The String
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.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 308
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
New Stars of Bluegrass: Molly Tuttle, Casey Campbell, Billy Strings
Bluegrass, more than any other genre of music I’ve ever seen, raises and nurtures its next generation of musicians and fans. Through festival culture, picking parties and families, kids get involve…
Phil Madeira and John Lomax III
Music fans have seen and heard him on stage for years with Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris and others. He’s the guy with the pork pie hat (which the evidence will show he was wearing before it was a fad…
Glen Campbell, An Appreciation
Glen Campbell, who died this week at age 81, rose from a sharecropper family in Delight AR to the pinnacle of American pop culture. He was a singer for the ages and a musician's musician. In this re-…
Mac Gayden / Music Business Education
Mac Gayden was a Nashville native, with family roots that go back to the founding of the city. But his upper crust upbringing was no hindrance to his passion for African American music as a teenager.…
Danny Barnes / Jimmy Nalls
Danny Barnes became a major player in the evolution of alternative country music when his acoustic trio the Bad Livers broke out of Austin Texas. Danny, Mark Rubin and Ralph White wielded tuba, accor…
Charlie Worsham / Susan Hubbard
It might be the most frustrating thing about Nashville. Periodically, a guy will emerge who’s obviously on par with the great country icons. This guy will write, sing and play guitar as if ordained. …
Bonus Episode w Noam Pikelny
In episode 26 we went deep on the banjo. I asked three leading contemporary players how they’d fallen for their instrument and what they thought about the state of the banjo in 2017. There is a LOT w…
Talking Banjo with Noam Pikelny, Kristin Scott Benson and Ned Luberecki
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 an…