We Didn’t Set Out to Build an Archive.
30A Songwriter Radio accumulated years of interviews, photographs, podcasts, performances and articles because musicians kept giving us something worth documenting.
Some walked into a living room. Some sat behind a microphone. Some played original songs. Later, many walked through the doors of 30A Songwriter Radio Music & Coffee.
At the time, these were interviews, shows and stories. Years later, together they have become something else: a record of a music community.
Follow the Story Wherever It Leads.
Search by person, place or memory, or begin with one of the major parts of the collection.
Artist Interviews
Musicians talking about songs, influences, records and the stories behind their music.
Find Interviews →Live Performances
Original performances captured during the years 30ASR was documenting the scene.
Find Performances →Podcast Archive
Search the surviving collection of original 30A Songwriter Radio episodes.
Hear the Podcasts →Coffee Shop Years
Open mics, musicians, interviews and performances from 30A Songwriter Radio Music & Coffee.
Enter the Coffee Shop Years →Original Stories
Years of original posts remain online at the addresses where they first appeared.
Search the Stories →30ASR History
From the first living-room recordings in 2013 to the Coffee Shop and beyond.
Read Our History →Rediscover the Stories.
Three original stories selected from the historical collection. Come back again and you’ll likely discover three different pieces of 30A Songwriter Radio history.
When the Music Had a Home.
One chapter deserves its own room in the archive. During the Coffee Shop years, the people we had been documenting suddenly had a physical place to gather.
Interviews happened there. Musicians performed there. Tuesday-night open mics brought new people through the door. Conversations became podcasts and performances became photographs and video.
Today, those years represent one of the richest visual parts of the 30A Songwriter Radio archive.
Some Memories Don’t Need an Introduction.
The Lips became one of the visual signatures of 30A Songwriter Radio. Like Derek Givans’ original jingle, they became connected to the identity of the project itself.
They appeared during the years when interviews, performances and stories were being created and eventually became part of the Coffee Shop itself.
Preserving the archive means preserving these pieces too — not only the words that were written, but the images and sounds people remember.
Cameras Rolled.
Microphones Were On.
Musicians came through the room, sat down, talked about their music and played their songs. Nobody knew how valuable those recordings, photographs and stories might become years later. We simply knew they were worth capturing.
Some Stories Are Better Heard.
The surviving podcast collection lets you hear the people behind the archive in their own voices. Search by musician, band, venue, song or keyword and listen directly from the original collection.