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Missy Raines stopped by WTJU to go track by track through her latest album, Highlander, out now on Compass Records. Missy Raines is a trailblazer in bluegrass. She is the most awarded bass player in the history of the International Bluegrass Music Association.

It can move you to tears.

Before the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists played a key role in fighting the Japanese during World War II. In the decades after, China’s role as an ally to the West was largely erased from its domestic politics — and all but forgotten everywhere else. Lately, Chinese leaders are revisiting “the Good War” and reframing that past to serve new interests....

One of the leading Spanish composers of the "Beautiful Age".

Banjo legend Alan Munde stopped by WTJU to go track by track through his new album, Excelsior, out now on Patuxent. In addition to background on the album, Alan also chatted with WTJU Folk Director Peter Jones about what first got him into banjo when he was growing up in Norman, Oklahoma as a child.

Its iconic opening became a Classical hit.

Tyler and Erika hear from an artist who uses composted deer bodies in her work, plus a hunter-artist making deep connections between herself, her audience, and the animals she kills. And then we find a connection of our own by scraping the flesh from a deer hide in Erika’s backyard. Along the way: deer stories, poetry, and more. Show Notes: The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild Neighb...

Tyler and Erika take a field trip to a taxidermist’s shop, then talk with an ancestral skills expert who collects roadkilled deer for meat, hides, and bones. We’re pondering what it is that gets memorialized or honored by these practices, what it means to be a hunter or a scavenger, and the long history of humans finding ways to use the bodies of deer. Along the way: deer stories, poetry, songs, a...

Tyler and Erika look at how deer show up in American mythologies, and the older cultures that form its roots. We talk to a historian about why Americans keep changing our mind about hunters, spy on Daniel Boone’s love life, and ponder stories of shapeshifting deer from medieval England to Indigenous America. Plus, Erika visits a very strange tourist attraction where white deer once hung out with n...

Recognized by its melody.

Andrew Collins joined WTJU Folk DIrector Peter Jones to go track by track through the latest album, The Rule of Three, from The Andrew Collins Trio.

This week, President Ryan sits down with Danielle Citron, a legal scholar, MacArthur Fellowship recipient, and expert in privacy law. Among other things, she's the Jefferson Scholars Foundation Schenck Distinguished Professor at the UVA's School of Law, director of UVA Law Tech Center, and vice president of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. They discuss Professor Citron's work in the space of pro...

This week, President Ryan sits down with Dr. John Lukens, Associate Professor of Neuroscience at UVA. Dr. Lukens is an expert in neuroimmunology--his lab explores the immune pathways responsible for inflammation in the brain. The more we understand how these pathways work, the more we can target them with drugs and treatment regimens, potentially combatting neurological disorders earlier and more...

This week, President Ryan sits down with Andres Pedroso, UVA's Director of Tennis and Head Men's Tennis Coach. Coach Pedroso is a former pro tennis player, two-time National Tennis Coach of the Year and three time ACC Coach of the Year--and he led UVA's Tennis team to back-to-back titles in 2022 and 2023. They discuss his early dedication to the sport, the rigors of the professional athletics, and...

Production Team: Olivia Richine, Eleanor Barzun, Will Peritz, and Nada Bencheikh This episode focuses on the stress many UVA 4th years feel about choosing the “right” future path post-college.

Production Team: Kate Newton, Greg Cho, Christina Liu, and Nour Goulmamine This episode investigates the relationship between academic majors and mental health at UVA, featuring interviews with students in STEM, Arts & Humanities, and Commerce.

Production Team: Alex DeLoach, Khai Nguyen, Bushra Osman and Owen Markow This episode explores what it’s like to try to assimilate to UVA culture—focusing specifically on the experiences of low-income and transfer students.

Production Team: Lauren MacDonald, Tommy Hodgkins, Bertram Zhai, and Kate Riccio This episode zones in on UVA’s culture of toxic productivity, examining the challenges and necessary coping strategies that students grapple with each year of their college careers.

Tyler and Erika look at how deer show up in American mythologies, and the older cultures that form its roots. We talk to a historian about why Americans keep changing our mind about hunters, spy on Daniel Boone’s love life, and ponder stories of shapeshifting deer from medieval England to Indigenous America. Plus, Erika visits a very strange tourist attraction where white deer once hung out with n...

In 1829, the abolitionist David Walker published a stunning, poignant appeal to “to the colored citizens of the world.” He urged them to fight against a system of racial slavery and oppression, and to expose that system’s moral bankruptcy. The essence of Walker’s plea has since taken shape in the work of some of America’s greatest thinkers, like W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin and Billie Holiday. Po...

A composer of great promise - unfulfilled.

Tyler and Erika begin to explore the relationship between people and deer by hearing from a backyard deer enthusiast, then dive into an ecological debate about whether deer are bad for forests. A farmer weighs in on how deer damage his crops, and a playwright mines the aftermath of a deer-vehicle collision. Along the way: deer stories, poetry, and more. Show Notes: The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kin...

If You See a Deer is a mini-series companion podcast to Erika Howsare’s book, The Age of Deer (out from Catapult Books in January 2024). Along with Tyler J. Carter, a writer and academic, Erika explores questions about where nature and culture collide—mysteries of ecology and history that spring from our relationship with deer, a very familiar, yet wild, animal. Over four episodes, they talk to sc...

The members of Hildaland, Louise Bichane and Ethan Setiawan, sat down with WTJU Folk Director Peter Jones to go track by track through their new album, Sule Skerry.

Fiddle legend Darol Anger (David Grisman Quintet, Turtle Island String Quartet, Mike Marshall & Darol Anger) sat down with WTJU Folk Director Peter Jones to go track by track through the new "Mr Sun Plays Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite." Besides conversation about the album and the other members of Mr Sun (Grant Gordy, Joe K. Walsh, Aidan O'Donnell), Darol also discussed in depth his own musica...