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Ozarkian Folk Chronicles - Your Podcast About the Ozarks

Ozarkian Folk Chronicles

Come with us as we dive head first into the titillating tales of Ozarkian folklore and discuss the origins and obscurities of these stories. From Curtis Copeland and Hayden Head, this is Ozarkian Folk Chronicles. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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1:09:28

Episode 103: From Roadhouse Rocker to Roadie for Roy...

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2026/01/07

The 1970s were a, uh, magical time for music and musicians, and Sid Pierce had a front row seat for the spectacle. From drumming with his band, Levi Walker, to touring with Roy Clark, Sid was full throttle all the time, and he has the stories to prove it. Join us for this fun episode (Sid forbade us from calling it "special") with Sid. Maybe you'll recall some memories of your own, or if you're too young, you'll know what to ask your parents! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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1:03:37

Episode 102: Daniel Woodrell In Memoriam: A...

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2025/12/31

Daniel Woodrell published nine novels, most of which were set in the Ozarks, and in the process created a genre he called "country noir." Woodrell's books are gritty, dark, and often despairing, yet he gave a voice to the most marginal of Ozarkers: the dispossessed poor. His novel Winter's Bone was made into a movie that faithfully captured Woodrell's characters and launched the career of a young Jennifer Lawrence. Dr. Brooks Blevins, Noel Boyd professor of history at MSU, has taught Woodrell's

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1:23:26

Episode 101: A Bilyeu Christmas: A Tradition of Song...

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2025/12/24

When Mark and his brother and cousins formed Big Smith, they were following in the long tradition of Bilyeu family musicians. Bob Bilyeu, the patriarch of the family, and his Southern Gospel group, the Waymakers, preceded Big Smith, and preceding the Waymakers was even older musical tradition. This special Christmas episode includes an interview with Bob and Mark, songs performed in Bob's living room, and Christmas songs from the archives featuring the Bilyeu family.There's nothing like Christmas in

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1:09:15

Episode 100: Road Trip! Vance Randolph and Thames...

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2025/12/17

Ozarks historian, Dr. Brooks Blevins, discovered an excerpt from a diary of Vance Randolph and passed it along to Curtis. The entry recalls a 1932 trip that Randolph took with Thames Williamson, author of The Woods Colt, from Fayetteville to Mountain View, Arkansas. While in Fayetteville, the two men met up with Charles Morrow Wilson and Charles Finger, both prolific and highly regarded Ozarks authors. Join the Chronicles for this special road trip through the Ozarks of a century ago! Hosted on

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53:21

Episode 99: Gigging for Suckers with Jacob McIntosh...

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2025/12/10

Jacob McIntosh is a ninth-generation Ozarker who's been fish gigging since his grandpa took him out at the age of 14. Jacob brings his extensive experience and knowledge to the Chronicles on what is perhaps the most Ozarkian sport of all, gigging suckers. Then Curtis, Crystal, and Hayden join Jacob on the James River to take a turn at fish gigging themselves. At twenty-eight degrees, the river air was chill, but the experience was fantastic! Warning: Gigging and cleaning suckers is not pretty, but

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53:44

Episode 98: Travis Holt and the Tale of the Murder at...

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2025/12/03

Travis Holt, Ozarks author and blogger, returns to the Chronicles with a Pope County, Arkansas, story, this one about the lay-in-wait shooting of a peddler. Drawing from meticulous research, Travis shares this true crime tale and ponders exactly who did what on that fateful day. What we do know is this: The hills harbor thousands of stories that are profane, profound, preposterous, and impressive, and we, along with many others including Travis, are doing our best never to let them slip into

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56:47

Episode 97: The Wild Story of the Irish Wilderness: A...

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2025/11/26

In 1859, a group of Irish Catholics led by a dynamic and resourceful priest, Father John Hogan, attempted to create a settlement in the southeastern Ozarks. Of course, the clouds of war were already gathering on the horizon, and all too soon those clouds broke with all the ferocity of a hurricane. Situated as it was between Union and Confederate forces--not to mention its vulnerability to bushwhackers and other opportunists--the little colony was destined for extinction. Crystal and Leland Payton

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51:04

Episode 96: Headless in Hell: Grave Dowsing for the...

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2025/11/19

After the notorious bushwhacker Alf Bolin was killed, soldiers decided to take his body to Ozark. On the way, however, they decapitated Bolin and buried his body. No one knows exactly where the grave site is, though a description of the site was recorded by Doug Mahnkey, a prominent Taney County lawyer. Join the Chronicles as Jeff Michel and Tammy Morton, both experienced grave dowsers, take their dowsing rods into the field in search of Bolin's body. Do they succeed? That's for you to decide! In

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Episode 95: Dr. Kris Sutliff introduces May Kennedy...

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2025/11/12

May Kennedy McCord is an Ozarker of legendary status, a beloved defender of hillbillies, and a gentle Renegade of Folk. From collecting ballads to sticking up for Vance Randolph to sharing the story of the Ozarks across the country, May Kennedy McCord promoted, protected, and persistently loved all things Ozarks. Dr. Kris Sutliff is well-situated to talk about May because she is co-author with Patty McCord, May's granddaughter, of May's biography: May Kennedy McCord: Queen of the Hillbillies

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1:29:21

Episode 94: Making Music the Springfield Way with...

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2025/11/05

The Chronicles is not only interested in learning about our Ozarks past but also learning about the exciting, creative things Ozarkers are doing today! Brandon Moore is a wonderful example of that creativity; he is a singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist who has poured his life and talent into the "Springfield sound," and in this episode, he brings that talent as well as his open-hearted enthusiasm to the podcast! Rounded out with another "Story about the Storytellers," this is another episode we

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1:05:05

Episode 93: A Halloween Horror Story--The Vampire Within

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2025/10/29

Missouri's only vampire--Orlin Eaton (maybe)--was accused of leaving his grave and poisoning children. While the historical record concerning Orlin was sketchy, the historical context is not: World War I was raging in Europe, child mortality was on the rise in the mining camps, Hungarian immigrants in the Lead Belt were held in suspicion, and the miners needed someone to blame. Out of the subsequent riots emerged a folktale with roots in the blood libel of the Middle Ages, and the Chronicles digs

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1:06:24

Episode 92: The music of Nick and Captain Sibley

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2025/10/22

Nick Sibley is a highly regarded jingle writer--think O, O, O, O'Reilly . . . auto parts!--and musician who currently is playing back up with Ozark Mountain Daredevils. Captain Sibley, Nick's son, spent his eighteenth year touring with Tony Orlando--Captain plays bass--and now with Lee Greenwood. The Chronicles unites father and son in this special episode featuring the original music of Nick and Captain Sibley. Ozarks music is alive and well, and these gentlemen are the proof! This is a special

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1:09:21

Episode 91: From Russian tyranny to the Ozarks hills,...

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2025/10/15

In her book Yellow Jack and Turpentine, Mara Cohen traces the travels and travails of a group of Jewish refugees from Odessa, Russia, to the port city of Hamburg, Germany, to New York City and eventually to the banks of the White River near Newport, Arkansas. The group set out with the intention of becoming a farming community only to find an inhospitable land of poor soil, a flooding river, and disease bearing mosquitoes that would eventually defeat their experiment. "Yellow jack" was the idiom for

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Episode 90: Killer Carl and Mayhem in Taney County:...

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2025/10/08

In this episode, our own Madams of Murder, Tammy Morton and Angel Wolf, return to tell the outrageous story of Carl Wood. Carl once bragged that he had killed eleven men in the course of his life, and Tammy and Angel convey two of his most public and spectacular killings, one of which took place in a church in Protem, Missouri. Charming, vicious, and elusive, Carl never served time for murder, and he ended his life dying of natural causes in his home in Springfield. Nevertheless, he left a wake of

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51:25

Episode 89: Waiting for the End of the World: The...

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2025/10/01

The fourth episode in our series, Movements on the Margins, examines the establishment of a cult on the banks of the Buffalo in the early 1920s. John Battenfield, a charismatic preacher and scholar of Hebrew and Greek, moved with a group of his followers to Gilbert, Arkansas, to prepare for a worldwide war between Catholics and Protestants. In short order, they built a community with stores, forges, a church, and perhaps most important, a printing press. When the war failed to materialize,

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1:06:07

Episode 88: The First Lady of the Ozarks, Kaitlyn...

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2025/09/24

Kaitlyn McConnell has given her life to preserving the culture and stories of the Ozarks. Her focus is not simply on the past: She is also concerned with the activities and lives of Ozarkers today. Her passion has taken her all over the Ozarks, and in this episode, you'll learn more about Kaitlyn and her online project, Ozarks Alive! We hope you'll join us for this very special episode of the Ozarkian Folk Chronicles. And don't forget our new addendum: Stories about the Storytellers. This segment

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1:14:28

Episode 87: Ozarks Icon Phyllis Speer: Ready and...

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2025/09/17

Join the Chronicles for a delightful conversation with Phyllis Speer as she talks about her adventures hosting the wild game cooking show, Cooking on the Wildside, with John Philpot; hunting and fishing the beautiful Arkansas Ozarks; and the pleasure (and ethics) of cooking what you kill. Spend an hour with Phyllis, and you'll see why her show ran on the Arkansas Educational Television Network for eighteen years. You'll also find out how bear and bobcat taste--and how eating crow can be more than a

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1:24:22

Episode 86: Arming for Armageddon: Vincent Anderson...

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2025/09/10

Vincent Anderson joins the OFC for our third in the series, Ozarks Movements on the Margins, to recall for us one of the most notorious cults ever planted in these hills, the Covenant, Sword, and Arm of the Lord. From the earliest days of Ellison and Noble to the invasion of the compound in 1985, Anderson guides us through the history and aberrant theology of a compound in northern Arkansas that was obsessed with race, eschatology, and a supposed mission to defeat the enemies of God. A scarlet

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1:10:13

Episode 85: From Coven to Christianity: The True...

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2025/09/03

The Movements on the Margins series continues with Kimberly, a former Wicca witch who recalls her experiences with the occult. Kimberly not only talks about the attraction of magic and the community that revolves around the practice of witchcraft, but she also recounts the events in her life that led to her conversion to Christianity. Kimberly's journey from darkness to light is unforgettable and a story that you will find inspiring in the end. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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Episode 84: Ozarks Religious Movements on the...

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2025/08/27

Most Ozarkers are familiar with Gerald L.K. Smith, the founder of the Sacred Projects, e.g., The Great Passion Play and the Christ of the Ozarks, in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, but Dr. John Schmalzbauer, the Blanche Gorman Strong Chair in Protestant Studies at Missouri State University, takes us behind the veil to unpack Smith's more heterodox and toxic doctrines. From "British Israelism" to the "Ten Lost Tribes of Israel" to Smith's strident anti-Semitism, John initiates us into the topsy-turvy world

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