The Aching Hearts

It’s a special show this week as the Kel­Ry unit records live from their living room couch. The subjects today touch on all three of the pillars (music, mortality, and happiness) that are the…

Music is such an integral part of our everyday life that we hardly take the time to stop and notice the extent of its pervasiveness. Whether you’re plodding mindlessly through some mundane task…

This week’s episode finds our desolate duo recently returned from a field trip to the local movie house where they went for a viewing of the recent release, “I Saw the LIght”. The film is…

This week Kelly and Ryan took some time from their busy schedules to talk over the art, science, and lore of avoiding labor. From bum anthems to laziness manifestos, our tireless yet work­adverse couple conversationally…

One part informational and one part editorial, this episode finds our capricious co­hosts rapping about the folk phenomenon known as fiddle tunes. Listen in as Kelly and Ryan paint both an historical and a contemporary…

The Binary Babbling Consortium is at it again. In this week’s thrilling episode they flip last week’s script and have a frank chat about the legacy of patriarchal domination in our culture, marriage…

True to Aching Hearts form, our intrepid hosts take a good look at the age old tradition of melodious “man­hating”. Find out what some songs in the folk tradition have to say about…

Inspired by their recent attendance at the Folk Alliance International conference, Kelly and Ryan shine the spotlight on a handful of hard­working musicians you may or may not have heard of. The aim of this special…

Our loquacious lovebirds take a look at the curious profusion of anti­authority narratives that exist in so many folk and roots songs. From law­breaking to rebellion to no­holds­barred militant libertarianism, there’s no shortage of plunky disobedience…

No exploration of Americana/folk music is complete until one has seriously considered the chicken and all of its culturo­-musical implications. Though this episode may lack some of the erudition and sophistication you’ve come to expect from Spearman…

The king and queen of myocarditis return to the studio to kick off the second round of The Aching Hearts Show. The season opener features an in depth and sometimes downright silly, conversational exploration of innuendo as…

In this episode (the season finale!) our beloved dyad delves into the prevalence and role of Christian symbology in folk/roots music and post-colonial American culture in general. Pop in them there earbuds…