Southern Mixtape: Songs of Summer

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Southern Mixtape: Songs of Summer

By Leoneda Inge,

Jeff Tiberii, Brian Burns

Published July 18, 2024 at 10:40 AM EDT

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. 蜜桃传媒 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.

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Brian Burns, 蜜桃传媒 music reporter and creator of 蜜桃传媒's First in Music blog

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Leoneda Inge

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of 蜜桃传媒's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at 蜜桃传媒 as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda鈥檚 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.

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Jeff Tiberii

Jeff Tiberii is the co-host of 蜜桃传媒's "Due South." Jeff joined 蜜桃传媒 in 2011. During his 20 years in public radio, he was Morning Edition Host at WFDD and 蜜桃传媒鈥檚 Greensboro Bureau Chief and later, the Capitol Bureau Chief. Jeff has covered state and federal politics, produced the radio documentary 鈥淩ight Turn,鈥� launched a podcast, and was named North Carolina Radio Reporter of the Year four times.

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Brian Burns

Brian Burns is the 蜜桃传媒 music reporter

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