We're back with another bonus for the kids of Rutherford County.

When you listen to the show, you might not realize that the musical scoring also has its roots in Tennessee.

We want to enrich your listening, so we asked Maribon Knight to share more about what goes into this part of the storytelling.

She joined in conversation about the podcast's musical

score with Celia Gregory. She's a host on Nashville Public Radio's music discovery station, WNXP.

This conversation first broadcast over the radio and has been edited for you in this feed.

It is half past eight, and I know many of you are probably driving to work.

If you have chosen to listen to the radio, I really appreciate that because we know you

have a lot of options when you commute, and you might actually be listening to podcasts more

than you listen to the radio these days.

That's okay, because here in the Nashville Public Radio family, we have lots of podcasts,

too. And in fact, Mara Benight has

joined me this morning to talk about her recent project. When I say recent, I'm talking about years,

labor of love recent, but it's recently out. All four episodes now can be streamed wherever you get

your podcasts, and it's called the Kids of Rutherford County. Merrow, thanks for joining me this morning.

Thank you so much for having me, Celia. I've been binging this.

It's not hard to do, just the four episodes, but really easy to want to know what's happening

next with this podcast.

Can you tell folks that maybe don't know a thing about it about this project and how it came

to fruition, not that it's in the world?

Yeah.

So this is a collaboration. It's a great, exciting collaboration between Nashville Public Radio, the New York Times, and Serial and ProPublica.

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