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Roots Music Rambler

Where there are people, there is music. In our celebration of melodies and lyrics, harmonies and riffs, we typically focus on the songs or the people who wrote them. We often overlook the where.

Join Francesca and Falls for Roots Music Rambler, a podcast exploration of the where as much as the who or what. We’ll interview emerging and established artists, fans and others in Americana, Outlaw Country, Bluegrass, Blues, Roots, Soul, World and beyond. But we will always get to the stories of where they’re from and how that impacted the music we know and love.

It’s more than just their influences. It’s their families. Communities. Cultures. This show is a fun combination of music, travel, history and more. We dig into the stories from artists, musicians, songwriters, producers, fans and beyond, that don’t just expose their musical influences, but their life influences. 

Music follows the path of human movement. We trace the steps to bring better understanding to what we hear today and why we love it.

Join us for the exploration of the real roots of music on Roots Music Rambler.

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Update frequency
every 14 days
Average duration
70 minutes
Episodes
51
Years Active
2023 - 2025
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Resurrected Corduroy Brown rising with feel-good Appalachian rock

Resurrected Corduroy Brown rising with feel-good Appalachian rock

Corduroy Brown was so ill with COVID during the pandemic, he was airlifted from Huntington, W.Va., to more advanced medical facilities in Morgantown. During the helicopter ride, he died. 

Fortunately…

00:45:18  |   Fri 05 Sep 2025
Inside Producing Records with La La Land Sound’s Anne Gauthier

Inside Producing Records with La La Land Sound’s Anne Gauthier

We’re taking a bit of a diversion from the typical artist interview this week on Roots Music Rambler with a special guest. Anne Gauthier is the primary producer and engineer behind the great sounds a…
00:55:46  |   Fri 22 Aug 2025
Bill Taylor and the Appalachian Heatherns talk America’s Got Talent, New Album

Bill Taylor and the Appalachian Heatherns talk America’s Got Talent, New Album

Bill Taylor got a message on TikTok in November from a talent scout for America’s Got Talent. Yes, he was interested, but he thought little of the outreach until two weeks later when the process bega…
00:52:02  |   Fri 08 Aug 2025
Magnolia Boulevard has emerged from adversity with its “Dream Team” and new music coming

Magnolia Boulevard has emerged from adversity with its “Dream Team” and new music coming

In 2018, a group of southern rock, soul and funk loving musicians from Lexington, Ky., got together to form a new band called Magnolia Boulevard. They quickly gelled and his momentum before the pande…
00:48:11  |   Fri 25 Jul 2025
One of the Best Music Festivals of the Summer is In Manchester, Kentucky and It’s Free!

One of the Best Music Festivals of the Summer is In Manchester, Kentucky and It’s Free!

Did you know there’s a music festival coming Labor Day weekend that features an incredible roster of singers, songwriters and bands in the Americana, country, folk and bluegrass space and the tickets…
00:56:30  |   Fri 11 Jul 2025
Nicholas Jamerson offers new, meditative album through life and loss

Nicholas Jamerson offers new, meditative album through life and loss

Nicholas Jamerson is regarded as one of the finer songwriters in the current Americana, folk and country scene. His heartfelt lyrics of love, loss and lamentation born from the hills of Eastern Kentu…
01:13:48  |   Fri 27 Jun 2025
Ben Chapman drops surprise news including new album and collaboration hints on RMR

Ben Chapman drops surprise news including new album and collaboration hints on RMR

Roots Music Rambler is not designed to be a breaking news outlet, but don’t tell Ben Chapman that. In our recent sit-down for Roots Music Rambler the Georgia-native and standout singer-songwriter dro…
00:56:15  |   Fri 13 Jun 2025
Irishman Mark Geary mixes delightful melodies with dark melancholy

Irishman Mark Geary mixes delightful melodies with dark melancholy

For Ireland’s Mark Geary, America was everything. He moved to New York in the 1990s and cut his teeth in the music business alongside legendary artists like Jeff Buckley. Thirty years later, his song…
01:04:44  |   Fri 30 May 2025
Logan Ledger brings California Country Cool to the Americana Scene

Logan Ledger brings California Country Cool to the Americana Scene

If you’ve listened to Roots Music Rambler much at all you know Frank and Falls are suckers for the new wave of retro-sounding Americana and Country artists. (See our previous episode with Kimmi Bitte…
00:51:11  |   Fri 02 May 2025
Storyteller Gabe Lee talks songwriting, family and growing up in Nashville

Storyteller Gabe Lee talks songwriting, family and growing up in Nashville

Songwriters and storytellers are at the core of Americana music. Few conversations in the genre go very long without the mention of names like John Prine, Jason Isbell, Gillian Welch and others. Most…
01:12:30  |   Fri 18 Apr 2025
Cait Justice Debut Reveals a Fresh Voice from Appalachia

Cait Justice Debut Reveals a Fresh Voice from Appalachia

The mountains of Appalachia have produced some of the most memorable music in recent memory. From Dwight Yoakam to Chris Stapleton and Sturgill Simpson to Tyler Childers, plus up-and-comers like Brit…
01:09:57  |   Fri 04 Apr 2025
The Mallett Brothers Band is back with Higher Up in the Hills

The Mallett Brothers Band is back with Higher Up in the Hills

Folk rockers The Mallett Brothers are back with a new album on April 4 called “Higher up in the Hills.” Luke and Will Mallett joined us on Roots Music Rambler this week to talk about the album, the f…
01:11:16  |   Fri 21 Mar 2025
Flatpicker Tyler Grant talks about his journey, new songs, album

Flatpicker Tyler Grant talks about his journey, new songs, album

There’s nothing we love more on Roots Music Rambler than digging into the stories behind songs, albums and artists, especially when geography and place have an impact there. That’s why this episode s…
01:17:26  |   Fri 07 Mar 2025
Have Music Festivals Jumped the Shark?

Have Music Festivals Jumped the Shark?

It’s no secret that the Roots Music Rambler team loves a good music festival. But as we’ve discussed before, there are perhaps too many of them and the costs continue to skyrocket for fans. It just s…
01:09:21  |   Fri 21 Feb 2025
Shepherd Hits 2025 with a new single, plans for lots of new music

Shepherd Hits 2025 with a new single, plans for lots of new music

There are few artists out there who fit the Americana music label by decidedly not fitting in any single box better than Jeff Shepherd. The northern Indiana native has been called rock, blues, outlaw…
01:00:30  |   Fri 31 Jan 2025
Roots Music Rambler’s Top 10 Songs & Albums from 2024

Roots Music Rambler’s Top 10 Songs & Albums from 2024

Well, 2024 is in the books and what a year we saw in Americana and Roots Music. From Sierra Ferrell’s explosion to Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter and crazy collaborations to new music from artists like Gill…
01:22:43  |   Fri 03 Jan 2025
Inside the Stories and Experience of Singer-Songwriter Margo Cilker

Inside the Stories and Experience of Singer-Songwriter Margo Cilker

It’s not often Rolling Stone compares a singer-songwriter to John Prine. But they did just that when they heard “Steelhead Trout” by Margo Cilker. The Oregon-based artist’s first two albums have turn…
01:12:27  |   Fri 20 Dec 2024
Celebrating Bluegrass, Harmony and Family with the Bibelhauser Brothers

Celebrating Bluegrass, Harmony and Family with the Bibelhauser Brothers

Few musicians today stay as busy as Aaron Bibelhauser. Not only is he a prolific songwriter and one half of the twin brother-led bluegrass band called The Bibelhauser Brothers, but he hosts a notable…
01:23:27  |   Fri 06 Dec 2024
Kindred Valley’s Appalachian roots and stories garnering quite a following

Kindred Valley’s Appalachian roots and stories garnering quite a following

When Blake Lacy, Noah Freeman and Brett McCoy met and discovered each other’s musical tastes, they did what college students do: They started a band. A few iterations of an expanded friend circles la…
01:23:57  |   Fri 22 Nov 2024
Bluegrass mainstay Dave Adkins talks new album, band geeks and more

Bluegrass mainstay Dave Adkins talks new album, band geeks and more

Dave Adkins has already had a fantastic career as a bluegrass artist. He was nominated for Male Vocalist of the Year by the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music of America in 2022, which w…
01:02:09  |   Fri 08 Nov 2024
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