John Hiatt is Actually Not Scared to Talk about His Feelings (REISSUE)

June 5, 2025

(Editor’s Note: Welcome to our Reissue series! For the next several weeks, Basic Folk is digging back into the archives and reposting some of our favorite episodes alongside new introductions commenting on what it’s like to listen back. Enjoy!) This episode featuring Cindy Howes interviewing John Hiatt originally posted on August 5, 2021. In 2021, John Hiatt released ‘Leftover Feelings’ (which is still his latest album, by the way), a collab with bluegrass great Jerry Douglas as producer and his…

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Basic Folk 171 – Dietrich Strause

June 30, 2022

Dietrich Strause, raised in Lancaster, PA, was classically trained on trumpet growing up, but the allure of songwriting and performing…

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Basic Folk 170 – Edie Carey

June 23, 2022

Edie Carey‘s last solo full length album was in 2010 (holy smokes!), so we are more than ready to dig…

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Basic Folk 169 – Cristina Vane

June 16, 2022

Editor’s note: Lizzie No interviews Cristina Vane on Basic Folk! Be sure to go back and listen to Lizzie’s previous guest host spots on…

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Basic Folk 168 – Grant-Lee Phillips

June 9, 2022

Former Grant Lee Buffalo frontman, Grant-Lee Phillips‘ latest solo album, All That You Can Dream, is -quite- dreamy. During the pandemic,…

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Basic Folk 167 – S.G. Goodman

June 2, 2022

Editor’s note: Lizzie No interviews S.G. Goodman on Basic Folk! Be sure to go back and listen to Lizzie’s previous guest host spots on…

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Basic Folk 166 – Richard Thompson

May 26, 2022

Richard Thompson‘s memoir, Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967 – 1975 (now out in paperback) is a…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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