Jack Anthony Interviews

More than two decades ago, Rodrigo Sánchez and Gabriela Quintero were playing in a heavy metal band in Mexico City. Frustrated by a dead-end music scene, they packed up their acoustic guitars, moved to Europe, and spent years busking on the streets of Dublin just to get by. Now, twenty years and a Grammy win later, they are  international headliners, and undisputed masters of acoustic rock fusion....

I first interviewed Kenny Wayne Shepherd when he was about 19 years old. That was about the time the original Ledbetter Heights album came out. This skinny kid walked into my studio with a guitar and wanted to play, so of course I Iet him. What came out of that guitar left me speechless. 30 years later, here we are again talking about Ledbetter Heights. This time, it's been re-recorded by a nearly...

Ben Watkins Jr. was the Director of the Lancaster High School Band in Lancaster, SC from 1948-1981. During that time, he was also an active member of the Charlotte Symphony and regularly commuted weeknights for rehearsals with the symphony while also managing rehearsals for the Lancaster High School Band. Watkins left behind extensive archives of his life which his son, Ben Watkins III, now posses...

Oliver Wakeman is the son of former Yes and Strawbs keyboardist, Rick Wakeman. He has forged his own path recording albums in multiple styles and has played in some of the same bands that made his Dad famous. In this podcast, we discuss the 20th anniversary re-release of Oliver's 2005 album, Mother's Ruin. 

Mark and Maggie O'Connor join us in the studio to discuss their new album A Christmas Duo and talk about their annual holiday tour An Appalachian Christmas. 

moe. celebrates 35 years as a band. Vinnie Amico has been the venerable jam band's drummer for nearly 30 of those years. 

Adeem the Artist opens the Rooted Rhythm concert series at the Anne Springs Close Greenway in Fort Mill, Sc 8/16/24. Ticket information at http://ascgreenway.org 

Popa Chubby joins Jack from a van in Florida just a few days ahead of his appearance at the Neighborhood Theater in Charlotte, NC, 11/21/23.

Loudon Wainwright III talks about his latest album "I'd Rather Lead a Band" and reflects on 50 years since the release of his first album.

When the Supernatural nations of the world meet up to negotiate an end to ongoing hostilities, Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, joins the White Council's security team to make sure the talks stay civil.

One hundred and fifty years ago, Chawton was the final home of Jane Austen, one of England's finest novelists. Now it's home to a few distant relatives and their diminishing estate. With the last bit of Austen's legacy threatened, a group of disparate individuals come together to preserve both Jane Austen's home and her legacy.

Elise Hooper explores the real life history of female athletes, members of the first integrated women’s Olympic team, and their journeys to the 1936 summer games in Berlin, Nazi Germany.

New York Times #1 Bestselling author talks about the latest in the Quinn Colson series. Quinn returns to take down a criminal syndicate that has ravaged his community, threatened his family, and tried to have him killed.

Casper ter Kuile, a Harvard Divinity School fellow and co-host of the popular Harry Potter and the Sacred Text podcast, explores how we can nourish our souls by transforming common, everyday practices—yoga, reading, walking the dog—into sacred rituals that can heal our crisis of social isolation and struggle to find purpose.

Best known for his biographies of Russ Meyer, Neil Young and Andy Milligan. We talk trash cinema, New York in the 80's and other juicy subjects.

Many of baseball's little-known pioneers who transformed the game. John “Bud” Fowler, William Edward White, and brothers Moses Fleetwood Walker and Weld Walker, four African Americans who integrated white teams decades before Jackie Robinson.

A crime novel of the opioid epidemic--and its cops, villains, and victims--written by a twenty-five-year veteran of the DEA.

The Compton Cowboys is a story about trauma and transformation, race and identity, compassion, and ultimately, belonging. Walter Thompson-Hernández paints a unique and unexpected portrait of this city, pushing back against stereotypes to reveal an urban community in all its complexity, tragedy, and triumph.

In One by One by One, Berkowitz traces what he learns and grapples with as a young doctor trying to bridge the gap between one of the world’s richest countries and one of the world’s poorest to make the first big save of his medical career.

Katherine Snow Smith keeps doing things like falling off her high heels onto President Barack Obama, gaining dubious status as the middle school “lice mom,” and finding confirmation in the lyrics of Miranda Lambert after her twenty-four-year marriage ends. Somehow, despite never meaning to defy Southern expectations for parenting, marriage, work, and friendship, Smith has found herself doing just...

n a lifesaving guide for parents, Dr. Abigail Gewirtz shows how to use the most basic tool at your disposal––conversation––to give children real help in dealing with the worries, stress, and other negative emotions caused by problems in the world, from active shooter drills to climate change.

n Personality Isn’t Permanent, Dr. Benjamin Hardy draws on psychological research to demolish the popular misconception that personality—a person’s consistent attitudes and behaviors—is innate and unchanging. Hardy liberates us from the limiting belief that our “true selves” are to be discovered, and shows how we can intentionally create our desired selves and achieve amazing goals instead.

In April 2015, Archbishop Desmond Tutu traveled to the Dalai Lama's home in Dharamsala, India, to celebrate His Holiness's eightieth birthday and to create what they hoped would be a gift for others.

From New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins, a new novel examining a family at the breaking point in all its messy, difficult, wonderful complexity.

CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers. Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, My Vanishing Country is an eye-opening journey through the South's past, present, and future.