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Gary Louris in Conversation with Mark Erelli

February 27, 2025

You probably know Gary Louris as the leader of The Jayhawks – or as they refer to themselves, “a band from Minnesota.” The Jayhawks are pioneers of roots rock, alt-country, and Americana. Whatever you wanna call it, they’ve been making records where rock, pop, country, and other forms of American roots music overlap since the mid-1980s. Powered by RedCircle But Louris’s hidden superpower is that he’s kind of like a musical Swiss Army knife – he’s basically got a creative…

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Basic Folk 127 – Alex Cuba

July 22, 2021

Powered by RedCircle Alex Cuba grew up 50 minutes west of Havana immersed in the music of his town Artemisa.…

Basic Folk 126 – Mali Obomsawin of Lula Wiles

July 15, 2021

Powered by RedCircle Mali Obomsawin is the mighty bassist/songwriter/singer from Lula Wiles, whose musical talents run tandem to her activist…

Basic Folk 125 – Joe Pug

July 8, 2021

Powered by RedCircle Joe Pug explains that the venn diagram of his fans and the people he’d like to have…

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Our definition of “folk” is extremely broad, so you’ll hear interviews from

KT Tunstall,

John Hiatt,

Amythyst Kiah,

Kishi Bashi,

... and many more. Cindy and Lizzie approach their interviews with warmth, humor and insightful questions.