Schedule

Shows Archive

The Bravest Writer in America!

'Long Division' with Kiese Laymon plus African rock with Songhoy Blues and Memphis Creole Funk with Marcella Simien!

January 8, 2022 Listen

Paris in the 1980s in ‘The Committed’!

Viet Thanh Nguyen's astonishing sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning, 'The Sympathizer' plus soulful Texas blues and acoustic roots guitar!

January 15, 2022 Listen

The Sweet Taste of Muscadines!

A dazzling debut of Southern fiction with Caribbean jams from New Orleans and Memphis neo-soul jazz!

April 3, 2021 Listen

Grammy winner Bill Ferris, acoustic trio The Wildmans plus soul legend, Don Bryant!

Focus on the South in photos, history, songs and truth!

January 22, 2022 Listen

Surf’s up with Impala, Cedric’s blues and the hazards of… shopping!

A debut story collection, Memphis noir rock and the blues of Cedric Burnside!

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Celebrating books with ‘Made To Explode!’

Poet Sandra Beasley, cool Memphis jazz band, the City Champs and Austin, TX punk popsters, Parker Woodland!

December 11, 2021 Listen

Everybody loves ‘The Rib King!’

Red hot 'Rib King' plus rockin' blues and fiddling boots!

March 6, 2021 Listen

Milk Blood Heat!

Debut story collection set in Florida plus hard rock grooves from New Orleans and Memphis Americana!

February 27, 2021 Listen

Pappyland – A Story of Family, Fine Bourbon, and the Things That Last

Wright Thompson in bourbon country, the return of a British folkie and offbeat Memphis jazz!

February 20, 2021 Listen

A Place Like Mississippi

Online and on air: Ralph Eubanks takes us on a literary road trip from Ward's Gulf Coast to Faulkner's hills

December 18, 2021 Listen

‘The Vanishing Half’ with bestseller Brit Bennett! Plus blues with R.L. Boyce and alt-rockers Cordovas!

Online and on air: Intense and sprawling family drama soon-to-be HBO series

January 29, 2022 Listen

Nikki Giovanni and Bobby Rush!

Merry Christmas with poet Nikki Giovanni, blues legend Bobby Rush and singer-songwriter Xanthe Alexis!

December 25, 2021 Listen