Token Show Partners With WPLN To Air On Sundays

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Tokens Show, the Nashville-based radio variety show, has announced a new partnership with Nashville Public Radio WPLN 90.3. The show will air on Sundays starting Dec. 6 at 2 p.m. CT. Guests of the first three episodes include Country Music Hall of Famer Vince Gill, MacArthur Genius Grant Recipient Jerry Mitchell, Vanderbilt University Professor Amy-Jill Levine, Yale University Professor Willie-James Jennings, Emmy award winning actor Hal Holbrook, beloved Nashville performer Odessa Settles, and more.

“For years, Lee C. Camp and the Tokens Show have wowed Nashville audiences with thought-provoking conversations intertwined with music that matters,” said Anita Bugg, Vice President of Programming at WPLN. “Nashville Public Radio relishes the opportunity to bring this combination to our air.”

With a house band featuring some of Nashville’s finest including Jeff Taylor, Buddy Greene, Chris Brown, Aubrey Haynie, Byron House and Bryan Sutton, the show has hosted an immensely diverse guest list:  Country Music Hall of Famers Gill and Ricky Skaggs, U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith and Irish Poet Pádraig Ó Tuama, Director of the National Institutes of Health Francis Collins, New York Times columnist David Brooks, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient Jerry Mitchell, or musicians such as Drew Holcomb, Keb’ Mo’, Mary Gauthier, and JohnnySwim.

Randy Goodman, Chairman and President of Sony Nashville has long been a supporter of the show. “Lee’s idea for Tokens Show resonated with me from the start,” he says. “A classic radio show rooted in the likes of the Opry or Prairie Home, yet undergirded with a philosophy or theology that is something like Thomas Merton meets Martin Luther King, Jr., and you get a genre-agnostic slate of all sorts of music and conversation that has to be experienced to get it. With Tokens now a part of WPLN’s weekly offerings, a larger assembly will get to discover this treasure.”

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