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)!

The blues world lost a giant with John Mayall's passing...Here is a special episode of Joe's Blues - originally broadcast 04/24, 2014.

The Tahlsound Concert Series presents The 2024 Lexington Reggae Fest, Sunday, July 28th.

This week: Rock & Roots featured new music from The Vindys (Elton Glasses Baby), Suki Waterhouse (Supersad), Futurebirds (Solitaires), Sierra Spirit (Ghost), MJ Lenderman (She's Leaving You), Orville Peck & Beck (Death Valley High), & Shemekia Copeland (Tough Mother)!

250 Lex's theme for March is higher education and Lex Talk History is doing its part to highlight our rich history of colleges and universities. Alan and Mandy welcome historian Andrew Patrick for an overview. They also talk about the latest museum happenings, give an update on the StoryCorps project currently set up in Woodland Park through April 14th, and preview 250 Lex's College Town Showcase coming this weekend to the campuses of Blue Grass Community and Technical College, Transylvania University and the University of Kentucky.

It is estimated that more than 14,000 women in the United States suffer from cervical cancer each year. Kentucky has a higher cervical cancer burden than most states, with an incidence rate of 9.6 cases per 100,000 women. Many of those cases were preventable, according to this week's guest, Charles S. Dietrich III, M.D., a gynecologic oncologist at the UK Markey Cancer Center.

For three quarters of a century the month of March in Kentucky has been tournament time with hoops fever reaching a near fever pitch. And if you're wondering why UK Basketball is sometimes considered an official religion, we submit this audio as exhibit A. In this special episode of WUKY's Saving Stories, UK Nunn Center director Dr. Doug Boyd and Deirdre Scaggs, associate dean and head of Special Collections, join Alan Lytle to re-live one of the most dramatic moments in UK Basketball history called by the legendary sports broadcaster Claude Sullivan; a thrilling triple overtime win over Temple University in Memorial Coliseum. All made possible by the recently deceased Hall of Famer Vernon Hatton who hit THE SHOT. RIP Mr. Hatton.

Oliver Simmons was a member of Kentucky’s national championship team of 1996. He was recruited to UK by coach Rick Pitino after a high school career in which he was named Tennessee’s Mr. Basketball in 1994 and 1995. Simmons and other reserves worked their way through the same difficult Pitino practices and training as the stars who saw most of the playing time. The roster contained nine future NBA players, including current UK coach Mark Pope. Early in his sophomore season, Simmons transferred to Florida State, where he played for two and a half years and started a total of 47 games for the Seminoles. Simmons has had a long career in teaching and coaching. He and his family live in Stewartville, Minnesota, but he keeps up with the Wildcats and has some great memories of his time at UK. Here, he talks about the experience of being on a championship team and his long-standing relationships with his teammates, as well as some of the challenges of being part of the UK program in that era.