Craig Havighurst
Writer and Host at WMOT-FM (Murfreesboro, TN)
Writer at String Theories
Writer. Ed. Dir. @WMOT_RootsRadio. Host: The String and Old Fashioned. Journal/newsletter: https://t.co/2Jb4y3TmDu. Stream to discover; buy what you love.
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1 week ago |
wmot.org | Craig Havighurst
In a time of venue upheaval and cozy old dives giving way to shiny towers, Nashville’s Springwater Supper Club And Lounge seems immortal. It claims to be the oldest continuously operating bar in Tennessee, with a birth year of 1893, and who am I to disbelieve? The three promises by the door are verifiable: Live Music, Cold Beer, Cash Only. Glad I had a twenty tucked in my wallet for Olivia Wolf’s show on a frozen night in late February.
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2 weeks ago |
wmot.org | Craig Havighurst
Last year, the biggest-ever study of the health of Nashville music venues (we reported on it here) found a scene full of challenges. “Real estate and other costs are becoming increasingly expensive, making new venues hard to start,” it said. But you can’t keep a good Music City down, and recent months have seen several openings, conspicuously Skinny Dennis in East Nashville and the Pinnacle downton, with more to come. Others have considered moving.
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3 weeks ago |
wmot.org | Craig Havighurst
There are home studios and official studios that feel homey, but to answer the question how homey can one studio get, you’d want to visit Silent Desert Studio in Nolensville, TN. It’s built in the producer/owner’s former home, next to his family’s new home, and artists can stay there while they’re working.
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1 month ago |
wmot.org | Craig Havighurst
How appropriate for our third birthday edition of The Old Fashioned that the most newsworthy album in the bluegrass and fiddle band business is one dedicated to our patron saint, John Hartford. To recap, Hartford’s family and local musicians authored the Mammoth Collection of Fiddle Tunes book in 2018. Then in 2020 came the John Hartford Fiddle Tune Project, Vol. 1, which brought to life some of those original compositions. Now, Vol.
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1 month ago |
wmot.org | Craig Havighurst
In the never ending and sometimes awkward dance of art and commerce, some creators are lighter on their feet than others. Take Adam Wright, who’s been writing songs for Music Row publishers for two decades. Hits for the bro radio? Not his lane. But lovingly literate songs beloved by masterful performers such as Lee Ann Womack, Alan Jackson, Brandy Clark and Bruce Robison? Yes, and that’s what it means I guess to be a “songwriter’s songwriter,” for good or for ill.
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