Holly Gleason

Listen to "Holly Gleason Woman Walk The Line" on Spreaker. Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift-these artists provided pivot points, truths, and doses of courage for women writers at every stage of their lives. Whether it's Rosanne Cash eulogizing June Carter Cash or a seventeen-year-old Taylor Swift considering the golden glimmer of another precocious superstar, Brenda Lee, it's the humanity beneath the music that resonates. Here are deeply personal essays from award-winning writers on femme fatales, feminists, groundbreakers, and truth tellers. Acclaimed historian Holly George Warren captures the spark of the rockabilly sensation Wanda Jackson; Entertainment Weekly's Madison Vain considers Loretta Lynn's girl-power anthem "The Pill"; and rocker Grace Potter embraces Linda Ronstadt's unabashed visual and musical influence. Patty Griffin acts like a balm on a post-9/11 survivor on the run; Emmylou Harris offers a gateway through paralyzing grief; and Lucinda Williams proves that greatness is where you find it. Part history, part confessional, and part celebration of country, Americana, and bluegrass and the women who make them, Woman Walk the Line, edited by Holly Gleason, is a very personal collection of essays from some of America's most intriguing women writers. It speaks to the ways in which artists mark our lives at different ages and in various states of grace and imperfection-and ultimately how music transforms not just the person making it, but also the listener.

Tammy Tuckey

Listen to "Tammy Tuckey Part One Podcasting" on Spreaker. Podcasting isn't an overnight success nor will it completely bring down the lights on radio and television. It's just another platform for creative minds to hang their art. We can all agree there are hundreds of thousands of shows blanketing the digital airwaves on a daily basis and maybe 5 percent of them are quality driven. Mainly because there are no rules or formats. Or as I say the consultants and program directors haven't arrived yet. But they're coming. I had the chance to sit down with a very successful Podcaster Tammy Tuckey. Her connection with communication has opened the door for her to break bread with some pretty hefty names. thetiaratalkshow.com Plus find out more about her new album which you can help fund gofundme.com/tammytuckey

Bebe Rexha

Listen to "rBeatz Music Update Bebe Rexha Shares Song" on Spreaker. There's always someone on a mission. Music companies know what they want in sight and sound and the artists are left to deal with the daily pressure. Bebe Rexha put the experience down on paper then beats. A song on rBeatz Radio title The Way I are. It deals with not having the looks of Whitney but she still wants to dance with somebody.

Robbie Rivera

Listen to "rBeatz Music Update Robbie Rivera On Studio" on Spreaker. I've always believed that having the best equipment on the market won't be the key that unlocks the door to success. It's what you're imagination brings to the surface of sound. Robbie Rivera found that out while remixing a song for Madonna. His latest release on rBeatz Radio is Are You Ready.

Jordan Fisher

Listen to "Jordan Fisher From DWTS" on Spreaker. 2016 was a breakout year for multi-talented artist Jordan Fisher, whose talent clearly knows no boundaries, from TV to music to film and, most recently, Broadway. In January, Fisher's take as Doody in FOX's Emmy-winning broadcast of Grease: LIVE earned him critical acclaim and was deemed the show's breakout star by MTV and People Magazine. That spring, he released his first single, "All About Us," which was produced by Oak Felder (Alessia Cara, Arianna Grande, Rihanna) and melded influences of pop/soul/R&B. The song was the #2 most added song and a top 30 hit at pop radio. In August, Fisher released his self-titled EP, which debuted #18 on the Billboard Heatseeker album chart. After performing on The Today Show, the ESPY's Red Carpet Special and opening for Alicia Keys at the Apple Music Festival, Fisher was tagged to perform the end title credit to Disney's hit animated feature film Moana with award-winning songwriter/producer Lin-Manual Miranda. Fisher, who has been called out by Miranda as "super-talented," saw a lifelong dream of performing on Broadway come to fruition when he joined the cast of Miranda's uber-hit Hamilton, where he took on the dual roles of John Laurens and Philip Hamilton. When ABC was curating the music for When We Rise, an eight-hour miniseries event with music guiding the four and a half decade storyline, they looked no further than Fisher to cover the 70's classic, "I'd Love to Change the World." The song opened the two-hour premiere, directed by Gus Van Sant. The underlying thread to all Fisher's success across the board is music. He's not just a multi-talented performer but also a storyteller. His influences are diverse and can be traced back to his days growing up in a football town outside of Birmingham, Alabama, where he cultivated his tastes by listening to everything from Luther Vandross to Metallica while simultaneously developing his acting skills at the Birmingham-based Red Mountain Theatre Company. With a bright future in front of him, 2017 is sure to be another banner year as Fisher readies his debut full-length album. This fall he will release his new single "MESS" with Hollywood Records. Jordan Fisher is partnered with Pro Lindsay Arnold.

Dave Kindig

Listen to "Dave Kindig From Bitchin Rides 2017" on Spreaker. Some great artists work with oil on canvas, others with clay, but for Dave Kindig, iron and chrome are the tools of his creative self-expression and he is an artist at the top of his automotive design craft. From his sprawling 27,000 square foot custom fabrication shop in Salt Lake City, UT, Dave and his team use cars as their canvases to create extraordinary works of art for serious car lovers everywhere. Bitchin' Rides -- one of the most popular series on Velocity -- returns for season four to show how Dave and his team render, design, and build some of the world's most spectacular, unique vehicles. Starting with a blank sheet of paper, Dave sketches his detailed vision, then he and his team creatively bend steel to transform what’s on paper into jaw-dropping automotive works of art. In each episode of Bitchin' Rides, Dave works with some of the world's most passionate car enthusiasts to turn even their most over-the-top automotive dreams into reality. 

Hillbilly Moon Explosion

Listen to "rBeatz Music Update Hillbilly Moon Explosion Makes It Real" on Spreaker. Real people. Real instruments. Real beats. Real reaction. Hillbilly Moon Explosion embraces the moments when fans and followers of Hip Hop/EDM approach them about their live performance. In what seems to be an electronic age of sound there's still a layer of artists bringing music forward by way of making it with actual strings and skins. The latest release from the band is Long Way Down.