Southern Songs and Stories
Hosted by Joe Kendrick · Joe Kendrick
5.0from 59 ratings
- 131
- Episodes
- 12
- Transcribed
- 59
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 117K
- YouTube views
About Southern Songs and Stories
Southern Songs and Stories is a documentary series about the music of the South and the artists who make it. We showcase their performances and discover the stories behind their songs with a look at their lives on stage, in the studio and at home as well as the family, friends, fans and music professionals around them.
- Publisher
- Joe Kendrick
- Category
- music · music · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 17 Dec 2020
- Latest episode
- 2 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
12 of 131 episodes have a transcript.
2 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Circling Back to the Start With Jon Stickley
28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Hitchhiking to the Top With Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Piedmont Blues and the Fine Line of Gospel With Jontavious Willis
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Circling Back to the Start With Jon Stickley
Published 2 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And that's a triumph in between, you know? Um, so yeah, it's just, the songs are tied to things that happen in my life. And, uh, one of our favorite things about the trio being all instrumental is we're not really defining the story for you. So the listener is, has their own experience and the song feels a certain way and they can kind of apply that their own meaning to it we're not necessarily telling them the story we're letting it apply to their story so that's that's something that we really love and people have given us that feedback and they say they really like it a lot so yeah what has happened musically with the trio over the past nine plus years you know wow we uh so Biggest change was we got a different drummer, Hunter. […]
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- Jon Stickley
- Ketch Secor
- Jontavious Willis
- Maggie Rose
- Dan Fedoryka
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 116,682
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 5.0 / 5
- 49 ratings
- Spotify
- 5.0 / 5
- 10 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 67 / 100
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- Quality
- 62
- Social presence
- 91
- YouTube
- 82
- Engagement
- 51
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