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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.

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Theme Song – “Wonder” by Jamie Drake

The Breakdown – Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard

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Emma and Patrick dissect the 1976 album Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard (not to be confused with their earlier recording Hazel and Alice), a release that came out after the unlikely duo already broke up.

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Hazel and Alice have become one of the most influential artists in the history of bluegrass, tackling subjects that range from racial injustice to the hardships of being a working woman in their music.

Featured Songs
West Virginia My Home
Mama’s Gonna Stay
Nice Like That
Mary Johnson
Beaufort County Jail
James Alley Blues
True Life Blues

The Breakdown – Flatt & Scruggs, ‘At Carnegie Hall!’

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Released in 1963 by Columbia Records, the historic performance from Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and The Foggy Mountain Boys records the first time a bluegrass artist headlined the venerable New York concert hall.

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Emma and Patrick dissect the record and pull up archive interviews and recordings that take you behind the scenes of this classic live recording.

Featured Songs
Salty Dog Blues
Footprints In The Snow
The Martha White Theme
Mama Blues
Let The Church Roll On

The Show On The Road – Front Country

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The boundary-breaking bluegrass outfit Front Country is this week’s guest. They are among the most fiercely intelligent, straight-up wacky, and genuinely warm-hearted people playing music on the road today. The Show On Road host Z. Lupetin was initially only going to talk to a few band members for this episode, but this time the entire band got cozy and gathered around the mic for a cool and casual conversation.

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Song – “If Something Breaks”

The Shift List – Edward Lee (610 Magnolia, MilkWood) Louisville

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Edward Lee is the chef and owner of three restaurants with unique identities in Louisville, Kentucky – 610 Magnolia, MilkWood, and Whiskey Dry – and is the author of two books. Smoke & Pickles – his first – is a cookbook that chronicles the story of how he was raised in Brooklyn in a family of Korean immigrants to his arrival in Louisville, and Buttermilk Graffiti, a uniquely inspiring read that is part food essay, part travel book, part memoir and part cookbook.

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Released in the Spring of 2018, Buttermilk Graffiti finds Lee traveling across America to learn how immigrants arrive, thrive, and influence the cuisine of communities all over the country, from the Cambodian community of Lowell Massachusetts to the predominantly Muslim neighborhoods of Dearborn Michigan.

In addition to his appearances on award winning shows like Mind of a Chef and writing and producing the Feature Documentary Fermented, Lee participates in the annual Bourbon and Beyond festival held in Louisville at the end of each September for the past two years.

Equal parts bourbon, music, and food, the festival shines a spotlight on the things that make Kentucky and Louisville a great place to visit and live.

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The Show On The Road – Robbie Fulks

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This week Zach talks to Chicago-based troubadour Robbie Fulks. They talk about how he’s made his own brand of sharp-tongued country music for over three decades, and how he considers Hank Williams the Shakespeare of American Music. They also discuss how he’s become more fearless and less embarrassed to confront heartbreak and the darkness always lurking in America as he’s grown older.

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Song: Alabama At Night