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Blue Twisted Steel is: Abigail Spangler - (vocalist, songwriter, guitarist, keyboards) Hailing from the small town of Fort Spring in Southern WV, Abby has been singing all her life. Starting in church, she played piano and sang hymns alongside her family. She met her now husband, Josiah Spangler, in grade school and learned to play guitar from his father, musician and songwriter Mark Spangler. Ins...

Hailing  from North Carolina, our guest next week is Tyler Nail, a folk musician  well known in his home city of Winston-Salem. Tyler plays music, writes  songs, writes about music, and also has a cool podcast called Red  House, where he interviews artists from his region doing cool things Tyler's second record, Feathers , is the latest installment in his project The Album Rele...

The sound from the mountains of Appalachiahas long been swelling at its banks, on the verge of spilling over the confines of folk and electronic music convention. Andrew Preston and Austin Tackett – The Woodsheep – aim to highlight the diversity, creativity, and storytelling that abound in their ever-evolving eastern Kentuckyhome by shoring up their own roots. Preston, whose solo records have been...

Hailing from North Carolina, our guest next week is Tyler Nail, a folk musician well known in his home city of Winston-Salem. Tyler plays music, writes songs, writes about music, and also has a cool podcast called Red House, where he interviews artists from his region doing cool things Tyler's second record, Feathers , is the latest installment in his project The Album Release Series , which sees...

Bear Medicine is the vehicle for the songs of Joshua Wright. The group originated as a quartet intent on blending the sounds of American primitive instrumental music and standard pop and Americana sounds. This iteration of the band spent a number of years playing local shows and doing small tours across the east coast all while releasing their first album “The Moon Has Been All My Life”. After thi...

A curious and fresh combination of grit and humor, Josh Morningstar is knocking down stereotypes with his worn boots and unforgettable raspy voice. He is a small-town boy that originally hails from Funkstown, Maryland, and he carries those roots in a suitcase with him everywhere he goes. His small-town charm is evident in the way he greets people, and in the conversational way that he weaves the s...

Sam Foster is a road dog. He lives and breathes the idea that repetition and regularity are the chisels to refine his craft. Hailing from Winston-Salem, Foster emerged on the North Carolina music scene in 2014. He’s brought his brand of tenacity to eager crowds all over the Southeastern United States ever since. Foster is a little bit country, a whole lotta rock and roll. While drawing much inspir...

Larry Bellorín hails from Monagas, Venezuela and is a legend of Llanera music. Joe Troop is from North Carolina and is a GRAMMY-nominated bluegrass and oldtime musician. Larry was forced into exile and is an asylum seeker in North Carolina. Joe, after a decade in South America, got stranded back in his stomping grounds in the pandemic. Larry works construction to make ends meet. Joe's acclaimed "l...

Composer and guitarist Douglas Lora moves with versatility between classical and popular music, and has been established as one of the most prominent artists of his generation. A member of the Brasil Guitar Duo (with Joao Luiz) for more than fifteen years, and seven-string guitarist of the choro and samba band Caraivana, Douglas Lora has a full touring schedule worldwide, and has collaborated with...

The Bringdowns are an Appalachian West Virginia Rock band that have found a niche all their own. The stories in their songs are honest and gritty, and the influences you'll hear in the music, really diverse.  The Bringdowns have developed some new music, and Matt always has interesting projects going on around his home of Beckley West Virginia. 

For 40 years Andrew Farriss has written, produced, and performed music all over the globe. Andrew Farriss has written for or produced various other acts, such as Yothu Yindi, Tom Jones, Alisan Porter, Tania Kernaghan, and Jenny Morris.  His personal awards include: Producer of the Year at the ARIA Music Awards for his work on Jenny Morris’s album Shiver which went triple platinum. Inducted in...

The Louisville newgrass-fusion jam band Hot Brown Smackdown's fusion of jam and funk and bluegrass has been drawing crowds all summer at music festivals, and their fan base grows every time they play. They’ve also been writing some new music for their soon to be finished new album. They just shared their amazing new tune, “ Empire ,” recorded at Louisville’s Deadbird studio with engineer Tom Curti...

Riley Baugus grew up In the Blue Ridge of Allegheny County North Carolina with a family and in a community of Old-Time music fanatics. Though when he was ready to start playing banjo, his family wasn't in a spot to buy him one, he and his dad were able to drum up some DIY instructions from the Foxfire book series and make one of their own. Riley then became entrenched in what he found to be the so...

Nick Dittmeier & the Sawdusters understand that to stay relevant, country and Americana—like any long-running musical genres—must be unceremoniously leveled from time to time. Blasted by a cold steel wrecking ball, and reassembled into new forms atop the rubble. And what better moment for a scheduled demolition than with all of planet Earth in a holding pattern, straddling the deep chasm betwe...

Dozens of musicians been members of The 1937 Flood of Huntington, WV, over the years since it stumbled into existence back in the hippy-dippy mid 1970s. As writer Dave Lavender of the Herald-Dispatch has noted, "The Flood doesn't rest on its laurels as West Virginia's most eclectic string band. Born in the 1970s when fiddler Joe Dobbs met Dave Peyton and Charlie Bowen, the Flood has played recent...

Born and bred by the banks of the Ohio River in Boone County, Kentucky, Jay Skaggs has been a songwriter’s songwriter from the beginning, and isn’t stopping anytime soon. He harks back to counting pennies to buy candy at the local rabbit hash general store, to his adolescence and the pains of becoming a person, and the tender and slow yet sometimes abrasive passage of time. Or songs like this one,...

Jayce Turley is a singer/songwriter from Greenup County, Kentucky whose debut album The Opening Act released April 2022. Heavily influenced by his father and grandfather’s love of music, Jayce started attending bluegrass camps and seminars every summer at age 6, where he picked up the fiddle and dobro. He settled into guitar at the age of 12 and started singing and writing songs at 14. In the few...

Laid Back Country Picker plays good country music and treats everybody right. He has played and recorded with Grammy winners. He has performed at the fabled Ryman Auditorium, Bonnaroo and at Red Rocks. His show combines 70s country music, classic guitar rock and hillbilly sensibility. Rejecting the modern for the surreal, Laid Back and Honey deliver a unique musical experience.

With roots embedded in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, and a sound unhinged in the capital of Texas, Shovelin Stone is a music almost as unique as the friendship it stems from. A shared passion for old-timey bluegrass is what brought Makenzie and Zak together, but it’s the unknowing joy for the moment and the obsession with the complications that life brings that continues to push the duo forward. W...

Lance draws from his blue-collar roots, the love of his Kentucky home in the Bluegrass region, and the heart of his varied musical influences to craft songs that appeal to story lovers everywhere. You'll hear traces of your own memories and life experiences in the unmistakable originality of a hard-working Kentuckian's unique, sometimes raw, perspective as he paints musical portraits that touch a...

Kate Hinote has been making music in the Detroit, MI area for nearly 25 years. She's here tonight with us accompanied by David Johnson on guitar and Matthew Parmenter on violin. Their debute album, Near, was released in March of '21 and showcases a dreamy and magical sound you'll be sure to love.!

Born in a distillery in Durango, CO, 2021 IBMA Momentum Band of the Year and two-time Telluride Bluegrass band contest finalists Stillhouse Junkies play a delirious, head-spinning mixture of original roots, blues, funk, swing, and bluegrass music. With all three band members sharing lead vocal and songwriting duties, the Junkies conjure a wide range of tonal landscapes that pay tribute to the icon...

The immensely talented Lee Carroll has a fascinating history in the music business, and following a considerable time away from music, Lee has returned to the music scene, and C The Beat is a huge part of that return! Composed of Lee Carroll, Robert Framm, Tripp Bratton, Thomas Usher, and Jonathan Barret, please welcome C The Beat to the Red Barn stage!

This duo, comprised of John Bowyer and Jayme Hood, have a sound and spirit you'll want infusing your playlists from here on out. They're based in Bloomington, IN and no stranger to the hill country pickin' parties that are synonymous with The Brown County Hills. The Hammer and The Hatchet have created a Bluegrass-inspired, harmony-rich sound that you'll be sure to enjoy!

Time Sawyer is a band interested in “real people and real songs”, and that’s just what the listener finds in their music – a sense of realness. Time Sawyer blends a grassroots feel with heart-felt lyrics to put on an entertaining show. From introspective ballads to high-energy crowd-pleasers, Time Sawyer’s songs land in that rootsy sweet spot where folk, alt-country, and rock gather for a good tim...