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Andy Leftwich
Jun 11, 2026
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May 8, 2026
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Apr 22, 2026
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/11/26 | ![]() Andy Leftwich | Episode 360: Andy Leftwich was a Tennessee string picking prodigy who crushed it at fiddle competitions and was working by his late teens. Then, before he turned twenty, he was offered a job (on stage no less) by legend Ricky Skaggs. For 15 years with Kentucky Thunder, he built a reputation as one of the most complete and technically gifted musicians in bluegrass, sharing in numerous IBMA and Grammy Awards. Now, after a few years of being independent, he's fired up his solo career with two enthralling instrumental albums. | — | ||||||
| 6/3/26 | ![]() Kashus Culpepper | Episode 359: We love it when great things happen to good people, especially when the story is a total surprise, and that's what's been going on with Alabama-raised singer and songwriter Kashus Culpepper. He'd never been on a stage or played the guitar before 2020, but a confluence of free time, an encouraging group of friends, and a timely instrument helped Kashus find his voice and his calling. He's been celebrated by the media and stars like Elton John, and his debut album Act 1 has surprised many with its depth and power. | — | ||||||
| 5/13/26 | ![]() The Milk Carton Kids | Episode 358: Fifteen years into their close and literally harmonious relationship, Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale sound as satisfied and enriched as ever by the audience and aura they've established in Americana music. The Milk Carton Kids name was a self-effacing joke about how quickly they expected to be forgotten, but it's been quite the opposite. They've earned four Grammy nominations and an Americana Award as Duo/Group of the Year. Audiences still lean in to hear the nuances of their quiet and thoughtful sound. Their seventh album Lost Cause Lover Fool is the latest iteration of their less-is-more approach to folk artistry. | — | ||||||
| 5/8/26 | ![]() Boy Golden | Episode 357: Liam Duncan grew up in the small city of Brandon, Manitoba and moved to the provincial capitol and musical hotbed of Winnipeg as soon as he could, thinking he might be a session musician and sideman. But post pandemic, he's been Boy Golden, a quirky, neo-romantic persona making some of Canada's most compelling folk rock. During a swing through Nashville, Boy Golden talked about shifting focus from Canada to the US, his tight band of old friends, and his new album Best Of Our Possible Lives. | — | ||||||
| 4/22/26 | ![]() Brit Taylor and Adam Chaffins✨ | Americana musicbluegrass+3 | Brit TaylorAdam Chaffins | Loretta LynnPatty Loveless | eastern KentuckyEast Nashville+1 | Brit TaylorAdam Chaffins+5 | — | 58m 47s | |
| 4/16/26 | ![]() Kevin Martin and Honky Tonk Tuesdays✨ | honky tonkmusic residency+3 | — | American Legion Post | East NashvilleEastside Bowl | Honky Tonkmusic series+4 | — | 59m 00s | |
| 4/13/26 | ![]() The Infamous Stringdusters At 20✨ | bluegrassjamgrass+3 | Chris PandolfiJeremy Garrett+1 | The Infamous StringdustersIBMA+2 | Nashville | Infamous Stringdustersbluegrass music+3 | — | 59m 00s | |
| 4/2/26 | ![]() Trey Hensley✨ | country musicroots music+3 | Trey Hensley | — | — | Trey Hensleycountry guitar+3 | — | 59m 01s | |
| 3/27/26 | ![]() Emily Scott Robinson✨ | Americana musicsongwriting+3 | Emily Scott Robinson | Oh Boy Records | — | Emily Scott RobinsonAppalachia+5 | — | 59m 01s | |
| 3/20/26 | ![]() Sammy Brue and Jonathan Bernstein Remember Justin Townes Earle✨ | musicaddiction+4 | Sammy BrueJonathan Bernstein | Rolling Stone | — | Justin Townes EarleSammy Brue+5 | — | 59m 01s | |
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| 3/10/26 | ![]() David Wilcox✨ | folk musicsongwriting+4 | David Wilcox | How Did You Find Me HereThe Way I Tell The Story | North CarolinaNashville | David Wilcoxfolk+5 | — | 59m 01s | |
| 3/6/26 | ![]() Voices From Folk Alliance 2026✨ | folk musicroots music+3 | Joy ClarkTyler Ramsey+5 | Folk Alliance InternationalTraveling Light | New Orleans | Folk AllianceNew Orleans+3 | — | 59m 01s | |
| 3/2/26 | ![]() Kristina Train✨ | musicjazz+3 | Kristina Train | Blue Note RecordsCounty Line | Savannah, GA | Kristina Trainjazz+3 | — | 59m 01s | |
| 2/16/26 | ![]() Rachael & Vilray✨ | musicjazz+4 | Rachael Price | Lake Street Dive | Hendersonville, TN | Rachael PriceVilray+4 | — | 59m 00s | |
| 2/11/26 | ![]() Molly Tuttle | Episode 346: To say that a lot has happened since Molly Tuttle last appeared on The String in 2019 would be an understatement. She's won two Grammy Awards and been nominated for two more. She won her first IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year Award, to go along with her two groundbreaking Guitar Player trophies. But most important, she's been through two entire stylistic swings in her musical vision and recording career. And she got engaged to Ketch Secor. So we cover a lot of ground in our latest conversation. | — | ||||||
| 1/13/26 | ![]() Jacob Jolliff | Episode 345: Last year, The String got a new opening theme tune. "Vera" comes from New York based mandolin virtuoso, composer and band leader Jacob Jolliff. The Oregon native came East when he got a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music and joined a cadre of future acoustic stars clustered in the Boston area. He's worked for some big-league bands including Joy Kills Sorrow and Yonder Mountain String Band, but in this decade he's pursued his own four-piece Jacob Jolliff Band. We talk about building the audience for instrumental, improvisational acoustic music and about select pieces from Jake's fascinating discography. | — | ||||||
| 12/18/25 | ![]() Ashley Monroe | Episode 344: Ashley Monroe moved to Nashville just after 10th grade from East Tennessee with a single-minded drive to sing and write country music. Her career would be the envy of many - Grammy nominations, several major label albums, and Pistol Annies, an influential supergroup - and yet many in roots music haven't recognized her as among the greats of our time. Following recovery from blood cancer, Monroe dove into her most ambitious and daring project yet, Tennessee Lightning. | — | ||||||
| 12/11/25 | ![]() Rosie Flores | Episode 343: Her name is made of flowers. And she's been spreading bouquets of joy and open-hearted country and rockabilly for more than 50 years. She is Rosie Flores, sounding great and enjoying the stage as much as she ever has as she cruised past her 75th birthday during Americanafest 2025. A couple days after that, we sat down to talk about her (outstandingly) supportive parents, the Los Angeles alt-country scene of the 1980s and 90s, and her new album Impossible Frontiers. | — | ||||||
| 12/2/25 | ![]() Daniel Donato | Episode #342: Daniel Donato became one of Nashville's more revered electric guitar players during his three years playing four nights a week at Robert's Western World on Lower Broadway. When he lost that gig in 2015, he had to start from scratch as a working musician and songwriting artist. In his second appearance on The String, Donato talks about landing some touring band gigs that sustained him while he developed his Cosmic Country concept. The band and his repute grew, and ten years after leaving Broadway, he headlined the Ryman Auditorium. Also on the table here, his two recent albums, Reflector and Horizons. | — | ||||||
| 11/24/25 | ![]() Luther Dickinson Returns | Episode 341: Since co-founding the history-making, history-preserving North Mississippi Allstars almost 30 years ago, Luther Dickinson has taken his guitar, his deep blues repertoire, and his Memphis soul around the world and into all kinds of collaborations. In his latest return to The String, we talk about the nature of improvising and some of his recent experimental and instrumental projects, plus the 2025 Allstars album Still Rollin', marking the 25th anniversary of the band's debut album. | — | ||||||
| 11/20/25 | ![]() Robert Randolph | Episode 340: Robert Randolph had no plans or dreams to take his fiery talents on the pedal steel guitar beyond the New Jersey church where he grew up and the network of pentecostal Black churches around the country that made the "sacred steel" a core part of their services. But his passionate sound and his joyful improvisational spirit were a perfect match for the jam/rock scene of the early 2000s. He's been a steady contributor ever since, through wide collaborations and a string of albums with his "Family Band." Now he's leading the band under his own name and he has a fabulous new record on the revitalized Sun Records. | — | ||||||
| 11/12/25 | ![]() Marcus King | Episode 339: South Carolina guitar wizard and powerhouse singer Marcus King has come through the valley of shadows, breaking self-destructive habits and arriving at a place of contentment and love on his latest album Darling Blue. In a career-spanning conversation, King talks about his unique path to finding his voice on the guitar, his collaborations with a series of very different world-class producers, and his place in the shifting ecosystems of jam band and Americana music. | — | ||||||
| 11/4/25 | ![]() Tift Merritt plus Tony Kamel | Episode 338: North Carolina songwriter Tift Merritt became an instant star of Americana music when she emerged in the early 2000s with Bramble Rose (2002) and Tambourine (2004), but only with time have we learned that her relationship with her prestige record label - Lost Highway Records - was tumultuous and dispiriting. After a period of relative quiet on the music front, she's re-issued Tambourine on vinyl for the first time and put out a collection of demo/kitchen tapes that contextualize that classic. From her home in Raleigh, Tift lets us in on her diversified creative life. And we round out the hour catching up with Texas songwriter Tony Kamel, who's released We're All Gonna Live, his second in a row made with master Bruce Robison. | — | ||||||
| 10/30/25 | ![]() Ken Pomeroy | Episode 337: Ken Pomeroy, who turned 23 days after this interview, is a fresh voice not just from the Oklahoma lineage of great roots songwriting and musicianship, but also from a new generation of Native American voices in popular music. She talks about her Cherokee heritage and the stewardship that comes with it, plus her emotional bond to music in this introspective hour. You'll also hear incisive and sometimes sad songs from her acclaimed national debut Cruel Joke, out this spring on Rounder Records. | — | ||||||
| 10/21/25 | ![]() Danny Burns and Shelby Means | Episode 336: In a time when bluegrass is surging with young talent and mainstream dreams, Danny Burns and Shelby Means offer two profiles in making the string band business work in 2025. Burns is an Irish immigrant who brought his trad training and hearty work ethic from his native County Donegal. Even before releasing North Country in 2018, he'd made a name and reputation among roots music elites, and he shows his flair for cover songs on the new Southern Sky. Shelby Means played bass for Della Mae during their breakout years and became stylishly famous working with Molly Tuttle's Golden Highway Band. When that came to an end this year, she had her debut solo album ready to go. | — | ||||||
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