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by Carolyn Kendrick & Tristan Scroggins
Before social media, the women of bluegrass had a bright blue newsletter that showed up in the mailbox and said what no one would say out loud. In Don't Call Me Darlin', host Carolyn Kendrick and co-creator Tristan Scroggins hit the road to find the women Murphy Henry profiled decades ago, in a story about genre, identity, feminism, and the communities we built before the internet. What can our foremothers teach us about how to challenge the system? And when should we challenge our own expectations? In conversations with legends such as Alice Gerrard, Kristin Scott Benson, Laurie Lewis, Missy Raines, Alison Brown, Rhonda Vincent, Sierra Hull, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, and many more, our hosts learn how tradition can bring community together and how it can break it apart. On this road trip, Bluegrass music becomes an unlikely catalyst for exploring the paradoxical world of bluegrass, an American art form with American problems, strengths, and growing pains.
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- 1 weeks ago49 min
Bonus: Behind the Scenes Q+A
Welcome to our first bonus episode: a behind the scenes Q+A with Don’t Call Me Darlin’ creators Carolyn Kendrick and Tristan Scroggins. We’re making this first round of bonus episodes available for everyone to listen to for free. But if you enjoy this conversation and want to hear more full-length interviews in the future, while also supporting the making of this show, please consider subscribing through Patreon or Apple Podcasts. Don’t Call Me Darlin’ is based on the Women in Bluegrass newsletter that was published quarterly from 1994–2003 by Murphy Hicks Henry. More information about Murphy, including how to purchase her book Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass, can be found at https://www.murphymethod.com/ Sources and citations for today’s episode. Read the Women in Bluegrass digital archive, created by Tristan Scroggins: womeninbluegrassarchive.org To help support the archive, consider making a tax-deductible donation at: https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/the-women-in-bluegrass-archive-project For more information on our hosts and their other ongoing projects, please visit: Carolyn Kendrick: https://www.carolynkendrick.com/ Tristan Scroggins: https://www.tristanscroggins.com/ Follow Don’t Call Me Darlin’ on social media: https://linktr.ee/dontcallmedarlin Interested in sponsoring us? Contact BGS: https://bit.ly/sponsorBGSpods Underwriting Inquiries: info@womeninbluegrassarchive.org
- 1 weeks ago35 min
Bonus Episode: Rhonda Vincent
Welcome to the Don’t Call Me Darlin’ bonus corner. We’re making this first round of bonus episodes available for everyone to listen to for free. But if you enjoy this conversation and want to hear more full-length interviews in the future, while also supporting the making of this show, please consider subscribing through Patreon or Apple Podcasts. In this episode, Tristan Scroggins interviews the queen of bluegrass: Rhonda Vincent. For more information about Rhonda Vincent’s life and music: https://rhondavincent.com/ Don’t Call Me Darlin’ is based on the Women in Bluegrass newsletter that was published quarterly from 1994–2003 by Murphy Hicks Henry. More information about Murphy, including how to purchase her book Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass, can be found at https://www.murphymethod.com/ Sources and citations for today’s episode. Read the Women in Bluegrass digital archive, created by Tristan Scroggins: womeninbluegrassarchive.org To help support the archive, consider making a tax-deductible donation at: https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/the-women-in-bluegrass-archive-project For more information on our hosts and their other ongoing projects, please visit: Carolyn Kendrick: https://www.carolynkendrick.com/ Tristan Scroggins: https://www.tristanscroggins.com/ Follow Don’t Call Me Darlin’ on social media: https://linktr.ee/dontcallmedarlin Interested in sponsoring us? Contact BGS: https://bit.ly/sponsorBGSpods Underwriting Inquiries: info@womeninbluegrassarchive.org
- 1 weeks ago38 min
Lost Girl
As a full-time musician living in Los Angeles, Carolyn Kendrick has a complicated relationship with bluegrass music. Despite years of experience and a deep connection to friendships formed in the community, Carolyn often thinks of herself as an outsider in the broader, male-dominated, and generally conservative genre. As life becomes more and more digitally saturated, the nostalgia-rich trappings and communal values of the bluegrass community speak to Carolyn as she finds herself yearning for a more grounded, unplugged time. She loves the music but is confused by how it fits into her sense of self. She suddenly discovers that this internal friction is more common than expected when co-creator Tristan Scroggins shows her a collection of rare, feminist newsletters circulated in the 90s by women who played bluegrass. These bright blue, hand stapled, self published newsletters contain nearly a decade of interviews, correspondence, and fellowship between women as they attempt to navigate and influence the genre. As Carolyn explores these stories, it becomes clear that not only have women faced similar challenges since the music’s beginnings, but that previously gendered opportunities have gotten noticeably better in recent history. So why do the names and stories seem so unfamiliar? These questions lead down a rabbit hole as Carolyn and Tristan get in the car and drive to Virginia to interview Murphy Hicks Henry, the creator of the newsletter. Along the way they visit with friends, go to museums and festivals, interview friends, and re-interview the women from the newsletter to see what they think about the progress that has been made. All while recording to make this podcast. Despite being a show about a newsletter about bluegrass, the show itself isn’t “about” bluegrass. It’s about community and what it means to be an insider. It’s about how tradition can bring us together but what happens to who gets left out. It’s about what we can learn from our elders and why we shouldn’t wait to ask them. It’s about women and their lives and what we can learn from them. In this episode, you heard the voices of legends of Bluegrass in the following order: Kathy Kallick, Missy Raines, Laurie Lewis, Maddie Witler, Murphy Henry, Dede Wyland , Lucy Singleton, Rhonda Vincent, Lisa Kay Howard, Sierra Hull, Kristin Scott Benson, Joselyn Skye, and Alison Brown. Don’t Call Me Darlin’ is based on the Women in Bluegrass newsletter that was published quarterly from 1994–2003 by Murphy Hicks Henry. More information about Murphy, including how to purchase her book Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass, can be found at https://www.murphymethod.com/ Sources and citations for today’s episode. Read the Women in Bluegrass digital archive, created by Tristan Scroggins: womeninbluegrassarchive.org To help support the archive, consider making a tax-deductible donation at: https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/the-women-in-bluegrass-archive-project For more information on our hosts and their other ongoing projects, please visit: Carolyn Kendrick: https://www.carolynkendrick.com/ Tristan Scroggins: https://www.tristanscroggins.com/ Follow Don’t Call Me Darlin’ on social media: https://linktr.ee/dontcallmedarlin Interested in sponsoring us? Contact BGS: https://bit.ly/sponsorBGSpods Underwriting Inquiries: info@womeninbluegrassarchive.org
- 2 weeks ago4 min
Coming Oct 19th: Don't Call Me Darlin'
Coming October 19th: Don't Call Me Darlin' Before social media, the women of bluegrass had a bright blue newsletter that showed up in the mailbox and said what no one would say out loud. In Don't Call Me Darlin', host Carolyn Kendrick and co-creator Tristan Scroggins hit the road to find the women Murphy Henry profiled decades ago, in a story about genre, identity, feminism, and the communities we built before the internet. What can our foremothers teach us about how to challenge the system? And when should we challenge our own expectations? In conversations with legends such as Alice Gerrard, Kristin Scott Benson, Laurie Lewis, Missy Raines, Alison Brown, Rhonda Vincent, Sierra Hull, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, and many more, our hosts learn how tradition can bring community together and how it can break it apart. Join Carolyn and Tristan on their road trip as they explore the paradoxical world of bluegrass: an American art form with American problems, strengths, and growing pains. Episode one will be available everywhere you listen to podcasts October 19th, 2026. Don’t Call Me Darlin’ is based on the Women in Bluegrass newsletter that was published quarterly from 1994–2003 by Murphy Hicks Henry. More information about Murphy, including how to purchase her book Pretty Good for a Girl: Women in Bluegrass, can be found at https://www.murphymethod.com/ Read the Women in Bluegrass digital archive, created by Tristan Scroggins: womeninbluegrassarchive.org To help support the archive, consider making a tax-deductible donation at: https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/the-women-in-bluegrass-archive-project For more information on our hosts and their other ongoing projects, please visit: Carolyn Kendrick: https://www.carolynkendrick.com/ Tristan Scroggins: https://www.tristanscroggins.com/ Follow Don’t Call Me Darlin’ on social media: https://linktr.ee/dontcallmedarlin Interested in sponsoring us? Contact BGS: https://bit.ly/sponsorBGSpods Underwriting Inquiries: info@womeninbluegrassarchive.org
- Dec 11, 20254 min
Don't Call Me Darlin': Coming 2026
Hey! Tristan Scroggins + Carolyn Kendrick here. We have a new show coming soon and we want you to know about it! It’s called Don’t Call Me Darlin’, an eight part narrative journalism podcast about music, feminism, and community. Episode One will be launching in the spring but you can listen to the trailer now, as well as subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. Do you remember Life Before the Internet? I barely remember. Twenty-first century life is so digitally saturated that it's ve...
About Don't Call Me Darlin'
Before social media, the women of bluegrass had a bright blue newsletter that showed up in the mailbox and said what no one would say out loud. In Don't Call Me Darlin', host Carolyn Kendrick and co-creator Tristan Scroggins hit the road to find the women Murphy Henry profiled decades ago, in a story about genre, identity, feminism, and the communities we built before the internet. What can our foremothers teach us about how to challenge the system? And when should we challenge our own expectations? In conversations with legends such as Alice Gerrard, Kristin Scott Benson, Laurie Lewis, Missy Raines, Alison Brown, Rhonda Vincent, Sierra Hull, Bronwyn Keith-Hynes, and many more, our hosts learn how tradition can bring community together and how it can break it apart. On this road trip, Bluegrass music becomes an unlikely catalyst for exploring the paradoxical world of bluegrass, an American art form with American problems, strengths, and growing pains.
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