In this episode, Matt interviews GRAMMY-award winning fiddler Jason Carter (The Del McCoury Band, The Travelin' McCourys) about his recent solo album Lowdown Hoedown. Jason sings lead on the record, plays brilliant fiddle parts, and is joined b

Olov Johansson: "And Then It Immediately Was Fun"

May 2nd, 2022 1h 2m

Many regard Olov Johannson as Sweden's greatest craftsman on the nyckelharpa. With his brilliant solo playing and as a member of the group Väsen, he has been largely responsible for the explosion of nyckelharpa playing that has been witnessed r

Joey Ryan: "This Is How Long The Applause Did Not Last"

Apr 1st, 2022 1h 10m

Joey Ryan is best known as the taller member of The Milk Carton Kids. The group has been nominated for three GRAMMY Awards: Best Folk Album in 2013 (The Ash & Clay); Best American Roots Performance in 2015 (“The City of Our Lady”); and Best Eng

Bronwyn Keith-Hynes: “Morning Kitchen Jams”

Mar 2nd, 2022 53m 43s

Bronwyn Keith-Hynes is an acclaimed bluegrass fiddler originally from Charlottesville, VA who now makes her home in Nashville, TN. She currently divides her time between touring with Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway and being a session musician in

Jake Schepps: “You Hear All That, Too‽”

Feb 1st, 2022 55m 25s

Jake Schepps is an uncommon banjoist & composer creating music for the traditional American string band that is anything but traditional. In this episode, he speaks with host Matt Brown in his capacity as director of the Banjo Summit, a progres

Gregory Block: "I Start With A Grid"

Jan 1st, 2022 58m 8s

Visual artist Gregory Block was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1986 and moved to Colorado at an early age. During his childhood, he attended a Waldorf school where he discovered a love of painting, sculpture, music, and the natural world. He

Natalie Haas: "That’s Where My Heart Belongs"

Dec 1st, 2021 56m 51s

Juilliard grad Natalie Haas is one of the most sought after cellists in traditional music today. She and Scottish fiddler Alasdair Fraser have toured as a duo for twenty years, wowing audiences at festivals and concerts worldwide with their uni

Adam Hurt: "The Intense Banjo Geek Level"

Nov 1st, 2021 1h 5m

Deemed a "banjo virtuoso" by the Washington Post, Adam Hurt has fused several traditional old-time idioms to create his own elegantly innovative clawhammer banjo sound. A highly respected performer and teacher of traditional music, Adam has pla

Max Allard: "It Played Itself Out Of Me"

Oct 1st, 2021 56m 46s

Max Allard is a banjoist, guitarist, pianist, and composer from Chicago. He has performed in a duo with his brother Otto and with a trio (From the Start) featuring Ruben Whitaker and Otto Allard. Max recently toured with the Minneapolis-based p

Bruce Molsky: “The Best Way I Know To Connect With People”

Sep 1st, 2021 1h 1m

Bruce Molsky is one of the most revered “multi-hyphenated career” ambassadors for America’s old-time mountain music. For decades, he’s been a globetrotting performer and educator, a recording artist with an expansive discography including seven

Jayme Stone: “I Always Wanted To Pause The World”

Aug 1st, 2021 1h 8m

Jayme Stone is a musician, singer, songwriter, composer, and producer based in Colorado. He talks to Matt about the genesis of his albums Africa to Appalachia (2008) and Jayme Stone's Lomax Project (2015). Writing his latest album, aWake (2020)

Bonnie & Taylor Sims: "Nobody Had Ever Done That Before"

Jul 1st, 2021 53m 34s

Bonnie & Taylor Sims have long been fixtures of the Colorado roots music scene, including with their band Bonnie & the Clydes. In 2018, Bonnie was approached by Robbie Nevil (of "C'est la Vie" fame) to be the voice of a new project that would b

Mark Harris: “It Scratches A Completely Different Itch”

Jun 1st, 2021 51m 48s

Mark Harris is a musician and teacher based in Fort Collins, Colorado. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Mark recorded and released his debut solo album entitled Old Time Guitar. Matt consulted with Mark as he was preparing to record, and in this c

Greg Reish: “A Rubber Band And A Popsicle Stick”

Apr 27th, 2021 1h 36m

Dr. Gregory Reish, director of the Center for Popular Music (CPM) at Middle Tennessee State University, chats with Matt about how they met, their duo album Speed of the Plow, what happens at the CPM, and a number of the wonderful albums that Gr

Michelle Billingsley: “Specifically Unspecific”

Apr 1st, 2021 1h 1m

Matt Brown and Michelle Billingsley chat about her debut album Not The Marrying Kind (Western Myth Records), which he produced in 2019. They discuss her songwriting process and what it was like to record at Narwhal Studios in Chicago. They also

Patrik Ahlberg: “The Un-Techno”

Mar 1st, 2021 50m 18s

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