Red Barn Radio

Emerging as a solo project originally conceived by Nick Phourist Hill, Phourist & the Photons emerged after Nick decided to recruit other musicians. Critics call their music a theatrical and melodic event, dabbling in neo-classical themes yet anchored in rock

There’s only two words to describe Jordan Allen & the  Bellwethers: pure energy. Their original song catalog contains  storytelling-style ballads, and earnest light-dimmers, but they also lean into  their ability to pump up a crowd with full-on fist-pumping rock  songs.

Jordan Allen & the Bellwethers is an  Alt-Country/Indie-Folk band based between southeastern and south central  Kentucky. Their music focuses on telling stories and is accented with electric  cello and guitar to create a unique musical experience. They have been  performing as Jordan Allen & the Bellwethers since May of 2013.

Over  the years, the style of music has changed, but one thing has always stayed  constant: the band's attention to songwriting. In 2016, their song "The  Wanderer" took home the overall winner at The Richard Leigh Songwriters Festival  song contest. The band’s frontman, Jordan, has been included on the writer’s  night roster at the Historic Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, Tennessee since  February of 2017.

The  band has 3 full length studio albums. The latest record, called Give My Love to  Jenny, was released in November of 2020.

Red Barn Radio livestream next time, "Organic Synth Pop" from the South,  with the Sunmates. What is Organic Synth Pop you might ask? Well,  Organic synth pop is what the band calls a cosmic connection of nature  with city, and there brand of it they also call unrefutably Southern.  The sunmates are excited to play and talk with us about their unique  musical expression of the place they all call home. Open your ears to  all the South has to offer-- That's the Sunmates-- on Red Barn Radio

Get ready for Troy Burchett an the  Postmen on Red Barn Radio! Troy Burchett’s emotional lyrics and controlled,  Elvis-esque vibrato are enough to catch anyone’s attention who cares at all  about country music. After years of tuning his craft in Nashville, Burchett’s  style has matured, and it’s been recognized. His band, Troy Burchett and The  Postmen, was granted entrance into the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame in  2019!

Mason Colby was born and raised in the musically rich Gulf Coast,  splitting time between Lafayette, Louisiana and Houston, Texas. But it was in  Kentucky that he picked up a banjo and started making music in earnest. A  founding member of traditional stringband The Jarflies, Mason has been part of  the old-time music scene in Kentucky for over a decade and is now writing songs  that blend his love of Acadiana, the Bluegrass, and Texas songwriters like Guy  Clark, Jolie Holland, Lyle Lovett, and banjo hero Danny Barnes.

For his first two EPs of original work, he collaborated with  Lexington producer and multi-instrumentalist J. Tom Hnatow (Horse Feathers,  These United States, Vandaveer), a natural fit in terms of sound and vision.  Other important contributors include Don Rogers (Mason’s mentor as part of a  Kentucky Arts Council Traditional Arts Apprenticeship grant), Robby Cosenza  (Horse Feathers), Montana Hobbs (The Local Honeys), Zach Martin (Lylak), Abby  Hamilton, Art Mize (KY Partisans, The Jarflies), and Cecilia Wright (Bear  Medicine, Senora May).

Rebecca Rego has been a Midwest singer-songwriter,  recording artist, and producer for over 15 years. She has written and recorded  eight albums and toured the country many times over, solo and with her  Chicago-based band The Trainmen.

In 2014, a mysterious package arrived on her doorstep. In  it was Lucia Berlin’s short story collection, “A Manual For Cleaning Women.” The  note simply said: “I think you’ll love this.” As Rego began picking through the  dark, witty, romantic prose, the stories slowly began to seep into her  consciousness and affect her songwriting. After a few years, she realized she  had created a unique set of songs based on Berlin’s book.

In the fall of 2019, Rego traveled to Northern  California, where a handful of Berlin’s stories take place, and recorded six of  these songs at Panoramic Studio in Stinson Beach with engineer Beau Sorenson  (Death Cab For Cutie, tUnE-yArDs,) backed by multi-instrumentalist J. Tom Hnatow  (Horse Feathers, Ringo Starr,) and Alysia Kraft, Staci Foster, and Tobias Bank  of Fort Collins, CO based band Whippoorwill. The resulting album “Songs For  Cleaning Women Pt. 1” will be released November 11, 2020. The release will be  celebrated with a livestreaming performance during Grammy Award-winning music  ensemble Eighth Blackbird’s “Chicago Artists Workshop” series.

As an independent female artist, Rego is influenced by  the unflinching, raw honesty found in Berlin’s art. Many of Berlin’s stories are  semi-autobiographical accounts of her time working blue-collar jobs, raising  four children as a single mother, and dealing with her own alcoholism. Berlin  died in 2004, never receiving critical acclaim in her own lifetime. Rego’s goal  with this release is to pay homage to Berlin’s stories and introduce new  audiences to her work.

Grizzly Goat's music is as the band's name suggests,  undomesticated. Grizzly's blend of folk-rock spans the entire breadth of the  Americana genre; from soft and sincere campfire ballads to rocking electric  harmonica solos on top of pounding drums and flailing banjo.

The band is hardworking and tireless. They’ve brought their rootsy  compositions from coast to coast in their white passenger van. Whether at a  festival or a small scale BBQ joint, Grizzly Goat's aim is to connect with their  audience on an individual level, building a relationship with each  listener.

Specifically, the band has supported acts such as Greensky  Bluegrass, Jim Avett, River Whyless, Town Mountain, Jamestown Revival, and Brett  Dennen, along with playing at such festivals as the John Hartford Memorial Fest,  Treefort Music Festival, Mayesfest, Forest Fest, Decatur BBQ Blues and Bluegrass  Fest, Zion Canyon Music Fest, and the kick-off for the Cold Mountain Music  Festival.

Hailing from rustic Darke County, Ohio, Shannon Clark & the Sugar  weave together heartfelt emotions with a distinctive flair to create a  sound that can only be described as Midwest Americana Soul. This family  band writes and performs their original music about a personal loss,  struggles, and the human condition. Apple News raves, “The raw emotion  of Shannon’s vocal delivery exposes the bittersweet beauty of his  lyrics.” Husband and wife duo, Shannon and Brittany Clark joined the  Warped Tour to represent Ohio in the mid-2000s. Soon after, tragedy hit  the family with the loss of their 2nd daughter. For a time the music  stopped. Imminently, Shannon & Brittany’s creative songwriting would  become the healing tool that brought them together and revived the  band. When their oldest daughter, Navie joined in 2019 as a  vocalist/instrumentalist, they began experimenting with a new sound and  Shannon Clark & the Sugar was born.

Eli, a musician from Perryville, KY, plays good old-fashioned Old Time.  After playing banjo for more than a decade, he's a master of the  percussive clawhammer and drop-thumb style of playing, native to West  Virginia and Eastern Kentucky. Him and his band are gonna put on a  fantastic show this evening!

Zoe Howard is an  Appalachian Rock artist who is from a small town in East Kentucky, Salyersville,  KY. She has had an interest in music from an early age when in church listening  to the praise team. Zoe began voice lessons at the age of 5 with a local  instructor, Mike Hall. She then moved to Clyde Porter, a voice/ music instructor  located at the famous Mountain Arts Center, located in Prestonsburg, KY. Zoe has  been a student of Clyde’s since she was 6 years old. She picked up acoustic  guitar from Clyde and then continued her interest in playing other instruments  such as drums, variety of percussions, and electric guitar. She also had  mandolin lessons from a Kentucky native by the name of Don Rigsby. Zoe has  performed on many occasions and a variety of stages throughout her 17 years. She  has also been recently employed part time, at the Mountain Arts Center as  spotlight tech or whatever is needed.

Her band Yellow Line was  created with the mindset to just follow that Yellow Line on the highway to  wherever music leads them. They are all related through and by the Mountain Arts  Center located in Star City, Prestonsburg,  KY.

The band is a musically-entwined, rock'n'roll, husband'n'wife songwriting team from Louisville, KY. Joining them on percussion is Jordan Hubbard. Rooted just as much in 70s progressive rock as modern alternative, this show will be one to remember!