Dante's New South Radio Show

June 2026 New South Alain Johannes: Chilean-American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, vocalist, and producer Alain Johannes has spent over four decades at the center of adventurous rock music. Born in Santiago in 1962, he began in the early Los Angeles punk scene alongside future Red Hot Chili Peppers members Hillel Slovak, Flea, and Jack Irons before co-founding the alternative rock band Eleven...

Dante’s Comeback Special November 2025 – March 2026 Jerry Wayne Longmire is a veteran standup comic, creator of original viral content, and well-known internet personality. With nearly two million followers across social platforms, Jerry is beloved for his viral series' including the witty, sometimes frighteningly insightful “Truck Astrology,” the hilarious and masterfully crafted “Faulkner-es...

October — Dante’s New South: Dario Plevnik - was born in 1969 in Osijek, Croatia. A guitarist and composer since age 10, he creates the music, lyrics, arrangements, and production for his songs, performing all instruments except winds, with classical guitar as his first passion. He recorded four albums for Croatia Records: “Duše” (1994), “Iskre strasti” (1998), the instrumental “Snovi” (2000), and...

July, August & September — Dante’s New South Mega Return Richard Blanco — Selected by President Obama as the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet, Blanco was the youngest, first Latinx, immigrant, and gay person in that role. In 2023, President Biden awarded him the National Humanities Medal. Born to Cuban exile parents and raised in Miami, Blanco explores identity, belonging, and place in works...

June 2025 Dante’s New South Benheart: Ben is a living testimony of a dream come true: from childhood between Morocco and Italy, through technical discoveries and dramatic trials, to rebirth and the founding of a brand that fuses hearts, craftsmanship and style. Benheart is not just fashion, but a life statement - combining heart and craftsmanship, with strong roots in Florence and global vision. w...

May 2025 Dante’s New South Alice Hong : Named one of CBC’s 2018 “30 Hot Classical Musicians Under 30,” Alice is active globally as a violinist and a composer. She performs frequently with the Atlanta Symphony, Toronto Symphony, Naples Philharmonic, and more, and next weekend you can hear a premiere of Alice’s orchestral work  Eden  performed by the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra! Alice is passio...

April 2025 Dante’s Old South Buffalo Nichols: Texas based, Milwaukee raised, Buffalo Nichols is known as an acoustic blues guitarist and singer but that isn’t the whole story. Two albums into his career, Nichols has proven himself to be an innovative songwriter with lyrics address both personal and political themes with biting insight. His influences range from his time playing in Baptist churches...

March 2025 Dante’s Old South Desmund Dangerfield is an entrepreneur, educator, and PhD candidate in Educational Leadership, dedicated to student success and community development. With experience in academic recruitment, leadership development, and entrepreneurship training, he has worked with institutions like Prairie View, A&M University and San Jacinto College to equip students with the too...

February 2025 Dante’s Old South Dr. Fubbs: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, master engineer, cinematographer, editor, actor, designer, recording engineer, Death Row Record-signed artist:  linktr.ee/drfubbs Kelly J Nelson Founder / Chief Creative Officer / Director: 30+ Year entertainment and event industry veteran and award-winning live experience designer, conceptual artist, a...

January 2025 Dante’s Old South Steve Gillon is a Senior Fellow at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, Scholar-in-Residence at HISTORY, and Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. Gillon received his B.A. in History from Widener University where he graduated summa cum laude with honors in History. He was named the recipient of the Faculty Prize for maintaining the highest u...

December 2024 Dante’s Old South Prince Stash : Stanislas Klossowski de Rola is an author, entrepreneur, actor, singer, and music producer. He performed and worked with various bands including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Vince Taylor & The Playboys, during the Swinging Sixties in London, Rome, Paris, and Los Angeles. Made infamous for his arrest with The Rolling Stones founder, Brian Jones...

November 2024 Dante’s Old South Jenna Schroeder is a writer, mother of four, and the director of communications for Dolphin Hat Games. Additionally, she is the founder of Little Bird Press, and her creative projects include the inspiring children’s book “Are Enchanted Forests Real?” and “Tacoo Cat Goat Cheese Pizza and the Case of the Missing Hat.” Schroeder also contributed to the 2021 book “Peac...

October 2024 Dante’s Old South Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry, including  Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems   (2023) and  The Absurd Man  (2020). He is also the author of  A Beat Beyond: The Selected Prose of Major Jackson  . A recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study a...

September 2024 Dante’s Old South Holly Haworth's essays appear in  The New York Times Magazine, Orion, Oxford American ,  Sierra, Lapham's Quarterly,  Terrain.org,  Creative Nonfiction ,  The Bitter Southerner ,   and at the On Being radio program blog. They have been listed as notable in  The Best American Travel Writing  and included in  The Best American Science and Nature Writing . Her forthco...

August 2024 Dante’s Old South Serene Hakim: Serene Hakim is an agent at  Ayesha Pande Literary  where she has been since 2015. She represents authors in a variety of genres, from MG fantasy to adult literary fiction to contemporary YA. Serene is interested in both YA and adult fiction that has international themes, highlights a variety of cultures, and focuses on underrepresented voices. Specifica...

July 2024 Dante’s Old South Steven Dunn (a.k.a Pothole, cuz he’s deep in these streets) is a Whiting Award winner who was shortlisted for  Granta Magazine’s  Best of Young American Novelists. He’s the author of three novels:  Potted Meat  (Tarpaulin Sky, 2016),  water & power  (Tarpaulin Sky, 2018), and  Tannery Bay  (FC2/University of Alabama Press, 2024), which is co-authored with his homie...

June 2024 Dante’s Old South Marcella Prokop is a Colombian American writer and educator living in the northern Great Plains region of the US. Her work has appeared online or in print in the Brooklyn Review, Ploughshares, The Christian Science Monitor, PANK, and other publications.  Blog:  marcellaprokop.com TedX:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn63z6p30TQ facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/marc...

May 2024 Dante’s  Kristen Arnett is the queer author of  With Teeth: A Novel  (Riverhead Books, 2021) which was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in fiction and the New York Times bestselling debut novel  Mostly Dead Things  (Tin House, 2019). Her next novel,  STOP ME IF YOU’VE HEARD THIS ONE , will be published by Riverhead Books (March 2025). www.kristenarnettwriter.com Lane Marie is an i...

April 2024 Dante’s Old South January Gill O’Neil  is an associate professor at Salem State University, and the author of  Glitter Road  (2024),  Rewilding (2018) ,  Misery Islands (2014) , and  Underlife (2009),  all published by CavanKerry Press. From 2019-2020, she served as the John and Renée Grisham Writer in Residence at the University of Mississippi, Oxford. She lives in Beverly, Massachuset...

March 2024 Dante’s Old South Chelsey Clammer is the award-winning author of the essay collections Human Heartbeat Detected (Red Hen Press, 2022), Circadian (Red Hen Press, 2017), and BodyHome (Hopewell Publications, 2015). Her work has appeared in Salon, The Rumpus, Brevity, and McSweeney’s, among many others. She teaches online writing classes with WOW! Women On Writing and is a freelance editor....

February 2024 Dante’s Old South Autumn Nicholas: (she/he/they/them) Autumn Nicholas is a gifted songwriter and performer who has amazed audiences around the country. Autumn is one of Music Forward Foundation's Emerging LGBTQ+ Artists for 2023 and one of Nashville Scene’s Country Music Almanac 2024 Artists to Watch. www.autumnnicholas.com Emily Strasser’s first book, Half-Life of a Secret , is...

January 2024 Dante’s Old South Stuart Dischell is the author of Good Hope Road (Viking), a National Poetry Series Selection, Evenings & Avenues (Penguin), Dig Safe (Penguin), Backwards Days (Penguin), Standing on Z (Unicorn), Children with Enemies (Chicago), and The Lookout Man (Chicago). His newest work is Andalusian Visions (Unicorn), a book of poetry, photography, and music with internation...

December 2023 Dante’s Old South The Boxmasters (JD Andrew and Billy Bob Thornton) : As a touring band, The Boxmasters have cultivated a rabid cult fanbase across the United States and Canada. Opening for the likes of ZZ Top, Steve Miller, George Thorogood and Kid Rock, The Boxmasters have proven to win over large audiences. As a headliner, frequent stops in Kansas City at “Knuckleheads”, Springfie...

November 2023 Dante’s Old South Richard Blanco Selected by President Obama as the fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet in U.S. history, Richard Blanco was the youngest, the first Latinx, immigrant, and gay person to serve in that role. In 2023, Blanco was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Biden from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Born in Madrid to Cuban exile parents and...

October 2023 Dante’s Old South Lizzie Thomas "Thomas is a storyteller. Her interpretations cut to the heart of the lyric."   Marilyn Lester, NYC Jazz Record "She brings an interpretive depth to everything."  Nic Jones, Jazz Journal UK Lizzie Thomas is an inventive jazz vocalist known for her sultry vocal stylings and deep interpretations of the lyric. Thomas’ latest release, Du...