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Jacob Perez is a songwriter living in Cincinnati, Ohio. Spending much of his childhood and teen years moving around the country has informed the artist's voice and songs. The COVID-19 pandemic found Perez furloughed from his day job and this season of extra time proved the most fruitful creative period of his life thus far. The batch of songs written during this period became the core of his d...

After spending the mid 2000's as a working musician in New Orleans, Warren Byrom returned to Lexington, Kentucky to focus on writing and recording. In his many years in Lexington's music scene, Warren has collaborated with so many of the city's players, I'd be challenged to name half of them. Warren Byrom & The Fabled Canelands has toured extensively performing regionally throu...

The Bibelhauser Brothers , based in Louisville, are super talented brothers who will absolutely wow you with both their vocal and instrumental power. In addition to writing songs recorded by award-winning bluegrass artists including Del McCoury, Balsam Range, Michael Cleveland, & Dale Ann Bradley, Aaron Bibelhauser is sought after as a songwriter, vocalist, solo recording artist, and bandleade...

For over 4 decades, Gary Brewer has been a very highly respected and successful singer, songwriter, musician, promoter, and producer. Gary performs and records in several different genres, he has performed at the Grand Ole Opry and the Lincoln Center multiple times, writes and records all original material, ran Louisville's Largest free Bluegrass Festival (Strictly Bluegrass Festival), booked...

Hailing from the hills of WV, drawing influence from the Texas songwriter greats to Elliott Smith and Jason Isbell, Shawn Benfield blends his own pop sensibilities with classic country to create a unique sound that is distinct yet familiar. In 2022 Shawn released the follow up full length "Way of the World". Spill Magazine gave it 4 stars out of 5. Benfield is currently touring in suppor...

Sugarcane Jane , otherwise known as  Anthony Crawford  and  Savana Lee  from Loxley, Alabama — have been Americana’s sweethearts from Alabama’s Gulf Coast for over a decade. Between them, they have amassed a rich musical heritage working with such notables as Neil Young , Steve Winwood , and Dwight Yoakam . The music they make together is simple and direct, rooted in country and rock, and anchored...

The American south isn't just Brent Cobb's home. It's his muse, too. A Georgia native, he fills his Grammy-nominated songwriting with the sounds and stories of an area that's been home to southern rockers, soul singers, country legends, and bluesmen. Cobb has a name for that rich tapestry of music — “southern eclectic" — and he offers up his own version of it with his newest a...

Kentucky is experiencing a boom right now in its ever-growing singer-songwriter scene! Arlo McKinley, Abby Hamilton, Cole Chaney, Logan Halstead, and now Luke Trimble. Growing up in Paintsville, Kentucky, a town known for artists like Loretta Lynn, Chris Stapleton, Tyler Childers, and Crystal Gale, Luke is on track to be the next legend out of the little Eastern Kentucky town. His music and songwr...

Born of Appalachian soil in Sharps Chapel, Tennessee, Sarah Kate Morgan sings, plays, and writes like she’s been in these hills since the dawn of time. She’s had plenty of varied influences, beginning with hearing a classical music CD belonging to her family and going on to discover old time music through a dulcimer built by her grandfather. She began playing dulcimer at age 7.   This proved to be...

Cody Lee Meece is an award winning singer/songwriter from Somerset, Kentucky. Cody Lee spent the majority of his life playing music all over the United States. During his travels he picked up different flavors and styles of songwriting and storytelling. He has developed a deep earthy, intimate and very vulnerable writing style. Scars and tattoos tell his story of a life spent on the run in dark pl...

Khegan McLane is a 26-year-old songwriter from Charleston, West Virginia, who started writing songs and playing guitar as a way to fill time after a sports injury in his high school years. He released his first two singles in the spring and summer of 2021 and is now in the process of mastering his new record which he recorded with Zach McCord out of Bridgeport, West Virginia. The album, titled “Ol...

Singer/songwriter Jordan Lee King. Jordan comes from the hills of Eastern Kentucky, and his songs are a reflection of his upbringing in Bell County, KY and the hardships he has witnessed.   “I want people who aren’t from this area to have a glimpse of what life is like here for a significant amount of people. And for those that are from Appalachia, I want them to be able to feel pride. Reality her...

Andrew grew up playing piano in church as a teenager. He was a coal miner, then an underwater welder. Andrew is also a talented pianist, and it would be in upstate New York where he first explored his talent as a vocalist. After 5 years of New York he moved back home to where he was born and raised, in London Ky. He met Logan the bass player at a gig that they jammed together in Richmond Ky. Andre...

Hailing from rustic Darke County, Ohio, this family band writes and performs their original music about a personal loss, struggles, and the human condition. Husband and wife duo, Shannon and Brittany Clark joined the Warped Tour to represent Ohio in the mid-2000s. Soon after, tragedy hit the family with the loss of their 2nd daughter, and for a time the music stopped.  Imminently, Shannon & Br...

Through a chance encounter in Nashville back in 2006, Benjamin and Kassie Wilson were sure of each other from the start. “Kassie knew she was going to marry me from the first time she saw me…and she was right,” Ben gloats. Formerly known as My One and Only, the duo has reimagined their “southern-soul,” “curious-grit” and emotionally honest lyrics into Americana act, Goldpine. Having released their...

Next on Red Barn Radio we feature Jake Rebman and his band The Waitin’ Rounders. The Waitin Rounders came together in the middle of a cornfield, sometime in the early 21st century. They’re somewhere between the back row of a Baptist church and the front row of a Waylon Jennings concert. Finding their groove in between the “hallelujahs” and “hell yeahs”. With songs that don’t play dress up, but a b...

Up a holler in Eastern, KY is where you can find the melting pot that created the sound of Shelby Lore. From the screaming guitars of southern rock bands like Lynyrd Skynyrd, blistering blues from Stevie Ray Vaughan, mix in a little attitude from punk bands like Social Distortion, and finish it off with a heaping mess of honky tonk from Waylon Jennings. Stir all that up and you get the sound of Sh...

Chris McGinnis writes songs that exist somewhere between a hiccup and a heartache. His most recent EP, Songs For You , touches on the peculiarity of your hometown morphing beyond recognition. It tells the story of two Baby Boomers falling in and out of love across time zones and decades. It's about connection and disconnection alike. With the release of his debut full-length album Mamaw's...

This dynamic duo is made up of Lexington natives Donnie Bowling and Brett Higgins! Brett Higgins (2021 Lexington Music awards R&B and Rap artist of the year)is a soulful Singer-Songwriter with only one gear when it comes to performance, and that’s the highest gear possible. (you will see) His infectious energy and passion for music and expression of such, is all something you absolutely have t...

Kyle Eldridge, has been burning his way into the Country & Western scene and has quickly become in demand both domestically and abroad. From Louisville, Kentucky Kyle has known as one of the most prominent guitar players in the traditional scene for his Joe Maphis/ Merle Travis and Western Jazz styling. Kyle got his start playing in the south where he met Upright Bassist Dakota Collins who bro...

Buck the Taxidermist is the moniker of Kentucky song writer, Kyle Ayres (writer, singer and guitarist) This Lexington rock band began around 2016, drawing inspiration from modern sounds and vintage, simple throwback melodies alike. Blending influences of modern heroes like The War on Drugs, Wilco and Dr. Dog and classic songwriting like Townes Van Zandt, McCartney, Paul Simon and Neil Young the re...

The Heavy Hitters, the funkiest band in West Virginia. This five-piece group of buddies draws influence from jazz, soul hip hop gospel and rock and fuses it all together into their own homegrown sound. Heavy Hitters are packin a whole new set of tunes to share with Red Barn Radio listeners for a great night of ol fashioned Independence Day funk!

Blue Cactus, the North Carolina duo of Steph Stewart and Mario Arnez, make Dream Country: a blend of grit, glitz, groove, and twang that evokes a celestial soundscape of mid-century heartbreak and harkens comparisons eclectic and iconic as Bobbie Gentry, Fleetwood Mac, and David Bowie.

Jake Kohn From Stephens City, Virginia is a singer/songwriter who is making some mountainous waves in music venues and festivals all across the south. At only 16 years old, Jake has developed a vocal and guitar style and writing voice well beyond his years. This Fall, he'll play Americanafest, the biggest lternative country music festival in Nashville, TN. His video for “Frostbite,” a gut-wren...

Kindred Valley started with Lacy and Brett McCoy, two musicians and fellow Marshall University students who got together, thinking they might be able to write a song. It was early fall of 2020. The pandemic was raging. There wasn’t a whole lot else anyone could do, except look for ways to spend time. Some other players came and went, but eventually Kindred Valley started to come together as a trio...