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WTJU Feb 14th, 2021 | By Nathan Moore Musical Diversity, Music Discovery Imagine a small city where literally every man, woman, and child is a folk musician. That’s how many artists we’ve played in WTJU’s folk department. Over the last decade, WTJU’s folk & roots shows have played music from more than 14,000 different artists. From those artists, we’ve played more nearly 77,000 unique tracks from more than 47,000 different albums. Whatever the opposite of “Top 40 Radio” is...

This Week on New Tunes at Two well explore four new releases. On Monday,  join us as we explore the newest from Lucero, When You Found Me. Memphis rockers Lucero, fronted by Ben Nichols, incorporate some 80’s influences into this new one, as well as a broad array of characters and life-changing events covered in these songs. And we’ve also got a podcast about it! Courtesy of Southern Songs and Stories: https://www.wncw.org/post/southern-songs-and-stories-twenty-years-new-sound-and-diff...