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Soul Country Season #4
Funky New Orleans percussionist, Joe Gelini, revitalizes Mardi Gras Indian grooves, includes live cutway of Cha Wa. We talk JB, Quincy and funky drummers. Hill Country blues Grammy winner Cedric Burnside plays and talks through the R.L. Burnside legacy, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and sharecropping the land in Soul Country #14, our first in full video! Muscle Shoals swamper Will McFarlane covers five decades of soul, country and R&B in episode thirteen. More Season 4 to come...
Recent seasons brought Country Music Hall of Famer Charlie McCoy on Dylan, Cash, Elvis and Willie Nelson, Ivan Neville on the Stones, Professor Longhair and the Meters, Dean Parks plays Steely Dan licks on a borrowed axe and rising Americana writer Olivia Wolf lights up new takes on the Western sound.
Soul Country serves up a down home slice of Americana appealing to the ears of Classic Rock and Soul fans with a talk-play podcast and highlights format tracking the art of the music. The origin story of the podcast is indie Filmmaker & DJ Ric Stewart’s 30+ year roots music odyssey captured in this doc.Lastest Episodes
Joe Gelini
Drummer, Bandleader and the Funk Soul of Cha Wa
Joe Gelini opens with his story as an 18-year-old Berklee student spotting Quincy Jones at a 1996 New Orleans convention, waiting out the crowd, asking for advice and gets two words back: "Get good." Direct...
Soul Country #15
Airdate Sep 10, 2026
Podcast
24:13
Cedric Burnside
Grammy-Winning Hill Country Blues, R.L. Burnside + 3 Songs
Cedric Burnside grew up kicking up dust at R.L. Burnside's house parties in Mississippi, playing drums in juke joints by age ten. The hill country blues he inherited is unlike anything else in the tradition,...
Soul Country #14
Airdate Aug 15, 2026
Podcast
24:50
Will McFarlane
Muscle Shoals Session Ace on Bonnie Raitt, Etta James and the Fatback Feel
Will McFarlane is one of the great unsung heroes of the Muscle Shoals sound, catch him in Soul Country #13 unpacking five decades of soul, country and R&B from the inside out. Guitarist for Bonnie...
Soul Country #13
Airdate May 12, 2026
Podcast
44:50
Olivia Wolf
Country, Folk, Bluegrass and Twists of The Band
Olivia Wolf brings her soulful blend of country, folk, and bluegrass into Soul Country. She plays a few and tells a few about how she put her band and latest release together. In this episode...
Soul Country #12
Airdate Aug 24, 2025
Podcast
30:14