Megan Gorman, Author and Wealth Management Executive
Southern Americana
Megan Gorman, an attorney and managing partner at Chequers Financial Management, is the author of All the Presidents' Money, an in-depth and engaging examination of how our presidents have managed their financial resources. For the first twelve years of her career, Megan worked for Ayco, a Goldman Sachs company. She also served as Vice President at BNY Mellon Wealth Management before launching her own wealth management firm. As a senior contributor at Forbes, she is a member of the Board of Trustees for the National Endowment for Financial Education. Megan explores the financial acumen...
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Tristan Tritt
Southern Americana
Tristan Tritt is a Georgia-based singer-songwriter forging his own musical path. He comes from a lineage rooted in Americana outlaw music, with his father, Travis Tritt, and sister, Tyler Reese, both achieving their own successes. Growing up alongside his dad, watching him perform with some of country music's biggest hitmakers, Tristan discovered his own style. He found inspiration in the works of artists like Ozzy Osbourne and Stone Temple Pilots. "I refer to my music as 'Y'all-ternative,'" Tristan said. "I'm a huge fan of music. I love country, Southern rock, and outlaw music,...
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Liza Graves, StyleBlueprint CEO
Southern Americana
Liza Graves, along with her husband, Jay, own , one of the South’s best lifestyle websites. The site began as a blog in 2009. Today, StyleBlueprint reaches over 210,000 daily email subscribers with a 55 percent open rate. They also reach over 2.5 million annual readers, focusing on the South's best places, events and lifestyle. We discussed the site's origin and how social media and AI are impacting readership, and what people who enjoy the Southern lifestyle want to learn about. For more podcast episodes and articles, check out
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Flagship Romance
Southern Americana
Flagship Romance is composed of the husband and wife team of Shawn Fisher and Jordyn Jackson. The Louisville, KY based duo has traveled over 300,000 miles delighting fans with their unique Americana mix. I sat down with Shawn and Jordyn at Shack's Art Gallery in Grayton Beach after they performed in Seaside, Florida. Listen to their road stories and how the miles enhance their songwriting and relationships.
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Blackberry Smoke Guitartist's Charlie Starr & Benji Shanks
Southern Americana
Charlie Starr is a founding member of the Atlanta-based southern rock band Blackberry Smoke. Guitarist Benji Shanks joined the band in 2018 as a multi-instrumentalist. In addition to embarking on their new tour, "Rattle, Rumble & Roll," this duo performed at the 2025 30A Songwriters Festival. We sat down in the podcast studio at Shacks Art Gallery in Grayton Beach, FL, to discuss their musical careers and life on the road.
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Richard Turner
Southern Americana
Richard Turner is a founding member of the southern rock group Blackberry Smoke. Together with his brother Brit, their longtime drummer, they joined forces with guitarist and lead vocalist Charlie Starr to form the iconic band, which has been touring since 2000. His bass lines play a crucial role in establishing the band's steady rhythm. In this episode, he discusses growing up in a music-influenced household, how the two brothers started playing together, the formation of Blackberry Smoke, life on the road, and his bass gear. Blackberry Smoke recently embarked on their Rattle, Ramble, and...
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Ben Larsen, Razorbackology
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University of Arkansas alum and founder Ben Larsen is a life-long Arkansas Razorback sports fan. Ben discusses the latest happenings withing the Razorback sports program, along with tailgating suggestions for fans visiting Fayetteville.
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John T. Edge
Southern Americana
John T. Edge is a prolific, award-winning Southern food writer, TV host, Writer-In-Residence at the University of Mississippi, and a visiting professor at the University of Georgia. As a graduate student in 1998, Edge helped organize the Southern Foodways Alliance, an organization he led until an unforeseen and unnecessary controversy motivated him to retire in 2021. Edge is a contributing editor for Garden & Gun magazine and a former New York Times and Oxford American contributor. He also writes and hosts TrueSouth, an SEC Network TV series that...
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Kevin Elliott, the Revitalization of Panama City
Southern Americana
Kevin Elliott fell in love with Panama City, Florida, in the late 1980s as a 13-year-old military transplant. Today, not only does this entrepreneur host one of the Emerald Coast's most successful film festivals, but he's also an ardent supporter and the city's "unofficial ambassador." After spending a couple of decades on the corporate merry-go-round, Kevin exercised his creative energy by founding , a company specializing in commercial film work and documentaries. Concurrently, Kevin saw an opportunity to highlight both Panama City’s downtown and documentary films by co-founding the in...
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Denny Tedesco
Southern Americana
Los Angeles-based Denny Tedesco is an award-winning documentary producer and director. His credits include The Wrecking Crew, which showcases his father, Tommy Tedesco, and the LA session players such as Glen Campbell, Leon Russell, Carol Kaye, Hal Blaine and many others who recorded thousands of hit records and soundtracks from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. Denny's most recent project, Immediate Family (available on Amazon), features the session musicians (Waddy Watchel, Russ Kunkel, Leland Sklar, Danny Kortchmar, Steve Powell) who played for James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Phil Collins,...
info_outlineShelly Fairchild has solidified herself in the Nashville songwriting community, yet the Jackson, Mississippi native has endured her share of ups and downs.
Her debut album, Ride, containing the song "You Don't Lie Here Anymore," introduced fans to her vocal acumen. Outside of her own songwriting and recording, Shelly has sung background vocals for superstars such as Jason Aldean, Martina McBride, Eric Church, and Crystal Gayle.
Having proven she's not afraid to confront and conquer challenging issues, Shelly is a champion for many issues that are near and dear to her heart. You can catch Shelly at the Gulf Coast Jam in Panama City Beach, Florida, on Friday, June 4.
Recorded outside on Lake Powell and near 30A's Emerald Coastline, listen to this episode as Shelly describes her musical and personal successes.