on Vulnerability, Faith, and Folk
The Muse Never Worries: Making It Mellow With Seth Walker
Old but Not Dead: Sally Anne Morgan and the Living Tradition of Old Time Music
Notes From Country, Cajun and Bluegrass’ Far Western Bureau With Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms
When Country Is One Color in a Grand Kaleidoscope: Wrangling Multiple Genres With Neon Cowgirl Tami Neilson
A New Team for Two Heavy Hitters of Bluegrass: Woody Platt and Buddy Melton
Forget the Morning Crew and the Long Distance Dedications: Radio’s Original Hit Format Lives On With the Martha Bassett Show
Achieving a HercuLeon Record Decades in the Making: John Cowan and Andrea Zonn
Reflections on Rounder Records, the IBMA and Music Journalism With David Menconi
A Musical Animal That Puzzles and Delights: The Faux Paws
Tray Wellington and the Black Stringband Symposium
Of Wishing Wells and the Unattainable Woman With Lindsay Lou
Songs of Solidarity, Songs of Struggle: A Brief Introduction to Songs of Social Movements
David Childers, Revisited
The 2024 Christmas and Holiday New Music (and 2009 Radio Nostalgia) Special
The Liminal Spaces and Myriad Phases Of Twisted Pine
Of Triumph, Tragedy and the Solace of Solitude With Steve Earle
Stages Of Grief, Songs Of Hope: Helene's Aftermath For the Western NC Music Scene
Twin Tragedy Travelogue: An Update
The Impact of Place, and the Art of Collaboration With Maya De Vitry and Joel Timmons
Small Town Revelations From California to Carolina With Margo Cilker
Catching Up With the Pied Piper, Ketch Secor
Pioneering a New Style: The Musical and Cultural Synthesis of Larry & Joe
Bluegrass, Country and A Whole Lot In Between: The Extraordinary Life and Career of Marty Stuart
Jim Lauderdale, Donna the Buffalo and the Many Collaborations of MerleFest
American Songcatcher: Bob Wills
Rural Roots That Run Deep With Nick Shoulders and Adeem the Artist
When Praise and Worship Is Also a Really Good Time: Trombone Shout Bands
Striking the Eternal Chord of Cosmic Country With Daniel Donato
From Beethoven to Emily Dickinson and Earl Scruggs: The Musical Archaeology of Tony Trischka
Revisiting a North Carolina Massacre: Shelton Laurel, Part One
Going Solo, With Soul: Travis Book
Teaching the Art of the Bluegrass Jam: Pete Wernick
Blurring Lines and Packing a Punch With Stillhouse Junkies
Diversifying and Exporting Bluegrass With Dark Shadow Recording’s Stephen Mougin and Ben Wright
An Update, and Two Quick Takes With Tony Trischka and Travis Book
Gravy: King Biscuit Time
Finally, A Country That Welcomes Her: Rissi Palmer
Cross Fading All Over the Place With Nora Jane Struthers and Joe Overton
The Broadside: What It Takes To Make Music in Prison
Legacy Media, Legacy Artists and Bluegrass’ Big Pivot With No Depression’s Stacy Chandler at IBMA
Peering Into Darkness While Dancing In the Light with Kev Russell of Shinyribs
Science Fiction Themes in Music on What It Is with Jeff Eason, Fred Mills and Carol Rifkin
Family Ties and Roots Music Foundations: Jonathan Wilson and Bella White
Questions From the Hat at The Earl Scruggs Music Festival With Michael Daves, David Lamotte, Josh Carter and Dean Jenks
Playing Through Pain With Cristina Vane
What's It Worth To Sing This Song: Ed Snodderly
Going Home to Where Dreams Come True: Miko Marks
Roots Reinterpreted: The Folk Revival of Jake Xerxes Fussell
A Soundtrack for July 4th
Getting Back to the Essence of the Song With Greg Cartwright, Amanda Anne Platt and Wes Pearce
Like Scenes From a Black & White Movie: Retro Cool and Minor Key Mystery With Eilen Jewell
Connections, Reflections and Collaborations: Peter Rowan’s Cosmic Americana
Sierra Ferrell, Revisited
An Amalgamation Of Lineage and Style With Zoe & Cloyd
Psychedelia in the Carolinas Then and Now With The Get Right Band and Ken Friedman
Fiddlin’ Femmes: Della Mae and Sister Sadie
Wait, There Is Rap in Bluegrass Now?
Sketching the Classic and the Tragic With The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys
Sierra Hull, Natalya Weinstein, Becky Buller, Claire Lynch, and Della Mae: What Does It Take To Be A Leading Lady?
The Humble Genius Of Earl Scruggs
Revisiting A Country Music Renaissance Man: Charley Crockett
Itching for Christmas With The Dancing Fleas
A Bluegrass Homecoming With Bela Fleck
A Mythical and Moral Tale To End All Tales With Barrett Davis
Southern Strings and Stories With Craig Havighurst
Where Soil and Song Work In Harmony: S.G. Goodman
Making Festival Goers Sing and His Banjo Ring: Brian Swenk
Melody, Nuance and Innovation on the Banjo With Tray Wellington
Green Acres Music Hall, Revisited
On the Road With the Electric Trio and on the Farm With His Orange Scout: Darrell Scott
Why Is Live Music So Good? Let’s Talk It Over
From #1 Hitmaker to Roots Music Torchbearer: Colin Hay
Tradition and Diversity: A New Appalachia with Dori Freeman
Painting a Portrait of 23 Years With Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show
It's Not Always About the Jam: Justin Golden
The Power of Quiet Harmony: Leaning In With Jamestown Revival
Becoming a Better Version of Themselves: Sarah Shook & the Disarmers
Reinvigorating Country With Joshua Ray Walker
Singing Along With Tammy Rogers and Thomm Jutz
We Thought You Wanted To Know, Too: Peter Holsapple and The dB's
Three Song Set with Tony Kamel and Kelley Mickwee
The Mystery of "Chest Fever" by The Band