Aug 30, 2017

Kim Buie got into the music business through college radio. She’s worked in New York, Los Angeles and Nashville at a variety of record companies including some industry giants and some important indie labels. And she’s touched a lot of genres, working with artists as diverse as Tom Waits, the Butthole Surfers, Etta...

Aug 23, 2017

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 involved early and develop rapidly. And with each decade, it seems the prodigies are younger and better. It’s something else...

Aug 15, 2017

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) playing the organ and the accordion. He’s also a successful producer and songwriter. His story is fascinating. His...

Aug 10, 2017

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-posting of a String episode from the Fall of 2016, Craig talks about Glen Campbell with his daughter Ashley, long...

Aug 3, 2017

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. He snuck into R&B clubs on Jefferson Street in the 1950s and soaked up the late night sounds on WLAC radio. When he...