Music City Roots, Live From The Factory will feature a cornucopia of musical selections from four artists Wednesday, Mar 18 from 7 to 11 p.m.

The show is broadcast by Nashville’s Hippie Radio 94.5 FM and will be hostedby Jim Lauderdale.

Tickets are $10. To purchase tickets see show.

The roots and Americana variety radio show showcases music ranging from country and Americana to more progressive interpreters of tradition — a “roots and branches” format that brings together fans of all tastes and generations.

Musical guests include the following:

Jim Gaudet and The Railroad Boys

An Albany New York native, Jim Gaudet, folksinger and acoustic guitar player, is a storyteller through his songs whether singing about a baseball hero, a death row inmate, or a childhood love. Gaudet’s journey began as a flat picker, playing mandolin and guitar for the Lost Country Rounders.

His straightforward approach has been called “remarkably refreshing.” After an album and acclaim in the 80s and 90s, Gaudet “disappeared for a while.”

However, Michael Eck, Host of Northeast Public Radio Performance Place WAMC 90.3 FM once wrote,

“Jim Gaudet is back, no doubt about it. Long a favorite on the Northeast folk scene, Jim has been, let’s just say, missing in action for the past few years; tending to family duties and wondering whether or not he’d actually open his guitar case again.

“Well, he has, and with a vengeance.”

The Railroad Boys bassist/vocalist, Bob Ristau, mandolinist/guitarist, Sten Isachsen, will play with Gaudet.

Evie Ladin and Keith Terry

Ladin and Terry bring new life to body music by utilizing rhythmic systems and concepts from around the world as well as tying back to their own Southern Appalachian roots. Now through April, Ladin and Terry will be performing and hosting a series of workshops in the Midwest and Upper South.

Experience the old-time tunes and jazz-inflected rhythmic licks as they develop into beautifully crystallized tales and subtly improvised claps, stomps, and snaps in songs like the feisty “Dime Store Glasses.”

The duo dance their songs, sometimes in perfect lockstep, sometimes in lovely tension. Ladin’s voice, clawhammer banjo, and effortless footwork leap and sway between Terry’s quicksilver beats, shuffles, and snaps, the distinct language of body music.
The partners share a passion for audible dance: Ladin grew up playing banjo and performing Southern Appalachian clogging, gaining professional training on tour with the dance company Rhythm in Shoes. Terry shifted from drums to body percussion as he engaged with the tap revival scene in the 70s while playing drums with the late great dancers. Ladin has performed and recorded widely as part of a variety of Americana groups, including the Stairwell Sisters, who’ve appeared everywhere from Prairie Home Companion to Lincoln Center. Terry’s pioneering work has even won him a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Erik Deutsch and The Jazz Outlaws

Having first come to prominence as a member of the funk-jazz collective Fat Mama, Brooklyn, pianist/composer Erik Deutsch has taken his talents across the globe to play with some of the finest musicians alive. Born in Washington D.C., a Nashville resident as a child, a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder, and currently living in Brooklyn, NY, Erik exists in many musical worlds. He has recently performed and recorded with pop artists Norah Jones, Rosanne Cash, Shooter Jennings, Citizen Cope, Alice Smith, Antony and the Johnsons, Phillip Phillips, and Devotchka; and with jazz artists Charlie Hunter, Theo Bleckmann, Ben Allison, Scott Amendola, Steven Bernstein, Jim Campilongo, Nels Cline, Jenny Scheinman, Allison Miller, and Art Lande.

Erik just finished a brand new recording entitled Outlaw Jazz, featuring a new blend of countrified jazz with his signature psychedelic soul jazz sound.

Deutsch will play with musicians Tony Mason on drums, Jeff Hill on bass, Scott Metzger on guitar, Jon Gray on trumpet and vocals, and special guests Victoria Reed on vocals and Pete Finney on pedal steel.

Wood and Wire

A young acoustic band, Wood and Wire, has a love for pure music played well. In 2011, the group exploded onto Austin’s bluegrass and old-time-music scene, while quickly gaining a national fan base through appearances at notable festivals and venues such as Old Settlers Music Festival, Grey Fox Bluegrass Festival, Austin City Limits Music Festival, and the IBMA World of Bluegrass. They have also performed at The Telluride Bluegrass Festival.

In 2013, Wood & Wire opened for Yonder Mountain String Band and released a self-titled debut album to much acclaim. In 2014, the group continued gaining momentum, touring heavily and working on a follow-up album set for release February 3, 2015.

A culmination of distinct musical personalities, the band’s influences range from Led Zeppelin to Doc Watson – and everything in between. “We’re from all over the country,” said Bassist Dom Fisher, describing the resulting sound as “strongly rooted in traditional bluegrass, with elements of progressive grass such as modern harmony and song forms.”

For more information see ROOTS.