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The String

WMOT/Roots Radio 89.5 FM

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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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Marcus and Jon have been helping people secure better retirements for over a decade in Kentucky. As fiduciary advisors, they focus on developing solid plans for their clients, rather than pitching products. The end result is a game plan that allows their clients to understand their risk, fees and income so they can accomplish their unique retirement goals. Each week they cover the impact of the financial market on retirement finances, from reducing investment fees, to eliminating taxes on in ...
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Have you ever wondered which songs have inspired your favourite artists? This is Three Tracks & The Truth, the new podcast from radio presenter Madeleine Molly, where the country music stars of today and tomorrow open up their playlists to the music that made them. Every artist brings three truths that they have learnt in their career, as well as the three tracks that have shaped them into the artist they are today, for an in-depth conversation spanning songwriting, the country music industr ...
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Episode 302: Joe Boyd is one of the most accomplished and eclectic record producers in the story of popular music. As an American living in London, he helped break psychedelic folk rock pioneers The Incredible String Band and worked with Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, and Fairport Convention. He founded Hannibal Records, giving a home to the solo career o…
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Episode 301: Americana music has been most conspicuously represented in the last few years by songwriting, band-leading artists, including Jason Isbell, Sierra Ferrell, and Billy Strings. Flash back to the origins of the alt-country and Americana movement, and the conversation was more often about bands, such as Son Volt, Whiskeytown, and the Old 9…
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FLORILEGIO’S MIXTAPE #24A tapestry of contemporary experimental and underground tracks from Florilegio’s worldwide network of female musicians.www.florilegio.orghttps://www.freeformfreakout.com/florilegio-mixtape-24/TRACKLIST:NEW YORK “Rapstar” Rapstar* – Side B (Relaxin Records) 00:06 – 01:01Violence Gratuite “Iséo” Baleine à Boss (Hakuna Kulala…
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Episode 300: When Gaby Moreno was announced as an official showcasing artist at this Fall’s Americanafest, it stirred a tingle of recognition in me, but I had to do some digging to realize what a big deal it was. The Guatemala-born, Los Angeles-based singer and songwriter became part of the Watkins Family Hour at Largo in LA and a regular on Chris …
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Episode #299: While the public has become hyper aware of Billy Strings on his rocket ride to the top of bluegrass, only a small retinue of the music’s traditional veteran artists have achieved popular name recognition. I think especially of Del McCoury and Ricky Skaggs. But there’s a deeper world there, and we should work a little harder to shine t…
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Episode 298: Molly Tuttle is the link in common between two exceptional breakout artists during an exciting era of bluegrass music. Bronwyn Keith-Hynes is the electrifying fiddle player in Tuttle’s band Golden Highway and a two time IBMA Fiddle Player of the Year. We get into her journey from Charlottesville, VA to school at Berklee to Nashville an…
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Episode 297: It’s an immigrant story like no other. JesseLee Jones pined for something bigger growing up in Sao Paulo, Brazil. He got glimpses of American music and a guitar, and with that a long journey began. After landing in the states, and getting robbed by the way, he found his way to a family in the midwest who took him in and helped him buil…
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Episode 296: With Americanafest landing in Nashville, Craig Havighurst looked over the many artists breaking out of Music City and got especially excited about Baltic Street Hotel by rocking songwriter Sophie Gault. It’ll be released on Friday, but Craig’s been listening for a few weeks and finds it rich with personal details, sharp melodies, and a…
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Episode 295: Stephanie Lambring’s new album - her second - is called Hypocrisy, and it blew me away on first listen because of the way its crafty, understated production set up some mind-jarring and elegantly sculpted lyrics. She’s a rural Indiana native whose writing talents in her early Nashville days led to a major publishing deal at 23. The Mus…
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Weekly Podcast #488 - We celebrate Carsen's birthday...and "James Van Der Beek Day"! Our friend, Evan, has a conspiracy theory about Jon Bon Jovi's recent heroic act. Plus, Miranda Lambert talks about her latest music, Lainey Wilson, and how her husband is a great cook!info@compassmedianetworks.com (Compass Media Networks) által
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Episode 294: Formed in Dallas in 1992, Old 97’s became one of the seminal bands of the alternative country movement, alongside Whiskeytown, Son Volt, the Bottle Rockets and BR549. At its heart was the longtime friendship of bass player Murry Hammond and guitarist/songwriter Rhett Miller. Remarkably, across 13 albums and millions of miles, Old 97’s …
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Episode 293: The conversation about Black influence on and presence in country music has been intense and restorative over the past decade, and nobody has a more authoritative or informed take on the subject than writer and scholar Alice Randall. She became the first Black woman to launch a career as a professional Music Row songwriter and publishe…
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Weekly Podcast #485 - It wouldn't be the podcast without UFO conspiracy talk! Also, Carsen LOVES the Mel Gibson version of "Maverick"! Plus, Lainey Wilson talks about her new album, "Whirlwind", how that is currently a metaphor of her life, and she discusses life with her boyfriend, Duck Hodges.info@compassmedianetworks.com (Compass Media Networks) által
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Episode 292: When singer Madeleine Peyroux released her breakout album Careless Love in 2004, her voice and phrasing, with echoes of Billie Holiday and Joni Mitchell, had more verve than the newly famous Norah Jones and more blues than Diana Krall. Her story was more remarkable than either. She’d basically run away from school as an American teenag…
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Episode 291: Thirty years into her late-blooming music career, Kim Richey feels like Americana music’s favorite aunt. She’s hip, youthful, incredibly kind and brimming with ideas and good words, many of which make it into fresh songs. She’s been co-writing a good bit lately, with the likes of Don Henry, Ashley Campbell and Aaron Lee Tasjan. New wor…
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Weekly Podcast #483 - As usual, the podcast goes all over the place! From Carsen's dating history to the Olympics to Big D explaining high-level Little League baseball to Bubba's (odd) podcast idea and his AI jingles, there is (hopefully) something for everyone!info@compassmedianetworks.com (Compass Media Networks) által
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Weekly Podcast #482 - Patrick stops by to visit! The crew discusses fallen trees, spooky season, and how you could tell certain folks had money. Plus, Gretchen Wilson celebrates the 20th anniversary of "Redneck Woman" and discusses her new single, "Little Miss Runner Up".info@compassmedianetworks.com (Compass Media Networks) által
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Episode 290: In a bit over a decade in Nashville, Kyshona has become a figure respected for her wisdom and valued as a songwriter/artist. Her 2020 album Listen, released just before the Covid shutdown, captured the zeitgeist of that troubled and strangely inspiring year, in part because a key part of the artist’s background and calling is music the…
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Weekly Podcast #480 - The crew discusses the global computer outage, the long-awaited College Football 25 game, and more! Plus, Drew Baldridge tells us the remarkable story around his historic single, "She's Somebody's Daughter".info@compassmedianetworks.com (Compass Media Networks) által
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This is Part 2 of Madeleine Molly's conversation with Nina Nesbitt... With over a decade in the music industry under her belt (including 2x UK Top 40 singles), Nina Nesbitt's journey as an artist has been on display for all to view. The Scottish singer-songwriter, first came to fame in 2013 with her EP "The Apple Tree" and subsequent 2014 album "Pe…
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With over a decade in the music industry under her belt (including 2x UK Top 40 singles), Nina Nesbitt's journey as an artist has been on display for all to view. The Scottish singer-songwriter, first came to fame in 2013 with her EP "The Apple Tree" and subsequent 2014 album "Peroxide", which went to #1 in her home country. Since then, she has rel…
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Episode 289: Ellen Angelico has emerged in the past few years as a go-to stringed instrument musician in the Americana and indie sectors of Nashville. Raised in Chicago, she was gigging in her teens, attended Berklee College of Music and came to Music City in 2010 with a full-time indie rock band spot. As she grew into more of a freelance life, Ell…
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Sam Palladio first became known under a different name: Gunnar Scott, the role he played in the hit ABC series Nashville, from 2012 to 2018. Since then, he has kept proving his acting chops with roles in "Episodes" as well as "Humans". Now, he is putting his music in the spotlight, with the release of his debut single "Meanwhile In London", taken f…
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Episode 288: In this special edition of The String, I present an audio postcard from Athens GA, a city of about 125,000 people just east of Atlanta that for forty years has been punching above its weight as a music city. As a teenager in the mid 1980s, I loved the B-52s and I about worshiped REM, and ever since, I’ve wondered what kind of place cou…
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Born in Iowa and now based in Brooklyn, Paisley Fields is apart of a generation of country artists using their platform to instigate change. Having toured with Queer country pioneers Lavender Country as well as releasing the duet "Burn The Statehouse Down" (in opposition to Tennessee's anti-Trans legislation), he is certainly walking the walk and c…
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Episode 287: Cris Jacobs has been tagged the “King of Baltimore rock and roll” by a leading local publication, but a quick look at his catalog and certainly his newest album suggests that and more. He made his name as a guitarist, songwriter and singer with The Bridge, a soulful jam band that toured the nation and overseas between 2000 and 2010. Hi…
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