This week, the show dials into the Nashville studio of one of the most gifted songwriters and empathic storytellers of her generation: Mary Gauthier. While Mary has become known for her darkly honest tales of overcoming addiction and seeking truth and joy after overcoming her troubled upbringing in Louisiana, she was nominated for a Grammy…

This week on the show, we talk to a startling new talent placing a gut-punch into the folk and blues scene, the Milwaukee-raised and now Austin-based singer-songwriter Buffalo Nichols.   LISTEN: APPLE PODCASTS • SPOTIFY • STITCHER  Growing up learning on his sister’s dreadnought guitar and then traveling widely through West Africa after high school…

This week, The Show On The Road is back with an intimate talk with Texas-born folk pop collaborators Andy Baxter and Kyle Jahnke, who for the last decade have toured the USA as symbiotic harmonizers Penny & Sparrow.   LISTEN: APPLE PODCASTS • SPOTIFY • STITCHER  Their lush 2022 release Olly Olly showcases their unique…

This week, we bring you a conversation with Birmingham, Alabama’s Paul Janeway, frontman of the storied soul and art-pop experimenters St. Paul & The Broken Bones. LISTEN: APPLE PODCASTS • SPOTIFY • STITCHER  While many first learned of Paul as the bespectacled former bank teller and accounting student who went from playing tiny clubs around…

This week, to help commemorate the conclusion of Black History Month, we bring you an in-depth conversation with Compton, California-raised blues and roots master (and BGS Artist of the Month) Keb' Mo', who has helped preserve the haunting Delta blues of Robert Johnson while also making his own cheerful and slyly subversive R&B Americana for…