13: Black mountain metal and folk, w/ Paul Ravenwood (Twilight Fauna, Green Elder)
Paul Ravenwood lives in eastern Tennessee, where he writes, plays and records black metal and folk music, among other pursuits. Mason and Paul discu...
Blue Ridge Free State
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Blue Ridge Free State covers politics, culture, history, and life in Appalachia with host Mason Adams, a journalist and native of the region.
A statement of purpose
At Patreon, I’ll be posting short, personal podcasts talking about the what, how and why of my independent mountain journalism. This short podcast ser...
Evening in the holler (w/ spring peepers and pond frogs)
Hi everyone, it’s been a while since I last posted an episode. In fact, it’s been just over a year. This new episode features no human voices, but con...
Snuffy Smith through the eyes of an Appalachian historian (w/ Bob Hutton)
Like Mason, Bob Hutton grew up reading Snuffy Smith in the pages of his local newspaper. Unlike Mason, Dr. Bob is a history professor at the Univers...
11: A century of Barney Google and 85 years of Snuffy Smith (w/ John Rose)
This episode features an interview with John Rose, the cartoonist who creates “Barney Google and Snuffy Smith,” the syndicated comic strip that turned...
10: #TruthIsNotHate (w/ Poe Mack)
Our guest today is Byron Mack, a rapper, promoter, and beat maker from Salem, Virginia, who performs as Poe Mack. We talk about what it takes to rise ...
9: Inside the fight to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline
On this episode, we talk about the 2018 battles we saw in court and on the ground to stop the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a 303-mile interstate natural ...
8: One team, one goal (w/ Twin Valleys Roller Derby)
This episode is all about roller derby in Appalachia, through the lens of Twin Valleys Roller Derby in Roanoke. We visited their home finale double-he...
7: Mountain healthcare, from VW Beetle to Drone Delivery (w/ Teresa Gardner Tyson of SWVA’s Health Wagon)
On this episode, we interview Teresa Tyson Gardner of the Health Wagon, a free clinic serving a vulnerable population in Southwest Virginia’s coal cou...
6: 2018 Midterm Election Wrap-Up
Blue Ridge Free State is a podcast about politics, culture, history, and life in Appalachia. On this episode, Mason looks back on the 2018 midterms an...