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.
A new episode of Roots Music Rambler drops Friday. Singer-songwriter Brandon Good joins the show to talk about his upcoming album, background and more. While most of his music is country-based, he’s a former punk rocker. He talked about his music background with Frank and me.
We also add more experiences from recent concert attendance and a lot more. Download the full episode at RootsMusicRambler.com or wherever you get your podcasts!
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The latest Roots Music Rambler features 60s sounding country star Kimmi Bitter whose new album Old School has been lighting up the Alt Country charts. Bitter hails from San Diego which turns out to be a nice hotbed for Americana and Alt Country trends. She talked about the scene there, but also how she found her voice through years of trial and error.
Hear the full story, a few of Bitter’s songs and a lot more on the latest episode.
Frank and Falls also share experiences from two music festivals and debate the question, “Is listening to an audiobook considered reading?”
Hear the full episode at rootsmusicrambler.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Kimmi Bitter’s album Old School is perhaps one of the best new albums of 2024. The singer-songwriter sat in with Jason Falls and Francesca Folinazzo on Roots Music Rambler this week. Falls had a polite bone to pick with Bitter and offered up the appropriate pronunciation of the word “Appalachia.”
(It’s “apple-atcha”!!!)
Fortunately, she took it as intended and all is well.
Hear the full episode including several clips from the album and more about her path to country music stardom. Get the episode at rootsmusicrambler.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
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The latest episode of Roots Music Rambler is live! Old school country artist Kimmi Bitter joins the show to talk about her aptly titled debut album, also Old School, and its recent rise to prominence in the Americana and Alt Country space. We also asked her who was responsible for her outstanding branding, which conveys a sense of that 1960s country feel. Turns out, she’s a one-woman show!
Hear more plus Frank and Falls recaps of recent music festivals and more. The full episode is live at rootsmusicrambler.com wherever you get your podcasts!
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Kimmi Bitter joins Roots Music Rambler this week to talk about her music, her influences and her style, which turns a lot of heads in the country music space. She dresses the 1960s part to go along with her Patsy Cline-esque sound. And she said that’s not always what people expect.
Frank and Falls also talk music festivals and audiobooks. Dial it up live at rootsmusicrambler.com wherever you get your podcasts!
#kimmibitter #oldschool #60scountry #altcountry #livemusic #folkmusic #rootsmusic #americanamusic #countrymusic #americana #music #singersongwriter #rootsmusicrambler #musicinterviews #musicpodcast
