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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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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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01:00:34

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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59:14

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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50:31

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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59:14

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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59:14

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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58:57

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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59:04

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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54:07

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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54:04

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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