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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Preeminent banjo player Bill Emerson & fiddle player Wally Hughes stopped by WTIP's The Roadhouse recently to chat and play some foot-tappin' tunes...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 31:22
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WTIP's Bob Carter chatted recently with Alice Coffey, 18-year veteran of the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line, about common turkey questions, tips and p...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2012
  • Length: 09:09
  • Purchases: 2
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WTIP's Buck Benson talked recently with J. Drake Hamilton, science policy director at Fresh Energy, and Lonnie Dupre, polar explorer. They discusse...

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  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 25:19
  • Purchases: 1
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WTIP's Buck Benson spoke recently with Dr. Elena Bodnar, founder & president of the Trauma Risk Management Research Institute in Chicago, about her...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 21:16
  • Purchases: 1
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WTIP's Matthew Brown & Ann Possis welcomed Duluth singer-songwriters Bill & Kate Isles to the studio recently. They chatted, played & sang original...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 39:00
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WTIP's Ann Possis chatted with author Mary Casanova recently about her newest book, "Frozen," from the U of MN Press. Set in the beautiful, wild ar...

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  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 18:37
  • Purchases: 1
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WTIP's Bob Carter visited recently with Steve Glischinski, author of "Minnesota Railroads: A Photographic History, 1940-2012," from the U of MN Pre...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 19:13
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Otters are painting at the Great Lakes Aquarium! WTIP's Bob Carter chatted recently with Tara Lieberg, otter keeper at the aquarium in Duluth, abou...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 15:38
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Mary Bue, Duluth singer/songwriter, visited WTIP in Grand Marais with her keyboard to chat and play original songs on The Roadhouse. She was joined...

  • Added: Oct 11, 2012
  • Length: 23:09
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Buck Benson & Dave Seaton of WTIP welcomed local musician Barbara Jean to Studio A Sept. 28, fresh from her Mountain Stage performance and release ...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2012
  • Length: 31:37
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Jody Allen Crowe, longtime educator and founder of Healthy Brains for Children, joined Buck Benson of WTIP recently to talk about the prevalence of...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2012
  • Length: 20:58
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Laura Erickson, producer of the radio spot "For the Birds," and Betsy Bowen, woodcut printmaker and painter, joined WTIP's Bob Carter Sept. 21 to t...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2012
  • Length: 19:28
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Dr. Timothy Lineberry, Mayo Clinic psychiatrist & suicide expert for the Army, spoke recently with WTIP's Bob Carter about the alarming increase in...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2012
  • Length: 17:07
Caption: Brad Herried capturing Google Street View imagery at the South Pole November 2011., Credit: courtesy Polar Geospatial Center
Brad Herried, cartographer & web developer at the U of MN Polar Geospatial Center, chatted with Buck Benson of WTIP recently about a new joint proj...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 14:41
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Educator David Marshak visited with WTIP's Bob Carter Aug. 31 and makes a compelling argument for keeping kids with the same teacher longer than on...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2012
  • Length: 19:41
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Dealing effectively with the threat posed by terrorism is the defining issue confronting the American military, the Department of Homeland Security...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2012
  • Length: 18:02
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Playing for Change co-founder and Grammy award winning sound engineer Mark Johnson talks about the project he created to connect people all over th...

  • Added: Jun 19, 2012
  • Length: 19:58
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MPR meteorologist Paul Huttner visited Grand Marais, Minn., recently, stopping by the WTIP studios to talk with The Roadhouse host Buck Benson abou...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2012
  • Length: 26:49
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently released a report on the growing domestic use of unmanned aircraft for surveillance. Chuck Samue...

  • Added: Aug 02, 2012
  • Length: 27:44
Caption: 1954 Aerocar, Credit: courtesy Golden Wings Museum
Greg Herrick, president of the Aviation Foundation of America and aviation buff, is the proud owner of a rare 1954 Aerocar (yes, a car with wings)...

  • Added: Aug 24, 2012
  • Length: 23:15