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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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Tim O'Brien / Charlie Bob's

The String ·

2017/05/01

He’s a singer and a songwriter, a fiddle and mandolin master, a band leader and a valued collaborator. Tim O’Brien has few peers in his influence on American roots music over the past 40 years. He formed the band Hot Rize in 1978 in Boulder CO with banjo player Pete Wernick, guitarist Charles Sawtelle and bass player Nick Forster. That quartet became arguably the most popular and influential bluegrass band of the 1980s and Hot Rize inspired a vibrant bluegrass scene in Colorado with its own strains

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John Oates / Record Store Day

The String ·

2017/04/18

In his new memoir Change of Season, John Oates describes his journey from the suburbs of Philadelphia to the heights of superstardom in the 1980s and 90s as half of Hall & Oates. The duo released seven platinum albums and reached the Billboard Hot 100 34 times in a career stretching back to 1973. But the John Oates heard here, in a live interview at the Nashville Public Library, is an artist seeking his muse with total freedom. And that’s a sound that’s fit right in with Nashville’s songwriting

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Guy Davis

The String ·

2017/04/12

A photograph taken around 1960 appeared recently at Ebony magazine’s website featuring renowned actors and activists Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee with their three kids at an anti-war protest. One of those kids – about six years old – is Guy Davis. He made the cardboard signs that the family is carrying. Guy Davis, now 64 years old, still has a lot to say as one of America's finest blues musician and folk singers. Traditional acoustic blues is arguably the bedrock of American popular music, but even in

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Alison Krauss

The String ·

2017/04/03

Bluegrass music has produced a few mainstream hits and cultural moments, from The Beverly Hillbillies to O Brother, Where Art Thou? But the genre has never generated a crossover star like Alison Krauss. Since her debut album in 1987, Krauss has never stopped performing hot and heavy bluegrass music, but of course she's spread her stylistic wings wide, achieving a historically original flavor of adult contemporary pop and folk. Her jaunt with Robert Plant caught folks by surprise in 2007 but it

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Raul Malo

The String ·

2017/03/28

No way could this happen today. There once was a band from Miami that got signed to a major label country record deal - on the history making MCA Records, circa 1992. And not only did this eclectic quartet serve up a debut album infused with Tex Mex, Latin, R&B and Bakersfield country music, its title track From Hell To Paradise, was a political song about the plight of Cubans struggling to make the 90 mile trip from a life of limits to one of infinite possibilities. The singer and writer of that

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Derek Trucks / DART

The String ·

2017/03/21

If anyone was born and raised to lead American roots music into the 21st century it was Derek Trucks. HIs name was lifted from an Eric Clapton album and by eleven years old it was clear he was a prodigy guitar player. His uncle Butch played drums for the Allman Brothers and his father was the band's road manager. So Derek grew up surrounded by a who's who of creative, improvising musicians. And at age 19, after years of sitting in, he was named an official member of that legendary band. Trucks has

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Natalie Hemby

The String ·

2017/03/21

She has one foot on Music Row, where she's won an ACM award and scored hits for Miranda Lambert and Little big Town. She has another in Americana, where she's earned acclaim for her debut album, a portrait of small town values and her own heart called Puxico. Natalie Hemby is my guest. Puxico is the name of a one-stoplight town in southeastern Missouri where Natalie Hemby spent summers and weekends all through the years she grew up in Nashville, TN. And starting about a decade ago, she launched a

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Alejandro Escovedo

The String ·

2017/03/14

Alejandro Escovedo was born into a musical family in San Antonio Texas. Where his older siblings and father pursued Mexican music, he dove into rock and roll. His San Francisco punk band The Nuns played dates with The Ramones and the Sex Pistols. He moved to Austin where he emphasized songwriting and formed early roots rock bands Rank and File and The True Believers. Then through a solo career and enthusiastic collaborations he took on the status of an underground icon. In 1998, No Depression

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54:05

Mike Mills of R.E.M

The String ·

2017/03/13

The jangle, the murmur, the pulse and the passion. Between 1980 and 2011 a kinetic, iconoclastic quartet from the Deep South reshaped American rock and roll. They were REM. Melodic but visceral. Ever-shifting but consistently excellent. Their bass player and harmony vocalist Mike Mills is my guest. The occasion for this special edition of The String is the 25th anniversary of the album that elevated REM from an extremely popular and respected alternative rock band to global superstars. 1991's Out Of

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54:05

Bobby Rush

The String ·

2017/03/13

Few performers in American music have toiled for so many years before earning widespread acclaim and respect as Bobby Rush. Rolling Stone dubbed Rush King of the Chitlin' Circuit. Martin Scorsese featured him in his 2003 documentary The Blues. In 2006 he was named to the Blues Hall of Fame, and in 2015, he was named BB King Entertainer of the Year, one week before King himself, a close friend of Rush, passed away. But Bobby Rush is not coasting. He's plays between 100 and 200 dates a year with a big

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Sam Bush and Bill Monroe

The String ·

2017/03/13

Sam Bush has been officially certified by his home state of KY as a musical legend - The Father of Newgrass Music - and he won a lifetime achievement award from the Americana Music Association. There's nothing he hasn't achieved or proven in the studio, on the stage or in life. He's beaten cancer twice, and even written a song about it with the late Guy Clark. That and a bunch of other self-revealing songs are on his new album - his first in five years - called Storyman. We'll talk about that and

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