Craig Havighurst
@chavighurst.bsky.social
Music journalist and broadcaster in Nashville.
Host of The String and The Old Fashioned on WMOT 89.5 FM
Author, audiophile, bluegrass and jazz sherpa, motorsports fan, policy wonk, astro-physics nerd, autodidact.
https://www.craighavighurst.com/
Host of The String and The Old Fashioned on WMOT 89.5 FM
Author, audiophile, bluegrass and jazz sherpa, motorsports fan, policy wonk, astro-physics nerd, autodidact.
https://www.craighavighurst.com/
This is the kind of PR that keeps Lee Greenwood's lifelong "God Bless the USA" schtick going. These MFers pitched us that infernal song days after 9/11. Now they're selling "gold" and "platinum" bibles like they're airline mileage tiers. I replied - called them blasphemous money grubbers.
January 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This is the kind of PR that keeps Lee Greenwood's lifelong "God Bless the USA" schtick going. These MFers pitched us that infernal song days after 9/11. Now they're selling "gold" and "platinum" bibles like they're airline mileage tiers. I replied - called them blasphemous money grubbers.
Allison de Groot AND Tray Wellington have been named as this year's winners of the Steve Martin Banjo Prize. It's a substantial $25k grant to each, and I think the first time with two winners in a year. Great leadership in roots music philanthropy. We need more.
December 17, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Allison de Groot AND Tray Wellington have been named as this year's winners of the Steve Martin Banjo Prize. It's a substantial $25k grant to each, and I think the first time with two winners in a year. Great leadership in roots music philanthropy. We need more.
#Nashville Gold on a rainy Monday evening. First, Mr. Sun at Analog, playing their arrangement of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's swinging jazz remake of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. Then off to East for Jack Silverman's sonic #jazz adventures in the parlor at Urban Cowboy. This town man...
December 17, 2024 at 3:02 PM
#Nashville Gold on a rainy Monday evening. First, Mr. Sun at Analog, playing their arrangement of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's swinging jazz remake of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite. Then off to East for Jack Silverman's sonic #jazz adventures in the parlor at Urban Cowboy. This town man...
Famous last words, posted on Threads.
December 16, 2024 at 12:48 AM
Famous last words, posted on Threads.