Roots Music Southern Style! Weekly interviews and performances from talented guests exemplifying Appalachian folk heritage - as it lives today. Join us as we bring musicians from all parts of the country who have roots in traditional genres founded in the southern United States. Red Barn Radio is a syndicated weekly radio show produced via live recordings in Lexington, Kentucky.
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...
From Pound, VA, Brayden Mullins started his music journey at the age of 17 in his bedroom. He drew in-spiration from many artists such as Keith Whitley, The Stanley Brothers and James King. While bluegrass was a main drawing to music for Brayden he also listened to artists such as Pink Floyd, Korn, Alison Krauss and Townes Van Zandt to name a few. The lyrics and stories behind songs is what makes music come alive according to Brayd...
The Rough and Tumble-- a terrific band of four traveling throughthe area from New England.
Mallory Graham and Scott Tyler inevitably formed The Rough & Tumble in 2011 as the friends turned into bandmates. In 2015, these bandmatesnow turning spouses sold everything they could, bought a sixteen-foot camper, packed up their instruments and a couple of small trinkets that they couldn’tpart with, and hit the road. Through multiple bu...
Stillhouse Junkies are acoustic adventurers exploring the worlds between roots, bluegrass, Texas swing, blues, and rock. Their free-flowing musical interplay and improvisation make every show unique as the trio weave through high-energy, intricately composed original songs, never taking the same path twice. They have played such beloved festivals as Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, Rockygrass, Merle Fest, and ROMP, and their busy sched...
Kentucky born singer, songwriter Kimberly Morgan York. York has spent her lifetime on the road making music. She started performing publicly when she was a mere three years old, travelled and played with Drive By Truckers, and eventually developed her own excellent material. Critics call her one-part Wanda Jackson and the other part Dolly Parton. We call her Kimberly Morgan York.
Brennan Edwards is a singer/songwriter based in the northern part of the Shenandoah Valley. Brennan has been making a name for himself well beyond his hometown of Winchester, Virginia. Brennan's interest in country music began with Artists such as David Allan Coe and Conway Twitty, but Hank Williams ultimately played the biggest part in the music he plays today.
Brennan is also greatly influenced by bluegrass. He spent much of ...
After years of performing around the country, Arthur and Chris have made a lot of musical memories. Both have enjoyed their time in the award-winning bands; The Wooks, The 23 String Band, and Wolfpen Branch. They are excited to continue making Kentucky Bluegrass music together and to represent their roots with some of the best musicians in the Kentucky scene today.
Emily Jamerson is a singer-songwriter from Prestonsburg, Kentucky, Emily grew up surrounded by music and family. With a voice shaped by the mountains of Eastern Kentucky, Emily’s sound is part folk singer, part mountain siren. Her songs point to hope and reveal her love for the mountains she calls home.
Kraig Durco is a veteran musician from Sarnia, Ontario, touring America with his band and a new set of songs for the very first time. Kraig was focused on writing and performing material with numerous bands for so long, his own solo material took a back seat. Kraig decided it was time for a change, then took a deep dive into his catalogue, decided on his favorite 10 songs, and rerecorded them all into a cohesive LP. Since the relea...
Hollerhead, led by veteran axe slinger Jeremy Marshall, is a band that has a ton of energy, relentless passion, and a sound that never gets stuck in a particular genre trap. Hollerhead was originally formed while Jeremy lived in Lexington Kentucky in 2005. Jeremy's bands cut their teeth playing shows at legendary Lexington music clubs, and he is quick to say that this city's music scene kept him playing and growing as a mus...
Brenna MacMillan, originally from Winchester, Kentucky, began playing banjo at the age of nine. She has performed frequently in the Lexington area, which led to opening for J.D. Crowe and Bobby Osborne. Attending Berea College, Brenna played with their Bluegrass Ensemble under Al White and was awarded the Red Foley Memorial Music Award in 2018. She joined us here at Red Barn nearly five years ago playing with her brother Theo, and ...
D Boone Pittman from Lawrenceburg, Kentucky has been an active per-forming artist in the Kentucky area for 21 years. Prior to that he honed his craft on 90s country in west Texas cover bands. In 2019 Pittman formed the Fugitives to support his first studio album, Bluegrass American Dream. He first picked up the guitar at the age of 14 in his hometown of Stanton, Kentucky. Since writing, recording, and performing his own original mu...
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