This week, Z. speaks with Bonnie Bishop - the fierce singer/songwriter raised in Texas and Mississippi with a powerhouse voice shaped by decades of singing in smoky bars, cutting confessional Americana gems that have won her a Grammy for her songwriting, and gained her a growing legion of fans nationwide.

Like her hero Bonnie Raitt, sometimes it takes an artist six records into her late thirties for anyone to take notice. And sometimes it takes a painful divorce to create a song that would be recorded by Bonnie Raitt and help Bonnie Bishop win the Grammy. No, Bishop’s life didn’t change overnight - reality is usually much more sobering than the fantasy of winning big in music. But, Bonnie knows she is winning now. Things are really happening - people respect her and the road is moving - and fast. And sometimes that’s the scariest thing of all.

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This week, Charlie Parr - a Minnesota-based folk blues lifer who writes novelistic, multi-layered stories that shine a kaleidoscopic light on the defiant, unseen characters thriving in the shadows all around us.

Charlie has a new record with only his name on it, and it isn’t shiny and perfect and commercial and catchy. It's him. It’s pure Charlie Parr, and maybe that’s enough. He hasn’t moved to LA or Nashville - he’s stayed in the cold grey north of Minnesota, because that’s his home. Take a second wherever you call home right now, and listen to his new record. You might hear something different every time.

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This week, Z. speaks to the founding trio of one the most respected and sought after folk rock bands in the country - The Lone Bellow.

Their hedonistically heavenly harmonies have lifted them from playing tiny bars around their founding home base of Brooklyn, New York to adoring audiences at venerable venues like Red Rocks Amphitheatre, the Apollo, and The Ryman Auditorium, in their new home of Nashville, Tennessee. The Lone Bellow have a rapport that is intimate, hilarious, and -- when it calls for it -- deadly serious. The band is full of so much heart and genuine insight that you can’t help but lean in and listen.

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This week, Anna Tivel - the Portland-based singing poetess who builds mountain ranges of rhymes with her colorful, impressionistic perspective of a world still shrouded in endless beauty and mystery.

Anna Tivel is one of those folk singers who is passed between friends and long-time listeners like a secret talisman; a tiny gemstone that you polish in your pocket when you need a reminder that the earth is vast and the smallest things you pass on the side of the road are beautiful if you look at it from the right view.

As soon as the needle hits the wax on her latest record "The Question", Anna’s hushed, sharp edged voice begins slicing sonic film strips of angular verses that build and build until the words flow out in blinking mini movies that sear themselves on your eardrums and then are gone in a flash. It’s like she’s a sonic cinematographer waiting for the scene to be shot in our minds.

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This week, Z. speaks with booming country gospel trickster Paul Cauthen.

Z. and Paul met up in Nashville after his weird and whacked-out Big Velvet revue, which nearly got shut down for a brawl that occurred on stage at the end. Paul has a way of harnessing his own madness into a dangerous and intoxicating sonic brew that needs to be in your ear holes right now. Start with this episode, and then move on to Paul's recent release, Room 41.

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This week, Matt The Electrician - a kind hearted songwriter and cunning craftsman of smile-inducing folk songs that retain the one thing we might need most in our jackknifed new century: hope.

While the artist not known as Matt Sever may still be able to fix the sparking wires behind your walls with his nimble bare hands, he found a line of work even more daring, dangerous, and financially precarious to set his sites on back in the 1990s: being a roving folk singer.

Matt’s been at this a while, he looks more like your cool tatted shop teacher than the next big arena money maker for the major labels -so letting the people who have put him up in their houses and cooked him a warm meal on the road support the music their own way? It’s kind of beautiful. In fact, his sturdy fanbase just lovingly funded his next record, in which he’ll be working on with a producer for the very first time, and that producer is none other than Tucker Martine. He’ll be heading up to Tucker’s studio in Portland Oregon to start the project in October.

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The Show On The Road is back with Cosmic California Country Singer / Songwriter Leslie Stevens.

Z. speaks with the deeply intuitive songwriter and cosmic country singer who has been creating viscerally vulnerable songs that seem to ache right through the speakers with her shimmering voice on her much awaited solo album “Sinner”, which came out in August.

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This week Z. speaks with Dylan LeBlanc, the lithe Louisiana-born roots 'n roller who has one of those once-in-a-generation, ghostly-lilting voices that doesn’t seem of this time or place.

His newest record "Renegade", produced by Dave Cobb, is out now, and it’s clear he’s grown up a lot in the last few years. It’s a big, snarling, cinematic, banger of a record; part spaghetti-western dust storm, and part hook-filled sixties AM radio sunshine.

This is our last episode of the Summer season, so have a listen with a cold drink under the sun, and let Dylan’s voice transport you. Where? It’s up to you.

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This week Z. speaks with Smooth Hound Smith, the fiery folk-blues duo from East Nashville who've spread their infectious honeyed harmonies and gritty finger-picked sonic essays all across the continent.

Despite being two hilarious humans who got married and share nearly every waking moment together, Zack and Caitlin have never stopped making each other laugh and have never stopped pushing their timeless songwriting to new heights.

With their fancy new record "Dog In a Manger" coming August 9, they shine a sharp light on the beautiful worn edges of our country like never before.

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This week, Z. speaks with The Slocan Ramblers. This fearless, fleet-fingered string band is adventurously advancing the high lonesome sound of southern bluegrass to great acclaim, and not from the swampy states where it‘s known best, but in a lakeside folk hotbed that has become the cosmopolitan music mecca of Canada - Toronto.

Their newest string oddesey - “Queen City Jubilee” - featuring a lovable zombie on its painted cover, was recently nominated for the Canadian equivalent of a Grammy the Juno for traditional roots album, and make sure you stick around to hear each band member doing a musical experiment where Z. asks them to musically respond to a slightly offensive Cards Against Humanity prompt.

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