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Southern Mixtape: Songs of Summer

Ron Lach
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One of the best ways to beat the summer heat is to cue up a cool playlist of breezy, catchy, sultry tunes.

Due South's Southern Mixtape is back with a curated list of summer-themed music from Southern artists. վ Music's Brian Burns joins co-hosts Leoneda Inge and Jeff Tiberii to discuss what qualifies a track as "the song of the summer" and what a Southern summer sounds like.

Guest

Brian Burns, վ music reporter and creator of վ's First in Music blog

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of վ's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at վ as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.
Jeff Tiberii is the co-host of վ's "Due South." Jeff joined վ in 2011. During his 20 years in public radio, he was Morning Edition Host at WFDD and վ’s Greensboro Bureau Chief and later, the Capitol Bureau Chief. Jeff has covered state and federal politics, produced the radio documentary “Right Turn,” launched a podcast, and was named North Carolina Radio Reporter of the Year four times.
Brian Burns is the վ music reporter