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The String

WMOT/Roots Radio 89.5 FM

The String is weekly think radio featuring conversations and features on culture, media and American music - anchored by veteran journalist and broadcaster Craig Havighurst. Music makers, enablers, instigators and documentarians are featured with enough time to go deep and burrow into issues, while letting the music play too. Music news, previews, Time Machine Tape and 90 Second Spins round out the hour.

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59:45

Norbert Putnam and Jon Langford

The String ·

2017/11/07

It’s hard to over-state the importance of Norbert Putnam to Southern music. As a teenager he was one of a handful of guys who built the legendary recording scene in Muscle Shoals from scratch. Working with a young Rick Hall and Tom Stafford, plus some fellow musicians, they figured out how to make records and then how to make hit records. And they made history. Then Putnam and several of his studio musician colleagues moved to Nashville and ushered in a new era when a swirl of genres from soul to

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59:14

Jerry Douglas w Porchlight Sessions

The String ·

2017/10/31

Jerry Douglas in the encyclopedias as the singular innovator of the Dobro, that horizontal acoustic slide guitar developed in the early 20th century. But that’s like calling Charlie Parker a saxophone player. Jerry is a consummate creator who found an unlikely muse and who made the most of it. Among the vast catalog, Douglas has recorded or performed with: Charlie Waller’s Country Gentlemen, The Whites, Ricky Skaggs, JD Crowe, Dolly Parton, Ray Charles, James Taylor, Garth Brooks, Elvis Costello,

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59:49

Luther Dickinson and Sam Gleaves

The String ·

2017/10/19

Since his band the North Mississippi Allstars broke out in the early 2000s, Luther Dickinson has been at the vanguard of an important roots music revival. Not only has he and his brother Cody championed a reconsideration of hill country blues, they've amplified the legacy of their father Jim Dickinson and his many contributions to the music of Memphis and its rural surroundings. They’ve collaborated widely and reached audiences that previously had little contact with deep African-American roots

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59:14

Ben Sollee and Kentucky Native w/ Wild Ponies

The String ·

2017/10/10

On the cover of Ben Sollee’s new album Kentucky Native, an astronaut with a pick axe on his shoulder looks at Earth from the surface of the moon, contemplating loneliness and the fragility of life. He’s the subject of the song “Moon Miner” on the artist’s thirteenth recording, one that does some mining of its own - of the Kentucky bluegrass tradition and of his state’s complicated economic and environmental evolution. In more than a decade of a multi-faceted career, Sollee has never settled into a

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01:01:34

Americanafest 2017: A Review

The String ·

2017/10/04

AmericanaFest 2017 is in the books, and it was large and loud. Fifty venues across Nashville. A new hotel headquarters. It felt the same yet different. We’re 18 years into this thing after all. It’s hard to discern trends from inside the belly of the beast. But in the hour ahead we’ll try. Five artists or groups from different generations and places on the musical spectrum talk about career, art, commerce, inclusion and exclusion and the elusive but cherished idea that is Americana music. In case

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55:22

Robert Greer of Town Mountain

The String ·

2017/09/22

The Great Smoky Mountains of Western NC are ancient but alive. The region gave us Charlie Poole, Doc Watson and now a cadre of diverse and important bands and artists working the many strains of regional roots in the venues around Asheville. Town Mountain is doing that for bluegrass music with a sound that’s old school and songs that tell a new generation’s story. Lead singer Robert Greer is my guest. The scene around Asheville boasts dozens of bands and artists, songwriting retreats, the basics

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59:14

A&R w Kim Buie plus Will Hoge

The String ·

2017/08/30

Kim Buie got into the music business through college radio. She’s worked in New York, Los Angeles and Nashville at a variety of record companies including some industry giants and some important indie labels. And she’s touched a lot of genres, working with artists as diverse as Tom Waits, the Butthole Surfers, Etta James and Richard Thompson. Starting about 15 years ago, she settled into the Americana/roots world as head of A&R for Lost Highway Records, home to Ryan Adams, Lucinda Williams and the

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59:14

New Stars of Bluegrass: Molly Tuttle, Casey Campbell,...

The String ·

2017/08/23

Bluegrass, more than any other genre of music I’ve ever seen, raises and nurtures its next generation of musicians and fans. Through festival culture, picking parties and families, kids get involved early and develop rapidly. And with each decade, it seems the prodigies are younger and better. It’s something else to watch. In this hour, interviews with three rising stars of bluegrass music. They’re young, hungry and really good. Molly Tuttle, Casey Campbell and Billy Strings are my guests. They

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59:14

Phil Madeira and John Lomax III

The String ·

2017/08/15

Music fans have seen and heard him on stage for years with Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris and others. He’s the guy with the pork pie hat (which the evidence will show he was wearing before it was a fad) playing the organ and the accordion. He’s also a successful producer and songwriter. His story is fascinating. His journey of faith is personal and challenging. And he’s one of Nashville’s deep thinkers and understated musical heroes. Phil Madeira is my guest. Madeira grew up in Barrington, Rhode

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54:08

Glen Campbell, An Appreciation

The String ·

2017/08/10

Glen Campbell, who died this week at age 81, rose from a sharecropper family in Delight AR to the pinnacle of American pop culture. He was a singer for the ages and a musician's musician. In this re-posting of a String episode from the Fall of 2016, Craig talks about Glen Campbell with his daughter Ashley, long time sideman and friend Carl Jackson and the filmmaker who documented Campbell's final tour and his life with Alzheimer's disease.

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59:22

Mac Gayden / Music Business Education

The String ·

2017/08/03

Mac Gayden was a Nashville native, with family roots that go back to the founding of the city. But his upper crust upbringing was no hindrance to his passion for African American music as a teenager. He snuck into R&B clubs on Jefferson Street in the 1950s and soaked up the late night sounds on WLAC radio. When he started working in studios and writing songs, he found himself comfortably and happily in the overlapping zone between soul, blues, country and R&B. Besides writing Everlasting Love with

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59:14

Danny Barnes / Jimmy Nalls

The String ·

2017/07/18

Danny Barnes became a major player in the evolution of alternative country music when his acoustic trio the Bad Livers broke out of Austin Texas. Danny, Mark Rubin and Ralph White wielded tuba, accordion, fiddle, upright bass and banjo in ways that might have been considered scandalous had they not been so creative, witty and cathartic. They toured with big punk bands and wrote smart, quirky songs. They were able to twist roots and bluegrass music so far by knowing and loving the genres so well

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59:14

Charlie Worsham / Susan Hubbard

The String ·

2017/07/12

It might be the most frustrating thing about Nashville. Periodically, a guy will emerge who’s obviously on par with the great country icons. This guy will write, sing and play guitar as if ordained. Everyone in town testify to his gifts. But this guy will spend years getting better instead of bigger. He will tend to his art while the industry struggles to find a box for him. He will be seen by some as too country for country radio and too country radio for Americana. I’m not alone in seeing that guy

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44:06

Bonus Episode w Noam Pikelny

The String ·

2017/06/26

In episode 26 we went deep on the banjo. I asked three leading contemporary players how they’d fallen for their instrument and what they thought about the state of the banjo in 2017. There is a LOT we did not and could not cover, including the African American origins of the banjo and its multi century journey through many genres of music. But there are great resources out there on that subject including the Earl Scruggs Center in Shelby NC and the American Banjo Museum in Oklahoma city. We were

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01:02:58

Talking Banjo with Noam Pikelny, Kristin Scott Benson...

The String ·

2017/06/25

In one of the early sequences of the celebrated new grateful dead documentary Long Strange Trip from Amazon studios, much is made of Jerry Garcia’s first real girlfriend. She’s feisty and adorable and ablaze with love for art and the bohemian life. She’s planning to make a life with Jerry until! He picks up the banjo and starts practicing hours a day. And she leaves him. Man I wish Jerry could see the roots music scene today. Banjo has been, to use a term that’s ubiquitous now in politics,

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01:01:15

Tommy Emmanuel / Bluegrass museums

The String ·

2017/06/12

Around 1970, a teenaged Tommy Emmanuel of New South Wales Australia wrote a fan letter to his guitar playing idol 10,000 miles away in Nashville. And Chet Atkins wrote him back with encouraging words. A couple of decades later, Tommy was performing and recording with Atkins, who recognized him with the honorary title of Certified Guitar Player. Tommy is an extraordinary fingerstyle guitarist, that’s for sure. In that he’s not alone, though he is clearly among the top in the world. What he has going

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59:14

Dave Roe / Paul Shaffer

The String ·

2017/06/08

One of the things I love about Nashville is a profound and pervasive respect for Music City’s studio and road musicians. Without them, the stars go out. The music stops. So from time to time here we zoom in on the lives and careers and thoughts of these working pickers. In the hour ahead, a bass player whose five decade journey has included work with Jerry Reed, Johnny Cash and Dan Auerbach. He’s the great Dave Roe. Roe arrived in Nashville in 1980 from his home state of Hawaii. He set songwriting

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59:14

Ruby Amanfu / Larry's Grand Ole Garage

The String ·

2017/05/29

Few artists have pursued as many musical directions with as many impressive collaborators as Ruby Amanfu. It’s not inaccurate to call her a Nashville singer songwriter but that old familiar term vastly overlooks Ruby’s complexities and subtleties. She’s a stylist and a visionary who challenges the distinctions between roots, pop and soul. You might well have seen her on national TV dueting with Jack White but that’s just one of her many fascinating pursuits. In 2015, Amanfu released Standing Still

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59:14

Aaron Lee Tasjan / Panos Panay

The String ·

2017/05/23

On the cover of his breakthrough album Silver Tears, Aaron Lee Tasjan is a zen looking rhinestone cowboy, blazing with light in a mirror ball suit. On the stereo, his music blazes with quirky observations, lush romanticism and psychedelia. He’s one of the most fascinating country rockers in Americana music, and this hour he sits down with a Nashville DJ who knows him well. Since moving to Music City in 2013 Aaron Lee Tasjan has grown in stature and renown in two simultaneous, mutually reinforcing

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59:59

Jonathan Taplin / Col. Bruce Hampton

The String ·

2017/05/09

The dream of a democratic internet has become a dystopia of unregulated monopolies. Creators are being devastated - deprived of their income and control by a handful of tech behemoths. That’s the analysis of Jonathan Taplin in the new book MOVE FAST AND BREAK THINGS: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy. Taplin is director emeritus of the Annenberg Innovation Lab at the University of Southern California. He’s had a wide-ranging career that began in the 1960s

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