Episode 1: JimT 01.11.24
Jim-T is a wART DJ who is ON AIR Tuesdays from 8AM to 11AM and is rebroadcast for an hour on Fridays at 11PM. "Thor in the Morn" is on 8-10. During the show, Jim-T plays a variety of music interspersed with a reading of the local headlines (from the News-Record & Sentinel), trivia, history, and the always anticipated bird report. Additionally, Jim-T often interviews local 'movers & shakers' and persons of interest including the Superintendent of Madison County Schools, County Commissioners, State Officials, Authors, Non-profits, and municipal officials. For Jim-T subject show it is always fun to listen in and sonically guess what subject Jim-T cooked up for the day.
Jim-T & Brother Brown discussed the North Carolina Mountain Ridge Protection Act of 1983, specifically the Madison County Mountain Ridge Protection Ordinance, aka the “50-foot building set-back” ordinance that is being debated.
Get informed first! Then get involved!!
Don’t fall into the trap of emotionally triggering rhetoric and the 'us vs. them ways'. There are valid and rational points on both sides of this debate.
Madison County is better off when we have the courage to listen first, ask questions, then sit in the uncomfortable and get to know where others are coming from, and then follow through with reasonable debate.
To learn more check out the local newspaper, the News-Record & Sentinel, and attend the Madison County Commissioners Meetings, on the 2nd Tuesday of every month (which are taped and also available to view online).
News Record Article about the Ordinance debate:
Madison planning board votes to nix 50-foot setback requirement; forms ridge focus group
Link to Madison County Commissioners website:
County Commissioners
The Madison County Board of Commissioners can be emailed directly at: boc@madisoncountync.gov
Madison County is better off when we have the courage to listen first, ask questions, then sit in the uncomfortable and get to know where others are coming from, and then follow through with reasonable debate.
To learn more check out the local newspaper, the News-Record & Sentinel, and attend the Madison County Commissioners Meetings, on the 2nd Tuesday of every month (which are taped and also available to view online).
News Record Article about the Ordinance debate:
Madison planning board votes to nix 50-foot setback requirement; forms ridge focus group
Link to Madison County Commissioners website:
County Commissioners
The Madison County Board of Commissioners can be emailed directly at: boc@madisoncountync.gov
Tune in to wART Tuesdays at 8 to get informed about local happens and be entertained by Jim T!
Only on your community-powered FM radio station w * A * R * T..
The voice of Madison County!
Episode 2: Paul G 01.25.24
Paul-G has been a wART DJ for eight years. He produces & hosts Paul-G’s Great Music Show which is live ON the AIR Wednesdays from 5pm to 7pm and is rebroadcast the following Monday from 3 to 5. Paul-G, like many of us wART DJs, has dreamt of being a radio DJ since he was a kid - hiding his transistor radio under his pillow and tuning in when he was supposed to be sleeping. He loves Radio in all forms but got the initial inspiration for his WART show from a community-conscious radio station out of Tampa, Florida - WMNF. Paul-G has lived in Madison County for over 50 years but grew up in the DC area. Paul states he’s “A guy of the 60s in my 70s….”
Paul-G got into Jazz influenced by his older brother and the cultural scene of Washington DC. He grew up in an “activist family” going on his first civil rights march in 1957. Paul-G was fortunate to later hear Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s iconic “I Have a Dream” speech from the Mall in Washington as a teenager. Paul has always believed that music was as much a part of the civil rights movement as the speeches and demonstrations.
Paul-G has seen Bob Dylan “about 15 times” and believes Dylan to be in the pantheon of songwriters and instrumental in moving rock & roll into a more reflective singer-songwriter era. In 1965 Paul attended the famous, some may say infamous, 6th annual Newport Folk Music Festival, formerly known as the Newport Jazz Festival, where Dylan split away from the traditional “all acoustic” format and finished off his set with full electric amplification inviting The Paul Butterfield Blues Band on stage.
Paul G. moved to California during the psychedelic 1970’s. Perfectly timed and located for many more historical and influential musical experiences to dance into his life. Among those was the Altamont Speedway Free Festival on December 6, 1969. Paul said this experience cured him of any further desires to attend a large mega concert/festival with more than 300,000 people attending Altamont.
During our tea time Paul-G and I discussed the importance of connection and community that music and especially radio creates. Paul’s thoughts on how radio can build community include getting more youth involved like a show produced and hosted by Madison high school students, an updated and accurate community calendar, sports broadcast, and further outreach & events.
Brother Brown & Paul-G drew their “tea-time” to a close by taking a turn from folk into one Brother Brown’s favorites, the queens of R&B and Soul with a track from Mavis & the Staples Singers and the soul-stirring recording of I’d Rather Go Blind by Ms. Etta James recorded at the famous Muscle Shoals Sound Studio. A rare gem and one of Paul-G’s all-time favs, Europa by Gato Barbieri & Santana, took us out of Supper Sound’s first hour and concluded episode 2 of Tea w/ Brother Brown. Don't miss the next one!
To listen to Paul-G and Brother Brown’s conversation over tea, click the link below. As always your comments, feedback, and critiques are welcomed.
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And don't forget...
Tune in to wART Wednesdays at 5pm, and rebroadcast Mondays at 3pm to hear Great Music, get informed, and be entertained by Paul G!
Only on your community-powered FM radio station w * A * R * T..
The voice of Madison County!
Episode 3: Saint Disruption 02.15.24
Saint Disruption is a non-profit musical and artistic project founded by musician, scientist, and educator Jeff Firewalker Schmitt and jazz musician John Medeski with a mission to bring together musicians, poets, artists, and visionaries to make great music and conversation. Their genre-disrupting sound includes aspects of jazz, hip-hop, funk, blues-rock, psychedelia, spoken word, and more.
https://www.saintdisruption.com/
(more coming soon)
Episode 4: Johnny Caucasian 02.15.24
Tune in to Johnny Caucasian's show "No Class" on wART Fridays, 3-6.
(more coming soon)
Episode 8: DJ Wanders 01.30.2025
Tune in to WART 95.5 FM Wednesday 8-9AM for the Wednesday Wake Up! w/ your boy DJ Wanders.
DJ Wanders, rambling man of no fixed abode? Always the new kid, Navy brat going from town to town. Now retired from the Navy himself, he made it to western NC a few years ago. WART’s very own Bootstrap Kat (aka “Mrs. DJ Wanders”) has some family roots in the area, and now this is home.
Now he’s writing and doing creative stuff, trying to leave the whole “new kid” thing behind by settling down as a local for good. He finally got started in the red caboose as a new DJ last year. A little bit of on-air time before starting the work day was a perfect fit.
He loves the music from his teen years like Rush (who else guessed D&D nerd?), The Police, Duran Duran, Wendy Carlos, and the Afghan Whigs. Moody synth-pop, swirly prog rock, and angsty 90s indie stuff - but if you’re trying to get moving in the morning you’ll get more upbeat “Wednesday Wakeup” sounds instead. 1960s to 2020’s rock, pop, indie… plus a little K-pop, Roger Miller, Dean Martin, and the Flash Gordon soundtrack, too.
It was only a few short months on the air before Helene filled the red caboose with mud, but WART has great people and a bright future. This new kid is just happy to be a part of it, especially Wednesday mornings at 8am ET.
Tune in to WART 95.5 FM Fridays 8-10AM for the Je T'aime In The Morning.
Episode 10: LD 04.24.2025
Tune in to WART 95.5 FM Mondays 8-10AM for LD's Fresh Brew.
Episode 11: Sara 05.29.2025
Tune in to WART 95.5 FM Tuesdays 2-3PM for Sara's Mortal Coil.
Episode 13: DJ Wanders (part DEAUX) 07.31.2025
Tune in to WART 95.5 FM Wednesday 8-9AM for the Wednesday Wake Up! w/ your boy DJ Wanders.
Episode 14: DJ Sarah 08.28.2025
Tune in to WART 95.5 FM Thursday 7-8PM for the Wrap Your Troubles In Dream w/ Sarah.
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