Podcast Episodes

Rosanne Cash plus Jobi Riccio

Episode 269: 

Rosanne Cash says she's a forward-looking artist and thinker, not prone to looking back. But when she regained control over the master …

2 years, 5 months ago

Tré Burt

Episode 268: The late John Prine's team at Oh Boy Records in Nashville put the little-known west coast songwriter Tré Burt on the national Americana/…

2 years, 5 months ago

The Henhouse Prowlers

Episode 267: When Ben Wright, then 28 years old, saw a banjo for sale in the window at Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music, he had no idea how fa…

2 years, 5 months ago

Lindsay Lou

Episode 266: Lindsay Lou grew up surrounded by community folk music in Michigan, and when she connected with a scene and a band in East Lansing where…

2 years, 6 months ago

Cruz Contreras and Logan Ledger

Episode 265: Two great male voices in new Americana. Cruz Contreras has been a key player in the East Tennessee music scene for twenty years, steerin…

2 years, 6 months ago

Eilen Jewell plus Jenny Owen Youngs

Episode 264: One might imagine that after 17 years singing country music and releasing ten albums, an artist would have shared all of her secrets wit…

2 years, 6 months ago

Robert Finley

Episode 263: Dan Auerbach's Easy Eye Sound in Nashville has been one of the key discovery points for roots music in the past decade. And thanks to th…

2 years, 7 months ago

Emerging Americana 2023

Episode 262: There's no better forum to survey what's happening at the cutting edge of roots music than AmericanaFest, and 2023's huge edition was no…

2 years, 7 months ago

Lori McKenna

Episode 261: She's the hit Nashville songwriter who never moved to Nashville, staying instead in her hometown near Boston. She's the power mom who wr…

2 years, 7 months ago

Darrell Scott

Episode 260: Darrell Scott emerged in the late 1990s as one of Nashville's most complete folk/roots artists. He had the butter of James Taylor and th…

2 years, 8 months ago