Red Barn Radio

A pair of wonderful songwriters from North Texas and Payson, Arizona. For both Brandon Howard and Matt Barr, music goes way back. Matt has musicians in his family, and Brandon started writing songs when he was in 5th grade. How these two guys met and then became two peas in a pod is a neat story. The guys are also both great players and I know we'll have a good time together. Matt Barr and Bra...

Alabaster Boxer, a unique music project, is a band hailing from southern West Virginia. These guys got together not all that long ago, and already Alabaster Boxer might be considered the best assembly of rock all-stars that West Virginia has ever seen. What makes Alabaster Boxer? Their interesting and sometimes crazy groovy and mesmerizing song arrangements, and their super fun performance!

Jack Browning is an artist and musician from London. A sucker for blues, folk and country music with experience touring all around the UK and Europe, he sings about love, loss, folklore and most everything in between, raising cheers and raising beers in equal measure.

Randy Steele is an award winning banjo pickin’ singer/songwriter from Chattanooga, Tennessee. A career firefighter who picked up the banjo to decompress and pass the time at the fire station, Randy’s creative music ranges from character based narratives to deeply personal & revelatory. Emotionally powerful, Steele can wake you up with a hard-drivin’ song, draw you in with deep lyrics, & ha...

These regional bluegrass veterans-- at least a couple of whom played on Red Barn Radio 15 years ago-- have been playing together for nearly a decade. Before they got together ten years ago, each player had honed their craft drawing upon what they could learn from the standout bluegrass pickers of their time. They call themselves String Roots Trio, they are based in the Red River Gorge area of Kent...

It’s been quite a stir for the Minnesota progressive folk-rock-country sextet Maygen & The Birdwatcher. In late 2021 they released their debut full-length album, Moonshine – (which Americana UK wrote is “stunning”) – earning them Midwest Country Music Awards for Album of the Year and Americana Artist of the Year) and landed opportunities to join festival stages with bands like Old Crow Medicin...

Will Overman, a great singer-songwriter from Virginia, is back to play the Red Barn stage after a couple years have passed. Will works hard and takes the business of music very seriously. In fact, I've heard Will say that 80% of his time is spent planning, promoting, reaching out, so that he can make things work and have the ability to get around the region and share what he does. Since we las...

Brock, Lanzetti, Ogawa is the moniker for a new trio whose members are widely known through their association with the jazz-funk group Snarky Puppy. Zach Brock (4 and 6 string violins), Bob Lanzetti (acoustic and electric guitars), and Keita Ogawa (percussion) create in the spaces between jazz, folk, experimental, ambient, groove, and world music. Their debut album entitled Drawing Songs was relea...

Rising artist Matt Koziol has collaborated with John Paul White, Joy Oladokun, Jimmie Allen, Charlie Worsham, Steve Moakler, Abby Anderson, Bre Kennedy, and more as a writer for Prescription Songs. And has spent the last few years playing guitar and singing backing vocals for Bre Kennedy. Koziol is a vibrant songwriter, and personality, who's developed a style of writing, and playing, that app...

Minor Gold are Australian Recording Industry nominees Tracy McNeil & Dan Parsons. Canadian and Australian respectively. This Trans-Pacific duo echo 70’s cosmic Americana with an easy charm and potent honesty. The strength of the songwriting and way these two singers voices lock in together hit right where the emotions live inside us. They bring dynamics ranging from the intense restraint of ni...

Katie Burkhardt is a lover of all things folk and alternative, and a true to heart singer/songwriter.  She grew up around music and art, taught herself how to play guitar, among other instruments, and dove headlong into her musical passion at a young age. Now Katie is 26, paving the way to what we think will be an exciting career for her in music. I know she's looking forward to sharing her so...

Born and raised in Knoxville, Tennessee, Sally Buice and Molly Rochelson of songwriter duo The Montvales spent much of their formative years busking amidst the Elvis impersonators and musical saw players of the town’s Market Square, honing their uniquely boisterous harmonies and driving, joyful sound. Eventually they graduated to playing indoors on the local Americana radio station, WDVX, and foun...

Clark Kissick is a singer/songwriter from Owingsville, Kentucky. Clark sings with this great “old soul” baritone voice you are go-ing to love! Clark is a man of many talents who has lived a life of many ups and downs and all-arounds! Join us next week not only to hear this talented musician play with a great band, but also to hear him talk to Bradford about his life on and off stage, including his...

Charlotte Morris discovered her passion for this work at a young age because the fabric of her home and family life was music. Classical music, Broadway tunes, and especially folk music. “Every family car ride" says Charlotte "was filled with folk clas-sics, – Joni Mitchell, Judy Collins, Simon & Garfunkel, and Peter, Paul & Mary.” Charlotte learned a number of instruments on her...

Lucas Wayne, is a storyteller at heart singing about the everyday experience, and places he’s been, growing up in rural Eastern Kentucky and Southern Illinois. With a classically trained vocal range and natural vibrato Lucas Wayne stuns crowds with his voice alone. Paired with his heartfelt, often funny or devastatingly sad songs he’s been captivating bars, halls, and anywhere he can as a performi...

From the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music at Morehead State University (Morehead, KY), the Mountain Music Ambassadors showcase a variety of bluegrass, old time and country music stylings. Featuring students studying Traditional Music, the Ambassadors have entertained audiences across the United States and internationally in the People’s Republic of China, Ireland, Hungary and Slovakia. Recogn...

Muriel Anderson is the first woman to win the National Fingerstyle Guitar Championship. Guitar Player Magazine lists her as one of the top 50 guitarists of all time and she has recently been listed among the top 10 female guitarists. She performs on a 20-string harp-guitar and her gentle sense of humor and facility across multiple genres is revered by audiences and guitarists worldwide. She has re...

Rooted in central Virginia, Lord Nelson has been covering the back roads and highways of this country. Their latest studio album, “Transmission”, PLACED nicely on the Americana charts and garnered play across the country. Currently working on their follow up, slated for a late 2024 release, the road shows no signs of slowing down. Media outlet PopMatters says this, “Lord Nelson alerts you to the p...

Jeremy is an award-winning Roots Rock artist hailing from the small southern town of Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, on Red Barn Radio next week in a special solo performance. Jeremy's gritty vocals and poignant songwriting, endear him to a growing fan base who enjoy hearing him share his personal stories in song. His vibe draws upon a range of musical traditions, many native to this region, but I thi...

Kyle Kelly, a North Carolina native, discovered his love for music at the early age of eight. Kyle was drawn to the old classic sounds of greats such as Lynyrd Skynryd and Waylon Jennings, which inspired him to learn guitar and drums. During college, Kyle was a pitcher for Catawba College baseball team, until he suffered a career ending injury. After recovering, Kyle found perseverance in music. A...

Cliff Westfall was born and raised in Owensboro, not far from tiny Rosine, Kentucky where Bill Monroe invented bluegrass music, and he grew up listening endlessly to Kentuckians like The Everly Brothers who changed the path of popular music. Though he got his start playing cowpunk music in Kentucky, he soon left his home state behind for the bright lights of New York City. “The term ‘country music...

Safari Room is the indie rock outfit and brainchild of Alec Koukol (Omaha-native, now Nashville-local). “We’re not that different you and me,” Alec Koukol repeats throughout the swelling bridge of “Garden Talker,” and that line might as well be a mission statement for Safari Room. Koukol describes “human connection as a founding cornerstone” as the project’s ethos, and that message is a through-li...

The son of a West Virginia coal miner, Charles Wesley Godwin sings about the industry that’s both blessed and cursed his home state for centuries. His voice, with its tight, old-world vibrato, is perfect for the song, as are the light layers of violin and pedal steel. This recording is from our 17th season that we are broadcasting in recognition of his late night debut n Jimmy Kimmel Live.

From the Bootheel of Missouri the band known as Wilhelmina, a unique blend of red dirt country, Americana, and southern rock.  These guys grew up with each other and started playing music for the fun of it, just tilling the soil to see what would grow. What they grew was a following. Wilhelmina released their first single “Deuteronomy” back in July 2023. Since then, they’ve released a 5 song Live...

Born and raised in Eastern Kentucky, Clarke is a singer, a writer, a multi-instrumentalist, and a music producer who has made his mark on stages across this country. Though he lives and works in Nashville now, he's always out and about playing the region and winning fans everywhere he lands. Clarke will play songs new and old as he's on the road with Nolan Taylor and just released a song c...