Booking Overview
Metrics
Episodes: 100
Frequency: Every two weeks
Rating: 5.0/5.0
Estimated listeners: 1,000 - 10,000
Gender skew: Neutral
Listener location: USA
YouTube: 485 subscribers
Contact Information
Publicly listed emails
southernsongsandstories@gmail.com
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Host
Joe Kendrick - Joe Kendrick is a music documentarian and writer whose work explores the history and culture of music rooted in the American South and the artists who create it.
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Recent Guest Discussions
Jontavious Willis - Piedmont Blues, Gospel, Blues History, Doc Watson, Bluegrass Connections, Fan Relationships, And The Preservation Of Blues Traditions.
Maggie Rose - Half Moon, Musical Influences, Merlefest, Live Performance, And Connecting With Audiences.
Scythian - The Band's Origins, Audience Engagement, Merlefest, Ukrainian Ancestry, Classical Music Foundations, And New Music.
Ettore Buzzini - Traditional And Progressive Bluegrass, Classical Influences, Banjo Performance, Original Music, And Working With Established Bluegrass Musicians.
Tift Merritt - Returning To Music After A Hiatus, Aging, Family And Career Changes, Personal Resilience, Songwriting, And The Making Of Sugar.
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Episodes
Circling Back to the Start With Jon Stickley
October 02, 2026
Back in 2017, I envisioned Southern Songs and Stories as a video documentary series, and pitched our pilot episode on Aaron Burdett to public television. Following Aaron’s episode, I profiled Amanda Anne Platt & the Honeycutters, and made another go with video when I attended my first Albino Skunk Music Festival that spring, and sat with the Jon Stickley Trio. The video documentary series dream did not materialize, however, and I pivoted to audio. Even though the video of the Jon Stickley...
Hitchhiking to the Top With Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show
September 28, 2026
In this episode, you get a familiar voice to not only this podcast but to all of roots music: Ketch Secor, of Old Crow Medicine Show, with a conversation from MerleFest in late April 2026. Just days after this episode is published, get set for another alumnus of this podcast, Jon Stickley of the Jon Stickley Trio, who will tell us about what he is doing these days, including a new project with Larry Keel in a conversation right ahead of the Trio’s performance at the Albino Skunk Music Festiva...
Piedmont Blues and the Fine Line of Gospel With Jontavious Willis
September 17, 2026
Don’t let the straightforward, down-to-earth aesthetic of Jontavious Willis’ music lead you to think that there is little complexity or depth to his art. Indeed, Willis exemplifies making something that isn’t really easy at all seem like a stroll down a country road in his native Georgia hill country. He is also well versed in the history and dynamics of his style of blues. From a recent post on his social media, for example, he said: Ethnomusicologist Pete Lowry coined the term "Piedmont Blu...
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