WMOT-FM (Murfreesboro, TN)

WMOT is a radio station that broadcasts classical music, jazz, as well as news and talk shows, catering to the Nashville, Tennessee area. The station is owned by Middle Tennessee State University, which is situated in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Because of its location, WMOT provides the best and most reliable signal in Nashville and its neighboring counties. It operates under the name Middle Tennessee Public Radio.

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Olivia Wolf’s Winding, Deliberate Journey To A Country Breakout

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.
Skinny Dennis, The Pinnacle, And News From Our Favorite Venues

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.
A biotech company says it has bred three pups with traits of the extinct dire wolf

2 weeks ago | wmot.org | Joe Hernandez |Rob Stein

A biotech company says it has bred three animals with key physical features of the dire wolf — a species that has been extinct for more than 12,000 years. Colossal Biosciences says it used novel gene-editing technology to alter gray wolf DNA that led to the birth of the pups. Dire wolves recently featured prominently in the HBO series Game of Thrones.
Sean McConnell On 20 Years In The Biz And Showing New ‘Skin’

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.
The Old Fashioned #148

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.
Songwriter Adam Wright Offers An Epic, On The Installment Plan

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.
A new team and a new attitude, Lewis Hamilton cruises into the 2025 Formula 1 season

1 month ago | wmot.org | Olivia Hicks

The Piazza Castello typically hosts a smattering of tourists in the off-season as winter defrosts into spring. Earlier this month, the historic heart of Milan looked a little different as crimson lined the streets running through the city center innorthern Italy. The crowd wasn't a papal audience or political protest, but rather an inauguration of sorts for a new national icon. Lewis Hamilton, the British race car driver, had landed in Italy clad in a Ferrari-red racing suit.
Pete Bernhard On The ‘Spirits’ Powering The Devil Makes Three

1 month ago | wmot.org | Craig Havighurst

The Devil Makes Three formed in the wrong place at the wrong time, and it was perfect. Starting with early blues in the indie rock hotbed of Olympia, WA at the turn of the millennium, Pete Bernhard and Cooper McBean took their neo-primitive string band sound to Santa Cruz, CA, a city of punk and jam bands. That’s where, in 2001, they added Lucia Turino on upright bass and christened their trio with a lyric from a traditional folk song that was on the then-new O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack.
COVID is still evolving and will find new ways to evade immune systems, scientists say

1 month ago | wmot.org | Rob Stein

When the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic first emerged, many scientists thought it would evolve slowly, like other coronaviruses. But that was one of the first big surprises from the virus dubbed SARS-CoV-2. It evolved like crazy. "SARS-CoV-2 so far has probably been even faster than influenza virus, which is really remarkable," says Jesse Bloom, who studies viral evolution at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle.
The Old Fashioned #146

1 month ago | wmot.org | Craig Havighurst

When record man David Freeman was inducted into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame in 2002, he was celebrated for setting “high standards for recording, documenting, and producing artist projects, raising the bar for the entire industry.” His main vehicles were County Records, which he founded in the 1960s to promote old-time and traditional music, and Rebel Records, one of the iconic bluegrass labels, which he acquired in 1979.