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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 121 – Phil Moore of Bowerbirds

June 10, 2021

Powered by RedCircle Bowerbirds have been off the radar musically since 2012’s The Clearing. Lots has changed for the B-Birds,…

Basic Folk 120 – Oliver Wood of The Wood Brothers

June 3, 2021

Powered by RedCircle Growing up, Oliver Wood thought he’d try the bass guitar, but after 6 months, he handed it…

Basic Folk 119 – Katy Kirby

May 27, 2021

Powered by RedCircle Raised outside of Austin, Texas, Katy Kirby grew up homeschool, enamored with Jesus and was rocking out…

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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.