HARLEY, KIMBRO & LEWIS Preview
Martin Harley, Daniel Kimbro and Sam Lewis serve up slow-cooked songs reminiscent of an early American songbook; celebrative pieces highlighting Daniel’s Appalachia roots, Sam’s Nashville tones and Martin’s world-traveling blues. Individually, they have worked with some of the biggest names in the music business. This is thinking, soulful, acoustic Americana at its finest.
SIERRA FERRELL Preview
West Virginian Sierra Ferrell says, “I want my music to be like my mind is—all over the place.” Swirling her spellbinding voice with time-bending sensibilities, Ferrell makes music that’s as fantastically vagabond as she is herself, transporting audiences with a repertoire that spans Bluegrass, Techno, Goth metal, Jazz, and cowboy music with undertones of Latin and the blues.
ALLISON RUSSELL Preview
Proud, black and queer, Allison Russell carries stories of tremendous weight and commands the spotlight in doing so. Her sensual roots-country earned a spot in Rhiannon Giddens’ group “Our Native Daughters,” and her songs have earned 4x GRAMMY (Album, Song, Performance) and 5x Americana nominations, as well as top music industry awards in the UK and Canada.
Episode 12 Preview
Disillusioned after years trying to work through Nashville’s Country music machine, Brit Taylor decided to do it her own way, mixing traditional Country with contemporary attitude, poetic ease and honesty, and a generous touch of her Eastern Kentucky Bluegrass roots. With support from Dan Auerbach, who co-wrote five songs for her 2020 debut release, "Real Me," her very real gamble paid off.
Episode 11 Preview
No band in American Roots music is of greater legendary status than Asleep at The Wheel. Celebrating 50 years of the finest in Western Swing and Country and downhome Boogie, Ray Benson brings his Golden Anniversary tour to the Caverns. This gifted, one-of-a-kind band has kept the music of Bob Wills alive and jumping with a line-up of road-tested veterans and blazing young hot shots.
Episode 10 Preview
Executive produced by T-Bone Burnett, Adia’s debut 2021 album was titled, “Southern Gothic.” It featured guests Jason Isbell and Margo Price and nods to a rich legacy of Black Southern storytelling. The album’s title is a perfect description of the spell Adia weaves with eerily mysterious songs and a riveting presence.
Episode 9 Preview
No Americana duo combines spine-tingling vocal harmonies with truly original and hilarious between-song banter like GRAMMY and America Award-winning singers and guitarists The Milk Carton Kids—Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan. If you’ve seen them before, then you already know… If you haven’t, you are about to meet one of your new favorites.
Episode 8 Preview
Led by “Rappalachian” mastermind Rench, the group’s “Long Hard Times to Come” won an instant national audience as the theme for Elmore Leonard’s classic TV EMMY-nominated series Justified. Gangstagrass has continued successfully mining that unlikely mashup, finding common ground on the dance floors of both rural and urban America. Old school hip-hop meets that high-lonesome sound in Gangstagrass.
Episode 7 Preview
You know Sean and Sara Watkins as two-thirds of multi-platinum, GRAMMY-winning Americana phenomenon Nickel Creek. Their Watkins Family Hour is now the next step in the singing/songwriting/red-hot picking siblings’ no-boundaries journey into Bluegrass, Folk and Pop—an energetic musical outlet for these amazingly talented siblings’ songwriting, arrangements, and experimentation.
Episode 6 Preview
With her highly personal and distinctly modern Southern storytelling, Georgia-born Katie Pruitt, explores complex emotional ground, covering topics such as mental illness and the frustration and difficulties of growing up gay in the Christian South. Katie Pruitt’s music is honest, vulnerable and absolutely beautiful.
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