Careful and Fearless

Jack Barksdale and Dan Navarro on Two Opposite Ways to Survive a Life in Music

GUEST PROFILE: Lance Cowan

The Nashville Publicist Who Waited Decades To Record His Own Songs

Doing It All Yourself

Matthias Lamparter and Stella Prince on the DIY Grind and Knowing When to Let Go

GUEST PROFILE: Dwight + Nicole

A Married Duo Protecting the Spark Twenty Years In

GUEST PROFILE: Chris Trapper

Twelve Albums, No Backup Plan, and a Song He Wrote Before He Knew What It Was About

GUEST PROFILE: Barns Courtney

A Billion Streams In, the Fan Dinners Are What Keep the Tour Out of the Red

A Billion Streams, 30 Kazoos, and the Math Barns Courtney Has Already Figured Out

The Exit & The Open Door

Tawnted Left His Religion; Jennifer Knapp Stayed In Hers and Pried the Door Open. Their Stories Go Way Beyond Sexuality.

GUEST PROFILE: Cicada Rhythm

An Athens Duo on Changing Without Growing Apart

GUEST PROFILE: David Ryan Harris

Forty Years In, He's still Treating the Song like a Puzzle Worth Chasing

GUEST PROFILE: Matthias Lamparter

A Decade of Grinding, a Self-Funded Debut, and the Question that Changed Everything: Why Not Me?

GUEST PROFILE: Barrett Baber

A Nashville Songwriter on the Grind, the Holy Moment, and Keeping AI Out of the Room

GUEST PROFILE: Certainly So

A Band that Writes Sad Songs on Purpose, Weighing the Line to going All In

GUEST PROFILE: Shelly Fairchild

After losing a major-label deal, she rebuilt on her own terms and came home to Muscle Shoals

GUEST PROFILE: Jon Muq

From One Meal a Day in Uganda to a Joyful Debut Made With Dan Auerbach

Amy Speace's The Blue Rock Session: Unintended Poetry

GUEST PROFILE: Caitlynne Curtis

The Nashville singer-songwriter on sobriety, faith, and believing in herself

GUEST PROFILE: Dan Navarro

The "We Belong" co-writer at 72 on saying yes, survival as success, and what death taught him

GUEST PROFILE: Craig Alvin

A Grammy-winning Muscle Shoals engineer on fear, authenticity, and why the creaking is the point

GUEST PROFILE: The Carlile Family Band

A teenage sibling band on family, the road, and keeping the music at the root

GUEST PROFILE: Abigayle Oakley

Existential indie folk, a hundred songs a year, and learning to enjoy the present

GUEST PROFILE: Tyler Halverson

A South Dakota cattle kid building a country career out of his own chaos

Waiting for Lightning

Trenton Wagler (Steel Wheels) & Austin Singer-Songwriter Jon Muq Illustrate Two Opposite Ways to Write a Song, With Each Facing Different Benefits and Consequences

Season 2 Episode 2: Lavender

'I Brought a New Life to a Dying Planet'

Three artists on postpartum depression, isolation, and the gift underneath all of it.