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This week: Rock & Roots featured new music from The Swell Season (Great Weight), Josh Ritter (You Won't Dig My Grave), Nation of Language (Inept Apollo), Maia Sharp (Tomboy), Iron & Wine Featuring I'm With Her (Robin's Egg), & Tyler Childers (Nose On The Grindstone)!

This week's episode of the Crunkadelic Funk Show featured music from Kurtis Blow, The Sequence, Evelyn Champagne King, Jody Watley, Debbie Harry, Cameo, Donna Summer, & more!

This week on the Crunkadelic Funk Show we gave love, appreciation, and admiration to one of the foundations, Sly Stone!

This week's episode of the Crunkadelic Funk Show was a tribute to my uncle Steve Jones! Featuring music from Buddy Guy, Kenny Neal, Christone Kingfish Ingram, Bonnie Raitt, Miles Caton, Eric Gales, Myddy Waters, BB King & Tracy Chapman, Luther Allison, & more!

This week: Rock & Roots featured new music from Kurt Vile Featuring Luke Roberts (Classic Love), Gasoline Lollipops (Tennessee Nights), Shame (Cutthroat), Lucius (Joyride), The Rolling Stones & Steve Riley (Zydeco Sont Pas Salés), & Norah Jones & John Legend (Summertime Blue)!

Molly Tuttle stops by WUKY's Rock & Roots and joins host Joe Conkwright.Recorded live on Thursday, August 14, 2025.

Rock and Roots celebrates America's Birthday with a showcase of Americana music and a time capsule of the golden music of 1976. Join Joe Conkwright and John Lee for a listening party on Rock & Roots this weekend - 10 am to 2 pm Friday, and Saturday noon to 5 pm.Only on 91.3 or streaming live @ wuky.org or the free WUKY app.

10 Foot Pole brings the Roots of Lexington Music Scene back to life at the next Tahlsound, Sunday June 28th at the Great Lawn Stage behind Oleika Shriners Temple, 326 Southland Drive.10 Foot Pole and Rebeca Rego join Joe Conkwright for a conversation on Rock & Roots. Recorded June 16, 2026.

Jess Mador comes to WYSO from Knoxville NPR-station WUOT, where she created an interactive multimedia health storytelling project called TruckBeat, one of 15 projects around the country participating in AIR's Localore: #Finding Americainitiative. Before TruckBeat, Jess was an independent public radio journalist based in Minneapolis. She’s also worked as a staff reporter and producer at Minnesota Public Radio in the Twin Cities, and produced audio, video and web stories for a variety of other news outlets, including NPR News, APM, and PBS television stations. She has a Master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York. She loves making documentaries and telling stories at the intersection of journalism, digital and social media.

Ammad Omar oversees coverage of the western United States for NPR and serves as the editorial lead at NPR West in Culver City, California.