AMERICANA MUSIC

APPALACHIAN ARTISTS

Appalachian Echoes is a three-hour, weekly syndicated radio program that highlights the talented artists, songwriters and musicians with ties to Appalachia, as well as the vibrant and growing genre of Americana music which often features the echoes of Appalachian influence. The show focuses on predominantly independent artists and music often overlooked by commercial radio playlists, and fuels a sense of listener loyalty based on home place pride.

Listen Saturdays from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. on great radio stations like our home station, WXCC, 96.5 FM. (The button below opens its live stream!)

JOIN US!

our story
Come join our Facebook Page to engage around topics of interest in the Americana Music and Appalachian Music spaces. Want to hear an emerging artist we may not know about? Contact us and tell us more about them.

RADIO SHOW

radio show
Listen live on Saturdays from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. on our home station, WXCC – 96.5 FM, in Williamson, W.Va. Click here to open its live stream.

Are you a radio station interested in carrying Appalachian Echoes? Contact us and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

EVENTS

Radio Show
We collect the most comprehensive list of Americana artists playing live within a reasonable drive of Eastern Kentucky, Southern West Virginia and Western Virginia. If your venue’s events are listed, email us!

AMERICANA MUSIC NEWS

Ranking Every Eric Church Single From “Worst” To Best

Ranking Every Eric Church Single From “Worst” To Best

Long live the Chief. In many ways, Eric Church is a bit of an enigma in country music. Oftentimes, he strays away from what many would consider to be classic hallmarks of the genre, including but not limited to rare uses of fiddle in many of his songs and the outright refusal to use steel guitar on many of his songs post Sinners Like Me. Despite this constant urge to push the limits and reinvent his sound, Church has remained […]

The post Ranking Every Eric Church Single From “Worst” To Best first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

Read more

Top 5 Baits For BIG Summer Smallmouth Bass – 2026

Top 5 Baits For BIG Summer Smallmouth Bass – 2026

With the Bassmaster Elite Series on Lake Champlain this week, it got me thinking about some good ol’ fashioned northern smallmouth fishing. If you’re not familiar, Lake Champlain sits on the New York and Vermont border, and even runs up into the Canadian province of Quebec (not all that far from Montreal). Often called the “6th Great Lake,” it’s an absolutely massive body of water that boasts over 275,000 acres of surface area. But most importantly… well, at least for […]

The post Top 5 Baits For BIG Summer Smallmouth Bass – 2026 first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

Read more

Stephen A. Smith Blasts WNBA Off-Court Drama In 26-Minute Rant: “The League Needs To Wake Up”

Stephen A. Smith Blasts WNBA Off-Court Drama In 26-Minute Rant: “The League Needs To Wake Up”

Stephen A. Smith has had it up to here with the WNBA. There’s no one that talks more about sports than Stephen A. Smith. He does get paid a lot of money to do so, but one might think that Smith could get a little burnt out blabbering about sports around the clock like he does. The man is on ESPN around the clock talking about every sport under the sun. Football game on? He’s there to talk about it. […]

The post Stephen A. Smith Blasts WNBA Off-Court Drama In 26-Minute Rant: “The League Needs To Wake Up” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

Read more