North Carolina country artist Sarah Shook & The Disarmers released their latest album, Nightroamer, in February. In this episode, hear Sarah talk about being LGTBQ in country music, getting sober, and the first time they met a non-binary person.

Kaitlin Butts is a singer-songwriter from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her latest album, What Else Can She Do, is a collage of different female characters who tackle that question and draw from parts of the country artist's own life.

Jason Scott and the High Heat are an Oklahoma band fronted by singer-songwriter Jason Scott. He grew up Pentecostal and was once a youth and worship pastor. Now as a musician, he is writing songs while his bandmates joke about him once never having heard songs like 'Stairway to Heaven'.

Norman Music Festival is returning this week after two years of a pandemic-spurred hiatus. Hear the festival's executive director talk about planning what she calls the 'best annual party in the state' in about 90 days.

Sun Deep has only been making music for three years. But he has already produced songs for numerous hip hop artists in Oklahoma and is also part of the bilingual hip hop duo Finite Galaxy.

Wilderado's self-titled debut album was largely written in an old church. After a couple of years struggling with writing, singer Max Rainer wrote songs there dealing with his struggles balancing being a father and touring musician.

RC Edwards is probably best known as the bassist for the Turnpike Troubadours. However, this year he put out a new album under the name RC & the Ambers with long time friend Amber Watson and produced by fellow Troubadour Hank Early.

Unwed Sailor is an instrumental rock band based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but also has its roots in the 90s music scene of Seattle, Washington. Johnathon Ford is the bassist and songwriter and lived in the famous music scene with his former band, Roadside Monument.

Oklahoma singer-songwriter Parker Millsap combines new school way of writing songs with an old school style of recording on new album.

Songwriters & Tour Riders features Madeline Kassen, a recent Berklee College of Music grad, who put out her debut album Threnody earlier this year under the moniker Pisha.