The Loose Strings Band is an all women bluegrass quartet from Galax, VA. Comprised of Lindsey Nale  (mandolin),  Channing Combs (guitar), Grace Davis (bass) and Ashley Hultman (banjo). A few weeks ago I drove in a torrential down pour through mountainous curvy roads...

Hello friends!My guests this week are the Galax, VA, bluegrass, Americana, all women quartet: The Loose Strings Band. They examine the songs off their upcoming EP, Realities, due to be released in 2023. We discuss the life experiences that inspired the album, from a...

Shannon Watkins is an column writer and journalist for the Galax Gazette. She shares her piece, Holy Goodness, a Moravian sugar cake recipe that comes from the Moravians that settled in Appalacahia. So, if your looking for a new (older) tradition to add to your...

Colin Cutler is an Americana, roots, guitar and banjo driven singer-songwriter based in Greensboro, NC. We discuss the  juxtaposition between his experience in the military as well as a musician who writes about violence in America and abroad. And Dr Bacon is an...

Lindsey Nale is a Galax born and raised bluegrass, Americana singer-songwriter . We discuss how she overcame depression after college, and the song she wrote that helped her though; and Brandon Reeves is an Atlanta based country, blues finger style guitar player/...

Lindsey Nale is a Galax, VA born bluegrass, Americana singer-songwriter who just released her first single, Night Owl. You may be familiar with the songwriter through her other various musical endeavors: she is the mandolin player and vocalist in The Loose Strings...

Small Reactions is a new age, soul, four piece that plays situational pop songs, with equal parts post-punk, drone and surf music. We discuss what the band has been through over the past few years with the covid crisis, songwriting and their latest album, New Age...

Along the yellow and orange tree lined streets of downtown Galax Virginia; There sits Barr’s Fiddle Shop  in a building built in 1910, adjacent to the real birth place of country music, the historic Alderman’s Barber Shop. Oh, you thought Bristol, VA was the...

Happy Sunday!Last week I took a trip to Fainting Goat Studios in Bedford, VA to meet indie Americana artist Griffin Haley, studio musician Camry Harris and the  owner and engineer of Fainting Goat Studios, Willy Gurly. Fainting Goat Studios was built in 2006 when...