This week: Rock & Roots featured new music from Tears For Fears (The Girl That I Call Home), Lights (Damage), Billy Strings (Gild The Lily), Joy Oladokun (I'd Miss The Birds), U2 (Picture Of You (X+W)), Yola (Future Enemies), & The Cure (Alone)!

WUKY Guest DJ Chris Cunningham brings in a batch of recordings from the Golden Age of Rock and some newer Retro-Rockabilly artists and bands.

This week: Rock & Roots featured new music from Illiterate Light (Pay Phone), Matt Pond Pa (Those Wings), Suzanne Vega (Rats), Fantastic Cat (So Glad You Made It), Bon Iver (Spey Side), Trampled By Turtles Featuring LeAnn Rimes (Out Of Time), & Billie Eilish (Birds Of A Feather)!

This week: Rock & Roots featured new music from David Gray Featuring Talia Gray (Plus & Minus), Aaron Frazer (Into The Blue), Imogen Clark (All Hard Feelings), Nilüfer Yanya (Mutations), Green Day (Bobby Sox), Kim Deal (Crystal Breath), & Amos Lee (Beautiful Day)!

This week: Rock & Roots featured new music from Eric Bibb (Roll On Buddy), Nada Surf (Second Skin), Bruce Springsteen (She Don't Love Me Now), Warren Haynes (This Is Life As We Know It), Linkin Park (The Emptiness Machine), Kacey Musgraves (The Architect), & Sting (I Wrote Your Name (Upon My Heart))!

Jerry Tipton covered University of Kentucky basketball for the Lexington Herald-Leader for 41 seasons before retiring in 2022. He was known for his straightforward questioning of UK coaches, from Joe B. Hall to John Calipari. Tipton was inducted into the U.S, Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame in 2005, the Marshall University Journalism Hall of Fame in 2018, and the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame in 2020. He has recently written a memoir titled Deja Blue: A Sportswriter Reflects on 41 Seasons of Kentucky Basketball, published by Acclaim Press. In this conversation he tells some entertaining stories about some of his interactions with UK fans, talks about his Sunday Herald Leader "notes" column and plugs his upcoming appearance at this year's Kentucky Book Festival Saturday November 2nd at Joseph Beth Booksellers.

Katerina Stoykova interviews writer Wes Blake about his new novella, Pineville Trace.

University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center expert Nathan Vanderford, Ph.D., recently contributed to a critical national discussion on sustaining and supporting the cancer workforce. As he explains in this week's Dr. Greg Davis on Medicine, Vanderford, an associate professor in the UK College of Medicine’s Department of Toxicology and Cancer Biology, director of Markey Cancer Center’s Appalachian Career Training in Oncology Program and assistant director of Markey’s Pathway Programs and Student Success, addressed challenges faced by early-career researchers, issues of diversity in cancer research training and opportunities for supporting researchers’ career paths.

In the fifth episode of Writing Lessons, Silas House has a conversation with New York Times bestselling writer Gwenda Bond about plot and much more.