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Randy began hosting a jazz radio show on KDSU while a physics professor at North Dakota State University in Fargo. After moving to Knoxville, he began hosting Improvisations on WUOT in 1996. In 2004, he created the program Last Set at Birdland, which airs Fridays at 10 p.m. Randy also is an amateur saxophonist and leads the group The Fish Skales.

Chris Woodhull was born in Puerto Rico, the son of a U.S. Air Force pilot. Throughout his childhood, his family traveled extensively, landing in places like Brazil, California, Nebraska, Alabama and Massachusetts. Chris has over 20 years of inner-city experience and is the founder of TRIBE ONE, an at-risk urban youth ministry in Knoxville, Tenn. He also has served on the Knoxville City Council for eight years while leading five different public processes, one of which resulted in an Innovation in Government Award from the city. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and has studied negotiation at Harvard Law School. He is currently the director of civic engagement for the Mission Chattanooga in Chattanooga.

Robert Krulwich works on radio, podcasts, video, the blogosphere. He has been called "the most inventive network reporter in television" by TV Guide.

David Dye is a longtime Philadelphia radio personality whose music enthusiasm has captivated listeners of World Cafe® since 1991. World Cafe is produced by WXPN, the public radio service of the University of Pennsylvania.

Paul is research professor and director of the College of Social Work Office of Research and Public Service and became a UT faculty member in 1972. At that time, he was teaching a course on the People and Problems of Appalachian in the College of Social Work, which also was an elective for other helping profession academic programs. As the identified resource on the region at Appalachia’s largest university at a time when regional interest was growing, there were frequent requests for information from other universities. Since many of these requests related to the region’s music, it was difficult to admit that there was no traditional Appalachian music or bluegrass on the radio in Knoxville, one of the places central to the existence of Appalachian music.

Chris Lehman graduated from Temple University with a journalism degree in 1997. He landed his first job less than a month later, producing arts stories for Red River Public Radio in Shreveport, Louisiana. Three years later he headed north to DeKalb, Illinois, where he worked as a reporter and announcer for NPR–affiliate WNIJ–FM. In 2006 he headed west to become the Salem Correspondent for the Northwest News Network.

Eric Athas is a Digital News Specialist at NPR Digital Services where he assists in the development of NPR's member station training and product initiatives, with a focus on social media.