Tradition as it pertains to American Roots Music. Dom Flemons co-founder of The Carolina Chocolate Drops discusses traditional instrumentation and music history...also Paul Thorn, Girls Guns and Glory, Rebecca Loebe and The Howling Brothers plus video from The Lumineers and I Draw Slow. The show's Director/Creator Bill Hurley hosts.

Completely revamped with a new concept and new look Alternate Root TV returns for a third season. The show is nothing like it was for the first two seasons...it's vastly improved! Tonight's guests include James McMurtry, Seth Walker, Corb Lund, Garrett Lebeau and Dylan taylor plus a beautiful video with Christine Ohlman and a new video from 1Poet1Guitar.

Show 11 features singer/songwriter from Virginia, Randy Thompson. The Other Side of Nashville featuring the Brooklyn jam band YARN and a great interview with host Reb Landers and Duke Robillard. Videos from Crooked Still, Ryan Bingham, Duke Robillard, Robin Rogers, The Boxmasters, Delta Spirit, AJ Downing and more!

Well we've been on a bit of a summer vacation preparing the Alternate Root Magazine for print August 15. This is the second of our three shows from the legendary Martin Guitar Works in Nazareth , PA. A great interview with Reb Landers and Dick Boak the resident expert and historian of the Martin Guitar Corp. He's the guy who set up the museum and he has some great stories about the many hundreds of artists that have visited the museum and factory. Also joining Reb is Brian Molnar and bass...

This week's show, our 8th of the season, is a bit of a twist on our normal show. Reb and producer Fred Boenig hooked up with midday jock at WLVR in Bethlehem, PA, AJ Fritz and Carmen Sclafani and Jimmy Somma from the band Wiser Time and recorded a late night session at an old abandoned garage on the outskirts of Allentown the four songs and interview with AJ and the band about discovering Wiser Time are featured in the show. Also visiting the set is Nashville guitar ace Brian Ashley Jones and...

This week's show, our 8th of the season, is a bit of a twist on our normal show. Reb and producer Fred Boenig hooked up with midday jock at WLVR in Bethlehem, PA, AJ Fritz and Carmen Sclafani and Jimmy Somma from the band Wiser Time and recorded a late night session at an old abandoned garage on the outskirts of Allentown the four songs and interview with AJ and the band about discovering Wiser Time are featured in the show. Also visiting the set is Nashville guitar ace Brian Ashley Jones and...

Show 7 of Season 2 features Stonehoney, an outstanding band from Austin. These boys can sing and they can play! Also includes a fine singer/songwriter from New York City, the lovely Addie Brownlee and a twangy rockabilly trio from St. Louis, The Melroys. Also, show host Reb Landers pulls a nugget out from the archives from Season 1 with a stunning tribute to the late Johnny Cash from James Intveld. Videos include some new ones from Mr. Isaac Allen. Timothy Craig and Brother Slade plus a few...

Boston's own Digney Fignus joins show host Reb Landers on this weeks episode of Alternate Root TV along with one of the founders of the great band BR-549, Chuck Mead and Brooklyn, NY roots country band The Defibulators. Video premier from Alison Krauss and Union Station along with new video from New Jersey artists James Scott Bullard and Brian Molnar and the Naked Hearts. Videos also from Nashville duo The Civil Wars, Canadian singer/songwriter Trevor Alguire and from Baltimore, MD, The Bridge.

Show 5 picks up right where Show 4 left off with more new videos incredible music and in-studio guests. Joining host Reb Landers this week is the inimitable tenor voice of the one and only Raul Malo with Michael Guerra on accordion.

Show 4 of our second season of Alternate Root TV might be our best show to date! Joining host Reb Landers is Will Kimbrough...he's played guitar for Rodney Crowell, Jimmy Buffett, Roseanne Cash, Todd Snider and more. Will joins Reb Landers for an interview and performance with singer Lisa Oliver Gray. Also Brian Molnar and the Naked Hearts from New Jersey and the soul/gospel singer from Nashville Mike Farris. Video from Canadian folk singer Trevor Alguire, Jefferson Fox, Crooked Still, The...

Show 3 of the second season of Alternate Root TV features special guests, the great blues duo Peter Karp and Sue Foley. Also featured New Jersey Alt-Country rockers Joe Cassady and the West End Sound and from Ottowa, Ontario the John Henrys. A special video tribute to the late blues singer Robin Rogers, videos from Jefferson Fox, American Graveyard, Bill Toms, Have Gun Will Travel, The Warped 45's and Over The Rhine.

Show #2 of the second season of Alternate Root TV features the one and only Hayes Carll who stopped by for a visit and a new band fro New Jersey, Downtown Mystic recorded in West haven, CT for Alternate Root TV. New videos from Jon Fox, Skittish, Lizanne Knott, Lucy Billings, Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez and the venerable folk artist Jeff Talmadge. Join host Reb Landers for the best Americana / Roots music television show in the US.

Welcome to Season 2 of Alternate Root TV...we have a new studio but the same cool show. This week's guests include Paul Thorn and The Carolina Chocolate Drops. videos from Jim Byrne with John Hammond, Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez, the Warped 45's from Toronto, Have Gun Will Travel, Jefferson Fox, The Adam Ezra Group, Brian Molnar and the Naked Hearts, and The Famous. Host Reb Landers returns with a great new season of Alternate Root TV!