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The Shift List – Jose Salazar – Cincinnati (Salazar, Mitas)

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Jose Salazar is a chef and restaurateur based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Originally from Queens, New York, he got his start in restaurants around New York City, most notably working with Chef Thomas Keller for a four-year stint at Per Se and as the Executive Sous-Chef at Bouchon Bakery when it first opened its doors in 2006.

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In 2008, Salazar and his wife Anne moved to Cincinnati after receiving an irresistible offer to be the Executive Chef of The historical Cincinnatian Hotel and Palace restaurant, and in December of 2013, they opened Salazar together in Cincinnati’s Over the Rhine neighborhood.

In August 2015, Jose and Ann opened Mita’s, their second restaurant together, which has earned Jose nominations for best chef in the Great Lakes from the James Beard foundation in 2016 and 2017.

We had a chance to talk to Salazar in the back corner of a press tent during a rainy Saturday morning in Louisville, Kentucky, at this year’s Bourbon and Beyond festival back in September.

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The Breakdown – Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs, ‘Second Generation Bluegrass’

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Ricky Skaggs and Keith Whitley were both only 17 years old when they recorded Second Generation Bluegrass. Both went on to be country megastars, until Whitley died of alcohol poisoning at 34. Bluegrass legend Ricky Skaggs joins us to explain how two teenagers managed to perfectly replicate the bygone sound of the Stanley Brothers – and he shares his final moments with Keith.

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Featured Songs
“Don’t Cheat in Our Hometown”
“All I Ever Loved Was You”
“Poor Monroe”
“Daybreak in Dixie”
“Son of Hobert”
“Rank Stranger” (The Stanley Brothers)
“Memories of Mother”
“Those Two Blue Eyes”
“My Deceitful Heart”
“Dream of a Miner’s Child”
“Sea of Regret”
“No Stranger to the Rain” (Keith Whitley)

The Show On The Road – Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn

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Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn — two legends and innovators who’ve brought the humble banjo across four continents and have won over 17 Grammys between them in the process — talk with Z. before their show at UCLA.

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For over three decades now Béla has quietly revolutionized how the banjo is played, recorded, and perceived — taking it from of the front porches of Appalachia and into jazz clubs, symphony halls and rock stadiums from his hometown of New York City to Uganda and Tibet and back again.

Meanwhile, Abigail has forged her own unique path. A fiercely intelligent songwriter and activist fluent in Mandarin, she gave up on being a well regarded lawyer in China after a meditation retreat brought her to the realization that the banjo and not the briefcase was her destiny. After meeting at a Nashville square dance (yes, that really happened), Bela and Abigail’s banjo explorations became one. Slowly, they began touring and recording together, and that’s where Z. caught up with them, on a rainy Wednesday on UCLA’s campus in LA.

Featured Songs: “Big Country” and “Over The Divide”


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The Breakdown – John Hartford, ‘Aereo-Plain’

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Aereo-Plain is probably the greatest album John Hartford ever made — but when it came out in 1971, even his record label didn’t know what to make of it.

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We’re still not quite sure – is it a genuine nostalgia fest, or was hippie Hartford pulling bluegrass’ leg? And can producer David Bromberg and Vassar Clements superfan Alex Hargreaves help solve the mystery?

Featured Song Clips From “Aereo-Plain”:
“Turn Your Radio On”
“Steamboat Whistle Blues”
“Back in the Goodle Days”
“Up on the Hill Where They Do the Boogie”
“Boogie”
“With a Vamp in the Middle”
“Steam Powered Aereo Plane”
“Tear Down The Grand Ole Opry”
“Station Break”

The Shift List – Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack – Nashville

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André Prince Jeffries is the owner and matriarch of Prince’s Hot Chicken in Nashville, Tennessee, the original and gold standard for Nashville hot chicken.

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Opened in 1945 by Thornton Prince, André inherited the restaurant and original hot chicken recipe in 1980, and has seen it grow into a culinary trend that’s caught on like wildfire in the past few years throughout the US.

Growing up in the 1940s and ’50s, young André witnessed the origins of her great uncle Thornton’s restaurant, and it turns out that music has been an important part of their success from day one. Just wait until you hear about the typical late night guests that would stop by back in the day.

Theme Song – “Wonder” by Jamie Drake

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The Show On The Road – Birds of Chicago

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Built around the electric energy of husband and wife duo Allison Russell and JT Nero, Birds of Chicago cook up a special brew of soulful rock and roll and goosebump-raising secular gospel that is a much needed shot of pure and positive energy.

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The Show On The Road host, Z. Lupetin, had them over to his place in Los Angeles a few months back to talk about Allison’s wild childhood in Montreal, their slow motion story of falling in love back in the windy city of Chicago, and how they now balance marriage and touring schedules with their adorable four year old daughter in tow.

Featured Song: “Superlover”

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The Breakdown – Béla Fleck, ‘Drive’

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Béla Fleck’s virtuosic 1988 instrumental album, Drive, is a touchstone of modern acoustic music, and has since influenced almost every bluegrasser looking to break new ground.

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Featuring new interviews with Béla, Jerry Douglas, and Mark Schatz, this episode reveals the untold stories of its studio recording – including how Béla got tough with Tony Rice, and why Jerry was often found in tears out in the studio hallway.

Featured Song Clips From “Drive”
“Whitewater”
“Slipstream”
“Up and Around the Bend”
“Natchez Trace”
“See Rock City”
“The Legend”
“The Lights of Home”
“Down in the Swamp”
“Sanctuary”
“The Open Road”
“Crucial Country Breakdown”

The Show On The Road – Darlingside

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Darlingside’s Auyon Mukharj talks about his unexpected climb from being an unsure classical violinist as a kid to the height of the current folk music circuit.

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Featured Song Clips From Darlingside’s Latest Release “Extra Life”
Rita Hayworth
The Rabbit and The Pointed Gun
Singularity

The Show On The Road – Mandolin Orange

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For nearly ten years, Mandolin Orange, the North Carolina folk duo comprising of Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz, have made their quietly powerful, deeply-entwined harmonies sing out from stages around the world, Red Rocks to Newport Folk Fest.

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Host Z. Lupetin talks with Emily and Andrew about how discussing Andrew’s southern family history and politics can be like fighting wildfires around the dinner table — and how Emily’s morning running routine has made her more in tune with each new city she arrives in on tour. Make sure you stick around to end of the show where Andrew and Emily play an exclusive performance of “That Wrecking Ball”.

Song – “That Wrecking Ball”

The Shift List – Philip Krajeck (Rolf & Daughters, Folk) – Nashville

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Philip Krajeck is the chef and owner of Rolf & Daughters in Nashville’s Germantown neighborhood. Distinguished in music city for bringing global cooking techniques to Tennessee’s Southern ingredients, he opened Rolf & Daughters in 2012 and it’s still full every night.

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His follow up, Folk, opened a few months ago in the Spring, and he describes the menu as loosely Italian-influenced food that he’d essentially like to eat himself on any given day.

Krajeck’s musical influences run far and wide, in no small part due to the fact that he moved to Belgium with his family at the age of 10 and soaked up the vast array of genres he was exposed to, most notably by listening to Engligh DJ Giles Peterson and learning about Dance Music, Hip Hop, Spiritual Jazz, Funk, Soul, World Music and everything in between, tapping him into an entirely new universe of artists that he otherwise may have never have discovered.

He contributes this passionate and eclectic spirit to the vibe at Folk, creating a seamless and relaxed dining experience that’s comforting but constantly engaging.

rolfanddaughters.com
goodasfolk.com

Theme Song – “Wonder” by Jamie Drake