WUOT

WUOT is public radio done right. No flash, just carefully curated music from classical to folk and beyond. The daytime blocks lean familiar: Mozart string quartets, Ella Fitzgerald standards, the kind of thing that soothes. But stick around for the evening when they dig into Americana and roots. It works. You'll hear Gillian Welch's haunting Appalachian ballads next to a John Coltrane deep cut. That's real programming. It's not trying to be hip. It's trying to be good. And mostly, it succeeds. The announcers are low-key - no shouty DJs, just quiet voices giving context. Some might find it too…