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WNRN x SXSW 2023

WNRN returned to SXSW in Austin this year to co-host the Public Radio Day Stage with public radio stations from across the country.

Keep it tuned to WNRN in the following weeks to hear our favorite music discoveries and In-Studio Sessions recorded live from Austin!

Check out some photos from Desiré and Graeme’s first day at SXSW as they recorded sessions at Tweedy’s Bar!

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WNRN’s coverage of SXSW continued Thursday as Desiré interviewed Genesis Owusu and Fruit Bats at Tweedy’s Bar, and Indigo De Souza at Scholz Beer Garden.

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On Friday, WNRN co-hosted the Public Radio Day Stage with public radio stations from across the country. Check out photos as Thee Sacred Souls kicked off the afternoon!

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Revisit WNRN’s sessions from SXSW 2022!

2023-03-21T16:25:14-04:00March 17th, 2023|
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Bluegrass Sunday Morning Playlist 2/19/23

7am

  • Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway- Nashville Mess Around
  • Ralph Stanley- Little Maggie
  • Daryl Mosley- A Life Will Lived
  • The Doug Flowers Band- Good Saddles Ain’t Cheap
  • Rickey Wasson- Ramblin’ Boy
  • Authentic Unlimited- Washed in the Blood
  • Wildfire & Dale Ann Bradley- What Would Your Memories Do
  • Becky Buller- Millworker
  • Morgan Brake- Georgia Backroads
  • The Caleb Daugherty Band- Better Class of Losers
  • Blue Highway- Lonesome State of Mind
  • Alison Krauss & Union Station- New Fool
  • Crandall Creek- Get Out of Bed
  • Audie Blaylock & Redline- I Just Came to Get My Baby
  • Larry McPeak Tribute Band- Yesteryears
  • Michael Cleveland- Sunny Days are Coming Once Again
  • Nick Dumas- We’d Go to Town
  • Nothin’ Fancy- Dooley

8am

  • Ricky Skaggs & KT- Goin’ Back to Old Kentucky
  • The Grascals- Last Train to Clarksville
  • Tim Stafford & Thomm Jutz- Take that Shot
  • Tina Adair- Why You Been Gone So Long
  • Terry Baucom’s Dukes of Drive- Here in the Country
  • Starlett & Big John- Safely in the Arms of Jesus
  • Tim Raybon Band- Can’t Get Away From This Broken Heart
  • Dave Adkins- You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet
  • The Kody Norris Show- Mountain Rosalie
  • Virginia Ramblers- She Left Me Again
  • Dark Hollow- Love Please Come Home
  • Retro 78- Black Vinyl 45
  • Lonesome River Band- Waitin’ On a Train
  • John Duffy- Some Old Day
  • Russell Moore & IIIrd Tyme Out- Gentle on my Mind
  • Irene Kelley & The Kruger Brothers- Come Some Winter Morning
  • Jim Hurst- Oh Lonesome Me

9am

  • Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver- Loe on Arrival
  • Junior Sisk- Hooked on Bluegrass
  • Jackson Hollow- I’m All the Way Gone
  • Band of Ruhks- Good Time Mountain Man
  • Jeremy Stephens- Sockeye
  • Larry Sparks- Mama’s Apron Strings
  • Tim Stafford & Thomm Jutz- The Blue Grays
  • Blue Ridge Thunder- House of Gold
  • Woody Platt- One Last Goodbye
  • Unspoken Tradition- California
  • Casey Penn- We Go Together Like a Guitar & a Fiddle
  • Missy Armstrong- Buttons
  • Jason Barie, Doyle Lawson, Russell Moore- Keep A Memory
  • Milan Miller- Distractions
  • Billy Strings- Stone Walls & Steel Bars
  • Cadillac Sky- Born Lonesome

10am

  • Sideline- Thunder Dan
  • Josh Williams- Modern Day Man
  • Michael Cleveland- For Your Love
  • Special Consensus- Chicago Barn Dance
  • Nothin Fancy- Long Black Veil
  • Tim Stafford & Thomm Jutz- No Witnesses int he Laurel But the Leaves
  • Claire Lynch- Silver & Gold
  • Bluegrass 2022- Gold Rush
  • Chris Davis- Heart Like Mine
  • Wilson Banjo Co.- Holler
  • Sister Sadie- Diane
  • Lonesome River Band- We Couldn’t Tell
  • Dolly Parton & Friends- In the Sweet By & By
  • Larry Cordle- East Kentucky Blues
  • Jaelee Roberts- The Best of Me
2023-02-20T12:51:00-05:00February 20th, 2023|
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New Rock Now Playlist 2.19.23

Air Date: 2.19.23, Sunday 8-10pm

8PM
Nico Paolo – Time
Abraham Alexander – Tears Run Dry
Kevin Morby – Like a Flower
The Golden Dregs – Vista
Miss Grit – Lain (Phone Clone)
Silversun Pickups – Empty Nest
Caroline Rose – Miami
Everything But The Girl – Nothing Left to Lose
M83 – Amnesia
U.S. Girls – Futures Bet
Yo La Tengo – Sinatra Avenue Drive
Volores – Carrion Cry
Young The Giant – The Walk Home

9PM
Shana Cleveland – Faces in the Firelight
Slaid Cleaves – Second Hand
Joseph – Nervous System
Django Django f/ Self Esteem – Complete Me
Michigander – Superglue
Loud Hound – Keep Ya Head Up
Sleaford Mods f/Florence Shaw – Force 10 from Navarone
Tahls – Make the Turn
Algiers f/ Samuel T. Herring & Jae – I Can’t Stand It
Darling West – Oh Love
Royel Otis – I Wanna Dance with You
The Waeve – Kill Me Again
Daughter – Party
Yves Tumor – Echolalia
Gabrielle Shonk – People Pleaser
MorMor – Seasons Change

2023-02-20T11:38:41-05:00February 20th, 2023|
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Fresh Roots New Blues Playlist 2/18/23

Fresh Roots New Blues on WNRN

Air Date: 2/18/23, Saturday 6-8 PM

Set 1
· Aaron Neville & The Dirty Dozen Brass Band – Stomping Ground (Take Me To The River: New Orleans) (Petaluma) 2022
· Rebirth Brass Band – It Ain’t My Fault (Here To Stay: Live At The Grease Lounge, 1984, Their First Recording) (Arhoolie) 1984
· Irma Thomas – Hip Shakin’ Mama / Lady Marmalade (Live At The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival- 1976) (Good Time) 2022

Set 2
· Allen Toussaint & The Funky Meters – Ride Your Pony (Live At The Crescent City Blues Festival) 2015
· Professor Longhair – Every Day I Have The Blues / Big Chief / Tell Me Pretty Baby (Meet Me At Tipitina’s) (Sublime) 2016

Set 3
· Storyville Jazz Band – Mardi Gras (Rarities) (Self) 2019
· Rebirth Jazz Band – Shake Your Booty (Here To Stay: Live At The Grease Lounge, 1984, Their First Recording) (Arhoolie) 1984

Set 4
· Ranky Tanky – Ranky Tanky / Green Sally (Live At The 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival) (MunckMix) 2022
· C.J. Chenier & The Red Hot Louisiana Band – Instrumental Medley (Live At Lowell Folk Festival) 2017

Set 5
· Preservation Hall Jazz Band – Somebody Else Is Taking My Place (Live!) (Sony) 1991
· The Wild Magnolias – Big Chief Bo (St. Joseph’s street recording) 2014
· Dr. John – Right Place, Wrong Time (Trippin’ Live) (Bicycle Music) 1997
· Rebirth Brass Band – Here To Stay P.I.E. Here To Stay: Live At The Grease Lounge, 1984, Their First Recording) (Arhoolie) 1984

Set 6
· Dumpstaphunk – Water (Live At Mardi Gras 2013) 2013
· Neville Brothers – Shake Your Tambourine (Live From Planet Earth) (A&M) 1994
· Trombone Shorty & Kermit Ruffins – Mardi Gras Day (A Musical Celebration Of New Orleans) (Basin Street) 2012

2023-02-20T10:13:21-05:00February 20th, 2023|
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New Rock Now Playlist 2.12.23

Air Date: 2.12.23, Sunday 8-10pm

8PM
Michigander – Superglue
Barrie – Races
Quasi – Doomscrollers
Ultra Q – VR Sex
Shana Cleveland – Faces in the Firelight
Loud Hound – Keep Ya Head Up
Algiers f/ Samuel T. Herring – I Can’t Stand It
Marcus Paquin – Something Beautiful
Wolftrap – Ghost Girl
Claire Davis – Intuition
McKinley Dixon – Tyler, Forever
Yves Tumor – Echolalia
Night Glitter – Magic Eyes
The Tallest Man On Earth – Every Little Heart
Spacey Jane f/ Benee – Lots of Nothing

9PM
Gord Downie and Bob Rock – The Raven and the Red-Tailed Hawk
Miss Grit – Lain (Phone Clone)
Caroline Rose – Miami
Geese – Cowboy Nudes
Anna B Savage – Crown Shyness
U.S. Girls – Futures Bet
Young Fathers – Holy Moly
Daughter – Be on Your Way
Everything But The Girl – Nothing Left to Lose
Half Gringa – Miranda
Sunnsetter – Float in Circles
Alex Lahey – Good Time
Nico Paolo – Time
H. Hawkline – Plastic Man
Overcoats – Never Let You Go

2023-02-13T14:34:23-05:00February 13th, 2023|
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Bluegrass Sunday Morning Playlist 2/12/23

7am

  • Cedar Hill- Art of Love
  • Claybank- Up on Claybank
  • Darin & Brooke Aldridge- Old Fashion
  • Terry Baucom’s Dukes of Drive- Here in the Country
  • Blue Ridge Thunder- Beautiful Home
  • Starlett & Big John- My Brown Eyed Darling
  • Earls of Leicester- Big Black Train
  • Gibson Brothers- Cabin Down Below
  • Kody Norris Show- Mountain Rosalie
  • Tennessee Bluegrass Band- Life in the Country
  • Lonesome River Band- Waitin’ on a Train
  • Ralph Stanley & Patty Loveless- Pretty Polly
  • Michael Martin Murphy- Wildfire
  • Irene Kelley & The Kruger Brothers- Come Some Winter Morning
  • Jim Hurst- Sunnyside Garden

8am

  • Deer Creek Boys- Midnight & Dawn
  • Don Reno- Limehouse Blues
  • Jason Barie, Doyle Lawson, Russell Moore- Keep a Memory
  • Ralph Stanley II & The Clinch Mountain Boys- Don’t Point Your Finger
  • Tim Graves & The Farm Hands- Drinking my Baby Goodbye
  • The Gospel Plowboys- I’ll Fly Away
  • Casey Penn- We Go Together Like a Guitar & a Fiddle
  • Milan Miller- Distractions
  • Lindley Creek- Too Bad You’re No Good
  • The Bankesters- Cups (When I’m Gone)
  • Ashby Frank- Paintball Gun
  • Billy Strings- Little Cabin Home on the Hill
  • Woody Platt- One Last Goodbye
  • Tommy Webb- Teardrop Inn
  • Starlett & Big John- Clean Slate
  • Del McCoury & The Dixie Pals- Pick Me Up on Your Way Down

9am

  • Rhonda Vincent- Hit Parade of Love
  • Sam Bush- Howlin’ at the Moon
  • Donna Ulisse- I’m Fallin’
  • Chris Davis- Heart Like Mine
  • The Boxcars- Cornelia
  • King James Boys- He Broke the Chains
  • Casey Penn- Winner Every Time
  • Larry Cordle- East Kentucky Blues
  • Doyle Lawson & Paul Williams- I Still Write Your Name in the Sand
  • M.D. Mallory Band- Good Woman’s Love
  • Ashby Frank- Make Your Mama Proud
  • Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road- Rollin in my Sweet Baby’s Arms
  • James King- Jason’s Farm
  • Sister Sadie- Diane
  • Starlett & Big John- Makin’ Track to Macon
  • Junior Sisk- The Lonely Side of Goodbye
  • Jimmy Martin & The Osborne Borthers- Chalk Up Another One

10am

  • Lonesome River Band- Thunder & Lightning
  • Del McCoury- Rain & Snow
  • Retro 78- My Darling Coming Home
  • Ricky Skaggs- Mighty Dark to Travel
  • Nick Dumas- We’d Go to Town
  • Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway- Nashville Mess Around
  • Blue Highway- Lonesome State of Mind
  • Jerry Salley- Be Better to Your Neighbor
  • Kim Robins- Johnny Clay
  • Jr. Williams- House of Gold
  • Starlett & Big John- Quit Quittin’ You
  • Caleb Daugherty Band- Better Class of Losers
  • Caleb Bailey & Paines Run- Katydid
  • Dailey & Vincent- Brothers of the Highway
  • Wildfire & Dale Ann Bradley- What Would Your Memories Do
  • Joe Hott- Fool of the Town
  • Michael Cleveland- Sunny Days (Are Coming Once Again)
  • Gina Britt- A Little Bit of You
2023-02-13T13:32:08-05:00February 13th, 2023|
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Fresh Roots New Blues Playlist 2/11/23

Fresh Roots New Blues on WNRN

Air Date: 2/11/23, Saturday 6-8 PM

Set 1
· Bonnie Raitt – Just Like That (Just Like That) (Redwing) 2022
· Joe Louis Walker – The Weight Of The World (Weight Of The World) (Forty Below)
· Pumphouse Blues Band – I Gotta Go (I Gotta Go) (Self)
· Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder – My Baby Done Changed The Lock On The Door (Get On Board – The Songs Of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee) (Nonesuch) 2022

Set 2
· Scott Ellison – You Can’t Blame A Guy For Trying (Zero-2-Sixty) (Swordfish)
· Nick Schnebelen – Poor Side Of Town (What Key Is Trouble In?) (VizzTone)
· Diane Blue All-Star Band – Crazy, Hazy, Lazy / I Cry (Live At The Fallout Shelter) (Regina Royale) 2022

Set 3
· Eddie 9V – Down Along The Cove (Capricorn) (Ruf)
· TRIPLE BLAST – Joshua White – Lord I Want To Die Easy (Joshua White 1933-1941) (Wolf) 2017 orig 78 RPM 1935 (Conqueror) / Pink Anderson – Big House Blues (Greatest Hits) (Vintage) 2018 orig. (Carolina Blues Man) (Bluesville) 1961 / Baby Face Leroy Foster – Red Headed Woman (Chicago Blues) (Rolled Gold) 2012 orig. (single – Savoy) 1954

Set 4
· Taj Mahal – Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby (Savoy) (Stony Plain)
· Keb’ Mo’ – Lean On Me (Good To Be) (Rounder) 2022
· Walk That Walk – Roof Got A Hole / Good Woman (Big World Of Trouble) (Self)

Set 5
· Kenny Neal – Bon Temps Rouler (Straight From The Heart) (Ruf) 2022
· Joe Louis Walker – Waking Up The Dead (Weight Of The World) (Forty Below)
· The Nighthawks – Motorhead Baby / Forty Days (Slant Six) EP (VizzTone)

Set 6
· Edgar Winter – Mean Town Blues (Brother Johnny) (Quarto Valley) 2022
· Damon Fowler – Some Things Change (Live At The Palladium) (Landslide)
· Joe Louis Walker – Blue Mirror (Weight Of The World) (Forty Below)

2023-02-13T11:14:19-05:00February 13th, 2023|
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Bluegrass Sunday Morning Playlist 2/5/23

7am

  • Fast Track- Mary Jane Won’t You Be Mine
  • The Roys- New Day Dawning
  • Jason Barie, Doyle Lawson, Russell Moore- Keep a Memory
  • Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers- Big City
  • Doc Watson- My Little Woman, You’re So Sweet
  • Deer Creek Boys- Bible
  • Ashby Frank- Leaving Is Believing
  • Bob Minner & Trey Hensley, Randall Collins, Jr. Williams- Gonna Settle Down
  • Kristy Cox & Marty Raybon- Kentucky’s Never Been This Far From Tennessee
  • Mountain Faith- If You Are Ever Down In Dallas
  • Milan Miller- Distractions
  • Mac Wiseman- Jimmy Brown The Newsboy
  • McKay & Leigh- Rozene
  • Woody Platt- One Last Goodbye
  • Nick Chandler & Delivered- Biscuits and Gravy

8am

  • Lester Flatt- Head Over Heels in Love
  • Cherry Holmes- Brand New Heartache
  • Olivia Jo- Mighty Mississippi
  • Crandall Creek- Get Out of Bed
  • Osborne Brothers- Who Done it
  • Darin & Brooke Aldridge- Once in a While
  • Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road- Traveling the Highway Home
  • The Kody Norris Show- I Call Her Sunshine
  • Larry Cordle- East Kentucky Blues
  • Amanda Cook- Carried Away
  • Dewey & Leslie Brown & The Carolina Gentlemen- Mean Ole Thing
  • Ashby Frank- Sea of South Dakota
  • Sister Sadie- Diane
  • Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen- Scorchin’ The Gravy
  • The Steeldrivers- Lonely & Being Alone
  • Tim Graves & The Farm Hands- She’s Gone Gone Gone
  • Chris Davis- Heart Like Mine

9am

  • Slocan Ramblers- Groundhog
  • Charlie Sizemore Band- Heartache Looking for a Home
  • Casey Penn- We Go Together Like a Guitar & Fiddle
  • The Caleb Daugherty Band- Better Class of Losers
  • The Grasscats- High in the Mountains
  • JB & Jamie Dailey- Vision of Jesus
  • Ashby Frank- Paintball Gun
  • Michael Cleveland- Sunny Days (Are Comin’ Once Again)
  • VW Boys- Hot Rod Lincoln
  • The Grascals- Haggard
  • Blue Highway- Lonesome State of Mind
  • Fireside Collective- Blue is My Condition
  • Wildfire & Dale Ann Bradley- What Would Your Memories Do
  • Del McCoury Band & Vince Gill- Honky Tonk Nights
  • Joe Hott- Fool of the Town
  • Nick Dumas- We’d go to Town

10am

  • Ricky Skaggs- Blue Night
  • Country Gentlemen- Nashville Jail
  • Donna Ulisse- I’m Fallin
  • Rhonda Vincent- Kentucky Borderline
  • Lonesome River Band- Waitin’ on a Train
  • Fast Track- It Won’t Be Very Long
  • Billy Droze- It’s Ok to be Ok
  • Billy Strings- Dig a Little Deeper in the Well
  • Valerie Smith- Heartbreak Hill
  • Stanley Brothers- How Mountain Girls Can Love
  • The Kody Norris Show- Mountain Rosalie
  • Danny Roberts- How I Live, How I’ll Die
  • Tennessee Bluegrass Band- Hillbilly Blues
  • Terry Baucoms Dukes of Drive- Here in the Country
  • Irene Kelley & The Kruger Brothers- Come Some Winter Morning
  • Starlett & Big John- Living in the South
  • Junior Sisk- The Lonely Side of Goodbye
  • Tim Graves & The Farm Hands- Banjo Signal
2023-02-13T13:31:19-05:00February 8th, 2023|
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New Rock Now Playlist 2.05.23

Air Date: 2.05.23, Sunday 8-10pm

8PM
Moby f/ Gaidaa – Transit
Joseph – Nervous System
Gord Downie and Bob Rock – The Raven and the Red-Tailed Hawk
Samia – Honey
James Yorkson, Nina Persson, & The Second Hand Orchestra – The Harmony
Anna B Savage – Crown Shyness
MorMor – Seasons Change
Wednesday – Bull Believer
Tanukichan f/ Enumclaw – Thin Air
Overcoats – Never Let You Go
H. Hawkline – Plastic Man
Blondshell – Joiner
Daughter – Be on Your Way

9PM
Debby Friday – So Hard to Tell
The Stacks – Careen
Little Simz – Gorilla
Michigander – Superglue
Quasi – Doomscrollers
Young The Giant – The Walk Home
The Tisburys – Garden
McKinley Dixon – Tyler, Forever
Kevin Morby – Like a Flower
Lowertown – Bucktooth
Wolftrap – Ghost Girl
Yves Tumor – Echolalia
Shana Cleveland – Faces in the Firelight
King Tuff – Tell Me
Try f/ Mikky Ekko – Fire Sign

2023-02-08T09:40:03-05:00February 8th, 2023|
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Fresh Roots New Blues Playlist 2/4/23

Fresh Roots New Blues on WNRN

Air Date: 2/4/23, Saturday 6-8 PM

Set 1
· The Gayle Harrod Band – Sweet Memphis Man (Temptation) (Self)
· Mathias Lattin – A Whole Mood (single) (High Volume Music) 2021
· Frank Sultana – In The Dark Of The Night (Live at Sofar Syndey) 2018
· Steve Hill – She Gives Lessons In Blues (Dear Illusion) (No Label)

Set 2
· Tas Cru – Stand Up (Riffin’ The Blue) (Subcat)
· The Sugar Thieves – Don’t Stop Doing That (2 Cups) (Fervor) 2017
· The Cinelli Brothers – Make You Mine (single) (Self) 2022
· Dick Earl’s Electric Witness – Voodoo Kitchen (Dick Earl’s Electric Kitchen) (Self) 2022
· Dyer Davis – Long Way To Go (Dog Bites Back) (WildRoots)

Set 3
· Mudslide Charley – Long Death Ride / Don’t Look Back (Clearwater Junction) (Self)
· BLAST – Barrett Strong – Misery (single) (Motown) 1961 /. Money (That’s What I Want) (single) (Motown) 1959

Set 4
· Delta Wires – Blues In Hoss’ Flat (If Somebody Told Me) (Mud Slide)
· Nathan James – Life Changing Blues (I May Crawl) (Sacred Cat)
· Adam Karch – Fair Verona Blues (Everything Can Change) (Disques Bros) 2020

Set 5
· Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal – Green Light (Green Light) (Self)
· Mississippi MacDonald – Heavy State Loving Blues (Heavy State Loving Blues) (Another Planet)
· Kat Riggins – Promised Land / 40 25 40 (Progeny) (SoNo) 2022

Set 6
· Deuce N’ A Quarter – Electric Rooster (Take The Journey) (BOLT) 2015
· Delta Wires – Dimples (If Somebody Told Me) (Mud Slide)
· Tas Cru – Brown Liquor Woman /. Miss That Man (Riffin’ The Blue) (Subcat)

2023-02-08T09:35:06-05:00February 8th, 2023|
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