This week, Spencer and Rachel welcome our first special guest, BJ Barham! BJ is a NC-native who grew up on 90s Country and is the lead singer of the band American Aquarium. We talk BJ's songwriting influences, the important and undeniable link between country music and NASCAR, and Southern gothic murder ballads. This episode is full of some real 'twangers.'

BJ's pick: Daddy Never Was the Cadillac Kind by Confederate Railroad, 1994

Spencer's pick: Sunday Money by Brooks & Dunn, 1993

Rachel's pick: The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia by Reba McEntire, 1991

Check out American Aquarium online (http://www.americanaquarium.com/) and in Raleigh at the Lincoln Theatre on January 25 and 26.