# american music (podcasts) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover american music. Page: Feed: --- ## [A Musical Tree Grows in Tuskegee](https://laradownesmusic.substack.com/p/a-musical-tree-grows-in-tuskegee) _2026-08-18 · Lara Downes · Sounds Like America_ The Legacy of William L. Dawson ## [Episode 33: 1925 Songs](https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/deeperroots/episodes/2026-08-15T07_24_13-07_00) _2026-08-15 · Deeper Roots · Deeper Roots Radio_ What did America sound like in 1925? Join us for a special episode of Deeper Roots as Dave welcomes Josh Rosenthal, founder of Tompkins Square Records, into the studio for an extraordinary musical deep dive. Josh takes us inside the newly minted anthology, Dick Spottswood & Tompkins Square Present…1925 Songs . This 32-track collection spotlights a pivotal, watershed year in American music… [Listen](https://deeperroots.podomatic.com/enclosure/2026-08-15T07_24_13-07_00.mp3?_=1786803866.17849641) ## [Lucky To Be Me](https://laradownesmusic.substack.com/p/lucky-to-be-me) _2026-08-10 · Lara Downes · Sounds Like America_ by Leonard Bernstein [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/210127331/fe5a044b6057ad8ef9477c4abe35694e.mp3) ## [Episode 32: Good News Bad News](https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/deeperroots/episodes/2026-08-08T06_48_34-07_00) _2026-08-08 · Deeper Roots · Deeper Roots Radio_ No theme this week. No genre studies. No artist retrospectives. Just two hours of great American music. We're in a free-form mood, wandering once again through the dusty digital archives of the past century in search of songs that simply deserve to be heard. Pour yourself a favorite morning libation and settle in as we journey from the elegant dance band sounds of George Olsen to the gypsy jazz… [Listen](https://deeperroots.podomatic.com/enclosure/2026-08-08T06_48_34-07_00.mp3?_=1786196940.17844590) ## ["Hard times Come Again No More"](https://laradownesmusic.substack.com/p/hard-times-come-again-no-more) _2026-08-03 · Lara Downes · Sounds Like America_ Then, and now ## [Welcome home](https://laradownesmusic.substack.com/p/welcome-home-77e) _2026-08-02 · Lara Downes · Sounds Like America_ to the sounds and stories of American music... ## [Welcome home...](https://laradownesmusic.substack.com/p/welcome-home) _2026-08-02 · Lara Downes · Sounds Like America_ to the sounds and stories of American music ## [Episode 31: Country Hotshots](https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/deeperroots/episodes/2026-07-31T14_54_36-07_00) _2026-07-31 · Deeper Roots · Deeper Roots Radio_ This Friday on Deeper Roots, we’re tipping our hats to some of the finest country artists of the 20th century with a journey far beyond the familiar hits. From the outlaw spirit of Waylon Jennings and the wit of Roger Miller to the Bakersfield fire of Dwight Yoakam, the timeless charm of Little Jimmy Dickens, and many more, we’ll dig into the deep tracks, hidden gems, and overlooked performances… [Listen](https://deeperroots.podomatic.com/enclosure/2026-07-31T14_54_36-07_00.mp3?_=1785534899.17837760) ## [Episode 30: Let's Live](https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/deeperroots/episodes/2026-07-26T06_35_38-07_00) _2026-07-26 · Deeper Roots · Deeper Roots Radio_ This week we celebrate the simple joys that have always bound American music together. Deeper Roots travels back nearly a century—from the roaring jazz of Ethel Waters, Fletcher Henderson, and Coleman Hawkins to the contemporary wit of Kacey Musgraves—finding common threads of laughter, resilience, friendship, and the everyday pleasures that make life worth living. Along the way we'll make a party… [Listen](https://deeperroots.podomatic.com/enclosure/2026-07-26T06_35_38-07_00.mp3?_=1785072950.17832452) ## [Episode 29: Trouble Bound](https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/deeperroots/episodes/2026-07-18T06_44_15-07_00) _2026-07-18 · Deeper Roots · Deeper Roots Radio_ Free form and completely eclectic—that is the absolute best way to introduce this week’s episode of Deeper Roots. Every so often, we love to shake things up by forgoing our usual archival explorations of specific genres, artists, or historical themes. Instead, Dave is opening up his personal vault for a special curation of deep tracks and personal favorites that he has been setting aside over the… [Listen](https://deeperroots.podomatic.com/enclosure/2026-07-18T06_44_15-07_00.mp3?_=1784382269.17826144) ## [Privacy-first AI-native browser (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xUxU2uonUvJk) _2026-07-18 · **Sponsored**_ No telemetry or ads — built on Ungoogled Chromium with a built-in AI sidebar and CLI. ## [Episode 28: Travelin' Blues](https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/deeperroots/episodes/2026-07-11T06_49_56-07_00) _2026-07-11 · Deeper Roots · Deeper Roots Radio_ This Friday, Deeper Roots presents an encore broadcast from February 2020, exploring the rich intersection of gospel, blues, and tradition through the theme of the “Travelin’ Blues.” Whether the journey leads down the King’s Highway toward salvation or along a lonely back road toward temptation, we’ll steer clear of the toll roads and follow the winding paths where sacred and secular music have… [Listen](https://deeperroots.podomatic.com/enclosure/2026-07-11T06_49_56-07_00.mp3?_=1783777810.17821138) ## [Semiquincentennial Blues](https://jessehagopian.substack.com/p/semiquincentennial-blues) _2026-07-04 · Jesse Hagopian · Teach Truth & Sing the Blues: Jesse' Songbook for Survival_ For Gil Scott-Heron [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/205010499/dfc4bd6f9d81d2ff7040ca2d3a4579d9.mp3) ## [Episode 27: Wake Up Everybody](https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/deeperroots/episodes/2026-07-03T13_08_32-07_00) _2026-07-03 · Deeper Roots · Deeper Roots Radio_ Tomorrow isn’t a guarantee; it’s a promise we keep to one another. In times when the airwaves and headlines feel crowded with division, hatred, and the loud noise of demagoguery, all in reaction to barbarous and vile language from the highest quarters, the antidote has always been found in the music. This week on Deeper Roots, we are celebrating the nation’s 250th anniversary by stepping directly… [Listen](https://deeperroots.podomatic.com/enclosure/2026-07-03T13_08_32-07_00.mp3?_=1783109596.17815669) ## [Episode 26: Heartland R&B](https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/deeperroots/episodes/2026-06-26T13_29_08-07_00) _2026-06-26 · Deeper Roots · Deeper Roots Radio_ We revisit a show from ten years back that focused on R&B, sax, and a time before rock 'n' roll shook the world. A time of honkers and shouters. This week on Deeper Roots, we dig into the wild, joyful, and groundbreaking world of mid-century rhythm and blues through the lens of Arnold Shaw's classic book Honkers and Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm and Blues. From the jump bands and saxophone… [Listen](https://deeperroots.podomatic.com/enclosure/2026-06-26T13_29_08-07_00.mp3?_=1782505760.17809922) ## [Episode 25: The Ladies of Americana](https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/deeperroots/episodes/2026-06-19T12_27_09-07_00) _2026-06-19 · Deeper Roots · Deeper Roots Radio_ This week on Deeper Roots, we’re celebrating the women who helped shape Americana music. From pioneering artists who blazed trails through country, folk, blues, and gospel to the remarkable performers carrying those traditions into the 21st century, we’ll spend two hours exploring voices that transformed the sound of American roots music. We’ll begin with some of the giants of the genre—artists… [Listen](https://deeperroots.podomatic.com/enclosure/2026-06-19T12_27_09-07_00.mp3?_=1781897244.17803840) ## [Episode 24: Let's Do It!](https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/deeperroots/episodes/2026-06-13T05_35_13-07_00) _2026-06-13 · Deeper Roots · Deeper Roots Radio_ This week on Deeper Roots, the records come with instructions. From dance crazes and rhythm commands to songs about not knowing what comes next, we’re asking — and answering — ‘Let’s Do It!.’ Two hours of blues, rock ’n’ roll, soul, and jukebox rhythm from the past century, all with a demand that we get our booties moving or our bodies boogie’n. From Howlin’ Wolf and B.B. King to The Dovells,… [Listen](https://deeperroots.podomatic.com/enclosure/2026-06-13T05_35_13-07_00.mp3?_=1781354136.17798385) ## [500-Year-Old Slave Revolt of 1526 Redefines Freedom as US Turns 250](https://jessehagopian.substack.com/p/500-year-old-slave-revolt-of-1526-bd8) _2026-05-13 · Jesse Hagopian · Teach Truth & Sing the Blues: Jesse' Songbook for Survival_ Before 1776 or 1619, enslaved Africans seized freedom in 1526 on land that would become the United States. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/197603943/b62fbc4480f1c4d7042bb4c8a4856b88.mp3) ## [Singing The Blues For A Better World At The Fort Wroth African American Music Festival](https://jessehagopian.substack.com/p/singing-the-blues-for-a-better-world) _2026-04-07 · Jesse Hagopian · Teach Truth & Sing the Blues: Jesse' Songbook for Survival_ The Blue Tide performs at Fort Worth African American Music Festival (FWAAMFest)—tracing the music back to ancestral land, memory, and the unfinished struggle for freedom [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/192790456/36314377f371807234ed30b61a165201.mp3) ## [In Era of Book Bans and War on History, Sinners Reveals What US Tries to Forget](https://jessehagopian.substack.com/p/in-era-of-book-bans-and-war-on-history) _2026-03-24 · Jesse Hagopian · Teach Truth & Sing the Blues: Jesse' Songbook for Survival_ Sinners deserves to win Oscars: It’s a blues poem, a freedom cry, and a love letter to powerful culture. ## [Affordability Crisis Deniers Must Be Replaced by Workers’ Power](https://jessehagopian.substack.com/p/affordability-crisis-deniers-must) _2026-02-13 · Jesse Hagopian · Teach Truth & Sing the Blues: Jesse' Songbook for Survival_ A nation that can feed its billionaires but not its children has an economic system built to protect cruelty. ## [Transcript-Driven Stock Discovery (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/FC3ynK4jaEtY) _2026-02-13 · **Sponsored**_ Ranked, evidence-backed watchlists from indexed executive transcripts for 1–2 quarter horizons ## [ICE Out Now!: Melting the ICE Age with Social Movement Heat](https://jessehagopian.substack.com/p/ice-out-now-melting-the-ice-age-with) _2026-02-02 · Jesse Hagopian · Teach Truth & Sing the Blues: Jesse' Songbook for Survival_ Jesse Hagopian delivered this speech at a rally organized by Seattle educators for immigrant rights and to defend students from being kidnapped by federal agents. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/186640832/3b7a461fc3afd1da375aa506ae2da28e.mp3) ## [In 2025, They Tried to Ban the Truth—We Taught It Louder](https://jessehagopian.substack.com/p/in-2025-they-tried-to-ban-the-truthwe) _2025-12-31 · Jesse Hagopian · Teach Truth & Sing the Blues: Jesse' Songbook for Survival_ My new Truthout essay demonstrates how more educators came to understand that education has never been neutral — it either liberates or subjugates. And many are joining the freedom struggle. ## [Baristas on Strike on the Front Page. Starbucks’ “Here’s to Baristas” Holiday Ad on the Back — Anything to Avoid a Union Contract.](https://jessehagopian.substack.com/p/baristas-on-strike-on-the-front-page) _2025-11-14 · Jesse Hagopian · Teach Truth & Sing the Blues: Jesse' Songbook for Survival_ The struggle baristas are brewing is part of a larger fight for worker's power. ## [A SNAP Decision: Eat the Rich](https://jessehagopian.substack.com/p/a-snap-decision-eat-the-rich) _2025-11-03 · Jesse Hagopian · Teach Truth & Sing the Blues: Jesse' Songbook for Survival_ A poem by Jesse Hagopian ## [A tale of two (3 really) literary events](https://theborderlander.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-3-really-literary-events) _2025-06-12 · Michael Patrick F. Smith · The Borderlander_ and a lot of gardening ## [Our Economic Interests](https://theborderlander.substack.com/p/our-economic-interests) _2025-04-19 · Michael Patrick F. Smith · The Borderlander_ Rebuking the lie that rural voters and working people vote against thier own economic interests. ## [Disposable and Doomers](https://theborderlander.substack.com/p/disposable-and-doomers) _2025-03-05 · Michael Patrick F. Smith · The Borderlander_ A review of a book about America's underclass and thoughts on a word ## [Heroes](https://theborderlander.substack.com/p/heroes) _2025-02-19 · Michael Patrick F. Smith · The Borderlander_ the release of a new song and meta-thoughts on the blog ## [A Crooked History of American Music](https://theborderlander.substack.com/p/a-crooked-history-of-american-music-a40) _2025-02-05 · Michael Patrick F. Smith · The Borderlander_ A reading of my latest post... [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/156477340/92a8ecd137f2535a515fbb4a813cab97.mp3) ## [A quick check in!](https://theborderlander.substack.com/p/a-quick-check-in) _2025-01-29 · Michael Patrick F. Smith · The Borderlander_ More to come very, very soon... ## [Anthony Ettinger on LinkedIn (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/Hj8c8vysLOpE) _2025-01-29 · **Sponsored**_ Public LinkedIn profile at linkedin.com/in/anthonyettinger. ## [Classism, Memoirs, Me and Vance](https://theborderlander.substack.com/p/classism-memoirs-vance-and-me) _2024-11-25 · Michael Patrick F. Smith · The Borderlander_ In 2016, I was in the midst of writing my own rural working-class memoir when JD Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy was released.