{"podcast":{"title":"Roots Music Rambler","slug":"roots-music-rambler-6599265","podcast_index_feed_id":6599265,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/rootsmusicrambler","website_url":"https://rootsmusicrambler.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/cac53a5c-46cf-11ee-a22b-875f6666ac8d/image/RMR-Cover-Art-2024.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Francesca Folinazzo & Jason Falls","episode_count":84,"summary":"Where there are people, there is music. In our celebration of melodies and lyrics, harmonies and riffs, we typically focus on the songs or the people who wrote them. We often overlook the where. Join Francesca and Falls for Roots Music Rambler, a podcast exploration of the where as much as the who or what. We’ll interview emerging and established artists, fans and others in Americana, Outlaw Country, Bluegrass, Blues, Roots, Soul, World and beyond. But we will always get to the stories of where they’re from and how that impacted the music we know and love. It’s more than just their influences. It’s their families. Communities. Cultures. This show is a fun combination of music, travel, history and more. We dig into the stories from artists, musicians, songwriters, producers, fans and beyond, that don’t just expose their musical influences, but their life influences. Music follows the path of human movement. We trace the steps to bring better understanding to what we hear today and why we love it. Join us for the exploration of the real roots of music on Roots Music Rambler.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-10T22:17:37.252618+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/roots-music-rambler-6599265"},"episode":{"title":"Tanner Horton discusses the ‘dazed and confused’ explosion of The Creekers","slug":"tanner-horton-discusses-the-dazed-and-confused-explosion-of-the-creekers","published_at":"2025-11-28T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/roots-music-rambler-6599265/tanner-horton-discusses-the-dazed-and-confused-explosion-of-the-creekers","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/roots-music-rambler-6599265","url":"https://rootsmusic.link/thecreekers","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/MPNL8978679390.mp3?updated=1763928441","summary":"If you, “Woke up this mornin’, dazed and confused,” and sung the lyric in your head, you’ve been bitten by the audio bug that is The Creekers. That line, the opening one from a song called “Tennessee” was the second-most played audio clip on TikTok this summer. It helped propel the Leslie County, Ky.-based bluegrass group to viral success, headline spots at music festivals, and ultimately a record deal with Warner Records. Co-founder Tanner Horton took time out from digging fence post holes on his home property one evening not long ago to sit in and tell us about the band’s success, songwriting, how they all came together and a lot more. It turns out all but one member of the band has some sort of familial relationship with each other, either as direct as brothers (Jagger and Ashton Bowling), cousins (Horton and Allen Hacker) or by marriage (Scott Sutton). And then there’s the outlier: fiddler Anna Blanton, whose live show antics have made The Creekers not just a sound for sore ears, but a sight to see live. She’s done everything from zip-lining to riding on her husband’s shoulders while jumping around the crowd. (Charlie Blanton incidentally, is the bass player for friend of the show Bill Taylor and the Appalachian Heatherns.) Horton told us the story of the band coming together, his history with cousin and fellow guitarist and vocalist Allen Hacker, how the TikTok virality happened and what exactly they’ve got in store in the coming months with the band’s new record deal. Frank and Falls also chatted about Falls’s recent trip outside of the Americana genre to take his daughter to a Tate McRae concert and they each share their Pickin’ the Grinnin’ pics for recommended music this week. Falls calls out Hazard, Ky., based vocalist Roy Caudill while Frank shares her exper…","meta_description":"If you, “Woke up this mornin’, dazed and confused,” and sung the lyric in your head, you’ve been bitten by the audio bug that is The Creekers. That line,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3531,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/roots-music-rambler-6599265/episodes/tanner-horton-discusses-the-dazed-and-confused-explosion-of-the-creekers/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/roots-music-rambler-6599265/tanner-horton-discusses-the-dazed-and-confused-explosion-of-the-creekers.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}