Banner & Company Podcast
1) Shane Caldwell: Comedian
Shane Caldwell got his start on public access television as "kind of a goof," after watching a comedy show and thinking he and his fellow bartender friends could do much better. What they came up with...Show More
2) Jim McGuire: Photographer, Nashville Portraits
You should never meet your heroes, the old saying goes. But for Jim McGuire, it has turned out pretty well. Jim grew up listening to country radio, and then — after a roundabout path took him to an Ar...Show More
3) Tamara Saviano: Author, Poets and Dreamers: My Life in Americana Music
Tamara Saviano has worked in radio, been a publicist — Kris Kristofferson was a client — served as president of the Americana Music Association (the first woman to do so), and produced albums and awar...Show More
4) Serina K. Gilbert and Dr. Learotha Williams Jr.: From the Fiery Furnace to the Promise Land
Shortly after the end of the Civil War, formerly enslaved African Americans established and settled Promise Land in Dickson County. They came from farms around Charlotte, Tennessee, and from Cumberlan...Show More
5) Aaron Gray: Father, Survivor and Podcaster
Aaron Gray found peace after enduring the unthinkable. His 5-month-old son Joel died in August 2012 after Gray’s then wife accidentally left the baby in the back seat of the family car. But Gray didn’...Show More
6) Becca Andrews: Journalist and Cohost of American Shrapnel
From the time she job-shadowed at the Jackson Sun in 8th grade, Becca Andrews knew she wanted to be a journalist. This aspiration took her from Tennessee to California and back again as she began an a...Show More
7) Exploring the Unusual Execution of Byron Black
On Tuesday, the state of Tennessee executed Byron Black, who was convicted and sentenced to death in 1989 for the murders of his then-girlfriend Angela Clay and her two daughters, nine-year-old Latoya...Show More
8) Cathy Carillo: Co-Founder, The ReMIX TN
What started as an ordinary ride home from a track meet changed Cathy Carillo's life. When Metro Police stopped her father for a broken taillight in 2009, they arrested him, and he was later deported....Show More
9) Ron Brice: Owner, Third & Lindsley
When he first arrived in Nashville sight unseen, Ron Brice was just here for a job — running a video arcade. So how did a Michigander with no background in music aside from being a fan end up owning o...Show More
10) Alan Stoker: Former Archivist at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
Not many people have held Hank Williams demo recordings with his handwriting on them. But Alan Stoker has. He recently retired from the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, where he worked for 50 ye...Show More