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Jason Verlinde (Fretboard Journal) interview

August 21, 2024
Episode 412
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Jerry Douglas celebrates Earl Scruggs’ 100th Birthday

January 2, 2024
Episode 347
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Jerry Douglas on his new record ‘The Set’

September 11, 2024
Episode 413
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Jim Mills on Earl Scruggs and pre-War Gibson banjos

February 7, 2024
Episode 357
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Joe Brent РAdhy̢ropa Records : Reimagining What a Record Label Is

July 30, 2025
Episode 480
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Joe K Walsh – Less is More, Conversation and Space in Music

July 2, 2025
Episode 473
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John McEuen (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band) interview

March 9, 2023
Episode 263
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Josh Turknett (Brainjo) Interview

December 22, 2021
Episode 145
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Josh Turknett (Brainjo) Interview – Re-post

January 9, 2024
Episode 349
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Justin Moses interview

November 10, 2021
Episode 134
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Katie Harford Hogue – Julia Belle: The John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 2

April 16, 2025
Episode 458
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Kristina R Gaddy – “Well of Souls: Uncovering the Banjo’s Hidden History”

September 26, 2022
Episode 230
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Kristina R Gaddy on the Banjo’s Hidden History (part 1 – original interview re-post)

April 16, 2024
Episode 380
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Kristina R Gaddy on the Banjo’s Hidden History (part 2 – new interview)

April 16, 2024
Episode 381
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Kristina R. Gaddy – Go Back and Fetch It: Recovering Early Black Music in the Americas for Fiddle and Banjo

January 16, 2026
Episode 503
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Kyle Tuttle (Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway)

February 14, 2024
Episode 359
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Lindsay Lou – Knowing Where You Come From to Know Where You Want to Go

March 26, 2024
Episode 371
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Maddie Denton (East Nash Grass) on Collaboration and Community

September 24, 2025
Episode 489
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Marcel Ardans (Lessons With Marcel) Interview

August 25, 2021
Episode 91
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Marcel Ardans (Lessons With Marcel) on Billy Strings, Trey Hensley, Molly Tuttle and Tony Rice

July 7, 2022
Episode 214
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Martin Simpson & Thomm Jutz interview

September 26, 2023
Episode 318
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Matt Glaser – Celebrating 15 Years of Berklee’s American Roots Music Program

April 9, 2024
Episode 378
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Michael Johnathon – Woodsongs, Songfarmers and the Timeless Tradition of the Front Porch

March 13, 2024
Episode 367
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Mike Marshall & Chris Thile’s Into the Cauldron 20th Anniversary Celebration – part 1 with Mike Marshall

October 31, 2023
Episode 328
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Mike Marshall & Chris Thile’s Into the Cauldron 20th Anniversary Celebration – part 2

November 7, 2023
Episode 330
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Mike Marshall Interview

November 4, 2021
Episode 133
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Missy Raines – Standing Gently on the Shoulders of Tradition

February 27, 2024
Episode 363
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Musicality For Modern Humans with Craig Havighurst

November 19, 2025
Episode 496
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Natalie and Brittany Haas interview

May 30, 2023
Episode 293
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Nick Lloyd interview – copying Edgar Meyer’s bass for Paul Kowert

January 3, 2023
Episode 245
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Noam Pikelny (Mighty Poplar/Punch Brothers) interview

March 24, 2023
Episode 269
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Oliver Burkeman on Why Now is the Time To Do the Things You Love

May 15, 2024
Episode 388
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Olli Chanoff – FreshGrass Foundation

November 20, 2024
Episode 431
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Paul Kowert (Hawktail/Punch Brothers) interview

September 7, 2022
Episode 228
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Paul Kowert mini interview – commissioning Nick Lloyd to make a copy of Edgar Meyer’s bass

January 3, 2023
Episode 246
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Rachel Baiman interview

April 24, 2023
Episode 279
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Rebecca Frazier Interview

August 14, 2024
Episode 410
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Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley interview

February 8, 2023
Episode 256
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Roger Siminoff – Celebrating Lloyd Loar and the Gibson F5 Mandolin

July 17, 2024
Episode 402
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Roots Revival – A Black Stringband Symposium, with Lillian Werbin & Kristina Gaddy

October 9, 2024
Episode 419
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Ruth Oxenberg and Rob Schumer’s Bluegrass Journey

June 26, 2024
Episode 396
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Sara Watkins – Connection and Collaboration on I’m With Her’s ‘Wild and Clear and Blue’

July 15, 2025
Episode 476
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Sarah Jarosz – Blue Heron Suite Reissue Special

November 13, 2024
Episode 429
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Scott Nygaard (Peghead Nation) interview

August 3, 2022
Episode 223
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Shelby Means on her new solo record and 4 years with Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway

July 8, 2025
Episode 474
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Sierra Hull – A Tiptoe High Wire

March 19, 2025
Episode 453
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Sierra Hull interview

January 27, 2023
Episode 250
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Sierra Hull Returns

November 6, 2024
Episode 427
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Steve Nall (Nully) from Collings guitars

July 15, 2022
Episode 215
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T. Michael Coleman interview – Doc Watson’s 100th birthday celebration

April 19, 2023
Episode 276
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The Bristol Sessions and Beyond, with Ted Olson

December 6, 2023
Episode 344
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Thomm Jutz – Ring-a-Bellin and Musical Alchemy

April 15, 2026
Episode 515
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Tim Brookes Interview

January 28, 2022
Episode 162
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Tim O’Brien interview – Doc Watson’s 100th birthday celebration

April 19, 2023
Episode 277
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Tim O’Brien interview (Cup of Sugar)

June 13, 2023
Episode 300
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Tim Stafford (Guitar Melodies) interview

July 4, 2023
Episode 306
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Tim Stafford Interview

November 14, 2022
Episode 238
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Tom Nechville – Nechville Banjos

February 5, 2025
Episode 442
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Tonewoods Special with Nully from Collings Guitars

December 5, 2022
Episode 243
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Tony Rice – Church Street Blues 40th anniversary part 1 (Tim Stafford, Wyatt Rice, Mike Marshall, Alison Krauss, Bryan Sutton, Chris Eldridge & Caroline Wright)

May 2, 2023
Episode 281
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Tony Rice – Church Street Blues 40th anniversary part 2 (Bob Minner, Jake Eddy, Justin Moses, Marcel Ardans, Scott Nygaard, Jason Keiser & tony_units)

May 10, 2023
Episode 283
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Tony Rice Birthday Tribute (Chris Eldridge, Mike Marshall, Happy Traum & Marcel Ardans)

June 9, 2022
Episode 207
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Tony Rice’s Best Loved Albums

April 17, 2026
Episode 516
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Tony Trischka has dinner with Bill Monroe

February 3, 2023
Episode 251
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Tony Trischka interview

May 3, 2022
Episode 194
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Tony Trischka on Earl Jam

June 11, 2024
Episode 395
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Tony Trischka on New York in the 1970s and the Roots of New Acoustic Music

January 21, 2026
Episode 504
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Trey Hensley Celebrates Flatt and Scruggs at Carnegie Hall

December 10, 2025
Episode 500
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Trey Hensley interview

September 12, 2022
Episode 229
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Tristan Scroggins interview

October 13, 2021
Episode 121
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Wayne Erbsen on 50 Years of Writing About Southern Mountain Music

May 21, 2025
Episode 463
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We reached 200 Episodes!

May 31, 2022
Episode 201
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Wes Corbett interview

April 26, 2022
Episode 193
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Wyatt Rice extended interview – Church Street Blues 40th anniversary

May 17, 2023
Episode 285
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