Lilly Hiatt: Driving Tunes and Life Lessons

February 20, 2025

Singer-songwriter Lilly Hiatt has an interesting way of working melodies and a down to earth way of telling stories about her life and about how she sees the world. All of her albums have cool, crunchy guitar parts that take folk songwriting to a new rockin’ level. On her new album ‘Forever,’ Hiatt’s diverse influences are woven into songs that touch on everything from relationships to anxiety and mental health to good old-fashioned rock & roll. In our Basic Folk…

Listen to the Interview

Basic Folk 165 – John Doe

May 19, 2022

Powered by RedCircle John Doe‘s career has gone from poetry to punk to country to acting to punk to folk…

Listen

Basic Folk 164 – Steve Forbert

May 12, 2022

Steve Forbert is not a dramatic person. His stories are fairly straight forward even though he’s lived a pretty incredible…

Listen

Basic Folk 163 – Lily Henley

May 5, 2022

Fiddler and sing/songwriter Lily Henley‘s latest album, Oras Dezaoradas, is a full-on celebration of her Sephardic Jewish Heritage. The lineage…

Listen

Basic Folk 162 – Grace Givertz

April 28, 2022

Powered by RedCircle Grace Givertz, born and raised in South Florida, began writing and performing at age eleven when she…

Listen

Basic Folk 161 – Amy Correia

April 21, 2022

LA-based singer/songwriter Amy Correia will tell you that she is not a prolific writer, which… okay maybe she doesn’t write…

Listen

Basic Folk Presents: Why We Write

April 17, 2022

Editor’s note: Basic Folk is pleased to introduce our listeners to one of our favorite podcasts by sharing an episode…

Listen

Basic Folk 160 – Mason Jennings

April 14, 2022

Powered by RedCircle Mason Jennings has the most interesting songwriting process I’ve come across. Since he was around 13 years…

Listen

Basic Folk 159 – Tatiana Hargreaves

April 7, 2022

Powered by RedCircle When Tatiana Hargreaves was younger, she was a shit-hot fiddle player; recording her debut album at age…

Listen

Basic Folk 158 – No No Boy

March 31, 2022

  Powered by RedCircle Julian got the No-No Boy name from Japanese Americans who were forced to live in internment…

Listen

Search