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Charley Crockett plus Lillie Mae
Charley Crockett has a story that's difficult to imagine playing out in the 21st century - he's hoboed around the country, lost loved ones, scuffled…
6 years, 9 months ago
Odessa Settles plus The Steel Wheels
The lineage of Nashville's Fairfield Four thrives and resonates in Odessa Settles, this week's guest on The String. The daughter of singer Walter J. …
6 years, 10 months ago
Chuck Mead plus Courtney Hartman
The decade-plus since the conclusion of his era-shifting band BR549 have been a case study in creative evolution for Chuck Mead. He's still a stalwar…
6 years, 10 months ago
Keb' Mo' plus Dara Tucker
Episode #96. Launching a career in the blues in the mid 1990s seems in retrospect a bit audacious and foolhardy, but when LA songwriter and studio mu…
6 years, 10 months ago
Caroline Spence plus Lee Roy Parnell
Episode #95. Caroline Spence moved to Nashville eight years ago fresh out of college with a "vague dream" of writing songs, probably she thought for …
6 years, 11 months ago
Buddy and Julie Miller
Episode 94: They've each had distinguished careers as songwriters and musicians in American roots music, but together they're especially sublime. Bud…
6 years, 11 months ago
Nick Lowe plus Dylan LeBlanc
Episode 93: In the 1970s Nick Lowe carved out a place on the thoughtful side of punk and pop in England, landing "Cruel To Be Kind" on the charts wit…
7 years ago
Byron Berline and Andy Statman
Episode 92: This week's show is split between two string instrument masters who have little in common save for a lifelong commitment to nurturing tra…
7 years ago
Ricky Skaggs
Only five artists or acts have been inducted into both the Country Music and Bluegrass Music halls of fame, and only one is actively touring and shap…
7 years ago
Dale Watson plus John Smith
No. 90 - Honky tonk maestro Dale Watson grew up in Pasadena, TX, just on the Galveston Bay side of Houston. With a father and brother who played coun…
7 years ago