Thursday Night 1 - 3:00 AM (at least)

The King Daddy Show

Listen up! I love my God,my country,my Harley and my people.I play my rock & roll 'cause that's what I like and what my listeners want. I'm retired in Jenkins,Ky with a heart condition and sure could use a registered nurse for my "Doll Baby". I may talk too much but that's how the man above made me. Thanks so much to WMMT and APPALSHOP for my opportunity as a DJ. Carl(King)Addington.

The Lost Kittens Broadcast

Sundays from 7:00 - 9:00 PM

Bluegrass Patches

Linda Bartley

(Barefoot Nellie)

Bluegrass Patches

Wednesdays 10am to 1 PM

Linda Bartley, Barefoot Nellie, is originally from VA but lives now in Pike County KY. She has been a volunteer at WMMT for over 3 years and currently is co-host of Bluegrass Patches with Jukebox Charlie & their Jack Russell “Patches”. She is also an extremely valuable sub for such shows as The Sunny Side up Bluegrass Gospel Show, Weekend Wakeup and Silver Fox. In addition to sewing and cooking, Linda loves music, DJ’ing, and WMMT radio. She says, “It’s a wonderful feeling to hear my listeners call in and request songs, without them my shows would be very dull.” Nope. Not a chance. She loves the music and her listeners too much. We don’t believe there’s any way her shows could be dull.

Wendell Bartley

(Jukebox Charlie)

Bluegrass Patches

Wednesdays 10am-1 PM

Wendell Bartley, aka Jukebox Charlie, lives in Pike County KY and, in addition to his yeoman’s work for WMMT, is a long time musicianer and member of one of our area’s finest groups, The Bluegrass Reflections. Jukebox Charlie has been playing Bluegrass, Gospel & Old Time on the air waves of 88.7 for over 3 years and is co-host of Bluegrass Patches with Barefoot Nellie and their Jack Russell “Patches”. In addition to making music and DJ’ing, Wendell enjoys camping and meeting our listeners at WMMT’s Bluegrass Express & other live shows. Jukebox Charlie enjoys all the calls and says about our listeners, “I wish to thank them for their nice comments about my shows.” And so do we.

Crossroads

Fridays 10am to 1 PM

Joe Burke is WMMT’s Renaissance Man. The title for his show Crossroads did not come “out of thin air.” Joe has been doing Crossroads for over 5 years and describes it as “a diverse intersection of musical genres that take listeners on the ride covering classic rock, modern country, classic country, blues, R & B, soul, pop, and just about anything else I can get my hands on.”

Lost Kittens Broadcast

Sundays from 7:00 - 9:00 PM

Weekend Wakeup Show

Saturdays 7-10:30 AM

The Lost Kittens Broadcast

Sundays from 7:00 - 9:00 PM

The Evershow
Tuesdays 11 PM - 1 AM!

After living in Lexington for eleven years, and various college dorms and apartments for five years prior, I moved back to my native Jenkins, Kentucky. One of my first stops after moving back was WMMT, with the goal of having my own show. Over the years I have collected a ridiculous amount of music, and am always on the hunt for the next cool band or song. Having the opportunity to share that music on WMMT as well as the knowledge and positive personalities of all the programmers is a rare treat in these times and I'm proud to be a part of it. I live in Jenkins with two stray cats and assist in running a family business, among other things. I enjoy playing guitar, catching up with friends, going to concerts, wandering through the woods, a good cup of coffee,and most of all riding my Suzuki SV650S (51 mpg & a panoramic view!).

Long live Rock & Roll!

aka Madeline

Madeline of Madeline in the Morning is the granddaughter of Bob and Goldia Flanary of Potters Fork, daughter of an Ozark hillbilly and a Letcher County hillbilly who met at Berea. She is a graduate of Clinch Valley College ('80), went to grad school at Columbia University in New York, NY, and has been teaching communications at Hazard Community Technical College for 18 years. She currently chairs a community coalition advocating treatment options for addicts, and serves on the board of a SAMSHA prevention grant. She hosts a weekly call-in talk show "dedicated to an open discussion of addiction and recovery in our communities" cablecast in Letcher and surrounding counties". On her weekly Wednesday morning show, she plays Americana, Folk, World and Jazz. She sometimes includes the words of Letcher County jail inmates, reflecting on their addiction and hopes or plans for recovery. She reads the daily meditation from "Seasons of the Spirit" and shares poetry as it suits her mood, the season, and the requests of her audience.

aka The Reluctant Hero

Screamin & Hollerin

Friday Nights 10 PM -1 AM

Charles Fontaine is originally from Tennessee but resides now in Wise County. He is the proprietor of Dad’s CD’s, an independent music store in Wise, and is an artist, musician and reluctant hero.

Screamin & Hollerin on Friday nights, a retrospective Blues Experience focusing on Blues history, artist bio’s, birthdays & anniversaries as well as themes, features rarely heard selections from his vast music collection. Many of you will remember our reluctant hero from his previous show on WMMT, The Scenic Overlook from 2000 to 2005, an alternative Rock show spinning often “overlooked” music.

Screamin & Hollerin has been well received by Blues fans in the area and has developed a dedicated listenership. You are invited to tune in. The show is not only entertaining, but informative as well.

From the Roots

Saturdays 12:30 – 3 PM

Zelma Forbes (Sweet Tater) is Professor of Mathematics with the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. She lives in Neon, Kentucky with her eleven year old child William and five cats. Zelma likes to play the banjo, dance, sing, and grow plants.

aka Woody Goodman

“Piece of the Rock” - Wednesdays 7 - 10 PM

“First Note” – Saturdays 10:30 AM -12:30 PM

(with Bronx Barney & Otis Ray)

Woody Goodman, has been one of the hosts of “The First Note”, playing Big Band, Show Tunes, Swing & other music from the 20’s thru the 50’s, since 1990. On Wednesday nights he also hosts “Piece of the Rock”, a classic rock show featuring music from the mid 50’s to the mid 70’s. Each show focuses on an artist or group as well as rock from a certain time period. On both shows, Woody encourages his listeners to request tunes. He comes in armed to the teeth with music.

Woody lives in Letcher County in an 1870’s Log Cabin, his wife’s ancestral home. He is a very active member of the community, and in addition to his volunteer work for WMMT, enjoys being involved in issues such as recycling, solid waste, water, coal, oil, gas, forestry, governance & economic development. He loves local politics and hates local politics. His hobbies include refereeing soccer & basketball, Native American artifacts, gardening and stone sculpting.

His comment to his listeners: “ Live life simply; don’t waste time, natural resources, or energy; don’t litter or dispose of things improperly; know the issues & how your candidate stands on them; vote early & vote often; end the war, stop the killing.”

The Lost Kittens Broadcast

Sundays from 7:00 - 9:00 pm

Eli Gover, 17. I guess you could call me a dreamer with no particular future in mind. I have sort of a "'Dylanesque', no direction or home" view of life. I don't talk much, I'm not very good at it.

So for the most part I keep to my own. I do love radio however.

aka Big Willard

Scuttlehole Gap Get-Together

Tuesdays 10 AM to 1:30 PM

Willard Hall (Big Willard), from Knott County KY, has been the host of The Scuttlehole Gap Get-Together, featuring Big Name & Local Bluegrass & Claw Hammer Banjo, for 19 years and counting. He is a veteran, a pilot, an avid Bluegrass music collector, and a mainstay at Bluegrass Festivals throughout the region. He is even featured in Herb E Smith’s Appalshop Film “The Ralph Stanley Story” and has emceed Ralph’s Hills of Home Festival for 31 years. He has also brought us his young’uns, Angie & Little Willard of WMMT’s Bluegrass Express on Thursday nights. And, of course, Blue Highway’s & everybody’s favorite “Mom”, the legendary Big Weezie.

Willard says, “If you like the music I play for you, then spread the word!”

Big Bills Country
This program actually began in 1994 when the late Buck Maggard made the acquaintance of Big Bill Harris, an avid devotee of old-time country music from Nebo, North Carolina. Bill started sending WMMT “Shaking Down the Possums,” a 30-minute show featuring string bands, brother duets, early bluegrass, country/western, honky-tonk and more. Buck ran that show as part of “Deep in Tradition” for nearly two years. Recently Rich Kirby started playing some of these tapes on DIT. One day he wondered out loud where Bill might be these days. Redoubtable listener Miley Twyman got busy on the internet and before the end of the day we were in touch with Bill again.

Bill writes, “I want to thank you for running my programs again. I have been on many stations since 1988. The longest running program was on a station in Waterford, Ireland, 8 years. I went to electronic school in Columbus, Ohio for three years to study radio and TV, received my broadcast permit in 1964 at East Tennessee State in Johnson City. I started on a station WMCH in Church Hill, Tennessee in 1956. They taught me how to cue and set the volume and all the ins and outs. … I do this just for the fun of it and keep the old time music going so the new generation can hear what real music should sound like. One station said he enjoyed my music but did not like my voice. Well I may not have a good voice for broadcasting but I think I have the best and greatest dog gone country and western music around. I attended voice school in Asheville, North Carolina, there were around 20 members and I never finished. Our instructor wanted us to talk like we were from the north. Well, I tried. I could not get this southern accent out of my heart.”

First Generation Bluegrass
Tuesdays 1:30 - 3:30 PM

Well, I was born way back in the hills of Concord, Massachusetts, in 1955
I come from a musical family, we all play stringed instruments of one kind or another, piano, guitar, pipe organ. And of course, lots of group singing 'round the Steinway piano with our mother, Hope pounding on the horse teeth!
My sister Anne and I sang in the church choir. It was there I learned proper breathing techniques, and how to read music. But I prefer to play by ear.
I remember vividly as a kid listening to the radio in the kitchen. In those days it was still AM, but boy howdy! The variety of music that came through the air was priceless. I soaked it all up like a sponge. The Beatles had just performed live on Ed Sullivan, I was enraptured by them. They looked like they were so happy, and having so much fun, and were very cute too! I wanted to be a part of something like that!
It was one of those fateful March mornings, in 1963, that I heard live coverage about the plane crash that Killed Patsy Cline, Cowboy Copas, and the pilot as well. I was really affected by that. I knew and loved her music, it was on all the time. I felt like I knew her personally, through her music.
As time went on, TV became a familiar part of my everyday life. The B&W set was big and boxy, wrapped around metal that was painted to look like wood grain, with buttons to push on and off, and a big green picture tube that glowed in the dark when you shut it off at night.
It was while glued to the tv that I had my first bluegrass music experience. I loved to watch the Andy Griffith Show every night, particularly when the Dillards came on. I knew right then and there, I was destined to live in the south. that was the kind of life I dreamed of, in Mayberry, NC.
"The Beverly Hillbillies, Petticoat Junction, and Green Acres, all solidified into my soul. I could relate to all of it, to one degree or another. I felt as if I belonged there.
As a teen, I liked to listen to the WCOP Hayloft Jamboree, a country/bluegrass variety show that aired on Saturday nights, from an FM station in New Hampshire.
I attended Emerson College in Boston in the '70's graduating from there in 1978 with a Bachelor's Degree in Mass Communications.
During college, I became an active volunteer at The Boston Area Friends of Bluegrass, which later on became the Boston Bluegrass Union.
It was then I heard my first live bluegrass show, in Cambridge, MA. Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys performed in a small church in Harvard Square, and afterwards, I was hooked for LIFE!
I play upright bass, self taught since 1979. I purchased the bass from a town drunk in Stonington, CT for fifty bucks. Since then I have acquired a Gibson Epiphone Guitar, Art's Kentucky mandolin, and a beautiful new Deering Good Times Banjo!
Bluegrass music was hard to find in and around New England. But when we DID, it was a spiritual out of body experience! Believe me, the artists were well aware of the Boston area, and its core of devoted, rabid fans, eager to listen intently, and then applaud wildly after every song; plus we were generous with the $$$ up there, lining up 3 deep just to catch a glimpse of our heros, and buying every record, tape in sight
I met my future husband, Art Menius in 1986 at the Winterhawk Bluegrass Festival, [now called, Grey Fox] in Acramdale, NY. He was promoting a new trade organization for people in bluegrass music, called the IBMA, or International Bluegrass Music Association.
I was a volunteer in the Performer's Tent. I made it my business to meet everyone in Bluegrass music there was to meet. I still do this to this day. They have become my family of choice.
Throughout all of this, I was becoming a photojournalist, capturing bluegrass music on 35mm film with my Uncle Fred's Pentax Camera.
My dreams came true on XMAS day in 1989, when I moved with Art's help to his small house in Pittsboro, NC. We lived there for the next 15 years.
Whilst living in Pittsboro, I put together my first picture book. It's called "Inside Bluegrass". It was published in 1998, and sold out in early 2005. Copies are still available on EBay.
I was the Official Photo Archivist for the IBMA's annual World of Bluegrass for 12 consecutive years.
In 1994-96, I was the Staff Photographer for the Folk Alliance's annual conference.
In 2005, we moved north to Wilkes County, NC, where Art was Director of Merlefest, at Wilkes Community College.
I became Staff Photographer there for the next 15 years.
As of July 2007, Art accepted the Directorship of Appalshop, Inc. in Whitesburg, KY.
I moved to our lovely new home in September of 2007
By November I was training and then filling in on bluegrass shows on WMMT. I did this throughout the holidays, always happy and eager to be a DJ. It came very easily to me.
And now, to be offered my OWN bluegrass show is quite an honor indeed!
I have found my home. And more importantly, I have found my own voice.

Backtracks

Thursday 10:30 PM - 1 AM

Deep in Tradition

Thursdays 4:00 -6:30 PM

Pine Mountain Mornings - The Stay Human edition

Fridays 7-10:00 AM

From the Roots

Saturdays 12:30 – 3 PM

Beverly May (Sally Goodin - along w/Johnny Appalseed, the Dutchman, the Blue Warbler) has been one of the voices you hear on From the Roots for 12 years. She lives in Floyd County and is an old time fiddler who also teaches at the Cowan Creek Mountain Music School. From the Roots features mountain music in all its glory including many artists from the listening area, vintage recordings, up & coming young artists and occasional Live performances from the studio or Appalshop Theater. All the programmers of FtR are musicians themselves and enjoy keeping the listeners up to date on festivals, concerts, dances and other happenings in this neck of the woods.

Bev says, “Old Time music is great to listen to but it’s even more fun if you’re playing it yourself. The FtR programmers hope you’ll join us for Appalshop’s Old Time Jam at 1pm the First Saturday of each month, October through May.”

From the Roots

Saturdays 12:30 – 3 PM

Art Menius (the Lazy Farm Boy)is the newest FtR programmer. Director of Appalshop since July, he has been active in the old-time music community since seeing Joe & Odell Thompson play in 1978. Menius was president of the Old-Time Music Group, publishers of the Old-Time Herald, from 1991 through 1998. He spent 18 years with MerleFest, the festival hosted by Doc Watson, and dearly loves 78 rpm records. His many articles and reviews include pieces about Tommy Jarrell, the Thompsons, Dellie Norton, and Charlie Poole.

Saturdays 12:30 – 3 PM

Larry Mullins (Black Jack Davy) retired from teaching in Wise County, VA in 2002 and began taking old-time music classes at Mountain Empire CC. He immediately fell in love with roots music. Although his musical tastes are broad, traditional mountain music is now Mullins’ favorite genre. When the opportunity to volunteer at WMMT became available, he welcomed it with open arms and has loved every minute. With his wife Janet (Tiger Lilly), Larry also alternates as a host of “The Ramblin’ Road Revue” on Friday afternoons.

Awesome Americana

Saturdays 5 – 7 PM

A Harlan County native, Jessie Pauline's earliest memories include listening to her cousin Frank Creech's Saturday radio show on the Cumberland station. Afer her family moved to Michigan, her favorite way to spend a Saturday was in a record store listening to new releases. Owning them was an allowance priority. The love of music continued throughout her life and after she moved to Letcher County in 1998, she became a WMMT DJ on the Mid-day Music Extravaganza. A new job forced her to switch the mid-day show for a weekender and the Awesome Americana Show was born. She has done the show every Saturday from 5 - 7 PM for several years now .... except when she flips into her "Gypsy Pauline" mode.

aka Love Tractor

Spaceship of Fools

Alternating Tuesdays 8-11 PM

Jonathan has many interests including writing about music, medicine, politics, and what have you at The J Train and he is an accomplished chef (he too has been a guest chef on WMMT’s What’s Cooking? and specializes in food from Italy, Louisiana and Latin America.) By day he’s an internist in Hazard. But music is his passion. “I don’t collect it so much as hoard it, digitally, on CD, and on the one true format – vinyl. I play guitar and hand drums, though unfortunately not as much as I used to.”

The Spaceship of Fools flies way out past the familiar, out to where it’s all about the music. The Space Wrangler and LooseLucy bring the jam, with a heavy dose of the Panic, the Dead, the Truckers and anybody else who knows how to lay it down live. Jonathan, the Love Tractor, brings the best from the new, the independent, the underground, and the emerging, with rare tracks and dozens of chances to hear the Next Great Band.

Each show also features a segment called “Three Songs”. Musicians and/or music lovers pick 3 songs to play and join the show by phone to talk about them. Past guests have included Matador recording artist Jennifer O’Connor, Herald-Leader Pop Culture writer Jamie Gumbrecht, Pandagon blogger Amanda Marcotte, and music blogger Matt Jordan of You Ain’t No Pic.asso.

aka The Silver Fox

Thursdays 12:30-3 PM

Bill Reno, aka The Silver Fox, lives in Perry County, is retired, and has been volunteering at WMMT for 5 years. He truly enjoys this “job” of playing music for you fine folks and feels it’s the best job he’s had in a long time. Bill reads a lot including war history and western classics and loves to listen to the music he plays.

The Silver Fox Show features Bluegrass, Classic Country and Gospel and he feels a lot of listeners enjoy the old style country and find the Gospel music uplifting. He certainly does. Bill says, “You folks make my day. I hope you will think about the station and my show and how much you like or dislike it. If you like it, think about sending the station a pledge. It takes a lot of money to operate a 24 hour a day station and we don’t have commercials to pay the bills. Think about it. If you like my show, show it with a pledge. Thanks for the many good years and thanks for reading this little message.”

Aka: Bubbalo

Lost in the Woulds

Alternating Tuesdays 8-11 PM

& Atomic Fireball Hour

Saturdays 8-11 PM

Tim Surer is married, the father of two, and comes from Leslie County. Bubbalo, heading into his third year at WMMT, is one of our fine Rock & Roll programmers and is a true music lover. In addition to playing guitar, he enjoys high school sports and learning new things.

Lost in the Woulds is a classic rock show concentrating on the 70’s that “allows listeners to enjoy what I consider to be a lot of the best music ever created.” Bubbalo welcomes requests and alternates this time slot on WMMT with The Spaceship of Fools.

On Saturday night’s Atomic Fireball Hour he plays Rock, Country, Pop & Soul oldies from the 50’s to the late 70’s. Tim loves music & DJ’ing so much that he has also become one of WMMT’s most valuable “Firemen” and fills in on numerous shows when the need arises. Bubbalo says, “WMMT is the best little radio station on this or any other planet.”

Little Debbie

The Hillbilly Hayride

Thursdays 10 AM – 12:30 PM

Little Debbie is a fresh Bluegrass voice on WMMT and also, as part of WMMT’s staff, helps manage the new bluegrass music coming into the station. She began alternating hosting The Hillbilly Hayride with Gary Joseph in 2006 and assumed the reins when his work schedule caused him to have to give it up. She thanks him for entrusting the show to her and says “Thanks, Gary.”

Little Debbie plays 2 and ½ hours of Hard Drivin Bluegrass & Bluegrass Gospel and mixes it up really well. She features the classics but also is proud of giving the new crop of musicians a chance for air time. You’ll hear Blue Highway, the Grascals, Alecia Nugent, and the ever popular Minnie More. She also features local groups as well as the Old Masters of Bluegrass and is happy to take requests, especially for new music. It is indeed a ride worth taking if you’re a bluegrass fan. And even if you’re not.

Show is Bluegrass/Country every Monday from 1-4pm

I do the show with Verlin Sanders and Goldie Rogers. We play Bluegrass and Classic County Music. My hobbies are Fishing, Hunting, Golf, and Bluegrass Music. I am a retired police officer, and been a DJ for over 5 years and has listen to bluegrass music all my life. To all fans of bluegrass music: set your dial to 88.7fm Turn up the radio, Take the knobs off the radio and sit back and enjoy the programs!

The Country Gentleman

The Cumberland Sunrise Show

Mondays thru Fridays 5 - 7:30 AM

The Country Gentleman, Ancil Trivette, is an early riser & plays Bluegrass, Classic Country and local favorites for folks getting up and about, truckers and everyone else traveling the early morning roads in the mountains. Ancil lives in Letcher County and is a veteran, plays the guitar and loves building & remodeling. As the Country Gentleman, he is now in his second year as the get up, wake up voice of WMMT. In his own energetic, enthusiastic words: “Tune in – Turn it up – Rip the knob off!”

The Sports Roundup

Mondays Mornings - 9:10 AM