The WDVX Spring Fund Drive is still rolling… live on the air & online at wdvx.com. Call now, or visit the website to support East Tennessee’s Own!

The WDVX Spring Fund Drive starts 2NITE with The Americana Pulse at 7:00. I’ll be live in the studio playing music and raising money for the station. Give me a call at 865-544-1029 tonight from 7:00-10:30 to help make 2026 WDVX’s Time to Shine!

Morning dog walk… taking the new Jessye DeSilva album along with us. Put this on your radar, if you haven’t. Production from Aaron Lee Tasjan and guest spots from Lafemmebear, Butch Walker, & Adia Victoria… Only halfway through it, but Jessye is doing some of her best work here.

Special welcome to new WDVX sponsor Rattle & Snap Tennessee Whiskey…

The Americana Pulse is back Wednesday at 7:00 on WDVX with new Charlotte Cornfield at the top of the show... no foolin'. Plus... more new music, a Big Ears wrap-up, baseball songs, tributes to Jon Dee Graham & Chip Taylor, and more. Tune in Wednesday from 7:00-10:30 on WDVX & the WDVX website.

The kid asked me about Brennen Wedl & Waxahatchee’s cover of Six O’Clock News yesterday. Today, I’m giving her some Kathleen Edwards immersion. We must teach our children about the important things.

Sitting in a restaurant... earbuds linked to my laptop... trying to do some audio editing... "Sweet Child O' Mine" is blasting SOOOOO loud in this restaurant that I can barely even hear the sound coming from my earbuds.

Blind Boys of Alabama Big Ears

2017. Jon Dee Graham & Bonnie Whitmore joined me in the WDVX studio. One of the most fun sessions I’ve ever hosted. Very sad to hear of Jon’s passing.

Caught the back half of a beautiful set from Haley Heynderickx after taking in the first half of a hypnotic set from Gwenifer Raymond. Only at Big Ears…

The thing about a festival like Big Ears is that sometimes the two acts you want to see the most (HH & GW) get scheduled at the same time. The other thing is that I know I could walk in to literally anything else on the schedule and also have a great time.

Took the teenager to a few Big Ears shows yesterday after school… Gonna try the same with the 6-year-old this afternoon. Wish me luck. I’ll be the guy in the WDVX hat & a Yagody t-shirt.

Big Ears Day 2: Wu Fei & Pan American on the WDVX Blue Plate Special Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Butch Hancock Ken Pomeroy Kaoru Watanabe’s Bloodlines Interwoven Wu Fei & Shanir Blumenkranz

I love the Big Ears Festival

Major League Baseball makes it SOOOOOOO hard to watch Major League Baseball games. Signed, A frustrated Cincinnati Reds fan.

Big Ears: Morning 1 Talked to Christopher Paul Stelling for an hour while I waited for my media pass. Now watching Yagody sound check for today’s WDVX Blue Plate Special. We’re live at noon from Barley’s with Yagody & Bloodshot Bill. Tune it in… or watch on the WDVXRadio YouTube channel.

I can’t quite explain it… But it feels kind of surreal to pick up passes for the most eclectic music festival in the world in the hotel ballroom where the South Eastern Conference was founded.

Tonight on WDVX! Interviews with Big Ears artists... Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Yagody, Gwenifer Raymond, Yasmin Williams, and Muireann Bradley. Tomorrow on WDVX! Yagody & Bloodshot Bill on the Blue Plate Special at Barley's Friday on WDVX! Wu Fei & Pan-American on the Blue Plate Special at Barley's

My all time favorite Onion article…

This week's Americana Pulse hits Wednesday night at 7:00 on WDVX. New music at the top of the show... after that, it's all about the Big Ears Festival. We'll hear interviews with Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Yagody, Yasmin Williams, Gwenifer Raymond, Muireann Bradley, music from festival acts & more.

Backstage before Old Crow at the Tennessee Theatre tonight…

Watched the end of the Kentucky game on my phone while walking down Gay St. I must have looked like a crazy person during those last three seconds of regulation.

Chinese-American guzheng player Wu Fei will be on the WDVX Blue Plate Special live at Barley's next Friday during Big Ears. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-XJ...

Collecting some cool interviews to air on The Americana Pulse next Wednesday night on the eve of the Big Ears Festival here in Knoxville. Spoke with Gwenifer Raymond last night... Calls with Yagódy & Jimmie Dale Gilmore later today. Hopeful to line up a couple more. I love Big Ears week.

I love when I play a song so early that our song detection can’t detect it. Now (Actually) Playing: “Glitter Up the Dark” by @jessyedmusic.bsky.social

The Americana Pulse is on the air on WDVX & wdvx.com/listen. Everything tonight from The Steeldrivers to The Violent Femmes... Tune it in.

The Americana Pulse starts at 7:00 tonight on WDVX. A Tony Trischka feature at the start of the show… and a whole bunch of bluegrass music and Big Ears artists. 7:00-10:30 tonight on WDVX.

I used to be a big Jack Johnson guy when he first broke back in the early 2000's. I'm enjoying this re-imagined take on "Drink the Water" he just released with Hermanos Gutierrez. Would love to hear "Bubble Toes" done this way. open.spotify.com/track/4NqIyY...

One more WDVX Blue Plate Special video while I'm sharing WDVX Blue Plate Special videos... This is Cole Chaney - The Shadow of the Mountain. youtu.be/3hPX2RL8lW8?...

Video of Amelia Day on the WDVX Blue Plate Special from back in January... youtu.be/YUPBbAYx3m4?...

One more… Songwriter youtu.be/sP5UrlDMlY0?...

Another video of Amelia Day on the WDVX Blue Plate Special in January… Mama youtu.be/XvJDMb252gk?...

THE most important article you should read before the NCAA Tournament kicks into full gear on Thursday. Kentucky basketball players and their dogs.

Wednesday night on WDVX…

My parents gave me my first tape deck for Christmas 1986. It came with Different Light by the Bangles, The Monkees & More of The Monkees by the Monkees, & a Beach Boys compilation called Do it Again. I asked for Bon Jovi's Slippery When Wet, but my mom's students told her not to buy it for me.

This WBC has been amazing so far... nearly every game. Pulling for my guy Eugenio Suarez at this point.

Ukrainian folk band Yagody will play the WDVX Blue Plate Special next Thursday during Big Ears! youtu.be/yZ8HG7W7rlQ?...

Really cool record. Also seems like a good place to say I’ll be leading the radio show Wednesday night with two tracks from this album and a full set featuring Trischka playing with everyone from Psychograss to The Violent Femmes.

Tonight’s Americana Pulse hits at 7:00 on WDVX. We start with new Trey Hensley & a set of bluegrass The Band covers. We’ll also say goodbye to bluesmen John Hammond & Roy Bookbinder. Live jams, millionaire music, & everything from The Meters to Michael Cleveland. Tonight from 7:00-10:30 on WDVX!

Restaurant playlist whiplash: Bronski Beat’s “Smalltown Boy” followed by “All for Love” by Bryan Adams, Sting, & Rod Stewart.

Video of Amelia Day on the WDVX Blue Plate Special from back in January... youtu.be/YUPBbAYx3m4?...

I'm part of this very special JTE event in Tennessee next week! www.thedownhome.com/schedule/htt...

This week has seen releases from: Rosanne Cash & Matt Berninger from The National Mary Chaplin Carpenter & The Mountain Goats I want more collaborations with this energy… 80’s/90’s Women of Country + Indie Rock icons. Give me your dream pairings.

91 year old bluegrass legend Alice Gerrard with Tatiana Hargreaves… Gonna be a special Blue Plate Special today. We start at noon.

Just finished recording a new episode of Dive Bar Music Club. I talked about Haley Heynderickx, Gwenifer Raymond, Yasmin Williams, & the upcoming Big Ears Festival in Knoxville. The episode will be out later this month. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Oh, man, it's recording week for Dive Bar Music Club. New episode out tomorrow. Jokingly calling it "Ladies Night" bc novelists and music people, Amanda Miles and Kim Ware, join me to share what we're listening to these days. Subscribe? youtube.com/playlist?lis...

What athlete expression will stay with you the rest of your life

Putting the finishing touches on this week's Americana Pulse... Check it out Wednesday night at 7:00 Eastern on WDVX. I'm playing everything from Iron & Wine to Over the Rhine... Punch Brothers to The Isley Brothers... Allen Toussaint to Aaron Lee Tasjan... Hope you'll check it out.