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Minton Sparks is a wildly original poet, performance artist, novelist, teacher, and essayist born in a Tennessee college town and raised among her Southern family in and around Arkansas. "When You Coming Home Girl?" is from the album This Dress (2003)

Smoky Mountain News Politics Editor Cory Vaillancourt, shared details of his recent story about the job of a sheriff, which talked about how much power this position comes with. Vaillancourt, a co-writer of the piece, covered a sheriff's responsibilities as stated in Chapter 162 of the NC General Statues and how one qualifies to run for the job. This conversation originally aired on May 4, 2022.

Author and farmer, Robert Turner, talks about his book, Lewis Mumford and the Food Fighters - A Food Revolution in America. Based on fictional events and individuals in the Asheville region, the story tells how multinational food companies have taken over the food supply and how a group of rebel food fighters fights to take it back. The interview originally aired on May 6, 2022.

North Carolina Horticulture Agent Hannah Bundy, serving the Rutherford and Polk counties State Extension Service, returned to talk about upcoming farm tours. The North Carolina Foothills Farm Tour gives participants the chance to visit a variety of farms across the region and hear directly from its farmers and how fresh vegetables, fruits, and dairy products are harvested.The interview originally aired May 13, 2022.

"Bundle of Sticks” is an Aesop fable with a powerful lesson, As long as you stick together nothing in this world can break you. The moral: in unity is strength.

As we publish this, North Carolina's Primary Election has already occurred. Steve Harrison of WFAE, Charlotte Public Radio, spoke to us on May 11, 2022, about races and candidates within Mecklenburg County. With familiar names running again from former Gov. Pat McCrory to former Charlotte Mayor Patrick Cannon, Harrison explained what to expect with this election.

In this episode, Sarah Shook talks about everything from the evolution of sound in their new album Nightroamer, their road to sobriety, how Southern culture is reflected in their music, how things we might think that negatively affect just the LGBTQ+ community also extend to everyone else, and more.

Discovering the music of Jamestown Revival’s fourth album, Young Man, is a pleasant surprise: having brought in an outside for the first time (fellow Texan Robert Ellis) and opting for an all acoustic setting for its ten songs, the duo brought their already potent harmonies to a new level. Their songs are as good as ever, too, reflecting a period of isolation and contemplation, lending the collection a feel of exquisite melancholy.

Colin Hay talks about his long career, the music and music scenes of his native Scotland and his successive home countries Australia and the US, his admiration for artists like Kasey Musgraves, Sturgill Simpson and Chris Stapleton, about finding his way out of having been, as he puts it, too alternative for commercial labels and too commercial for alternative labels, and a lot more, including excerpts of music from Colin’s latest record, Now and the Evermore.

WUNC Education Reporter, Liz Schlemmer was our guest on this segment of More to the Story on Jan. 26, 2022. Liz shared details about the group behind the lawsuit alleging discrimination, in particular, against Asian Americans. While also providing the response to the charges by the University of North Carolina.