Air Studio

Comprised of members of The Radiators, The Neville Brothers, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, James Brown's band, and more, The New Orleans Suspects are one of the hottest new acts out of The Crescent City of late.  They also laid down one of the hottest cuts on our latest "Crowd Around the Mic"!  They play Charlotte Thursday and Asheville Friday, and visit with Roland Friday afternoon. 

Playing Asheville Wednesday evening in support of his 12th studio album, Chris Smither returns to WNCW, this time to visit with Joe Kendrick in our Air Studio.  His finger-picked folk-blues, "cosmic blues" as he calls it, is part of that quintessential WNCW sound here.  He's a great storyteller too, as you'll hear. 

Raised in the Midwest on the blues of Howlin' Wolf and Robert Johnson as well as folks like Van Morrison and Leonard Cohen, Cory Chisel is one of those new singer/songwriters with an old soul -- the kind we love here at WNCW. 

Cory visits with Stina Sieg just past 1pm before he and The Wandering Sons play Asheville Friday night.

He was born in San Antonio, but has been one of Austin's favorite sons for many years now.  Raised on jazz, Latin, and early rock, he fell head over heels for the punk scene.   It's always a treat when Alejandro Escovedo plays in the WNCW area, and Roland Dierauf will visit with him in the 3 O'clock hour on Monday.  He performs in Asheville Tuesday night.