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Thunder and Rain is a Nashville-based Newgrass band delivering melodic hooks, rich harmonies, and grassy drive with pop-rock inspired songcraft.

Over their decade-long career, Thunder and Rain has shared the stage with artists such as Billy Strings, The Kruger Brothers, Peter Rowan, AJ Lee and Blue Summit, and The Brothers Comatose. Their 2020 single Run With You was selected for the IBMA Songwriter Showcase in 2023.

The band was fou...

Wyatt Ellis has accomplished more by age 16 than many musicians do in a lifetime. Hailing from the foothills of the Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee, he’s quickly emerging as one of bluegrass mu-sic’s brightest young stars. With virtuosic mandolin playing, heart-felt vocals, and original songwriting, Wyatt blends the deep tradi-tions of bluegrass with a fresh, youthful energy. Backed by a pow-erhouse band of Appalachia’s finest yo...

Each year, thousands of people flock to the city of Nashville with hopes of “making it”. Ironically, it wasn’t until Zach Russell made the decision to leave Music City, USA that he inked his first record deal with Thirty Tigers. The drive back home may have only been three hours long, but Russell’s journey back to old haunts in Eastern Tennessee isn’t quite that cut and dry.

In the 7 years preceding that trip down I-40, there were s...

Smilo & the Ghost is an Americana-grit folk band born from the rustbelt and rooted in redemption. Front-ed by singer-songwriter Tyler Smilo, the band blends raw lyricism with vintage tones, cinematic storytell-ing, and a touch of cosmic twang. Their sound drifts somewhere between dusty desert highways and dimly lit city bars — a fusion of folk, alt-country, and soul with deep emotional bite.

Formed in Erie, PA in 2016, Smilo &am...

Garrett Boys is a collaboration of the Garrett brothers, Stephen and Russell. After growing up on a small rural farm, both Stephen and Russell set out for Nashville to pursue their passion for music. This led to several years of various roles in the music industry throughout multiple genres. Garrett Boys is a reflection of an inevitable longing for home, history, and heritage that finds the brothers Garrett discovering a deeper and...

Born and raised near Paducah, Vickie Vaughn grew up singing and playing bass at churches, community events and a local country revue show in western Kentucky. After graduating from Belmont University, she formed the Vickie Vaughn Band, releasing a six-song EP of contemporary bluegrass, Buy All the Roads, in 2015. Yet more traditional music beckoned, as she helped to start the acclaimed High Fidelity around the same time, appearing ...

Cody Christian is a country music singing man from The Commonwealth of Virginia. He is a 31-time recipient of the CCA award which has helped propel his infectious melodies to the masses. He has several songs that have gone triple turquoise and a music catalog that is thick with songs that beautifully narrate the everyday life. Cody has shared stage with lots of Red Barn alums including Tyler Childers, Charles Wesley Godwin, Cole Ch...

Our guest Wednesday August 13, is Ragged Union. This tight bluegrass ensemble has toured the US, UK, and China, since 2013, has released 4 studio albums and one live album. Whether you like traditional sounding grass or something with a more syncopated progressive feel, I think this will check all the boxes for you. Ragged Union also tosses in their own take on some cover tunes by artists from Levon Helm, to the Marshall Tucker Ban...

Combining the best of Americana and blues melodies with timeless Southern storytelling, award winning vocalist Stephanie Adlington and guitarist Aaron Lessard draw influence from the likes of Tom Waits and Ray LaMontagne, along with bedrock artists such as Patsy Cline and Hank Williams Sr. A Tale Of Two has opened for notable artists such as Mary Gauthier, Grayson Capps, and Peter Mulvey. Not unlike the artists who inspired them, t...

Our guest is Ashley Irae w/ supporting band, Deep Nourished Roots.

Ashley's debut single from her first album “Beauty Queen” was released at the end of September in 2018. This song -- emphasizing the importance of loving yourself instead of looking to someone else to fill the void-- created a Buzz and captured hearts of many all around the world. Currently Irae is working on an album with French producer and sound man, Jahlix.

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Nigel Wearne has toured Australia, New Zealand, the US, UK and Canada and he's performed at a long list of festivals from MerleFest to both the Cambridge and Philadelphia Folk Festivals, and Bristol Rhythm & Roots.

Nigel is a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist with diverse influences such as Nick Cave, Tom Waits and Rickie Lee Jones. A deep thinker and truth seeker with a penchant for all things peculiar, he sings of human...

Villa Mure is the sonic marriage of Kendra Villiger (guitar/vox) and Colin LaMure (bass/vox), accompanied by multi-instrumentalist Ethan Evans (drums).

Villa Mure explores the musical landscape that falls between rock n roll, progressive-rock, heartland-rock, psychedelia, blues-rock, and jam. Like many groups who are difficult to place, it has been called indie-rock or alternative, but regardless of title or categorization, Villa M...

Since 2018, Johnny and the Yooahoos has been welcomed to festivals in France, Ireland, Holland, Austria and Switzerland. As winners of the IBMA International Band Grant, they are now undertaking a five-week tour of the USA renowned venues such as the Grand Ole Opry and the Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival on their tour calendar. AND RED BARN RADIO!!

Though from Southern Germany themselves, Johnny and The Yooahoos celebrate American folk ...

Our guest is a singer, writer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist who has involved himself in countless musical exploits over the years, many playing out right before us on the Red Barn Radio stage. A good number of you will be familiar with this gentleman, but perhaps not so with his current creative persona, who he calls Waffle Therrod. Waffle describes its new musical exploration as "a multi-dimensional sensation on severa...

This high-voltage, all-female force is rewriting the rules of country music from their new base in Nashville, Tennessee. Combining glitter, grit, and unstoppable energy, they are taking the country scene by storm with their magnetic presence and undeniable talent. Whether it’s opening for high-profile artists Lonestar, Ricky Skaggs, Dierks Bentley or Lee Brice on some of the worlds largest stages, or igniting the multi-genre Canadi...

Guess who's coming back?? Davey Allen of Davey and the Midnights! Davey is a versatile songwriter, musician, and artist. His work is deeply rooted in the vast American songbook. Allen has played music professionally for the past 20 years, the last six with Davey and The Midnights. While the band now calls Indianapolis home, they formed on the west-side of Los Angeles, California in 2017.

Davey has also toured extensively as a solo ...

Scott Levi Jones, this blue-collar poet was born in South Jersey and as he says, baptized by the local nuclear plant in Salem County. Jones committed to Nashville in 2017 when he scraped together the rent for a single-wide trailer on the outskirts of town. He spent his early 20’s working construction while performing in honky-tonks and dive bars all across the Dirty South. Today he resides in a small cabin as a full-time independen...

Kara Cole, an Indianapolis-based artist grew up with a grandpa who would have country music and bluegrass hootenannies on the weekends. Her uncle who was a master guitarist, helped instill in her, at a young age, her love and admiration of music. Kara, we learn, not only grew up with bluegrass in her household, but also a measure of it in her family blood. Her grandpa’s surname on her mom’s side was Stanley; in fact, Kara happens t...

Predicated on authenticity and a genre-less approach, Dalton Kiser and The Downwind seamlessly traverses through a multi genre musical landscape. The foursome not only pulls inspiration from their fellow Eastern Kentuckians whom are credited with birthing the country and bluegrass scenes, but also from the gritty southern rock sounds made famous by old honky-tonk hero’s and outlaw country icons. Constantly pushing boundaries and br...