It’s 2024 recap time on Basic Folk! Cindy & Lizzie dive into a most special year-end reflection, featuring highlights from our honest conversations with folk musicians. We revisit THE top episode of the year, Anna Tivel & Jeffrey Martin‘s insightful discussion on navigating artistic challenges and living a simple life. Cindy shares her favorite episode featuring her co-host Lizzie No talking about her career-defining album, Halfsies (our 250th episode!). In turn, Lizzie’s favorite honest convo came from Leyla McCalla onboard…
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Basic Folk 134 – Chris Thile
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Basic Folk 133 – Paula Fuga
Powered by RedCircle Paula Fuga is a magic person. The Hawaiian singer/songwriter has lived through some of life’s horrors. When…
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Basic Folk 132 – Becca Mancari
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Basic Folk 131 – Andrew Marlin of Watchhouse
Powered by RedCircle Two years into starting his band Mandolin Orange, Andrew Marlin and his partner Emily Franz were having…
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Basic Folk 130 – Rachel Baiman
Powered by RedCircle Ok, so yes I cried when I interviewed Rachel Baiman. Her writing is stirring and brutal and…
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Basic Folk 129 – John Hiatt
Powered by RedCircle John Hiatt‘s latest is a collab with bluegrass great Jerry Douglas, with Jerry as producer and his…
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Basic Folk 128 – Kishi Bashi
Powered by RedCircle Kaoru Ishibashi who is known as Kishi Bashi, is a violinist, guitarist, multi instrumentalist, singer and songwriter…
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Basic Folk Presents: Get Up in the Cool with Adam Hurt
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