Episode 12, Season 3 / Jan 23, 2023
In Session
Listen as the Macon Music Revue perform ballads highlighting Georgia’s rich musical history. The Macon Music Revue features vocals by Charles Davis, with Sean Williams on bass, Ethan Hamlin on keys, Caleb Melvin on drums, and Dustin McCook on guitar. Sound recording by Mason Mishael.
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Episode 8, Season 1 / Sep 16, 2020
In Session
`Milwaukee-based folk band Dead Horses performs at BlakeSt in Bentonville, Arkansas and chats with Bryan and Bernice Hembree (Smokey and the Mirror), co-founders of the Fayetteville Roots Festival.
Dead Horses is Sarah Vos (vocals, guitar), Daniel Wolff (upright bass, vocals), and James Gallagher (percussion). Their latest EP, Birds, is available now.
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Episode 7, Season 1 / Sep 2, 2020
In Session
In our first episode of Points South Live, pop string band Front Country plays live from BlakeSt in Bentonville, Arkansas, and chats with Bryan Hembree (Smokey & The Mirror), co-founder of the Fayetteville Roots Festival. Front Country is Melody Walker (vocals, guitar, percussion), Jacob Groopman (guitar, resophonic guitar, mandolin, vocals), Adam Roszkiewicz (mandolin, banjo, vocals), and P.J. George (bass). Their latest single, “The Reckoning,” is available now.
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Episode 7, Season 2 / Sep 29, 2022
In Session
Transcendental indie folk band The Deer join KUTX host Elizabeth McQueen for an evening of live music and conversation at Long Play Lounge East in Austin, TX.
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Episode 6, Season 1 / Mar 18, 2020
Episode 6, Season 2 / Sep 23, 2022
In Session
Songwriter Jenn Wasner of Flock of Dimes plays live from 21c Durham Museum and Hotel, chatting with Brooklyn-born visual artist Clarence Heyward and OA Editor Danielle A. Jackson.
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Episode 5, Season 1 / Dec 18, 2019
In Session
A performance from the No Tears Suite, an original jazz composition commissioned by the OA to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the desegregation crisis at Little Rock’s Central High School.
Featuring Kelley Hurt, Chris Parker, Brian Blade, Bill Huntington, Bobby LaVell, Marc Franklin, and Chad Fowler.
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Episode 5, Season 2 / Sep 15, 2022
In Session
Live from 21c Nashville Museum and Hotel, country songwriter and memoirist Margo Price performs live and chats with painter Jodi Hays and author, songwriter, and OA Guest Editor Alice Randall.
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Episode 4, Season 2 / Sep 9, 2022
In Session
Blues songwriter Buffalo Nichols plays live from 21c Bentonville Museum and Hotel, and chats with multimedia visual artist Oluwatobi Adewumi and University of Arkansas Black Student Caucus spokesperson Tyrah Jackson.
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Episode 3, Season 2 / Dec 23, 2021
In Session
A performance by American folk duo Birds of Chicago from the 30A Songwriters Festival.
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Episode 2, Season 2 / Dec 2, 2021
In Session
A performance by Richmond native and singer-songwriter Lucy Dacus from the 30A Songwriters Festival. Dacus’s latest album, Home Video, is available now.
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Episode 2, Season 1 / May 8, 2020
Episode 1, Season 2 / Nov 4, 2021
In Session
A performance by Adia Victoria from the 30A Songwriter’s Festival.
Photo by Huy Nguyen
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