"The Songbirds Radio Hour" is a music-and-interview show recorded in front of a live audience at the Songbirds Guitar & Pop Culture Museum in downtown Chattanooga.
Each episode covers a different theme — and how it intertwines with music, from racism and civil rights to the legacy of Southern rock, women in punk, regional music history, gender identity and much more.
The show features regional and national celebrities — from authors and journalists to musicians, producers and others involved in the music industry — in a Q&A-style format, along with music from a regional or national band.
Free tickets for recordings of "The Songbirds Radio Hour" are available online only at the Songbirds website: songbirdsfoundation.org. Space is limited to 75 guests.
Proceeds from beverages served support Songbirds’ Guitars for Kids program - which gives free guitars, lessons, and music therapy to children throughout the South.
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(Aired 1/14/23) In 1972, a little-known Memphis band named Big Star released its first album, "#1 Record." Join us as we celebrate the album's 50th anniversary - and talk to our special guest, Jody Stephens from Big Star, who also performs a short set with our house band, Zowie and The Vanguard. -
(Aired 12/10/22) Simon Tam - author, musician, activist, and self-proclaimed troublemaker - is best known as the founder and bassist of The Slants, the world’s first and only all-Asian American dance rock band. Listen to Simon - and the group's first performance since 2019.
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(Aired 11/12/2022) CBGBs and the 1970s New York City's punk scene are the stuff of legends - and right in the mix of it all was the band Television. Join us as we interview Television's co-founding member and guitarist Richard Lloyd about his time at CBGB's - and more.
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(From 10/24/2022) John Dooley and Charlie Moss chat with singer-songwriter Paul Thorn on "Make Music Happen," a podcast from the Songbirds Guitar and Pop Culture Museum in downtown Chattanooga.
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(From 9/22/2022) John Dooley and Charlie Moss chat with singer-songwriter Amanda Shires on "Make Music Happen," a podcast from the Songbirds Guitar and Pop Culture Museum in downtown Chattanooga.
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(Aired 10/08/2022) The inaugural episode of “The Songbirds Radio Hour” focuses on Chattanooga's famous 9th Street - now known as Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard - and how the thriving Black community helped shape the music career of legendary blues singer Bessie Smith.
