Craig Havighurst

For more than 25 years, Craig Havighurst has been covering the art, tech, and commerce of music from Nashville, TN as a reporter, author, filmmaker, and broadcaster. Since 2016, he’s been Editorial Director for WMOT Roots Radio 89.5 FM, where he hosts the weekly interview show The String. He has reported for NPR, WPLN-FM, The Wall Street Journal, Acoustic Guitar, No Depression and other magazines. As staff music writer at the daily Tennessean from 2000-2004, he won the Charlie Lamb Award for Excellence In Country Music Journalism. Craig was senior producer and co-host for Music City Roots, a nationally syndicated weekly live radio show and public TV series that ran from 2009 to 2018. He’s the proud husband of Taylor and father of Lu.