Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the Delta Roots Radio Hour will launch as a weekly 30-minute web series on www.wdsw.org, the home page of WDSW 88.1 The Trail. The radio show is produced by Big Front Porch Productions in the studios of WDSW 88.1 The Trail, on the campus of Delta State University, broadcasting locally and streaming worldwide. The Delta Roots Radio Hour […]
Jeff McCreary is a singer-songwriter from the Delta town of Cleveland, Mississippi. McCreary’s music is the wry, hard-earned expression of life and time in the mystic region famously described as “the most Southern place on earth.” Inspired by Dylan’s music, as well as Texas songwriter Townes Van Zandt, he began to write his own songs, […]
Deep Roots is proud to partner for the upcoming 17th season with the Cleveland MS Farmer’s Market! Come enjoy stories and songs by Cleveland's Music Ambassador, award-winning singer/songwriter Tricia Walker!
Deep Roots is proud to partner for the upcoming 17th season with the Cleveland MS Farmer’s Market! Come enjoy the Americana/country sounds of singer/songwriter Mississippi Mason Honnoll!
The CUZ Band is a high-energy blues/R&B/soul band based in the Mississippi Delta and operating with one goal in mind: to please the people while having fun! The group has shared the stage with GRAMMY® Award and Blues Music Award winners and nominees Bobby Rush and Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, and the foot-stomping beat of their […]
Deep Roots is proud to partner for the upcoming 17th season with the Cleveland MS Farmer’s Market! Come enjoy the Americana/folk sounds of Cleveland's own John Prine, singer/songwriter Jeff McCreary!
Tricia Walker is a singer and songwriter whose songs have been recorded by Faith Hill, Patty Loveless and Alison Krauss, whose performance of Tricia’s Looking in the Eyes of Love earned a GRAMMY® award. A recording artist herself, Tricia has released eight studio recordings in multiple styles. Tricia moved to Nashville where she worked as […]
Jeff McCreary is a singer-songwriter from the Delta town of Cleveland, Mississippi. McCreary’s music is the wry, hard-earned expression of life and time in the mystic region famously described as “the most Southern place on earth.” Inspired by Dylan’s music, as well as Texas songwriter Townes Van Zandt, he began to write his own songs, […]
The Delta String Band is best described as an Americana band. They play a variety of styles, from folk and bluegrass to straight-up country. With influences like bluegrass great Ralph Stanley, folk master John Prine, pure country kings Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings, and even genre-fusing groups like the Grateful Dead, they bring their own […]
Delta singer/songwriter Jon Byrd brings country favorites and original songs to this week's Deep Roots show! Jon's musical interests began when his grandfather bought him a drum set, and Jon started singing and playing along to Country music videos on CMT. George Strait was his main influence along with Alan Jackson, Brooks and Dunn and […]