Browan Lollar is the guitar player for Birmingham’s St. Paul and the Broken Bones. Before that, he played guitar for several years with Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit. We sit down and speak with Lollar about his musical journey and how it helped him discover his talent for painting, which has been used on album covers.

Both drawn to the powerful storytelling of music, Rob and Jen Slocum made their home in Opelika after a chance meeting in Houston set them on a path of love, marriage, and traveling the world as a duo in their folk-rock band Martha’s Troubles. From concerts to studio recordings, a monthly supper club, and the Opelika Songwriters’ Festival, find out about everything they do for their local music scene and beyond in this episode of Notes from Home. 

Bobby Horton’s musical career has run the gamut from his gig of more than 50 years with the Alabama band Three on a String, to scoring music for documentaries from acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns, to becoming a music historian. Find out if he’s still having fun and what’s next for him.

We sit down with two stars from Birmingham Mountain Radio to discuss how radio is still going strong. Scott Register – Reg as most know him – has hosted “Reg’s Coffeehouse” for more than a quarter of a century. Will Lochamy, together with his brother, Reed, brought their “Oh Brother” podcast to Birmingham Mountain Radio when it launched in 2010. For the past six years, Reg and Will have co-hosted “The Morning Blend” on the station. 

Jada Cato is a Georgia native who studied theater at Birmingham-Southern College but has her sights set on a career in country music. She describes herself as “a proud country music storyteller” and has big dreams and plans for the future, including a debut album and a video blog series.

Gil Anthony has spent his life preserving and spreading the blues. As a founder of the Wiregrass Blues Festival and host of the radio show Blues Power, Gil sits down and speaks to us about what the blues has meant to him and his mission to make sure Alabama native Big Mama Thornton gets her due.

The Blips are a Birmingham supergroup composed of well-known musicians from the Magic City’s music scene. We sit down with two of the members, Eric Wallace and Taylor Hollingsworth, to learn what happens when five front men come together to form a band

Mark Kelly will tell you his only skill is writing, and it’s taken him to some pretty, cool places as a journalist, author and songwriter. In this episode, he shares how his band, The Burnells, formed, what influences his lyrics and how recording their upcoming album at Wishbone Recording Studio in legendary Muscle Shoals came to be.