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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 44 – Emily Mure

October 17, 2019

Powered by RedCircle Emily Mure is a real life New York native! She is a life-long oboist, who had big…

Basic Folk – Field Music with Chris “Critter” Eldridge

October 3, 2019

Recently, Chris “Critter” Eldridge won instrumentalist of the year at The Americana awards in Nashville. 2019 is proving to be…

Basic Folk 43 – Wallis Bird

September 26, 2019

Powered by RedCircle Wallis Bird is a joyful musician who is an incredibly emotionally exciting live performer and songwriter. Originally…

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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.