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The Weekly Noodle brings you exclusive behind-the-scenes insights to Spaghetti Records releases, straight from the artists! Peak inside the minds and hearts of some of our most creative artists. Throw in some humor from our hosts and the occasional give away/fan exclusive and you have every reason to tune in each Monday for the next installment. Remember...keep it saucy, Noodleheads!
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Interesting, inspiring, original conversations with women we love* about people, politics, fashion, food and more. *(and men, and non-binary people) We’re positive and honest online allies, providing content specifically made by us, for listeners like you. ~ Stay in the loop, join The Pool ~ Sign up to receive our daily email of exclusive stories and get access to our scrapbook, to save and record your favourite items http://bit.ly/signupthepool
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We go track by track through the underbelly of music history using research and trivia to locate the roots of our obsession with vinyl records. Proud part of Pantheon - the podcast network for music lovers.
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Welcome to BATCH, a Bitter Southerner podcast where we dig into the archives and record interviews with the authors of some of your favorite stories. Inside these episodes you’ll hear readings, a lot of laughter and all the tales of how these stories came to life. For 10 years, The Bitter Southerner has shared stories that hopefully move us forward and make the world just a little better. We love bringing these stories to you in audio. BATCH is released in five episode mini-seasons and hoste ...
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Blackwater rivers are the haven of innumerable species, the keepers of our earliest recorded history, and the key to the health of our marshes, islands, and coastlines, but they’re under threat from mining, residential development, and pollution. We speak to Georgia author Taylor Brown about his piece “Ode to Blackwater Rivers” - it’s a love letter…
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Today, we look at the albums and labels that were born to lose money. The artifacts of music industry mischief and copyright chicanery. So, go ahead and file an extension on your common sense. Declare the next hour or three a total loss and adjust your gross. Put your dependents to bed and audit yourself for a stiff drink. This is going to get taxi…
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Animals and robots might seem like strange bedfellows for rock albums, but once you know what you’re looking for, they are hard to miss. There are hundreds of examples of bands who have piped in animal noises for any number of reasons: to provide atmosphere, as a story-song plot device, just to add some insanity, or possibly even something unseemly…
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On today’s episode, we’re casting our line out as far as we can to reel in a history of a music style that is as expansive, deep, majestic, and mysterious as the oceans themselves. Be ready for thrills to your gills and grins to your fins! It’s time to get your snorkel and flippers out of storage and your lures and bobbers out of the tackle box and…
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To shore-living Marylanders, the humble, blue-collar Natural Light is more than just cheap beer. Five years ago, nearly to the day, we published "My Old Friend Natty Light." In her story, Mickie Meinhardt firmly staked the claim that a certain part of Maryland is "the South" while also paying tribute to Ocean City locals and their dogged devotion t…
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Show Notes You can read the full story at the Bitter Southerner’s website. Here’s a link: https://bittersoutherner.com/cooking-country-women-food-nashville It can also be found in our new book Food Stories: writing that stirs the pot, available here: https://bsgeneralstore.com/products/food-stories Credits Hosted by Kyle Tibbs Jones Produced by Rya…
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Show Notes You can read the full story at the Bitter Southerner’s website. Here’s a link: https://bittersoutherner.com/feature/2023/immigrant-spaghetti It can also be found in our new book Food Stories: writing that stirs the pot, available here: https://bsgeneralstore.com/products/food-stories Credits Hosted by Kyle Tibbs Jones Produced by Ryan En…
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This week, in Episode 12, we're laughing, chatting, and reading with Alana Dao, author of "Southern Hustle: Houston Hip-Hop & Chinese Chicken." As we've seen in FX's "The Bear," (big love for that show here at The BS!) the energy and buzz of working in kitchens can show up in someone's DNA. Alana echoes that sentiment as she shares the tale of her …
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In Episode 11 of BATCH, we spend time with the talented and charming Caroline Hatchett, author of the James Beard nominated Bitter Southerner story, “The Elusive Roots of Rosin Potatoes.” Back in 2019, Caroline, a seasoned food writer, began a quest to solve a serious mystery. Bound and determined to uncover the true origin of people cooking potato…
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In this episode of our podcast, we have a special guest, Ben from the band Wine Me Up. We'll be talking to him about their latest single "Hey Girl," a bouncy pop-rock song with ska influences about an unrequited crush and getting out of the friend zone. Ben will be sharing with us the creative process behind the song, including the inspiration for …
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Look out...we're getting funky!! In this edition of the Weekly Noodle, we get deep into the funkiness that is "Pimp Lady" the debut single from Spaghetti Recording artist, Weird Aliens. There's wah-wah, laughs a-plenty....and even some record-scratching thrown in for good measure. Let's take a peek behind the curtain at this funky track! Listen on …
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We have a special treat for this one, sitting down with not only the artist William James to talk about his psychedelic folk piece, "Books and Guns" but mixing engineer Melissa Bell from Sad Monkey Sound who was involved in this remix. We cover the trippy choices in sound design and production as well as intentionally ambiguous yet evocative lyrics…
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Witty wordplay. Piano Rock. And a quarter-life crisis, why not? We dig into the story behind the lyrics and production on this piano pop-rock cut from Red Herring. Listen on to The Climb (Spotify) Website: www.spaghettirecords.org Instagram: www.instagram.com/spaghettirecs TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@spaghettirecs Contact Spaghetti Records DM us @spagh…
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We're back in the studio with singer-songwriter, The BCH, to talk about his heart-rending campfire-style song, Same Side of The Bed. And the whistle solo heard round the Universe. Listen to Same Side of the Bed (Spotify) Website: www.spaghettirecords.org Instagram: www.instagram.com/spaghettirecs TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@spaghettirecs Contact Spaghe…
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We were lucky to sit down with 'ole Cellbock Earl whilst he was out of the slammer to talk about this outlaw country...outlaw's tale of a heartache, prison and....sandwiches. Plus a guest host on this one, Dexter T. Textbooker! Listen to Sandwiches in Prison (Spotify) Website: www.spaghettirecords.org Instagram: www.instagram.com/spaghettirecs TikT…
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We all love that analog sound, but we live in a digital world....can you have both? Owner/Mixer/Producer extraordinaire, Melissa Bell tells us about her studio Sad Monkey Sound where she employs a hybrid approach to making music that combines the best of old & new. While we're at it we get a listen at some of Melissa's fine work with the surf rock-…
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Breakup. Pop-Rock. Ringtones. This one’s got it all. We sit at the table with Red Herring and dive into influences for the song (The Cars, Weezer) Listen to I Hate My Cellphone (Spotify) Website: www.spaghettirecords.org Instagram: www.instagram.com/spaghettirecs TikTok: www.tiktok.com/@spaghettirecs Contact Spaghetti Records DM us @spaghettirecs o…
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This week we dig into the indie folk-rock production "Clippers" with singer-songwriter The BCH. We get into the meaning behind some clever turns of phrase, see how this big production came to life and just have a plain 'ole good time....as always. Listen to Clippers on Spotify Website: www.spaghettirecords.org Instagram: www.instagram.com/spaghetti…
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In Part Two of our chat with the founding fathers of Spaghetti Records, we dig into what it’s like to collaborate on music before and during the pandemic and the joy of finding musical kinship. Plus, we get a sneak peak at a demo of an exciting children’s music group with their lead track “Lucas, My Brother (Best Baby)”. Website: www.spaghettirecor…
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Are you ready to Spaghetti? In this inaugural episode of The Weekly Noodle, we sit down with the founders of Spaghetti Records and find out what makes this group of musicians the most collaborative, eclectic, fun new label around! And while we’re at it we check out one of their fresh releases, the surf-grunge epic “Tide Breaker”. Listen to Tide Bre…
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Today, for our last episode in this BATCH of Earth Stories, we look back at one of the most monumental environmental disasters in American history. While many stories have been written about how New Orleans came back after Katrina, at The Bitter Southerner, we were interested in a deeper question: Why did the people of New Orleans come back and reb…
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In our latest "Earth Stories" episode, Bitter Southerner contributor Jessica Bradley Wells reads her sweet tale, "Where the Tupelo Grows." Since the 1800s (way before Van Morrison's hit "Tupelo Honey" or Peter Fonda starring in "Ulee's Gold,") locals in the panhandle of Florida have been harvesting our rare, sweet, and precious tupelo honey. So put…
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In Episode 8, writer Boyce Upholt notes, “There’s a lot of beauty and joy and wonder in the world. And of all the beautiful places in our country, the Southeastern coast is one of our most beloved and extraordinary.” Oh, how we love our beaches! Unfortunately, our coastlines are now some of the most at risk due to the accelerating impacts of climat…
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In our second BATCH (5 episodes called "Earth Stories"), we're digging into fragile, precious, and sometimes surprising places across the South. In Episode 7, writer Jim Barger reads his piece "The Untold Story of Hibiscus Grandiflorus." Listen as Jim takes us deep into the interior forest of a barrier island, where he witnesses a grove of gigantic…
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in Episode 6, "Okefenokee Heavy & Precious," Janisse Ray almost whispers her cautionary tale. Her voice is mesmerizing, her writing takes our breath away, and the message of her story sets our hearts on fire to save the swamp. Janisse is an acclaimed author and environmental activist whose first book, the memoir Ecology of a Cracker Childhood won t…
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We’re so excited to bring y’all our grand finale for this first BATCH: a conversation with writer and TV host Sheri Castle as she talks us through her piece, “The Seven Essential Southern Dishes.” This is a good one y’all - it’s the Bitter Southerner’s second most read, discussed, shared and argued over story of all time. We’re talking about highly…
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This weekend, the Bitter Southerner is back with a real peach of an episode. If you are listening for the first time, at BATCH, we have our favorites read some favorites. What we mean by that is that we dig around in our archives and record readings of the stories y'all love. In our first batch of episodes, we're sharing some of our most popular fo…
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This weekend, the Bitter Southerner is back with - can you believe it? - the third episode of BATCH! If you are listening for the first time, at BATCH we have our favorites read some favorites. What we mean by that is that we dig around in our archives and record readings of the stories y'all love. In our first batch of episodes, we're sharing some…
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Take a road trip through the Mississippi Delta eating fried olive po'boys, pound cake, tacos and tamales, all served up --- at gas stations. That's right, if you grow up in the South, you know there's some good eating at service stations down two lane highways. From Lula to Leland to Alligator, Mississippi, in Episode 2 of BATCH, Kate Medley shows …
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Finally, The Bitter Southerner returns to your ears, your mind, your heart… with BATCH. Yep, we’re digging into our archives to read and record batches of our favorite stories; the stories you love. In BATCH #1, we focus on food - how we make it, how we feel about it, and in episode #1, how a meal can change or sometimes save a life. Travel with us…
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Finally, The Bitter Southerner returns to your ears, your mind, your heart… with the first episode of our new podcast : BATCH. Yep, we’re digging into our archives to read and record batches of our favorite stories; the stories' you all love. In BATCH #1, we’ll focus on food - how we make it, how we feel about it, and in episode #1, how a meal can …
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From 1963 to 1967 hundreds of songs about the Beatles, but not by the Beatles, were issued by no-name artists on tiny fly-by-night labels. An unimaginable amount of these mop top dedications were simply trying to scrape the bottom of the barrel of Beatlemania Bucks. And while the whole band received an unending amount of adulation from the masses o…
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In this episode, we track the legacy of the music of the grittiest of film styles. Scores of scores that are riddled with bullet holes, whiskey bottles, scattered cards, wanted posters, and bloodstains. Tunes that put a bounty on your mind and will ride you down in the desert. So, saddle up your pony and load your six-gun. Down that bottle and kiss…
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Nobody intentionally builds cathedrals to mediocrity. Music criticism, and really society in general, is often preoccupied with defining, declaring, and debating superlatives by using any means at their disposal, subjective to scientific. Look at the vast array of books, articles, lists, blog posts, and podcasts dedicated to rock’s most important b…
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Bagpipes are a sonorous and ceaseless instrument. Almost comically so. The traditional Scottish Bagpipe is the loudest unamplified instrument known to man. Decibel levels range upwards of 110, which puts them far closer to thunderclaps and power tools than pianos and oboes. And if the deafening sound doesn’t get you, then the constancy of its noise…
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It’s that time of year again, where we get pretty sick of hearing about Christmas. For this, unbelievably, our fourth Christmas episode we are going to carry on the tradition of taking an episode to talk about some of the weirder, smaller stories that we’ve wanted to cover, but wouldn’t fit in with a full-length turntable talk. A veritable cornucop…
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In the early 20th century, a puppet fervor slowly crept across the America, like rust on a Chevy Nova, as travelling shows made puppeteers into full fledge celebrities, particularly the self-proclaimed “America’s Puppet Master” Tony Sarg who was instrumental in creating visually appealing versions of classic children’s tales and bringing to life pu…
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Almost as long as humans have mastered the ability to record the environment around them, they have desired to record the world that is just beyond them. A perfectly logical endeavour, as all recorded music is somewhat supernatural, especially when cocaine and LSD are involved. Recorded sound is by its very nature taken from another place, a distan…
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In this episode we look at how graphic novels are pushing the boundaries of pop music history, bringing new perspectives and fans. Where life imitating art is just as possible as art imitating life. How like the inked pages themselves, the books color their stories to accentuate their ideas and themes. Lighter, darker, more intense, more fanciful, …
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As radio, and eventually television, became a fixture in American homes, a celebrity culture was solidified. With this fascination for the people that we hear and see almost daily, there was a longing to understand them. A striving for connection that lets people feel like they really know who this star is and maybe, one day, that star could know w…
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Night Bus, Late Night Grocery Run, & Pink Motel are microgenres that represent their own experiential sound, where the songs are held together by the atmospheres they invoke rather than a specific set of rules or location in time and space. The music, primarily captured on singles, was created by private press or no name labels with dreams of makin…
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There is an unproductive trope of there being a fine line between genius and madman. Constantly, we are encouraged to believe that the works of “artists in asylums” are somehow this perpetual motion machine where mental illness fuels creativity which, in turn, fractures the creator even more creating a cycle toward an inevitable dark end, where we …
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There is a long history of the unjust treatment of women musicians whose contributions were often overlooked, dismissed, or stolen. Sadly, it’s likely to be a long future as well. This is on the top of the extra effort and persistence that it took to establish themselves in a sexist business that is stacked against female creators and performers. I…
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Ween set forth on a career-long ambition to tear down standard music industry conventions by hook or by crook. To take that which is weird, obnoxious, and unclean, and show it as important as the falsely pristine parts of life. They were never more successful in this endeavor than on their 76 minute slog of a second record, The Pod. Recorded alone …
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Today’s episode is a continuing examination of the strange bedfellows of cults and music. Last time, we discussed some of the more academic reasons why leaders and their minions utilize music to recruit, indoctrinate, isolate, and elevate their group, so today we are going to dive right into the fringiest of the fringe groups. The absurd ashrams. T…
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Cults can manifest themselves in any number of ways. They deal in the currency of human beliefs….religious, political, racist, or terroristic beliefs. And can be delivered in the form of a prophesying doomsday, increasing human potential, or enhancing one’s position using new age techniques, black magic, crystal skulls, anything on Gwyneth Paltrow’…
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