Ashley Cooke - February 2025

Grammy Award-winning country music icon Kacey Musgraves sits down with Baylen Leonard to talk about her new album 'Middle Of Nowhere'. She shares how it feels to be a leading light for country's next generation of female artists, how UK fans were there right from the start of her ... Show More

Jackson Dean sits down with Baylen Leonard to talk about his brand new album 'Magnolia Sage'. He also talks about how it feels to be supporting Garth Brooks in Hyde Park this summer. 

Country music icon Billy Ray Cyrus stops by the Absolute Radio Country studio to tell Baylen about his forthcoming album 'The Hill' and the new song he's recorded with his daughter Noah Cyrus. He also shares what it was like working with his son Braison, who produced the new proj ... Show More

<p>Katie Crutchfield has been making music as Waxahatchee for almost 15 years. In the early days she self-released on cassette, lo-fi indie music that would blossom into Americana around a decade later. That foray, with her acclaimed album Saint Cloud, brought her a whole new aud ... Show More

<p>Katy Steele has always been surrounded by music. </p><p>Her brothers came up with the Sleepy Jackson and Empire of the Sun, and her dad Rick Steele was a legendary blues guitarist around Perth. </p><p>But Katy made her own mark more than 20 years ago, when she burst out as the ... Show More

Nora and Nathan try to figure out whether Tate McRae is so close to stardom on her new album, 'So Close to What.' They talk about the all-star production team behind this album, which included Ryan Tedder and Amy Allen (1:00); some of their favorite songs on this record, includin ... Show More

'Endless Summer Vacation' brought Miley Cyrus her biggest hit and her first Grammy. Nora and Nathan talk about the massive success of "Flowers" and why that song became such a big hit (1:00), songs like "Used To Be Young" and "Violet Chemistry" that might have been overshadowed b ... Show More

Nora and Nathan talk about Sabrina Carpenter pulling double-duty as the host of 'SNL' last week (1:00) and on the other side of the coast, Charli XCX popping up at Lorde's show to perform "Girl, so confusing" (11:28). Then, they talk about the sophomore album from British pop sta ... Show More

High Dive Heart – the married pop duo of Jason Reeves and Nelly Joy – discuss their own songs and Reeves' Colbie Caillat co-write "Bubbly." Caillat had begun writing the song and, says Reeves, "Once a song starts out great, it's not hard to take it home." See acast.com/privacy fo ... Show More

Rob contemplates the art of making an ironic cover song sincere as he enters the dark realm of the 2000s hit TV show, ‘American Idol’. He follows the inevitable success of Season 1 winner Kelly Clarkson, who proves with her impossible-to-sing hit song, “Since U Been Gone,” that s ... Show More