Oh boy! Next week is the WMOT membership drive, and we are hoping to bring another 300 listeners into the family to become members. It’s non-profit radio, which gives us all kinds of latitude to be a home for music discovery. When the Music Foggers were all at XM, it laid the groundwork for me for what this initiative is, a direct interaction with the listener. Non-commercial radio is delivering the kind of music that can’t be found elsewhere. I take that very seriously, and our programming reflects that mission. I promise you will not hear the same ol’ stuff that everyone else is playing. If you liked XM 12, X Country back in the day, come on by and spend some time with us at WMOT. We stream worldwide at WMOT.org.
Photo Credit: Anna Haas
For those that become members we do a monthly concert series called Wired In, which are intimate music sessions. This past year we have done shows with Hayes Carll, Donna The Buffalo, I’m With Her, Yola, Steve Poltz, Mary Bragg, John Paul White, Lula Wiles, Birds of Chicago, Seth Walker, Chuck Mead, Ida Mae, Will Kimbrough, Keb’ Mo’, Honey Island Swamp Band, Maggie Rose, Shinyribs, Paul Thorn, Amy Ray, and Becky Warren. Yes, you have seen many of these folks on the pages of Music Fog through the years, too. Today’s video entry comes from Becky Warren, who is a local Nashville songwriting hero. Her last two albums have been made bravely; one digging into the emotions from a soldier returning from war, the other by cultivating relationships with Nashville street folks. Today’s song can be found on the latter, the album Undesirable, which came out in 2018. “Dabbs Avenue” is today’s Music Fog recording, filmed in early 2019, here with guitar accompaniment from Jeff Malinowski.
- Jessie Scott