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Beyond a Song (Series)

Produced by ISOAS Media

Most recent piece in this series:

Beyond a Song: Ed Snodderly (Part 2)

From ISOAS Media | Part of the Beyond a Song series | 01:00:00

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ED SNODDERLY (Part 2): PUBLISHED ON PRX 5/ 13 / 2023 - BEYOND A SONG originates in BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA and is sponsored by: THE BLUEBIRD NIGHTCLUBREAL TO REELS RECORDING STUDIO, AND VISITBLOOMINGTON.COM.

Beyond a Song host Rich Reardin talks with Tennessee singer/songwriter Ed Snodderly. Ed Snodderly is a songwriter, singer and guitar picker, following in the footsteps of songsters as varied as A. P. Carter to Riley Puckett to Ray Davies. His songs beat with a strong sense of place and the heart of them is a fresh, creative twist to the listener’s ear. Combining outstanding musicianship with storytelling, the performances feel familiar, yet enlightening; like old ropes that pull the bells to ring. “The charts call it Folk/Americana. I feel it as American Southern music; could be New Hillbilly.”

His upbringing was in the mountains of East Tennessee, where roads twist and the valleys open to the four-lanes rolling all the way to Nashville. Ed’s lyrics feel like a cross-pollination with those old mountain roads, radio station songs, and voices on small-town street corners. ”I consider some of my songs a giving-back to my culture. I appreciate the being raised in and the being part of a special place and time. I stay inspired to write and sing my views to this modern world.”

In 2020 Ed was awarded a lifetime achievement award, presented to him from SERFA (Southern Region Of Folk Alliance) for his contributions to southern folk music. 

Musical selections include:  ED SNODDERLY (Part 1)PUBLISHED ON PRX 5/ 6 / 2023 - BEYOND A SONG originates in BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA and is sponsored by: THE BLUEBIRD NIGHTCLUBREAL TO REELS RECORDING STUDIO, AND VISITBLOOMINGTON.COM.

Beyond a Song host Rich Reardin talks with Tennessee singer/songwriter Ed Snodderly. Ed Snodderly is a songwriter, singer and guitar picker, following in the footsteps of songsters as varied as A. P. Carter to Riley Puckett to Ray Davies. His songs beat with a strong sense of place and the heart of them is a fresh, creative twist to the listener’s ear. Combining outstanding musicianship with storytelling, the performances feel familiar, yet enlightening; like old ropes that pull the bells to ring. “The charts call it Folk/Americana. I feel it as American Southern music; could be New Hillbilly.”

His upbringing was in the mountains of East Tennessee, where roads twist and the valleys open to the four-lanes rolling all the way to Nashville. Ed’s lyrics feel like a cross-pollination with those old mountain roads, radio station songs, and voices on small-town street corners. ”I consider some of my songs a giving-back to my culture. I appreciate the being raised in and the being part of a special place and time. I stay inspired to write and sing my views to this modern world.”

In 2020 Ed was awarded a lifetime achievement award, presented to him from SERFA (Southern Region Of Folk Alliance) for his contributions to southern folk music. 

Musical selections include:  ED SNODDERLY (Part 1)PUBLISHED ON PRX 5/ 6 / 2023 - BEYOND A SONG originates in BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA and is sponsored by: THE BLUEBIRD NIGHTCLUBREAL TO REELS RECORDING STUDIO, AND VISITBLOOMINGTON.COM.

Beyond a Song host Rich Reardin talks with Tennessee singer/songwriter Ed Snodderly. Ed Snodderly is a songwriter, singer and guitar picker, following in the footsteps of songsters as varied as A. P. Carter to Riley Puckett to Ray Davies. His songs beat with a strong sense of place and the heart of them is a fresh, creative twist to the listener’s ear. Combining outstanding musicianship with storytelling, the performances feel familiar, yet enlightening; like old ropes that pull the bells to ring. “The charts call it Folk/Americana. I feel it as American Southern music; could be New Hillbilly.”

His upbringing was in the mountains of East Tennessee, where roads twist and the valleys open to the four-lanes rolling all the way to Nashville. Ed’s lyrics feel like a cross-pollination with those old mountain roads, radio station songs, and voices on small-town street corners. ”I consider some of my songs a giving-back to my culture. I appreciate the being raised in and the being part of a special place and time. I stay inspired to write and sing my views to this modern world.”

In 2020 Ed was awarded a lifetime achievement award, presented to him from SERFA (Southern Region Of Folk Alliance) for his contributions to southern folk music. 

Musical selections include:  Jump Dance South, Chimney Smoke, Barn, Better Just Ride The Mule, The Diamond Stream, Nail, Walking in the Sunshine Again, Gone with Gone and Long Time.

For more information, visit BEYOND A SONG.COM

The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel (Series)

Produced by Chuck Wolfe

Most recent piece in this series:

Emotion Roadmap 5 3 23 How to Deal with Current Emotionally Challenging Events

From Chuck Wolfe | Part of the The Emotion Roadmap: Take the Wheel & Control How You Feel series | 49:03

Charles_j The show includes ways to use the Emotion Roadmap to deal with current challenging issues including, gender, pronouns, politics, resilience in children, being better with loved ones, and death with dignity or medically assisted suicide. Lots of favorable feedback on the topics covered from listeners.

A Way with Words (Series)

Produced by A Way with Words

Most recent piece in this series:

Up Your Alley (#1504)

From A Way with Words | Part of the A Way with Words series | 54:00

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The slang term birdie refers to drinking from a bottle without touching it with your lips. You might ask for a sip, for example, by promising Don't worry--I'll birdie it. This sanitary sipping method is also jokingly called waterfalling.
A listener in Southampton, New York, puzzles over the language at the end of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan, in which the narrator assures that the story will continue so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless. What does heartless mean in this context?
If you're a pegan, then your diet is limited to a combination of paleo and vegan.
Judy from Tallahassee, Florida, is curious about the word spendthrift, which means someone who spends money freely. The word thrift in this case means wealth, and is the past participle of thrive. A more obvious word that means the same thing: spendall. Another is dingthrift, someone who dings, or makes a dent in, their savings.
The term cultural cringe refers to a tendency to regard one's own culture as inferior to that of another.
Quiz Guy John Chaneski's shares Writer's Math, a puzzle in which the names of numbers hidden within consecutive letters in a sentence. For example, what number lurks in the sentence Launch yourself on every wave?
Alice in Atlanta, Georgia, seeks a term for an adult who has lost both their parents. The best that English can offer is probably adult orphan or elder orphan.    
Vice is a noun meaning bad behavior, but it's also an adjective referring to an official who is second in command.  Karen, a seventh-and-eighth-grade history teacher in Waco, Texas, says her students wonder why. These two senses of vice come from two separate Latin words: vice, meaning in place of, and vitium, meaning fault or blemish. The two English descendants of these words ended up being spelled exactly the same way, even though they mean completely different things.
The little-used word famulus means assistant, and originally referred to the assistant of a sorcerer or scholar.
Rod in LaPorte, Indiana, has Welsh ancestry, and always wondered if the expressions to welsh on a bet suggests that the Welsh are dishonest. The verb to welsh and the noun welsher are  indeed mild ethnic slurs. To welsh dates back to at least the 1850s, and because it may offend, should be replaced by other words such as renege, waffle, or flip-flop. Similarly, taffy, another old word for the Welsh, long carried similar connotations of being a habitual liar and cheater.
Chandler from Chesapeake, Virginia, wonder about a term her in-laws use to mean in abundance, as in We have strawberries up the gump stump. The expression seems to have evolved from an earlier phrase possum up a gum tree or possum up a gum stump, referring to a hunted animal that's trapped. Over time, it became the rhyming phrase up a gump stump, and like the phrase up the wazoo, came to mean in abundance.
Book recommendation time! Martha's reading Dictionary Stories by Jez Burrows, short stories based on example sentences from dictionaries, and Grant recommends Julia Durango's The Leveler, a techno-thriller for teens about virtual worlds.
Named for anesthesiologist Dr. Virginia Apgar, the Apgar score--a measure of a newborn's appearance, pulse, grimace, activity, and respiration--is both an eponym and an acronym.
Publishers use the term up lit to describe contemporary novels with an upbeat message focusing on kindness and empathy.
Shawn, who lives in Washington State, is used to hearing the phrase right up your alley to describe something that's particularly fitting for someone. Then she heard a British vlogger use the phrase right up your street in the same way. Since the early 1900s, the phrases right up one's alley, or right down one's alley, or the more old-fashioned in one's street, all mean pretty much the same thing. Both up one's alley and up one's street suggest the idea of a place that's quite familiar. In its original sense, alley meant a wide space lined with trees, deriving from the French alee.
Publishers use the term up lit to describe contemporary novels with an upbeat message focusing on kindness and empathy.
To have one's work cut out comes from an earlier phrase to have all one's work cut out. Picture a tailor who's working as fast as possible with the help of an assistant who's cutting out the pieces to be sewn. If you have your work cut out for you, you have a big job ahead, with a series of smaller tasks coming at you thick and fast.
A cabochon is a convex gem or bead that's highly polished but not faceted. 
Scott from Copper Canyon, Texas, wonders about a expression he heard from his childhood in the Deep South: neat but not gaudy. He understood it to mean appropriate, but not over the top. The expression goes back to 1600s and has many variations. Early versions and elaborations included as Neat but not gaudy, said the devil when he painted his tail pea-green, or Neat but not gaudy, said the devil when he tied up his tail with a red ribbon. Sometimes the artistic creature was a monkey.
Twitter user @crookedroads770 observed that his two-year-old son referred to an owl as a wood penguin. 
This episode is hosted by Martha Barnette and Grant Barrett, and produced by Stefanie Levine.