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0:58 Listen to the intro for Strange Roots Radio with Cordovas, which will air at 10 pm CT Sunday nights starting Jan. 17, 2021. Nashville’s Cordovas, the psychedelic country rock band with history from Los Angeles to Baja, Mexico to Music By God City, has joined WMOT’s Americana adventure with their own show, Strange Roots Radio. It’s two hours of deep-cutting exploration from the American South and beyond, exploring the fringe of the American canon’s fabric, according to the band’s ...

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Welcome to Liner Notes, a collection of audio thumbnail essays that tell the story behind seminal albums that you know and love.  In the early 1990s, the music scene was dominated by a fusion of jazz and hip-hop loops. To no surprise, new artists were adding a dimension to this already exciting form. Digable Planets, founded by Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler, Craig “Cee-Knowledge the Doodlebug” Irvin and Mary Ann “Ladybug Mecca” Veiria, entered the music scene in the early 1990s. T...

After ten years of getting kicked out of bars in New York, Stuffy Shmitt finally figured out that “his brain was on fire” because he was actually suffering from bipolar disorder. He made the move to Nashville six years ago and, as he points out in his bio, “finally got my head screwed on tight enough to make a new record.” Stuff Happens is Shmitt’s first in eight years, although he did release two full length albums in 2012! Stuff Happens came out earlier this month and I wanted to ...

Those records he played on the liner notes didnt say glen campbell played on those beach boys records. but he did. >> so many blessings tied up in this. i mean, think about whats going on with glen and the gift hes giving and the gift hes receiving and how he is touching peoples lives and how many people who are going through this with their family members feel so seen because hes opening up such a conversation. >> glen is not more important because hes musical but heres somebody with one of the...

Was abc at the time. i want people to listen to this moment and compare it. >> my truth is that im gay and i hid my homosexuality my entire career. >> chely didnt think country could handle her secret. >> i would read liner notes as if they were bedtime stories. nowhere in there did i read anything about a homosexual. ♪ >> first of all, its a great song. i play that. thats on my playlist. >> john, we looked really good a decade ago. you look even better now, just for the record. >> ive had a l...

Stations are banning the song and i took it off the air monday. >> i can knoyou have your own poll but what will determine whether your radio station resume playing it? are you going by the will of the majority? >> yeah. phippically we goent asvericizes. if it doesnt research well or year getting complaints about it. the local news affiliate ran a local angle. and less than 24 hours i said theres a lot of people pro this song. i better get out and see what the listeners really think. >> im of an...

Instead of the burner i put a plant on a stage give it a relatively neutral background and i separate it from all the foliage from everything that surrounds it and i focus on a very fundamental factor the flower itself. and then it looks as imposing as this rare rothschild slipper. fishing shows it just before blooms and in full bloom. the bloom of it all these flowers is traded on the black market as it wont get one pound of five thousand dollars why is because its extremely endangered it only ...

About that. five years removed i wasnt. 15 years removed, most certainly i was. so im one of those whos in the audience, you know, im old enough to have read the liner notes and im embarrassed at the times i didnt quite comprehend what you were saying. ive never wavered in my support of the music. i think its a healthy conversation to have. its why i like being in your company is because i like thinking about all these things. but i dont agree with you on all of them. >> okay. >> i guess i need ...

Out to me to write the liner notes for what would be his last cd, and he recorded an album called "chuck" that will be coming out very soon. heres a man that recorded these songs in his late 80s and these are mostly original compositions. when people hear it, their minds will be blown that somebody in their 80s can play with such passion. >> since you did have that relationship, what do you think we would never know about him? >> there are two people, charles berry, and chuck berry, and charles ...