TrueSouth

S01 E01 · 2018-09-18

Birmingham

Greek natives and their kin built the Birmingham restaurant scene, from barbecue joints to hotdog stands to steakhouses. Bright Star, founded in 1907, is the old guard and Johnny's is the new guard Greek restaurant.

S01 E02 · 2018-09-25

Athens

From Wright Thompson and John T. Edge, TrueSouth introduces viewers to Southern food and culture. The series takes viewers to two bedrock spots and explores various cities and their environs, getting to know good people through good food.

S01 E03 · 2018-10-02

Nashville

S01 E04 · 2018-10-09

Shreveport

S02 E01 · 2019-09-01

New Orleans

S02 E02 · 2019-10-06

Beaumont

S02 E03 · 2019-11-03

Hodgenville

S02 E04 · 2019-12-01

Memphis

S03 E01 · 2020-10-22

Oxford

S03 E02 · 2020-12-10

Brownsville, TN

S03 E03 · 2021-01-31

Fort Benning

S03 E04 · 2021-02-22

Bowman

S04 E01 · 2021-09-12

Scott

S04 E02 · 2021-10-10

Lake Village

S04 E03 · 2021-11-14

Mobile Bay

S04 E04 · 2021-12-05

St. Louis

S04 E05 · 2022-01-06

Mississippi River Road Trip

S05 E01 · 2022-09-11 · 25 min

Tompkinsville

S05 E02 · 2022-10-09

Madisonville

S05 E03 · 2022-11-13

Jackson, Miss.

S05 E04 · 2022-12-05

Brunswick

S05 E05 · 2023-01-15

Season Five, Episode Five

S06 E01 · 2023-10-10 · 30 min

Hot Springs

Season six begins in a bathhouse in Hot Springs, Ark., an odd and endearing resort town tucked in the Ouachita Mountains, west of Little Rock. Mobsters once caroused here. Major league teams traveled here for spring training. Hot Springs began as a spa. Scalding hot water, pushing up through those mountains, still draws pilgrims.

S06 E02 · 2023-10-24 · 30 min

The Black Belt

TrueSouth travels The Black Belt of Alabama, southwest of Tuscaloosa, to eat barbecue and witness what art makes possible. Visiting York, Gainesville, and Gee's Bend, we eat pig tails and pork ribs with pitmasters who bridge the gap between craft and art.

S06 E03 · 2023-11-06

St. Augustine

In search of Old Florida, walk the ice boxes at Kyle's Seafood to survey the catch and eat smoked mullet on the bed of a pickup; drink beer and talk about home at a beach bar with local author C.H. Hooks; and line up for a table at O'Steen's Restaurant to dunk fried shrimp in a datil pepper sauce that burns bright like a beach sunset.

S06 E04 · 2023-11-21 · 30 min

Dublin, GA

TrueSouth drives into Dublin, Ga., a postcard small town off the interstate between Savannah and Macon, with a courthouse square hot dog joint, a seven-decade-old soul food café, and a big story to tell about what it takes to face down the toughest of foes.

S06 E05 · 2023-12-05 · 30 min

Season Six, Episode Five

Host and writer John T Edge teaches a class on "Writing Place" for the Department of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Mississippi. To students, he says things like: Pretend your head is a camera. Capture the scenes that add up to the story. Our crew works to stay in scene, to let our viewers see and hear the South and its people, so that we can all better know the story of our region. This time out, we captured 13 scenes from our never-ending road trip.

S07 E01 · 2024-08-27 · 25 min

Oklahoma City

Season 7 kicks off in Oklahoma City, exploring the oil and cattle work that puts money in pockets and ribeyes on tables. Cattlemen's Steakhouse, open since 1910, sits hard by the Oklahoma National Stockyards. Junior's Supper Club, owned by the Shumsky family, does business at the bottom of mid-rise, where the light is always low and every hour is happy hour.

S07 E02 · 2024-09-10 · 26 min

Austin, Texas

Rudy Cisneros still looms large on the east side of Austin, TX, a city within this rapidly-changing city. At Cisco's, open since 1950, the migas and huevos rancheros are good as ever. Also on the east side, we track Kareem El-Ghayesh of KG BBQ, a new arrival from Cairo, Egypt, who has learned to two-step and introduced Texas to pomegranate-speckled ribs.

S07 E04 · 2024-10-08 · 25 min

Little Rock, Ark.

In Little Rock, AR, Jordan Narvaez introduces the crew to his people and places. They begin at El Super Pollo, the chicken al carbon tent he runs with his brother, set in front of their western wear store. Traveling southwestern Little Rock in Jordan's pickup, they drink micheladas, eat enchiladas in the style of San Luis Potosi, and slurp homemade watermelon ice cream.

S07 E05 · 2024-10-22 · 26 min

Jasper, Ala.

Jasper, AL, was, for the longest time, a coal mining town. Father-and-son stories from the Johnson and Evans families help the crew see what has changed and what has remained. Two restaurants serve as the lodestars: At Brown's Deli and Package Store they bake biscuits and sells half-pints. Across town at Bayou Fresh Seafood, Zhu Jianjun and his crew serve spicy tuna rolls and fried pickles.

S07 E06 · 2024-11-05 · 24 min

Upstate, S.C.

The team then went on to follow author George Singleton through the Upstate region of South Carolina, walking the aisles at a flea market in Pickens, eating chili dogs at Holmes Hot Dogs in Spartanburg and Saxon's Hot Dogs in Abbeville. George writes short stories for a living. He reminds them that TrueSouth shows are short stories about home, married to music and pictures.

S07 E07 · 2024-11-19 · 24 min

Season Seven, Episode Seven

The behind-the-scenes episode returns. Among the highlights: A rolling cocktail party, staffed by Jesse Edge, son of host John T Edge, who joined the crew this season as a production assistant. And an indulgent dinner of oysters on the half shell and royales with cheese at a new restaurant set behind an old train station, Elsie's Daughter in Chattanooga, TN.