World Cafe

These days, Petey has a major label deal and a million and a half TikTok followers who are fans of his funny homemade videos. It’s the kind of success he never thought he’d achieve. In fact, there was a time when he wasn’t sure he’d achieve anything. On the next World Cafe, Petey talks about how he got here, and he performs songs live from his new album, USA.

Earlier this year, Jobi Riccio won Newport Folk’s “Jone Prine Songwriter Fellowship”, and you can hear her attention to detail on her debut album, Whiplash. The Nashville songwriter takes the mic for a mini concert from Sound Stage Studios at Americanafest. Plus, we’ll hear a live set from Austin Americana group, The Band of Heathens, featuring tracks from their new album, Simple Things. That’s on the next World Cafe.

Dolly Parton, Justin Timberlake & Stevie Wonder are all members of an exclusive club that now includes Billie Eilish. They’re all musicians who’ve been invited to pull double duty on Saturday Night Live as both the musical guest AND host. Billie Eilish is our guest on the next encore edition of the World Cafe. She’ll tell stories & you’ll hear live recordings made with her brother Finneas. Join us.

The songs on Lowland Hum’s latest album, From Self with Love, were written during a period of uncertainty for the husband and wife duo of Daniel and Lauren Goans. They’d just become first-time parents when they wrote the album, which touches on themes of pandemic isolation, early parenthood, death, grief, and new life.