Southern Songs and Stories
Southern Songs and Stories is a documentary series about the music of the South and the artists who make it. We showcase their performances and discover the stories behind their songs with a look at their lives on stage, in the studio and at home as well as the family, friends, fans and music professionals around them.
- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 105
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
The Ambivalence and Embrace of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning with Olivia Ellen Lloyd
Like the prophets of biblical times, music artists have often found it hard to gain acceptance in the places they came from. There is a heartbreaking scene in the documentary Every Night’s A Saturda…
Tough Times Encapsulated in the Beauty of Her Song: Esther Rose
Esther Rose might surprise you. She certainly gave me a start at the very beginning of our conversation when I found out that she was not living in New Orleans anymore, after having called the Cresce…
Getting Back To the Basics of a Great Song With Tyler Ramsey
There is a complexity to Tyler Ramsey’s music, and a corresponding simplicity. It makes for an intriguing yin and yang, with an abundance of lyrical and instrumental components matched with his lucid…
Hard Work, History and Hope in Small Town Southern Appalachia: Pony Bradshaw
Somehow, I missed out on James “Pony” Bradshaw’s major label debut, Sudden Opera, a well received record that was really his second album following his self-released debut. I almost missed out on his…
The Sonic and Existential Transformation of Amythyst Kiah
When people talk about artists like Aretha Franklin, St. Vincent, Paul Brady and Sam Cooke, they tend to talk about these artists’ best known work, their music that came after their formative years. …