Red Barn Radio

About Red Barn Radio

Roots Music Southern Style! Weekly interviews and performances from talented guests exemplifying Appalachian folk heritage - as it lives today. Join us as we bring musicians from all parts of the country who have roots in traditional genres founded in the southern United States. Red Barn Radio is a syndicated weekly radio show produced via live recordings in Lexington, Kentucky.

Publisher

Red Barn Radio

Category

arts

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Aug 2015

Latest episode

27 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

350 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   27 Oct 2026

   Michaela Anne

   In a dim green room backstage on tour in the UK, Michaela Anne pressed record on her phone and captured what would become the chorus to her new single, If Your Body Fails You — her first song in two years. It was the spark that broke a long silence, a stretch when songwriting had felt impossibly far away. The silence began when Michaela became a mom, just as her own mother suffered a life-altering stroke. Bearing witness to her mother’s loss—of mobility, of independence, of being treated as fully herself—Michaela became desperate to understand unconditional love, for herself and for those around her. “I want to resist the idea that we must be preserved. If we’re lucky to be here long enough, our bodies will fail us, and only in our deep devotion to ourselves and each other will we survive.” If Your Body Fails You carries that tenderness: a recognition that we will change, and that love must deepen to hold all of it.

2. 

   20 Oct 2026

   Bond Henry

   Bond Henry, a Chicago singer-songwriter. Bond's songs often have a strong autobiographical element. One particularly personal example is “The Poor Man’s Dollar (The Ballad of Donald Lee),” which tells the story of his father and connects to Bond's own childhood experience in an orphanage in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Henry has also developed a live identity that moves comfortably between intimate singer-songwriter performances and fuller band settings. He has performed as a trio and has even played an acoustic show for a heavy-metal audience—a nice illustration of how broadly he approaches his musical influences. He continues to be part of the Chicago music community; his song “What's Your Name” was featured on WXRT's Local Anesthetic in September 2026. Bond is an interesting guy and a thoughtful writer-- I'm looking forward to talking with him. Join me next week for an evening of music and talk with Bond Henry!

3. 

   13 Oct 2026

   Boot Juice

   BOOT JUICE is a seven-piece high-energy rock ‘n’ roll / Americana act from Northern California, notori-ous for their barn-burning live shows that get entire crowds on their feet dancing: a reputation earned from recent performances at legendary venues like The Fillmore and Dillon Amphitheater, festival sets at Treefort, High Sierra, and Golden Road Gathering, and packed club shows all across America during their many years on the road. The group’s fervently-anticipated fourth album, Keeping Out Of The Ground (out 3/20) exemplifies the tradition of kickass eclectic American rock ‘n’ roll: With three vocalists, dueling acoustic and electric-guitar shredding, a bawdy horn section, and driving, soulful rhythms, the album offers everything from groovy, danceable bangers (“Hard Time for Hard Times”, “Slingshot”, “Struggles”) to heavy, show-stopping rock anthems (“Try Again Tomorrow”, “Rise and Shine”, “Boise”), and tender, swinging ballads (“Anywhere With You”, “Love From Here”, “Keeping Out of the Ground”). Throughout it all, the band sends a poignant message: Despite everything going on in the world and the hopelessness creeping in around us, the best thing we can do is push it through, keep ourselves out of the ground, keep showing up for ourselves and our neighbors, and forgive ourselves when we just need to try again tomorrow. Though they call the Sacramento, California area home, Boot Juice originated in 2017 deep in the moun-tains and rivers of Idaho and Northern California, where husband-and-wife duo Connor Herdt (vocals / acoustic guitar) and Jessica Stoll (vocals, mandolin) worked outdoor jobs like raft-guiding and ski patrol. Herdt’s close friend and former member, Evan Daly (vocals / electric guitar), would often come out to visit and the two would do what they’ve done since they were young kids: sit around and shred on guitar togeth-er for hours. Stoll, who has done all of the band’s artwork (album covers, merch designs, tour / show posters – you name it) since the band’s early days, joined the band as a vocalist and mandolin player, balancing Herdt’s heartfelt crooning and Daly’s raspy, rock ‘n’ roll bellows with her soulful, resonant pipes.

Who has been a guest on Red Barn Radio

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Johnny and the Yooahoos
• Waffle Therrod
• The Heels
• Davey Allen
• Scott Levi Jones

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

134,551,861

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

10 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

30 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 81 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

91

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

85

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