This week: Rock & Roots featured new music from Something Corporate (Happy), Dawes (Still Strangers Sometimes), Valley (When You Know Someone), St. Vincent (Big Time Nothing), Coldplay (We Pray), Shemekia Copeland (Blame It On Eve), & Kate Pierson (Take Me Back To The Party)!

WUKY contributing listener and Rock & Roots Guest DJ, Janet Whitaker joins Joe Conkwright for lively discussion and a set of Americana Rock that spans the ages with inspiring lyrics and crafty guitar.

This week: Rock & Roots featured new music from Dan Bern (Starting Over), Colin James Featuring Lucinda Williams (Protection), Ruel Thomas (Antarctica), LP Giobbi Featuring Portugal The Man (Bittersweet), Gillian Welch & David Rawlings (Empty Trainload Of Sky), Thee Sacred Souls (Live For You), & Father John Misty (I Guess Time Just Makes Fools Of All Of Us)!

This week: Rock & Roots featured new music from Hippo Campus (Paranoid), Hayden James & Karen Harding (Patience), BBY (Kinky), Paris Pick (Get My Baby Back), Kate Pierson (Evil Love), Billy Joe Armstrong (Black Haired Girl), & Gary Clark Jr. (Habits)!

This week: Rock & Roots featured new music from The Boxmasters (Jayne Mansfield's Car), Art D'Ecco (I Feel Alive), Leslie Mendelson (Rock And Roll On The Radio), Sports Team (I'm In Love (Subaru)), Mat Kearney (Headlights Home), Bobby Rush & The Blind Boys Of Alabama (99 And A Half Won't Do), & Lake Street Dive (Dance With A Stranger)!

Jerry Tipton covered University of Kentucky basketball for the Lexington Herald-Leader for 41 seasons before retiring in 2022. He was known for his straightforward questioning of UK coaches, from Joe B. Hall to John Calipari. Tipton was inducted into the U.S, Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame in 2005, the Marshall University Journalism Hall of Fame in 2018, and the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame in 2020. He has recently written a memoir titled Deja Blue: A Sportswriter Reflects on 41 Seasons of Kentucky Basketball, published by Acclaim Press. In this conversation he tells some entertaining stories about some of his interactions with UK fans, talks about his Sunday Herald Leader "notes" column and plugs his upcoming appearance at this year's Kentucky Book Festival Saturday November 2nd at Joseph Beth Booksellers.

Katerina Stoykova interviews writer Wes Blake about his new novella, Pineville Trace.

University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center expert Nathan Vanderford, Ph.D., recently contributed to a critical national discussion on sustaining and supporting the cancer workforce. As he explains in this week's Dr. Greg Davis on Medicine, Vanderford, an associate professor in the UK College of Medicine’s Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology, director of Markey Cancer Center’s Appalachian Career Training in Oncology Program and assistant director of Markey’s Pathway Programs and Student Success, addressed challenges faced by early-career researchers, issues of diversity in cancer research training and opportunities for supporting researchers’ career paths.

In the fifth episode of Writing Lessons, Silas House has a conversation with New York Times bestselling writer Gwenda Bond about plot and much more.