Sounds Southern immerses listeners in the tranquil and vibrant field recordings of North Mississippi’s hill country. Each episode, presented by recordist Alice Pierotti, offers a 20-minute journey into the soothing sounds of nature in the rural south, from dancing leaves to distant birdcalls.For those who wish to delve deeper, Sounds Southern Extended subscribers gain exclusive access to complete recordings, ranging from 30 to 120 minutes, perfect for relaxation, meditation or background ambience.Recorded on the land of the Woodland and Middle Mississippian peoples, the Chickasaw and the Mississippi Band of the Choctaw Indians.....www.soundssouthern.com Hosted on Acast. See ac...
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Sep 29, 2026 · 21:11
Recorded on September 3, 2026 at the dogtrot, this is the sound of morning in the fall garden. Crickets and grasshoppers are bursting with life, while dozens of Ruby-throated…
Sep 22, 2026 · 22:35
Recorded on September 11, 2026 on the sleeping porch, this is the sound of scattered thundershowers moving across the pasture beneath a particularly colorful sunset. Listeners…
Sep 15, 2026 · 21:03
Recorded on September 4, 2026 at the dogtrot, this is the sound of a late-summer night chorus beneath a sky full of stars and waxing gibbous moon. Crickets and katydids fill the…
Sep 8, 2026 · 22:08
Recorded on September 6, 2026 in the Cold Springs woods, this is the sound of a dawn chorus beneath a setting waning crescent moon. Chirping crickets provide a steady rhythm as…
Sep 4, 2026 · 19:36
Recorded on August 30, 2026 at the prairie remnant along Cold Springs Road, this is the sound of a dawn chorus of insects and birds as summer begins to loosen its grip on the…
Sep 1, 2026 · 21:30
Recorded on August 28, 2026 at the dogtrot, this is the sound of a late-summer morning chorus as the first wave of Ruby-throated Hummingbird migration brings a growing charm of…
Aug 28, 2026 · 20:03
Recorded on August 26, 2026 on the sleeping porch, this is the sound of a late-summer night chorus while the Night-blooming Cereus, also known as Queen of the Night, is in bloom.…
Aug 25, 2026 · 25:03
Recorded on August 21, 2026 on the sleeping porch, this is the sound of a late-summer thunderstorm breaking a weeklong heat wave. Big thunderheads build at sundown, sending…
Aug 21, 2026 · 20:58
Recorded on August 16, 2026 at the dogtrot, this is the sound of a summer morning in the middle of an August heat wave. The steady trill of field crickets provides a backdrop for…
Aug 18, 2026 · 21:27
Recorded on August 12, 2026 on the Way Out West Deck, this is the sound of a nighttime insect chorus beneath the Perseid meteor shower and a dark new moon sky. The rhythmic…
Aug 14, 2026 · 21:20
Recorded on August 7, 2026 on the sleeping porch at the dogtrot, this is the sound of a late afternoon pop-up thundershower, one of those sudden Mississippi summer storms born…
Aug 11, 2026 · 21:27
Recorded on August 8, 2026 at the dogtrot, this is the sound of late-summer dawn as blue hour gives way to first light. After an evening of rainshowers, the morning begins cool…
Aug 7, 2026 · 21:01
Recorded on Aug 6, 2026 in the prairie remnants along Cold Springs Road, this is the sound of an insect chorus on a warm August night. Listeners will hear bush and tree katydids,…
Aug 4, 2026 · 20:01
Recorded on July 26, 2026 at Wall Doxey State Park in Holly Springs, this is the sound of a summer night chorus of insects and amphibians. The stars of the night are a colony of…
Jul 31, 2026 · 24:05
Recorded on July 26, 2026 on the sleeping porch at the dogtrot, this is the sound of a gentle summer rainshower. Listeners will hear soft rain falling on the metal roof and rain…
Jul 28, 2026 · 21:04
Recorded on July 26, 2026 at Spring Lake, this is the sound of a summer night at the 60-acre spring-fed lake at Wall Doxey State Park. Beneath a 95% waxing gibbous moon reflected…
Jul 24, 2026 · 28:27
Recorded on July 19, 2026 at the woods' edge around Bullfrog Pond, this is the sound of the first birdsong in the pre-dawn. Against a backdrop of steadily trilling crickets and…
Jul 21, 2026 · 20:35
Recorded on July 20, 2026 at the dogtrot, this is the sound of hot summer day giving way to hot summer night. As the last birds finish their evening songs, katydids, cicadas and…
Jul 14, 2026 · 21:15
Recorded on July 12, 2026 on the sleeping porch, this is the sound of a light rainshower at daybreak. Rain falls gently on the metal roof while crickets and katydids yield to the…
Jul 10, 2026 · 20:08
Recorded on July 8, 2026 on the sleeping porch, this is the sound of summer dawn chorus in the pasture. A Meadow Katydid, perhaps an Agile Meadow Katydid, is heard in the…
Jul 7, 2026 · 21:02
Recorded on July 6, 2026 at the dogtrot, this is the sound of the July dawn chorus. Eastern Bluebird and Northern Cardinal greet the morning, joined by Blue Grosbeak, Eastern…
Jul 3, 2026 · 37:15
Recorded on June 29, 2026 at Heart Place, this is the sound of the summer insect chorus under a rising full Strawberry Moon. Listeners will hear an extended recording of evening…
Jun 30, 2026 · 20:21
Recorded on June 20, 2026, this is the sound of a late afternoon thundershower bringing a deep, soaking rain to the hill country. Sounds Southern Extended listeners will hear…
Jun 26, 2026 · 20:41
Recorded on June 19, 2026 at the dogtrot, this is the sound of afternoon thunder as pop-up storms gather over the hill country. The garden is buzzing with birds and bees. Orchard…
Jun 23, 2026 · 20:41
Recorded on June 20, 2026 at the dogtrot, this is the sound of an afternoon rainshower settling over the pasture. The light summer shower seems to please the birds, who continue…
Jun 19, 2026 · 22:00
Recorded on June 18, 2026 at the dogtrot, this is the sound of a summer insect chorus of katydids, crickets and cicadas. Overhead, a slender waxing crescent moon hangs above the…
Jun 16, 2026 · 20:56
Recorded on June 13, 2026 at the dogtrot on the Moonpie Deck, this is the sound of the summer dawn chorus in the garden. Crickets greet the morning alongside the buzz of…
Jun 12, 2026 · 19:56
Recorded on May 31, 2026 on the sleeping porch, this is the sound of a midnight rainshower. Crickets and frogs continue their nighttime chorus as rain dances across the metal…
Jun 9, 2026 · 22:05
Recorded on May 20, 2026 in the woods at Cold Springs, this is the sound of an evening frog chorus following a day of rain and warm temperatures. As darkness settles over the…
Jun 5, 2026 · 25:33
Recorded on May 31, 2026 at Heart Place, this is the sound of the dawn chorus in the pasture near Heart Pond. As the first light spreads across the field, Indigo Bunting, Wood…
Jun 2, 2026 · 21:32
Recorded on May 20, 2026 at Sardis Lake after a day of rain, this is the sound of a late-spring frog chorus. Barking Treefrogs, whose short, hollow calls resemble the bark of a…
May 29, 2026 · 19:55
Recorded on May 9, 2026 on the Way Out West deck, this is the sound of the dawn chorus as the last of the spring warblers move through the hill country. A Prairie Warbler takes…
May 26, 2026 · 22:04
Recorded on May 18, 2026 at Sardis Lake, this is the sound of a group of Chuck-will’s-widows, also known as an invisibility, calling through the night as the sun sinks below the…
May 22, 2026 · 21:57
Recorded on April 25, 2026 in a field along the Little Tallahatchie River, this is the sound of morning birdsong as the rising sun slowly burns away the fog from the river bottom…
May 19, 2026 · 20:19
Recorded on April 25, 2026 in the river bottom at an unnamed creek that empties into the Little Tallahatchie River, this is the sound of a slow-moving creek and the early morning…
May 15, 2026 · 21:51
Recorded on April 25, 2026 at Belmont along the Little Tallahatchie River, this is the sound of the dawn chorus while the river bottom is socked in with heavy fog. As moisture…
May 12, 2026 · 23:38
Recorded on May 1, 2026 at Heart Place, this is the sound of a nighttime chorus at Bullfrog Pond under May’s Full Flower Moon, also known as the Frog Moon. Spring Crickets and…
May 8, 2026 · 21:44
Recorded on April 20, 2026 at the bluff at the old river town of Belmont where artesian springs flow from the hills and meet up with Little Tallahatchie River bottom, this is the…
May 5, 2026 · 21:11
Recorded on April 23, 2026 on the sleeping porch at the dogtrot, this is the sound of night under the Lyrid meteor shower. Crickets and Southern Cricket Frogs provide a steady…
May 1, 2026 · 23:42
Recorded on April 20, 2026 at Belmont in the river bottom along the Little Tallahatchie River, this is the sound of dawn chorus at the peak of migration season. The recording…
Apr 28, 2026 · 20:05
Recorded on April 20, 2026 at sunrise along the Little Tallahatchie River, this is the sound of peak spring migration. The morning, covered in fog along the river bottom, builds…
Apr 24, 2026 · 24:29
Recorded on April 17, 2026 in the Cold Springs woods, this is the sound of a spring morning full of birdsong. Migrating and resident warblers dominate the scene, with a trio of…
Apr 21, 2026 · 19:52
Recorded on April 12, 2026 at Cold Springs, this is the sound of sunrise in the cypress swamp. Newly arrived Prothonotary Warbler, Louisiana Waterthrush and Swainson’s Warbler…
Apr 17, 2026 · 21:54
Recorded on April 10, 2026 at Heart Place, this is the sound of a spring night under a third-quarter moon. Listeners will hear the distant howl of a lone coyote alongside the…
Apr 14, 2026 · 21:31
Recorded on April 12, 2026 at Clear Springs, this is the sound of the dawn chorus along the Little Tallahatchie River at the swamp's edge. The steady trickle of artesian springs…
Apr 10, 2026 · 23:17
Recorded on April 7, 2026 at the old townsite of Belmont along the Little Tallahatchie River, this is the sound of spring serenading warblers and vireos. Some are pausing in the…
Apr 7, 2026 · 24:52
Recorded on April 4, 2026 on the sleeping porch, this is the sound of a gentle evening spring rain falling on the metal roof and onto the raindrum as crickets sing and Southern…
Apr 3, 2026 · 20:38
Recorded on March 30, 2026 at Heart Place, this is the sound of the sundown chorus at the woods edge, with violet wood-sorrel in full bloom beneath a stand of loblolly pines.…
Mar 31, 2026 · 20:23
Recorded on March 30, 2026 at Heart Place, this is the sound of night noises at blue hour. Listeners will hear a mixture of crickets in the pasture including the Southern Wood…
Mar 27, 2026 · 20:31
Recorded on March 22, 2026, at the woods edge surrounding Bullfrog Pond, this is the sound of a dawn song of new migrants and year-round residents preparing for spring. An…
Mar 24, 2026 · 21:49
Recorded on March 7, 2026 at the dogtrot after an afternoon of thundershowers, this is the sound of Spring Peepers calling with their high, exuberant “peeeep” alongside the…
Mar 20, 2026 · 21:06
Recorded on January 24, 2026 at Heart Place, this is the sound of the first day of Winter Storm Fern as sleet and ice begin to fall across the hill country. Even as the storm…
Mar 17, 2026 · 21:26
Recorded on March 14, 2026 on the sleeping porch, this is the sound of a returning pair of Northern Rough-winged Swallows arriving at Heart Place, where they have successfully…
Mar 13, 2026 · 22:27
Recorded on March 4, 2026 at the dogtrot, this is the sound of gusty March winds carrying in thunderclouds as blue hour settles over the pond and pasture while Spring peepers and…
Mar 10, 2026 · 21:16
Recorded on March 7, 2026 at the dogtrot on the sleeping porch, this is the sound of an afternoon long thundershower on the sleeping porch. Light to medium rains fall on the…
Mar 6, 2026 · 20:44
Recorded on February 27, 2026 at the dogtrot on the sleeping porch, this is the sound of the dawnchorus in the pasture The dense morning fog carries sound across the pond and…
Mar 3, 2026 · 20:55
Recorded on February 28, 2026 at Heart Pond, this is the sound of a late winter frog chorus as dusk settles over the pasture. Sounds Southern Extended listeners can enjoy more…
Feb 27, 2026 · 24:16
Recorded on February 21, 2026 on the Way Out West Deck, this is the sound of a late winter afternoon marked by steady soothing birdsong. Voices in the recording include Carolina…
Feb 24, 2026 · 20:50
Recorded on February 18, 2026 in the woods at Cold Springs, this is the sound of the first stirrings of early spring as frogs emerge from winter hibernation. Among the season’s…
Feb 17, 2026 · 21:58
Recorded on January 24, 2026 at the dogtrot on the Way Out West deck, this is the sound of the first winter precipitation arriving with Winter Storm Fern. Sleet and freezing rain…
Jan 23, 2026 · 23:41
Recorded on January 18, 2026 at Heart Place, this is the sound of a dawn chorus at the woods edge circling Bullfrog Pond. An Eastern Gray Squirrel moves through the canopy as…
Jan 20, 2026 · 21:21
Recorded on January 2, 2026 on the sleeping porch, this is the sound of a gentle winter rain playing a soft melody on the raindrum ad metal roof, accompanied by winter birdsong.…
Jan 16, 2026 · 20:35
Recorded on January 7, 2026 at the dogtrot, this is the sound of a morning chorus rising through dense fog that lingered over the hill country well into midday. Winter birdsong…
Jan 13, 2026 · 20:41
Recorded on January 10, 2026 in the early morning hours following an unseasonably warm winter day in the 70s, this is the sound of a gentle rain falling on the metal roof of the…
Jan 9, 2026 · 20:56
Recorded on January 3, 2026 at Sardis Lake, this is the sound of waterfowl and wading birds beneath the light of the full January supermoon, also known as the Wolf Moon.…
Jan 6, 2026 · 20:30
Recorded on January 3, 2026 at the dogtrot, this is the sound of the dawn chorus beneath the first full moon of the year, a bright winter supermoon. As night gives way to…
Jan 2, 2026 · 21:34
Recorded on December 22, 2025 at Enid Lake, this is the sound of gentle waves under gray winter skies as a flock of Bonaparte’s Gulls feeds on a small school of fish near the…
Dec 30, 2025 · 24:34
Recorded on December 24, 2025 at the dogtrot, this is the sound of field crickets singing and a distant Great Horned Owl hooting in the woods below the dogtrot. As blue hour…
Dec 26, 2025 · 20:50
Recorded on December 18, 2025 at the dogtrot, this is the sound of rain on the sleeping porch at the close of a winter thundershower as sunset light fades and raindrops tap the…
Dec 23, 2025 · 20:23
Recorded on December 21, 2025 on the shores of Enid Lake, this is the sound of gentle waves lapping softly along the shoreline. The steady rhythm creates a calming green noise…
Dec 19, 2025 · 20:15
Recorded on December 14, 2025 in the wooded swamp at Belmont, this is the sound of a quiet winter afternoon as brisk breezes move through towering bald cypress and water tupelo…
Dec 16, 2025 · 21:10
Recorded on November 17, 2025 at Heart Place, in the woods surrounding Bullfrog Pond, this is the sound of a late autumn chorus of crickets singing from the fall grasses. Wind…
Dec 12, 2025 · 21:28
Recorded on November 24, 2025 at the dogtrot, in the woods circling Bullfrog Pond, this is the sound of a late autumn morning alive with delicate birdsong as winter migrants…
Dec 9, 2025 · 20:47
Recorded on December 1, 2025 on the sleeping porch during evening blue hour, this is the sound of dripfall from the blackjack oaks and soft drizzle on the porch's metal roof…
Dec 2, 2025 · 20:43
Recorded on November 23, 2025 at Heart Place, this is the sound of the bird chorus at dawn. Sounds Southern Extended listeners will hear twenty minutes of a Great Horned Owl’s…
Nov 25, 2025 · 20:57
Recorded on November 22, 2025 on the sleeping porch at the dogtrot, this is the sound of a perfect fall day for migrating birds. Winter species are arriving in the hill country…
Nov 18, 2025 · 20:26
Recorded on November 11, 2025, from the Way Out West deck, this is the sound of wind pushing out an early-season cold front that dropped temperatures below freezing for two…
Nov 11, 2025 · 22:45
Recorded on October 26, 2025, on the sleeping porch, this is the sound of an all-night rain moving in under a bruised, green-tinged sky. The eerie color comes from sunlight…
Nov 4, 2025 · 20:53
Recorded on October 27, 2025, at Sardis Lower Lake, this is the sound of crickets singing in the shoreline grasses as the day fades. The soft pink noise of their steady rhythm…
Oct 28, 2025 · 20:58
Recorded on October 26, 2025, at Heart Place after a weekend of steady rain, this is the sound of dripfall from the mockernut hickory and the rising chorus of crickets as evening…
Oct 24, 2025 · 25:53
Recorded on October 23, 2025, at the dogtrot, this is the sound of a breezy autumn day in the pasture.The wind rustles through the leaves of a giant Southern Red Oak in a mast…
Oct 21, 2025 · 20:37
Recorded on October 18, 2025, from the sleeping porch, this is the sound of an approaching thunderstorm in a squall line that swept across the Southeast, dropping more than three…
Oct 17, 2025 · 21:00
Recorded on September 15, 2025, from the Way Out West deck, this is the sound of the first in a line of pop-up showers that ushered in an evening of rain and thunder. Listeners…
Oct 14, 2025 · 20:41
Recorded on October 9, 2025, from the sleeping porch at the dogtrot, this is the sound of a Northern Mockingbird establishing its winter territory in a meadow alive with blooming…
Oct 10, 2025 · 20:59
Recorded on October 6, 2025, from the Way Out Deck, this is the sound of a Barred Owl establishing his winter territory in the woods behind the dogtrot. After a day of rain, the…
Oct 7, 2025 · 20:53
Recorded on October 4, 2025, at the dogtrot, this is the sound of morning blue hour filled with crickets and the resonant call of a male Great Horned Owl, whose deep stuttering…
Oct 3, 2025 · 21:41
Recorded on September 15, 2025, on the Moonpie Deck, this is the sound of a charm of Ruby-throated Hummingbirds gorging on nectar in the wild medicine garden. This feeding…
Sep 30, 2025 · 21:05
Recorded on September 15, 2025, on the sleeping porch, this is the sound of a fall evening with distant rolling thunder and a steady chorus of crickets as a storm approaches.…
Sep 26, 2025 · 20:50
Recorded on August 30, 2025, at Belmont along the Tallahatchie River, this is the sound of a season in transition. Dog-day cicadas buzz from the treetops while the last of the…
Sep 23, 2025 · 21:48
Recorded on September 22, 2025, at the Belmont swamp, this is the sound of the wetlands after a rainshower. Crickets set the backdrop as Tufted Titmouse, Common Yellowthroat,…
Sep 19, 2025 · 21:00
Recorded on September 15, 2025, on the Way Out West Deck, this is the sound of the last drops of an evening thundershower fading as crickets and katydids weave their night song…
Sep 16, 2025 · 20:43
Recorded on August 29, 2025 at the dogtrot, this is the sound of a quenching garden rain shower accompanied by a charm of lively finches at the feeders. Raindrops patter on the…
Sep 9, 2025 · 20:04
Recorded on August 30, 2025, in the pasture at Heart Place, this is the sound of a cricket chorus at blue hour giving way to dawn where heavy dew blankets the pasture and the…
Sep 5, 2025 · 20:50
Recorded on August 30, 2025, at Belmont on the Tallahatchie River, this is the sound of an early morning bird chorus featuring year-round residents alongside others preparing for…
Sep 2, 2025 · 21:03
Recorded on Aug 28, 2025 on the sleeping porch, this is the sound of a late summer sundown as a pop-up shower moves out of the area. The background rhythm of field crickets and…
Aug 26, 2025 · 20:42
Recorded on August 22, 2025 at the dogtrot under a rising Black Moon, the rare third new moon in a season of four, this is the sound of a steady drone of katydids, field & tree…
Aug 19, 2025 · 20:19
Recorded August 14, 2025 at the dogtrot, this is the sound of gentle rain on the metal roof with distant rolling thunder, joined by an assortment of field and tree crickets and…
Aug 12, 2025 · 22:50
Recorded on August 10, 2025, from the Way Out West deck, this is the sound of the dawn chorus as blue hour shifts into sunrise under the full August “Flying Up” moon—named by…
Aug 8, 2025 · 24:43
Recorded on July 29, 2025, on the Way Out West deck, this is the sound of morning in the meadow and the distinctive call of the Red-headed Meadow Katydid—a powerful, rapid tick…
Aug 5, 2025 · 20:37
Recorded on July 8, 2025, this is the sound of a gentle rain falling on the west deck and metal roof of the dogtrot as distant thunder rolls across the river bottom. Dusk-singing…
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