Dig a Little Deeper

About Dig a Little Deeper

The podcast about the hidden meanings in some of the greatest songs in American traditional music and beyond.

Publisher

Carter County Public Library

Category

arts · education · music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 Jan 2022

Latest episode

17 May 2022

Latest episodes

4 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 May 2022

   Compromising America: John Prine, Family Farming, and Evil Geniuses

   John Prine's The Great Compromise and the genesis of the American super-wealthy class.

2. 

   2 Apr 2022

   The Poinsettia Lecture

   Ola Belle Reed's Over Yonder in the Graveyard and the tragic history of the human thymus.

3. 

   11 Feb 2022

   Mama, before I was born...

   States of matter, religion, and reincarnation in Tyler Childers' "Born Again"

4. 

   6 Jan 2022

   Old Dogs, Children, and the Simple Life

   Tom T. Hall plays a country music concert across from the Democratic National Convention in Miami in 1972 and has an interesting conversation with a janitor at a cheap airport hotel, birthing one of the greatest songs in traditional American music: Old Dogs, Children, and Watermelon Wine. This songs is full of beautiful imagery, sagely advice, and the purest values held by poor people in America and beyond. Why did Tom T. Hall write this song? What is it really about? How has it been informed...

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