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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 150 – Aoife O’Donovan

January 27, 2022

Powered by RedCircle BASIC FOLK 150 EPISODES WOO!!! Ok ok ok… for our 150th episode, we are so pleased to…

Basic Folk 149 – Tré Burt

January 20, 2022

Powered by RedCircle When Tré Burt was signed to John Prine’s Oh Boy Records in 2019, he was one of…

Basic Folk 148 – Eliza Gilkyson

January 13, 2022

Powered by RedCircle Eliza Gilkyson is a middle child, a constant reinventor of herself and a surprise teacher of songwriting.…

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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.