WLMP exists to make the Ballad Dodecet a lived experience —a place where real people, so-called ordinary folk, can film, sing, or speak their own verse into the story.
Each submitted clip — a farmer pickin’ guitar on the porch,a waitress tellin’ her story,
a trucker hummin’ a chorus in the cab —
becomes another stanza in the twelvefold tale.
We’re turning WLMP from a broadcast into a movement,where the lines between audience and artist vanish.Because every holler, hillside, and back road holds a story worth hearing.What we’re building isn’t about fame or polish — it’s about truth finding its tune. When you lift your voice, however cracked or quiet, you remind the world that the song of real life still sings strong in every heart and home.
Our aim is to discover the raw storytellers, singers, songwriters, musicians, poets, and filmmakers who’ve got more truth than polish.
We’re after real. We’re after ready.
Some of these voices will become featured spots on WLMP Radio or Kingdom Rocks.
These Balladiers will be honoured, interviewed, and promoted—part of an ever-growing roster of field artists beneath the We Love Mountain Praise banner.
Each Balladier adds a new note to the song — a guitar echoing down a dirt road, a verse scribbled in a lunch break, a prayer whispered before dawn.
Together they form a living choir of ordinary people with extraordinary voices, reminding the world that truth still sings loudest when it’s sung from the heart.
This isn’t social-media fluff; this is a human channel. We’re not looking for filters, choreography, or polished production — we’re looking for truth. Show us the place where your story and your song meet — where faith and failure, laughter and loss, all share the same breath. Give us a verse from the porch, a prayer from the road, a melody sung over the sound of dishes in the sink. Be real. Be brave. One honest take from the heart is worth a thousand rehearsed performances.Sometimes we’ll share a theme to stir the well — The Road Home, Last Call Moments, Blood and Grace — but we’ll never cage creativity.
If the Spirit moves you differently, follow that fire.Because what we’re building here isn’t a trend — it’s testimony, in motion.
In time, we’ll build a library of hundreds of voices — southern-Appalachian, Scots-Irish, English, and Welsh — a living, growing archive of how ordinary people sound when truth and melody find each other.
It will be a modern, visual, and communal answer to the old field-recording tradition. In the 1930s and 40s, Alan Lomax crossed the American South with a microphone and a notebook, capturing the raw songs of sharecroppers, chain-gang choirs, and back-porch pickers before their music slipped into silence. But long before Lomax, there were others doing the same across the Atlantic — Hamish Henderson roaming the Highlands, Seamus Ennis tracing the Irish airs, Peter Kennedy and Ewan MacColl preserving the songs of England and Wales. They weren’t chasing fame or polish; they were chasing truth in sound.
WLMP carries that same fire into the digital age. Our microphones are phones, our field is the world, and our songs come as videos, stories, and prayers from porches, pubs, and pews. Each submission becomes another recording in a great unfolding folk archive of faith and everyday life — a chorus of accents and emotions that tell who we are and what still matters.
Every week, WLMP shines its lantern on new storytellers in a feature spot called The Balladiers. Porch pickers, poets, truck-cab singers, diner-booth dreamers — their stories fill the spaces between songs, keeping the air alive with truth and testimony.
Each quarter brings a larger gathering: a Balladiers Compilation Film – Stories from the Ridge and Beyond. A patchwork of laughter, loss, and light drawn from the WLMP Crew, shown in small halls and local cinemas, turning everyday lives into living art.
A continuous streaming playlist keeps the movement rolling — Balladiers’ songs flowing alongside official Ballad Motion releases, a river of sound that never stops. Then come the Live Showcases — real-world gatherings where the storytellers meet their listeners face to face. A church hall, a café, a country fair — the stage is simple, but the stories shine. And rising beyond it all is the Docu-Series: The Voice They Can’t Quite Kill — a chronicle of the people behind the voices, proving that a single song, prayer, or spoken truth can still move mountains. All of this builds toward a visual, cinematic fellowship of voices — a family of faith and story that keeps on speaking long after the credits roll.
— Join the WLMP CrewSubmit your video, song, poem, or image — whatever carries your truth.
Upload it directly, or share a link to your work on YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram.
Each week, new Balladiers are featured on WLMP Radio and Ballad Motion, adding their verse to the twelvefold tale.
Recognition — every accepted participant becomes a Balladier, listed proudly on our roster: The Voices They Can’t Quite Kill.
Your name, your clip, your story — standing beside others who dared to sing their truth.
Community — a private Facebook or Discord group, monthly live streams and Crew Challenges:
write a diner verse, pray by the creek, sing down the valley. A fellowship of creators who lift one another up. Growth — an annual WLMP Crew Compilation Album,
short-film showcases, and in time, scholarships and micro-grants
for filmmakers and songwriters who began right here.When you join the WLMP Crew, you’re not just sending a file —you’re stepping into a fellowship where your voice becomes part of the song..