SouthBound

On the latest SouthBound podcast, host Tommy Tomlinson talks to singer/songwriter Mary Gauthier, from Nashville by way of New Orleans. She started late as a musician, after a lifetime of drinking and drugs, and her songs reflect hard times leavened with moments of humor and hope.

SouthBound celebrated its third year in 2020, and Tommy Tomlinson selected a handful of his favorite episodes from this past year.

Roy Wood Jr. has spent a career telling jokes with sharp edges. He grew up in Birmingham and has spent more than 20 years doing stand-up, returning again to his experiences as a Black man and a Southerner. For the last five years he has also been a correspondent for “The Daily Show,” often coming back down South to poke at our contradictions and absurdities.

Issac Bailey has had to jump a lot of hurdles.He grew up in a family marked by violence -- including the arrest of his brother for murder.He developed a…

You can’t understand the South without trying to understand Charleston, South Carolina.Tourists know it for the pretty houses and five-star restaurants.…

Anthony Hamilton, the Grammy-winning singer and songwriter from Charlotte, has spent his career working a fertile patch of rhythm and blues.Sometimes he…

Fawn Weaver is the author of a best-selling book on happy marriages. Her husband is a movie exec. They were happy and comfortable in Los Angeles. But then…

Eddie Glaude, the chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton, is the author of a new book called “Begin Again,” about the writer…

The links to the South’s Confederate past are beginning to come down – some by law, some by force. But this part of the country is still strewn with…

Clint Smith grew up in New Orleans until his family had to relocate to Houston in Hurricane Katrina. He has grown up to become one of America’s most…