The Songbirds Radio Hour
The Songbirds Radio Hour is a music-and-interview show recorded at Songbirds in downtown Chattanooga.
Each episode covers a different theme and how it intertwines with music, from racism and civil rights to the legacy of Southern rock, women in punk, regional music history, gender identity, and much more.
The show features regional and national celebrities — from authors and journalists to musicians, producers and others involved in the music industry — in a Q&A-style format, along with music from a regional or national band.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
- Update frequency
- every 27 days
- Average duration
- 58 minutes
- Episodes
- 24
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2024
Jody Stephens of Big Star
(First aired on WUTC 1/14/23)
In 1972, a little-known Memphis band named Big Star was poised to make it big with the release of its first album, "#1 Record."
The album garnered rave reviews—but through…
The Reappropriation of The Slants
(First aired on WUTC 12/10/22)
Simon Tam—author, musician, activist, and self-proclaimed troublemaker—is best known as the founder and bassist of The Slants, the world’s first and only all-Asian Ameri…
Television & The NYC Punk Scene with Richard Lloyd
(First aired on WUTC 11/12/2022)
CBGBs and the 1970s New York City's punk scene are the stuff of legends - and right in the mix of it all was the band Television.
Join us as we interview Television's c…
Bessie & the Big 9
(First aired on WUTC 10/8/2022)
The inaugural episode of “The Songbirds Radio Hour” focuses on Chattanooga's famous 9th Street —now known as Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard—and how the thriving Blac…