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Southern Songs and Stories — 103 episodes

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Bluegrass That Is Traditional and Transcendent All at Once: Ettore Buzzini

2

Be Comfortable With Yourself and Live Loud: Tift Merritt

3

Bringing After Dark and Charlotte’s Music Past Back to Light, Part Two

4

Bringing After Dark and Charlotte’s Music Past Back to Light, Part One

5

Introducing the Alabama Astronaut Podcast with Abe Partridge and Ferrill Gibbs

6

Violin’s Architect of Joyous Sound: Emanuel Wynter

7

Country That Contains Multitudes: Kelsey Waldon

8

Are You Experienced? Taking Stock of Music Festival Culture and History From Ancient Greece to Albino Skunk

9

Rock and Roots Collide To Make a Joyful Noise: SUSTO Stringband and Holler Choir

10

A Long Winter’s Night with The Ruen Brothers

11

New Stages for Time Sawyer and Their Hometown Festival

12

Discovering a New Setting for the Third Place With Wolf Jett

13

When the Party Meets Poetry: Ryan Bingham

14

Six Decades of Legacy and Love for an Ever Evolving Sound With Sam Bush

15

Pay Attention, Stop Listening To Yourself: The Wood Brothers

16

The Greatest Thing Is To Wake Up and Have a New Song To Sing: Jeff Tweedy

17

Feeling Like the Same Person on Stage and Off: The Jeff Tweedy Bonus Episode

18

Not Jazz, nor Funk, nor Brass Band: Exploring the Living Edges of New Orleans Music With Andrew Duhon

19

Where Are We at With the Blues? Dirt and Funk at Albino Skunk With Eddie 9V

20

Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key: The Return of Alison Krauss & Union Station With Jerry Douglas

21

Wrango Bites, Ken Writes: Ken Pomeroy on Vulnerability, Faith, and Folk

22

The Muse Never Worries: Making It Mellow With Seth Walker

23

Old but Not Dead: Sally Anne Morgan and the Living Tradition of Old Time Music

24

Notes From Country, Cajun and Bluegrass’ Far Western Bureau With Caleb Klauder and Reeb Willms

25

When Country Is One Color in a Grand Kaleidoscope: Wrangling Multiple Genres With Neon Cowgirl Tami Neilson

26

A New Team for Two Heavy Hitters of Bluegrass: Woody Platt and Buddy Melton

27

Forget the Morning Crew and the Long Distance Dedications: Radio’s Original Hit Format Lives On With the Martha Bassett Show

28

Achieving a HercuLeon Record Decades in the Making: John Cowan and Andrea Zonn

29

Reflections on Rounder Records, the IBMA and Music Journalism With David Menconi

30

A Musical Animal That Puzzles and Delights: The Faux Paws

31

Tray Wellington and the Black Stringband Symposium

32

Of Wishing Wells and the Unattainable Woman With Lindsay Lou

33

Songs of Solidarity, Songs of Struggle: A Brief Introduction to Songs of Social Movements

34

David Childers, Revisited

35

The 2024 Christmas and Holiday New Music (and 2009 Radio Nostalgia) Special

36

The Liminal Spaces and Myriad Phases Of Twisted Pine

37

Of Triumph, Tragedy and the Solace of Solitude With Steve Earle

38

Stages Of Grief, Songs Of Hope: Helene's Aftermath For the Western NC Music Scene

39

Twin Tragedy Travelogue: An Update

40

The Impact of Place, and the Art of Collaboration With Maya De Vitry and Joel Timmons

41

Small Town Revelations From California to Carolina With Margo Cilker

42

Catching Up With the Pied Piper, Ketch Secor

43

Pioneering a New Style: The Musical and Cultural Synthesis of Larry & Joe

44

Bluegrass, Country and A Whole Lot In Between: The Extraordinary Life and Career of Marty Stuart

45

Jim Lauderdale, Donna the Buffalo and the Many Collaborations of MerleFest

46

American Songcatcher: Bob Wills

47

Rural Roots That Run Deep With Nick Shoulders and Adeem the Artist

48

When Praise and Worship Is Also a Really Good Time: Trombone Shout Bands

49

Striking the Eternal Chord of Cosmic Country With Daniel Donato

50

From Beethoven to Emily Dickinson and Earl Scruggs: The Musical Archaeology of Tony Trischka

51

Revisiting a North Carolina Massacre: Shelton Laurel, Part One

52

Going Solo, With Soul: Travis Book

53

Teaching the Art of the Bluegrass Jam: Pete Wernick

54

Blurring Lines and Packing a Punch With Stillhouse Junkies

55

Diversifying and Exporting Bluegrass With Dark Shadow Recording’s Stephen Mougin and Ben Wright

56

An Update, and Two Quick Takes With Tony Trischka and Travis Book

57

Gravy: King Biscuit Time

58

Finally, A Country That Welcomes Her: Rissi Palmer

59

Cross Fading All Over the Place With Nora Jane Struthers and Joe Overton

60

The Broadside: What It Takes To Make Music in Prison

61

Legacy Media, Legacy Artists and Bluegrass’ Big Pivot With No Depression’s Stacy Chandler at IBMA

62

Peering Into Darkness While Dancing In the Light with Kev Russell of Shinyribs

63

Science Fiction Themes in Music on What It Is with Jeff Eason, Fred Mills and Carol Rifkin

64

Family Ties and Roots Music Foundations: Jonathan Wilson and Bella White

65

Questions From the Hat at The Earl Scruggs Music Festival With Michael Daves, David Lamotte, Josh Carter and Dean Jenks

66

Playing Through Pain With Cristina Vane

67

What's It Worth To Sing This Song: Ed Snodderly

68

Going Home to Where Dreams Come True: Miko Marks

69

Roots Reinterpreted: The Folk Revival of Jake Xerxes Fussell

70

A Soundtrack for July 4th

71

Getting Back to the Essence of the Song With Greg Cartwright, Amanda Anne Platt and Wes Pearce

72

Like Scenes From a Black & White Movie: Retro Cool and Minor Key Mystery With Eilen Jewell

73

Connections, Reflections and Collaborations: Peter Rowan’s Cosmic Americana

74

Sierra Ferrell, Revisited

75

An Amalgamation Of Lineage and Style With Zoe & Cloyd

76

Psychedelia in the Carolinas Then and Now With The Get Right Band and Ken Friedman

77

Fiddlin’ Femmes: Della Mae and Sister Sadie

78

Wait, There Is Rap in Bluegrass Now?

79

Sketching the Classic and the Tragic With The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys

80

Sierra Hull, Natalya Weinstein, Becky Buller, Claire Lynch, and Della Mae: What Does It Take To Be A Leading Lady?

81

The Humble Genius Of Earl Scruggs

82

Revisiting A Country Music Renaissance Man: Charley Crockett

83

Itching for Christmas With The Dancing Fleas

84

A Bluegrass Homecoming With Bela Fleck

85

A Mythical and Moral Tale To End All Tales With Barrett Davis

86

Southern Strings and Stories With Craig Havighurst

87

Where Soil and Song Work In Harmony: S.G. Goodman

88

Making Festival Goers Sing and His Banjo Ring: Brian Swenk

89

Melody, Nuance and Innovation on the Banjo With Tray Wellington

90

Green Acres Music Hall, Revisited

91

On the Road With the Electric Trio and on the Farm With His Orange Scout: Darrell Scott

92

Why Is Live Music So Good? Let’s Talk It Over

93

From #1 Hitmaker to Roots Music Torchbearer: Colin Hay

94

Tradition and Diversity: A New Appalachia with Dori Freeman

95

Painting a Portrait of 23 Years With Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show

96

It's Not Always About the Jam: Justin Golden

97

The Power of Quiet Harmony: Leaning In With Jamestown Revival

98

Becoming a Better Version of Themselves: Sarah Shook & the Disarmers

99

Reinvigorating Country With Joshua Ray Walker

100

Singing Along With Tammy Rogers and Thomm Jutz

101

We Thought You Wanted To Know, Too: Peter Holsapple and The dB's

102

Three Song Set with Tony Kamel and Kelley Mickwee

103

The Mystery of "Chest Fever" by The Band