The Roadhouse

Series produced by WTIP

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Image by: courtesy Buck Benson 

The Roadhouse is an interview and music program that airs live every Friday from 5 to 7 p.m. to kick off the weekend.

WTIP's The Roadhoue is two hours packed with insightful interviews, weekend happenings, local features and toe-tapping music. You never know quite what to expect on the Roadhouse! Funding is provided in part by the MN Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.


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Three friends from Northland College, Andy Butter, Evan Flom, and Allissa Stutte, set out to run all the way around Lake Superior this summer. The ...

  • Added: Oct 05, 2016
  • Length: 18:54
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Folk/roots/blues powerhouse Chastity Brown stopped by WTIP's The Roadhouse recently with her guitarist, Robert Mulrennan, to play and discuss her ...

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  • Added: Sep 28, 2016
  • Length: 26:04
  • Purchases: 1
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Prof. John Green is a retired geology professor from UMD whose specialty is the geology of the Arrowhead region. He stopped in to chat with WTIP's ...

  • Added: Sep 28, 2016
  • Length: 13:15
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Cook County faves Bughouse! (Al Oikari, piano & slide guitar; Rod Dockan, guitar; John Mianowski, bass) were joined in Studio A by Nashville singer...

  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 43:48
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Hovland duo Jim and Michele Miller stopped by WTIP's The Roadhouse to share their beautiful harmonies on both cover and original tunes.

  • Added: Sep 20, 2016
  • Length: 27:34
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The Sutter Brothers (Bart and Ross Sutter) blend Bart's poems and stories with Ross's music from the Scandinavian, Celtic, and American folk tradit...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2016
  • Length: 13:35
Caption: Molly Dean, l., and Barbara Jean, Dusty Heart
Twin Cities-based songwriters Barbara Jean and Molly Dean make up the recently-formed duo, Dusty Heart. They stopped by WTIP's The Roadhouse on the...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2016
  • Length: 32:19
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We've all heard the Earth is running out of water... but how is that measured? Is there a better way to gauge water scarcity? Dr. Kate Brauman thin...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2016
  • Length: 19:12
  • Purchases: 1
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The Thunderheads, Minneapolis blues/rock/jam band, joined WTIP's Dave TerSteeg and Dick Swanson for great music in Studio A.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2016
  • Length: 41:07
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Aug. 25 marked the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service. WTIP's Dick Swanson spoke with Professor Michael Tarrant, who believes the parks...

  • Added: Aug 29, 2016
  • Length: 21:42
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Favorite Cook County blues guitarist Pete Kavanaugh stopped by the WTIP studios to share a great mix of originals and covers.

  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 34:11
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Tim McDonnell grew up on the edge of the Boundary Waters and has been writing about wilderness for years. He joined WTIP's Dick Swanson to talk abo...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 19:35
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The basic idea of the circular economy is that in production, nothing should be wasted, and everything at the end of its life should be made into s...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 14:00
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Musician Jim McGowan brought his guitar to WTIP's Studio A last week for delightful music and fun chatter. You can often hear him at Cascade Lodge ...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2016
  • Length: 34:26
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Four young women set out from Seagull Lake May 29 to canoe to Hudson Bay. Called Journey 4 Renewal, the trip was a fundraiser for Wilderness Canoe ...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2016
  • Length: 18:28
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Population growth won't be the only reason for increased food demand in the years ahead--the changing diets of the world's growing middle class, fr...

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  • Added: Aug 16, 2016
  • Length: 20:14
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: baby Weddell seal, Credit: Samuel Blanc, Wikimedia Commons
You can count seals in Antarctica, right from your couch, via satellite images. Dr. Michelle LaRue is a research ecologist at the U of MN Departmen...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2016
  • Length: 15:18
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Perseid meteor showers peak the week of Aug. 8...and best overnight Thursday night.Bob King chatted with WTIP's Dave TerSteeg about when and where ...

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  • Added: Aug 09, 2016
  • Length: 12:45
  • Purchases: 2
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What do those labels on 'ecofriendly' products really mean? WTIP's Dave TerSteeg chatted with Dr. Tim Smith of the U of MN Institute on the Environ...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2016
  • Length: 20:56
Caption: World's Best Donuts, Grand Marais, Minn.
Everybody loves Grand Marais' World's Best Donuts--so WTIP's Julie Carlson invited second- and third-generation donut makers Dee Brazell and Stacey...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2016
  • Length: 23:54