This week your beautiful hosts introduce you to their latest endeavor. Fiddling Leona and JP will be bringing some of their favorite "Tokyo dishes" to the masses in East Tennessee.

Your fearless hosts have several apparent Freudian slips while trying to teach the art of “Kara-age” (Japanese style fried chicken”. Visit www.facebook.com/thejppod for supplemental photos.

This week your elusive podcast hero’s celebrate the 1st anniversary of the JP Pod. Leona and JP talk, spending time with Doyle Lawson, early childhood education in Japan, local repairmen, and much more on episode 18.

This week Fiddling Leona and JP are joined by guest host Paul “on the ball” Northquest. They talk about favorite food spots in the Tri-Cities TN/VA. From sushi to biscuits, they tackle it all.

After a break Fiddling Leona and J.P. talk about being back in Tennessee, Tidying up with Marie Kondo, and old-time mountain food for New Years.

This episode JP and Fiddling Leona are reunited in Tokyo. JP gets a brand new Deering banjo. They talk about JP’s new banjo string label. They talk Amrita guitars and much much more…

With JP still in Tennessee he calls in another Appalachian storyteller, musician, and red flame keeper “John Mooneyham” to join him and Paul Northquest. They continue to talk music, growing up in deep Appalachia and much much more.

JP makes his triumph return to Tennessee and introduces the elusive Paul Northquest.

This week your favorite team deals with a Live Typhoon, Octopus Balls, and their return to Japan's longest running Bluegrass Music Festival and much more.... 

This week our dynamic duo talk about escaping the heat. Hiking in the mountains of Tennessee, wearing giant sun visors in Tokyo, and JP talks about his musical origin story part 1 "Paula Abdul to Bill Monroe" and much more....