Craig Havighurst is a Music News Producer at WMOT/Roots Radio. He focuses on the intersection of arts and entertainment, with a particular emphasis on the music business and various music genres. Craig's work has been featured in Premier Guitar, Stringletter, Nashville Scene, and Wutc.
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Craig Havighurst's articles predominantly cover entertainment news, with a focus on music and related events. His coverage includes event highlights, expert commentaries, and profile features. If you are in the music industry or have expertise in areas such as album releases, artist profiles, or trends within genres like Americana and bluegrass, reaching out to Craig could be beneficial.
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By: Craig Havighurst
Memories are often cemented by striking contrasts, and on Summer Solstice Saturday afternoon in Telluride, CO, I felt whipsawed in the most memorable and beautiful way.
“Who are your influences?” is such a hackneyed question in music journalism and radio interviews that it's become something of a joke.
I love that the Sullivan Sisters chose this photo in front of the Chicago skyline as the cover of Carolina Bluebird , their debut EP of 2025, because it turns out we have a journey in common. We moved from North Carolina to Evanston, IL and got serious about bluegrass music there on the north shore of one of the greatest cities in the world. I moved for college at Northwestern. For their dad, it was to teach saxophone there. Nice. So, the sisters came up in a musical household and got tons of support as they skilled up on banjo (Luciya) and guitar (Soraya). They started winning contests and playing widely. Now they've now scaled their duo up to a five-piece band and found a label home at Dark Shadow in Nashville. We love the clawhammer feel and mountain modal mood of their first single “Devil's Got A Hold On You,” and there's more to come as they gear up for an album planned for early 2027. Also this week, new singles from Unspoken Tradition, Dale Ann Bradley, and Frank Solivan and Dirty Kitchen.
When I had the country-noir songwriter and artist Olivia Wolf on the show in 2025 , the conversation delivered some unusually surprising
Aaron Lee Tasjan is among the hardest-to-describe songwriter/artists in modern Nashville, and that's high praise.
Allison Russell, one of Americana/folk music's biggest breakout stars of the post-pandemic era, says she never intended to launch a solo career.
Meaghan Farrell of Cliffside Park, New Jersey thought she was going to be a diplomat or a history professor. Then she found Mona's and became Sweet Megg.
Years ago, one of my most trusted music hound recommendation friends urged me to check out a Canadian folk duo called the Small Glories, and when I did, I was blown away, especially in live performance and especially by the bold charm of singer Cara Luft. Alas the Glories have gone on to glory as a band, but Cara, a veteran of the great and legendary Wailin' Jennys, is out with My Heart Will Always Be , her first solo album in 13 years. Some of it's more rhythmic and Americana feeling, but we're happy to share the clawhammer-driven title track. The album's been available in physical formats and download sale only, but it will soon be streaming. Also this week, the exciting first single from Linday Lou's upcoming all-star album Bluegrass Women, a new instrumental from Alan Bibey inspired by his late mentor Herschel Sizemore, a new album from Ashby Frank, and a naturalistic new single by Michael Prewitt.
In her song “The Real Pretender,” the narrator, a thinly disguised Rachel Brooke, arrives at the Nashville party a little late and gets news colder
The timing could not have been better for all involved. I was getting ready to lock the script for String episode 268 with Charlie Worsham when news
