Aaron Kelly on keeping a band together
Leading a band means more than giving orders. @aaronkelly talks about what he learned with Overman: everybody needs a purpose, room to…
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Author: Frank & Falls
Chicagoan Francesca Folinazzo (Frank) founded Roots Music Rambler as a music and travel blog in a pre-pandemic world. COVID killed events and travel plus her desire to play her banjo. Falls texted her in 2023 and said, 'Let's bring it back as a podcast!' He was raised on John Prine, babysat on Waylon Jennings and taught to drink and cuss the proper, mountain way. He hails from Pikeville, Ky., the birthplace of Dwight Yoakum, whose annual festival is Hillbilly Days.
Aaron Kelly turned his biology final into a song
A boring PowerPoint wasn’t working, so @aaronkelly wrote a song about evolution for his biology final. He got a 97. The three…
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How Aaron Kelly’s dog inspired Secret Science
@aaronkelly’s dog Banjo had a lot of questions for a pair of secondhand pants. That sniffing session got Aaron thinking about “doggy…
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Aaron Kelly and Helen the cow
Helen the Jersey cow spent her early years surrounded by goats. Meeting a whole herd of cows took some getting used to.…
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The Goodwill CD that led Aaron Kelly to John Prine
One secondhand CD sent @aaronkelly down a John Prine rabbit hole. Then the first album stopped him in his tracks: songs he…
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