While Art was still in college in the late 1950’s, he went to work at a resort in Michigan one summer and befriended some migrant worker families on nearby Allegan Farm. In this segment, Art reminisces about the time he spent with these people, his first exposure to Southern music, and the first field recordings that he ever captured.

With “The Runaways” arriving on DVD and Blu-Ray, Jon plays the exclusive interview he had with star Dakota Fanning back in April. He also gets the straight skinny on “Predators” from star Adrien Brody and writer-producer Robert Rodriguez. Since a pair of pop culture music events are taking place in Atlanta next week (Devo at Chastain Park Amphitheater and The Happy Together Tour at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre), Jon spins lots of Devo as well as songs from Happy Together performers Micky Dolenz (The Monkees) and Mark Lindsay (Paul Revere and the Raiders).

Paste Magazine looks back at a website feature highlighting “State Songs for the 21st Century.” This feature looks at songs written in the 21st century written about states. In addition, the staff of Paste Magazine examines the psyche behind the writer as the pen songs written about specific locations. As always, the show starts with a flashback to a previous issue with Constantines’ song Hard Feelings.

David speaks with blues field recorder, George Mitchell about his experience traveling across the country, in particular the south, in search of blues artists otherwise unknown to the broader american public. George Mitchell is credited with making the first ever recordings of the Mississippi blues man R.L. Burnside. A seven CD box set of his recordings is available on Fat Possum records and is titled simply The George Mitchell Collection.