DittyTV's Insights | Music Interviews

Today our guest is Mike Harmeier. Mike leads the acclaimed country-rock outfit from down in Austin, TX known as Mike and the Moonpies, a band with extra-tasty guitar licks, great grooves, lyrics that conjure up nostalgia, and a sound that’s old school, but without coming across as imitation. In other words, they’re the real deal. We always enjoy talking with Mike and we learn something new in each...

Our guest today is Travis Linville, an Oklahoma native and friend of DittyTV’s who’s been hailed as "one of the most sought-after songwriters and collaborators in the Sooner State and beyond.” Linville recently released a new album titled I’m Still Here, which was produced by JD McPherson, another Oklahoma native, and which features help on the songs from artists like Natalie Hemby, Hayes Carll an...

We're delighted to share a conversation that we recently had with the band Jamestown Revival and Beau L’Amour, the son of the immensely influential and prolific author, Louis L’Amour. They all stopped by to chat with Amy Wright about the new EP, Fireside with Louis L'Amour: A Collection of Songs Inspired by Tales from the American West, which Jamestown Revival released on May 28th. L’Amour’s stori...

We're very excited to share a conversation we recently had with acclaimed Americana artist Rachel Baiman. Baiman’s known as a fearless voice, a gritty and defiant songwriter, and a heartbreaking observer of humanity. She moved to Nashville at eighteen and has spent the last decade working as a musician in a wide variety of roles, from session musician with the likes of Molly Tuttle and Caroline Sp...

Today, you’re going to hear an in-depth interview between Amy and Nashville-via-London emerging blues and roots music duo Ida Mae. Chris Turpin and Stephanie Jean comprise this soulful husband-and-wife act which just released its sophomore LP Click Click Domino via Thirty Tigers. Whether they’re performing an intimate set in the English countryside or an amped up big stage show opening for Greta V...

Today our guest is Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter and musician Brent Cobb. You probably already know Brent for his wonderfully twangy and often laid-back music. He’s released some incredible Americana albums including Shine On Rainy Day, Providence Canyon, No Place Left to Leave, and Keep ‘Em On They Toes. But what you might not know is that he just published his first ever children’s book th...

Today our guest is Oliver Wood, a Grammy-nominated artist and founding member of the Wood Brothers, who has also just released his debut solo album, Always Smilin', on Honey Jar & Thirty Tigers. Oliver’s spent the better part of the 21st century earning an international audience with his sharp songwriting and savvy guitar chops, and one-of-a-kind voice that’s somehow raw and smooth at the same tim...

Our guest today is Amythyst Kiah, an amazing singer-songwriter whose new album Wary + Strange just released on Rounder Records. It’s a truly haunting and remarkable album. From embracing Black identity as an artist to overcoming the social anxiety, grief and alienation that defined her formative years, Wary + Strange recounts the pivotal moments in a life ultimately defined by reclamation and self...

Rodney Crowell stopped by to chat about his upcoming album, Triage, which is set to release just over a month from now. About two years ago, Crowell began scribbling the first few lines that would become the songs for Triage, with monotheism, climate change, and cultural divide foremost on his mind. His primary goal with the songs was to adequately frame the healing power of Universal Love. He say...

Singer, songwriter, and celebrated guitarist Patrick Droney stopped by to talk about his debut full-length studio album State of The Heart, which was released last month via Warner Records. It’s an album that explores the meaning of loss, reconciling what’s behind you, and the pursuit of self with 15 tracks entirely co-produced and co-written by Droney. At its core, State of The Heart offers an in...

Today on the show we have Parker Millsap, one of the most soulful and perceptive songwriters that Oklahoma has ever produced, and that’s saying something! We hadn’t seen Parker since he recorded in the studio in support of his 2018 LP release, Other Arrangements, so it was really great to reconnect to discuss his brand-new album, Be Here Instead. He said that this was the most fun that he’s ever h...

We have some of the most talented pickers and players around on the call today: Certified Guitar Player, Tommy Emmanuel, as well as two uniquely gifted collaborators, multi-award-winning Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley. These three fellas teamed up to release an EP as part of Tommy’s Accomplice Series, one of the most talked-about projects of the year. This is just volume one, and it’s completely and u...

Today we'll be sharing a fascinating conversation that we recently had with Rev. Peyton of Rev. Peyton’s Big Damn Band, possibly one of the best live bands we've seen in the last decade. Their shows are absolutely action-packed. The last time we saw them, Breezy, the consummate washboard player, actually set her washboard on fire while playing it, so that should give you an idea of where they’re c...

Today we're sharing a delightful conversation that we recently had with Jimbo Mathus, a one-of-a-kind musician from North Mississippi. Back in March, Jimbo teamed up with his old bandmate Andrew Bird to release a new record called These 13, a record about the special type of human connection that can survive any distance of time or geography. As former collaborators in Squirrel Nut Zippers, Mathus...

Our guest this hour is Shannon McNally, who dropped by to chat about her upcoming record, The Waylon Sessions, a covers album of Waylon Jennings songs which she recorded with an all-star band and special guests like Jessi Colter, Buddy Miller, Rodney Crowell, and Lukas Nelson. McNally’s put together an album of classics that challenges our perceptions and assumptions about just what made them clas...

Today, we talk one-on-one with Charlie Starr, lead singer of acclaimed American rock band Blackberry Smoke, whose highly anticipated new album, You Hear Georgia, will be released just about a month from now; an album which marks their 20th anniversary as a group. For the record, the band enlisted producer Dave Cobb, a fellow Georgian, to pay homage to the band’s deep respect for their roots – thus...

Our guest on the show today is Bob Mehr, recent recipient of the Grammy Award for Best Album Notes, which Mehr earned for his work on Dead Man's Pop, a box set by the notorious and iconic midwestern rock band, The Replacements. Bob Mehr is also a New York Times Best Selling Author for his book Trouble Boys: The True Story of the Replacements. While Mehr’s career is most certainly tied to The Repla...

Today we welcome members of the Nashville-based band, Great Peacock. Great Peacock’s latest album 'Forever Worse Better' stayed on the Americana Albums Chart for over four months. As their 3rd full-length release, it’s hailed as their defining album, a record about the three-way intersection between drive, desperation, and determination. It’s a wonderful record and we're happy to have caught up wi...

Our guest on the show today is Jon Foreman, an artist that’s always searching for something - searching for a lyric or a melody, searching for a connection or acceptance. For Jon Foreman, most importantly, he’s searching for beauty and truth. And it’s out of this search that his latest release, Departures, was born. Though he’s most known as the leader of the multi-platinum selling, Grammy Award w...

Our guest on the show today is Walter Parks, a wonderful musician, originally from Jacksonville, Florida. In the ‘90s, Parks led the well-loved folk group The Nudes before serving 10 years as sideman to legendary folk-blues artist Richie Havens. Walter also leads the blues outfit Swamp Cabbage, as well as recording and performing his own solo material. We really enjoyed getting to know him a bit,...

Our guest on the show today is Langhorne Slim, whose stream-of-consciousness songwriting makes up his new album Strawberry Mansion, available via Dualtone Records. His decision to get sober helped inspire the new record, which he wrote in his adopted hometown of Nashville after it was hit by a tornado and the world at large was hit by a global pandemic. Amy caught up with Slim to discuss the new a...

Our guest on Insights today is Garrison Starr, who, for a while, thought she was done playing music. A lifetime of trauma, from her upbringing in a fundamentalist Christian household in Mississippi to more than two decades navigating the music industry, left her spirit broken. Fortunately, she’s reconciled the pain of her past, wrestled shame and self-doubt into submission, and stands in her power...

On the show today, Amy Wright chats with Seth Walker, an artist that we've been inspired by time and time again. He always has something positive to share and his music is a real melting pot of sounds. Seth is an artist who realizes that, in these doubtful times, we all need a little push to get us through. He writes songs of hope, songs that give us comfort, and songs that make us move. His style...

On the show today, Amy Wright talks with Tami Neilson, a truly inspiring and vibrant artist who has been an active musician virtually her entire life. And speaking of virtually, this conversation takes place over Zoom because Tami’s actually in New Zealand, where she’s been living for nearly two decades. In that timeframe, she’s released several albums, including Dynamite, Don’t Be Afraid, Sassafr...

Our guest today on Insights is A.J. Croce, who, over the past three decades, has established his reputation as a passionate piano player and serious vocal stylist, pulling from a host of musical traditions — part New Orleans, part juke joint, part soul. While his last album, Just Like Medicine, paired him with songwriting legend Dan Penn and an all-star cast of players, his new album, By Request,...