Episode Guide
The Mewz Episode Guide. A running list to the past and current episodes of Mewz. You can find our most recent on Buzzsprout. If you see an episode from the archives you would like to hear again or would like a personal copy of, send us an email. We are open for submission from Kentucky musicians of all genres for airplay on the podcast. Email us at amewzinthemountains@gmail.com Subject Line: Music for Podcast
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The Weird Experimental Pilot Season
Mewz got its start on WSGS radio in 2018. I landed a job in their sales department and came up with and idea for the show. I knew a lot of talented people that no one had ever heard of, but should. I pitched the idea to the station manager and they said if I could pay for it, I could air it.
I found a sponsor and booked my first guest. At this time, I was still going by A Voice in the Mountains, and to generate interest, it was framed as a contest among local talent. I was nervous no one would tune in, and my show would get cut. It aired, and we instructed listeners to go on to our social media and vote for their favorite artist. By weeks end, over one thousand people had engaged with the post. It was evident that people like hearing local music, and supporting it.
I spent a year with WSGS, and when my contract ended, I wanted to take my show to my hometown radio station, and I did. I became part of the team at WJSN, and the show began airing again, still under the name A Voice in the Mountains. New guest, new topics.
The pandemic began amid my time at WJSN, and with everyone working from home, I began thinking about the future of my show. Would there even be live music anymore, seems drastic now but then anything seemed possible. I knew that even if, especially if, people couldn’t see a show or go to a festival, people would still want music. It’s no secret that music and art where the threads that kept society from unraveling during that time.
The experimental season took me to my first ever music festival as the world began to re open. A Different Shade of Blue was a blues festival. I like blues, I got into the blues when I watched Ghost World as a teen and got stuck on “Devil got my women” the bluesy song that drives along the plot line. I went to my first festival as ticket holding fan. No notebooks, not even a thought about MEWZ honestly. I had been on hiatus since my mom and grandmother had passed away in within 6 months of each other 2020. I had dropped out of life until ADSOB, in May of 2021. I felt like a light had gone out in me. And just like that, standing in dark field among a storm of fire flies at Mandolin Farms, the light came back on. The beautiful locations, the atmosphere, the food and of course, the music. All of it was too good to keep to myself…
I had heard about podcast, back then, it wasn’t such a saturated market. So I read up on how to start a podcast, got a mic from the pawnshop, and laid out a rough script.
I had an idea of what I wanted to do: interview and showcase local talent. I had worked in film before radio, and I knew that my ‘show’ would need a production overhaul. If I didn’t work for a radio station anymore, and if I wanted to be taken seriously, I had to establish my own identity as an independent music journalist.
And I changed the name. I never felt like A Voice in the Mountains really rolled off the tongue. I wanted a name that was easy to remember and more relevant to what I was doing on the whole, which was more that just music now. Something that reflected how I worked creatively. Music and Entertainment News. MEWS. But with a Z, so we wouldn’t get lost in the search bar.
Eddie Jenkins
A Different Shade of Blue: Year One
The Venue: Lance Rogers, James Reed, Daniel Cain, Clark Sexton
Steve Middleton: Ruth Hunt Candy Documentary
Mt. Grrl Experience Preview
Elliot Co. Fiddlers Festival
Bryan Combs: That One Show
THE BEARDED MAN SESSIONS: Second Music Festival. I cant remember who invited me, or if I reached out, but I ended up at Bearded Mans Music Festival. I had a notebook, and a list of very generalized questions. I didn’t do any research on anyone and I was nervous. Fortunately, the atmosphere of the first festival was something that seemed to be present where ever music lovers gathered. By the end of the weekend, I had a half dozen new interviews for content, made numerous new contacts and gained a hundred followers on my social media.. Mewz was beginning to grow… and so was I. I didn’t know it yet, but one of these interviews was going to go a long way to establishing myself as ‘legit journalist’.
Brett Noland Band
The JRE
Jen Marie
Cody Lee Meece: This interview in 2021 caught the attention of the producers at WEKU/NPR in Richmond, where it eventually aired in syndication, and planted a seed that would grow into a part time gig as a journalist for NPR…
W.D. Miller
After a rebrand, I continued to cover what I felt was relevant and whatever I could get a press pass to. When you’re a green journalist, a lot of people will mistake you for a roadie trying to score a free ticket. I went to any event that would let me in and introduced myself to everyone who would stop and talk to me, and finished out that experimental first season with these episodes:
Music Review: Moonlight Mile, Kadie Meadows, Manitoba Rock N Rolla
Swift Silver opens for Magnolia Blvd: Green Room Interview; The Burl
Music Review: Kinda Lingers, Aloha Cowboy, Tony Logue
A Kentucky Christmas Playlist
Year in Review/New Years Playlist
Music Review: Morril Tavern, James Overbee, Jen Tackett
Jory Bowling, Charity Gilbert, Murda Man
Special Report: Payola in the Streaming Age
Hannah Wheeler, Tayler Hernley, Spooky Fox
No Deceit, Brando Vonschoyk, DM and the 1601
Gettin Lucky in Kentucky; A Valentines Day Playlist
Aaron Boyde, Salems Crown, Hammer and the Hatchet
Festival Preview Pt 1
Festival Preview Pt 2
Mathew Stallard, Carla Gover
2022 Appalachian Arts and Entertainment Awards; Live Red Carpet
James Overbee : Bowling with Overbee
The Appalachian Artisan Center: Hindman Ky (pre flood)
A Different Shade of Blue: Year Two; The Jam Sessions
Appy’s reviews/ interviews: 2022 Coverage
A Different Shade of Blue Live: Wicked Peace
ADSOB Live: Elijah B Miller
Queen City Records Visit: Hazard Ky ( now closed)
Interview: Phill Bradbury: Inventor and founder of Little Walter Amps
Venue Live: The Pitthouse: Donnie Bowling, Brett Higgins, Ireland Owens and special guest
Interview: David and Theresa Prince; Laid Back Country Picker and Honey on music festivals, and the importance of music education
Interview: No Deceit (Festival of the Red 22)
Breakfast with the Hammer & the Hatchet
Interviews: Cody Lee Moomey, Kadie Didit, Wes Shipp (FOTR 22′)
Int: D. Boone Pittman
ASMR: Ky Rainstorm with Frog in summer
New Release: Moonlight Mile
Int: Shelby Lore Band (FOTR 22′)
Int: FOTR Headliners: The Josephines
Int: Ducain (FOTR 22′)
Int: Them Lasses
Int: Joel Pett : Pulitzer Prize Winning Political Cartoonist for the Lexington Herald Leader (formerly) discusses his controversial flood cartoon.
Thanks Given Playlist
Int: Isaac Denton Art: The artist first ever podcast interview
* Album Release and Interview: Manitoba Rock N Rolla
* Int: Eric Bolander makes us cry.
Festival of the Red 23′ Singer Songwriters + EPK’s : April Edwards from Dreamland Entertainment tells us how to put together and EPK that can get you booked.
New Release: SadBlackLab interview and album preview.
New Release: Lance Rogers “Too Late for Flowers” Interview and preview of new album on the eve of its release.
New Release: Atomic Midnight EP: Heightened State
Mewz Special Interview: Dr. Craig Wright, Yale University: How we listen to music
New Release: Elvie Shane Album: Damascus
New Release: Van Winkle & The Spirits
Mewz Special Report: Local restaurants and farmers markets are closing gap in food supply chain
Interview: John Grace; Laurel Cove Music Festival/ Ali Blair; Rebel Rebel Studio & Lounge : Local Music: Hannah Mea Rector, Home Grown Head, Sean Whiting and the Big Badness, Julian Wolf, The Sweetspires
A Mewz in the Mountains 