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The Harrisonburg-based alt-country duo Dogwood Tales came by In Your Ear studios in Richmond to play a live set for an audience during Member Appreciation Week at WNRN. Kyle Grim and Ben Ryan, the group’s founders, shared some new songs that were written and recorded throughout the duration of the pandemic.

“25” mourns the death of a close friend at a young age, while still wanting to be grateful for the gift of life. “I just wanna wake up and feel like I’m alive / Cause I’ve got some cousins that didn’t see 25.”

Harrisonburg natives The Steel Wheels played a song from each of their Everyone A Song volumes live at WNRN: “Adventures of Grace and Henry” and “The Healer”. They’re also hosting Red Wing Roots Festival this weekend at the beautiful Natural Chimneys Park!

Bonny Light Horseman (Anais Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson of Fruit Bats, and Josh Kaufman) stopped by In Your Ear Studios to talk with WNRN’s Desiré Moses and play a few tracks. One of which was the studio premiere of their brand new track, “California,” off their new album Rolling Golden Holy, coming out this fall.

Location tends to play a recurring role in the sound of their music, whether it’s the folk of the British Isles or an Eastern German radio station in Berlin. And as its name suggests, “California” is no different.

“I think at the time that we were working on all these songs we had all just kind of left the place that had been our home for a long time,” Kaufman said. “And so there was just the feeling of leaving a place that felt like home with our loved ones and our families. Just kind of out there, wandering a little bit, untethered for the first time in a long time.”

Watch the full In Studio Session down below! Bonny Light Horseman’s new album Rolling Golden Holy is out on October 7 via 37d03d.

Lo Moon performs three songs from their new album, A Modern Life, including the latest single “Expectations,” and lead singer Matt Lowell talks with WNRN’s Desiré Moses about the making of the album in our latest session recorded live at In Your Ear Studio in Richmond.

Photos courtesy of Dave Parrish Photography