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Lives can change in the flash of a moment: Helen Austin never sees the face of a stranger who saves her life in "The Voice of a Friend", Susan Toone's life changes with one long-awaited gaze in "The Nesting Loon", and Danny Youngblood receives a phone call he will never forget in "The Buckeye Tree". Music by blues guitarist Mark Simpson.

Tales from the South is a 29-minute weekly radio show recorded in front of a live audience at Starving Artist Cafe' in the Argenta Arts District of North Little Rock, Arkansas. Each week, everyday Southerners read their own true story, unrehearsed and live. Local musicians play during dinner, and blues guitarist Mark Simpson plays on the show. Stories range from funny to sad, to enlightening to touching. Writers are all from the South. Although the show itself is unrehearsed, the literary memoirs have been worked on for weeks leading up to the recording. All stories are true and told by the Southerners who lived them.

Lives can change in the flash of a moment: Helen Austin never sees the face of a stranger who saves her life in "The Voice of a Friend", Susan Toone's life changes with one long-awaited gaze in "The Nesting Loon", and Danny Youngblood receives a phone call he will never forget in "The Buckeye Tree". Music by blues guitarist Mark Simpson.

Tales from the South is a 29-minute weekly radio show recorded in front of a live audience at Starving Artist Cafe' in the Argenta Arts District of North Little Rock, Arkansas. Each week, everyday Southerners read their own true story, unrehearsed and live. Local musicians play during dinner, and blues guitarist Mark Simpson plays on the show. Stories range from funny to sad, to enlightening to touching. Writers are all from the South. Although the show itself is unrehearsed, the literary memoirs have been worked on for weeks leading up to the recording. All stories are true and told by the Southerners who lived them.