EP.15 November 24, 2025.
Raul and Matt curate their first Sonic Dialog together featuring songs from Adele Oliver.
episode 1 with Goolarri Radio
LA based DJ and KCRW radio presenter Raul Campos is joined by Matthew Francis, AKA Matty J, proud First Nations Nyul Nyul and Bardi roots and station manager, producer and popular lunch-time broadcaster at 6GME Radio Goolarri 99.7 FM and Singer-songwriter Adele Oliver from Broome, Western Australia the first in a series of three episodes of Sonic Dialog. Adele shares her artists on the United States.
About 6GME Radio Goolarri 99.7 FM
Radio Goolarri first commenced broadcasting on ABC Regional Radio in August, 1991 with a one hour a week magazine program.
As the station developed and the skills of trainees flourished the station gradually increased its airtime to meet staff and community demand.
The station was eventually broadcasting 25 hours per week on ABC until it started to operate its own community radio license in July 1998 by broadcasting 24 hours a day. Radio Goolarri provides an avenue whereby social, cultural and political ideas and concerns can be expressed.
It is also an area where traditional language, music and culture can be fostered along with the more contemporary forms of artistic expression. It’s a place where Indigenous people can tell their own stories in their own way. It’s also a place for non-Indigenous and Indigenous people to come together.
About KCRW:
KCRW belong to Los Angeles, connecting diverse perspectives and the sounds of Southern California with curious communities around the corner and around the world. They are NPR’s flagship member station in Southern California and a community service of Santa Monica College.
Adele Oliver
Singer-songwriter, Adele Oliver, blends the rugged essence of the Kimberley into her earthy Alt-Country sound. Growing up in coastal Broome, Adele was inspired by local bands like The Pigram Brothers and Fitzroy Express, which sparked her love for music. After picking up a guitar, she found her voice, using song writing to make sense of the world. Her latest EP To Home and Heartbreak (2024) explores themes of love and loss.
The first single ‘Wiley Blue’ hit #24 on the Australian Country Airplay Chart and won the WA Country Music Award for ‘Songwriter of the Year.’ Adele’s 2025 national tour solidifies her place in the Australian country music scene.
Bella White
Made when she was still a teenager, Bella White’s debut album Just Like Leaving introduced the world to a truly one-of-a-kind musical talent: a finespun breed of country/folk both fresh in perspective and wholly steeped in bluegrass tradition, despite her upbringing in the Canadian city of Calgary.
As she began sketching songs for her sophomore full-length, the 22-year-old singer/songwriter followed her instincts toward an even more daring and singular form of self-expression, allowing herself a newly heightened sense of musical freedom.
“Even though I’m still so in love with bluegrass and that whole world, I wanted to figure out who these new songs were without trying to fit them into a particular style,” says White, a British Columbia-based musician who took up guitar at age eight and later learned to play banjo. “Once I started stepping outside those margins, it really opened the doors for me. I felt completely free to explore and experiment, without being held back by any preconceived ideas of what my music is supposed to be.”
Caroline Spence
A Nashville-based singer/songwriter with a gift for storytelling, Caroline Spence's thoughtful musings on human nature helped establish her in the national folk and Americana scene of the mid-2010s. Earning critical accolades and glowing respect from within the Music City songwriting community for her 2017 LP, Spades & Roses, she signed with and made her label debut with 2019's Mint Condition. Three years later, Spence delivered the spacious and deeply reflective True North.
A native of Charlottesville, Virginia, Spence emerged in 2013 with You Know the Feeling, a six-song EP of winsome, world-weary Americana and folk songcraft. That same year, she won American Songwriter's Lyric Contest and began establishing herself on the national festival and folk club circuit, picking up another win at the Kerrville Folk Festival in 2014 in advance of her acclaimed 2015 debut album, Somehow. Basing herself in Nashville, Spence earned a reputation for honest, introspective songwriting that transcended the lines of folk, country, and roots music, drawing comparisons to artists like and.
She returned in 2017 with Spades & Roses, her haunting follow-up album, after which she signed a contract with the well-established label. 2019's Mint Condition was her first outing for the label and featured a guest appearance from herself.
Gabe Lee
Equal parts classic songwriter and modern-day storyteller, Gabe Lee has built his own bridge between country, folk and rock. Lee has been collecting stories for years, both onstage and off.
With critically-acclaimed albums like 2019's farmland, 2020's Honky-Tonk Hell, and 2022's The Hometown Kid, Lee created a connection with his fanbase by delivering his own stories to an ever-growing audience. His fourth record, Drink the River, takes a different approach. This time, Lee isn't offering listeners a peek into his internal world; he's holding up a mirror to reflect their own.
Storytelling has been an anchor of Lee's music since the very beginning. He launched his career as a genre-bending musician after returning to Tennessee, quickly progressing from dive bar gigs to high-profile opening slots (including shows with Jason Isbell, Los Lobos, and other artists who, like him, blurred the lines between roots-rock, country, and other forms of American folk music) to his own headlining shows.
Throughout it all, he drew upon the narrative skills he'd sharpened as a student. If albums like Honky-Tonk Hell and The Hometown Kid often unfolded like autobiographical entries from his road journal, then Drink the River shows an even broader range of his storytelling abilities. Lee isn't just writing songs about himself; he's writing songs about all of us. And maybe, in doing so, he can bring us a little closer together.