The BGS team is excited to announce yet another addition to the BGS Podcast Network lineup for 2026, after Folk Files, The Other 22 Hours and the Working Songwriter came on board earlier this year. On October 19, 2026, a new podcast titled Don’t Call Me Darlin’ will join the BGS family. This makes the 16th show to partner with or be produced or distributed by the BGS Podcast Network. (Hear Episode One.)

Before social media, the women of bluegrass had a bright blue newsletter that showed up in the mailbox and said what no one would say out loud. In Don’t Call Me Darlin’, host Carolyn Kendrick and co-creator Tristan Scroggins hit the road to find the women Murphy Henry profiled decades ago, in a story about genre, identity, feminism, and the communities we built before the internet.

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What can our foremothers teach us about how to challenge the system? And when should we challenge our own expectations? In conversations with legends such as Alice Gerrard, Kristin Scott Benson, Laurie Lewis, Missy Raines, Alison Brown, Rhonda Vincent, Sierra Hull, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, and many more, our hosts learn how tradition can bring community together and how it can break it apart. Join Carolyn and Tristan on their road trip as they explore the paradoxical world of bluegrass: an American art form with American problems, strengths, and growing pains.

Don’t Call Me Darlin’ is based on the Women in Bluegrass newsletter that was published quarterly from 1994–2003 by Murphy Hicks Henry. Find more information about Murphy, including how to purchase her book Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass.

Don’t Call Me Darlin’ is based on the Women in Bluegrass newsletter that was published quarterly from 1994–2003 by Murphy Hicks Henry. More information about Murphy, including how to purchase her book Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass, can be found here.

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