I thought I’d do another radio music post, since the last one. I haven’t gone over to dark side of Sirius and Pandora and Spotify and Wait Wait Don’t Tell me and all that stuff, but I have to admit, I don’t listen to that much regular radio when I drive. I listen instead to a local totebag music radio show that I call “Acoustic Sunrise With Sean Regan”, although it has a different name that I can’t always remember, another totebag show from Louisiana, “American Routes”, and to old school weekend on the Rochester R&B station 103.9. I have my quibbles with all of them — too much Susan Tedeschi-type stuff on Acoustic Sunrise, my zydephobia kicks in sometimes with “American Routes”, and I’ve never been able to figure out what hours of the weekend are old school on 103.9. But I’ve heard a lot of great songs on all of them that I’d never heard before or hadn’t heard before in a long time and had forgotten.
What radio programs do you listen to? Bonus for local ones. And what’s your favorite forgotten song (something that was on regular radio once but has now mostly vanished)? To narrow it down, I’ll pick my favorite era, the 70s. I’ll go with these:
Butch
Welcome to the Upper Peninsula, where our one option for local programming still plays “Ferry ‘Cross the Mersey” several times a day.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
If the title to the post is from Domino, shouldn’t it be “Well, Mr. DJ, I just …”?
DougJ
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name):
I thought it was “tell the DJ”
burnspbesq
“Morning Becomes Eclectic” on KCRW is the best music-discovery source I know. 9:00-noon Pacific time, Monday through Friday.
Botsplainer
Dusty Springfield, Son of a Preacher Man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp4339EbVn8
That song simply oozes long, slow, breezy spring afternoon sex.
Mustang Bobby
I listen to Interlochen Public Radio’s classical music station from the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan via the internet at work. That’s from years of living in northern lower Michigan (Northport, Frankfort, and Petoskey) where it was a voice in the wilderness. In the car I switch between the local public station in Miami (WLRN) for news and classic rock on Majic 102.7 and Big 105 that brings back the days of my youth in the ’60’s.
burnspbesq
Favorite forgotten 70s song: “Don’t Hang Up Those Dancin’ Shoes” by Terence Boylan. Best way to describe it is it sounds like a record Jackson Browne would have made if Steely Dan was his backup band.
DougJ
@DougJ:
You’re right, I got the lyrics wrong. Van is tough to understand sometimes.
Mike R.
I’m a Sirius guy, I can’t tolerate commercials, I have no desire to put together playlists and my local radio stations aren’t programmed locally and they all sound the same. I remember listening to Ode to Billy Joe when I was in basic training at Fort Knox in 1968 and it has found it’s way onto my iPod but probably more as a guilty pleasure than anything else.
PIGL
Another one by Ms. Gentry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psOSOGQQijc
That is all.
burnspbesq
Favorite forgotten 80s song: “Oldest Story in the World,” by the Plimsouls. They were part of that group of hot as-yet-unsigned local bands when I was in law school. You could bail when the library closed at 11:00 and be in Hollywood in time to catch last sets by X, the Blasters, the Go-Gos, the Plimsouls, Gary Myrick & the Figures, etc. If you were really adventurous, you could go across the river and check out Los Lobos.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo9qQ9lAV5w
northquirk
Street Sounds! KEXP in Seattle (live streams at kexp.org). I also love expansions.
The Art of Jazz on Sunday’s with Ken Wiley on KCMU.
The Swing Years and Beyond on KUOW Saturday nights can also be fun.
different-church-lady
“Ode to Billy Joe” was 1967. Just sayin’…
Mustang Bobby
What I find bemusingly disconcerting is that a lot of my favorite tunes from the ’60’s are coming back as background for commercials for annuities, boner pills, and adult diapers. I get it that us Boomers are getting into geezerhood and the way to sell their stuff is to remind us of the time when we didn’t need boner pills, but still, selling a Cadillac with Led Zeppelin singing the jingle is a shock.
But I also see teens wearing Stones and Beatles t-shirts without irony, so that’s something.
srv
You people have cars? What happens when you only have google play in your google cars?
PIGL
@PIGL: to myself I reply with Ms. Gentry’s own remarkable words concerning this song, from 1974:
“Fancy” is my strongest statement for women’s lib, if you really listen to it. I agree wholeheartedly with that movement and all the serious issues that they stand for — equality, equal pay, day care centers, and abortion rights.
(cited in her wiki page)
different-church-lady
I generally dislike country music, yet I adore “Hillbilly At Harvard”, Saturday mornings on WHRB. Something about the goofy presentation combined with the selectivity.
DougJ
@different-church-lady:
Weird, I was born in late 69 and I remember hearing it so much on the radio
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@DougJ: Van does mumble a bit, so we both could be wrong.
Origuy
KALW in San Francisco does a series of eclectic programs on Saturday afternoon. Their transmitter doesn’t quite cover the South Bay, so I don’t listen every week. Most often, I’ll listen to Thistle & Shamrock, which is a Celtic show from NPR. The rest of the day is local, with folk, bluegrass, international, jazz, etc.
SarahT
On the subject of great radio & roots music, RIP Cosimo Matassa:
http://www.wwltv.com/story/entertainment/arts/2014/09/11/cosimo-matassa-dies-t-88/15466137/
RSR
@DougJ
A friend in Philly is publishing a book on Bobbie Gentry and Ode :
http://thekey.xpn.org/2013/01/17/philly-writer-tara-murtha-takes-on-the-legend-of-bobbie-gentry/
http://www.amazon.com/Bobbie-Gentrys-Ode-Billie-Joe/dp/1623569648
burnspbesq
Another great forgotten 80s song. Was a hit for Wynnona Judd, but I prefer the writer’s version. You may recognize one of the backup singers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMsjYWL3ejo
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
I try to catch this on my local college radio station on Sundays.
RSR
As for radio programs, for OTA radio, I generally listen to WXPN which is a listener-supported station from the University of Pennsylvania (but pretty much managed independently in the AAA format). XPN produces the widely syndicated show World Cafe.
As for other syndicated shows they air, a favorite is The Many Moods of Ben Vaughn, which delves deeply into forgotten and lost cuts–http://www.xpn.org/xpn-programs/many-moods-ben-vaughn . Many Moods is available as a podcast as well.
Bobby B.
The music of the 70s is completely scorned by the young rugrats, except when they are “sampling” it mercilessly for their hippity hop musics.
Central Planning
If I’m driving around on Sunday mornings, I’ll put on WITR – RIT’s station – and listen to Bad Dog Blues from 10am-12pm.
Otherwise, it’s XM and the blues channel (70), kids place live (when kids are in the car), and usually whatever sounds good in the 2-33 range.
I have a friend who likes KPIG from California. They have an app to stream their shows. It seems to have a pretty good mix but you need to pay for it.
Steeplejack
@DougJ:
Or:
I have gone over to the dark side of SiriusXM since getting it in my car about three years ago. Even have a SiriusXM wi-fi table radio in the crib for listening at home. They have a channel for almost every micro-genre, or at least enough to keep me happy, and no ads! Hell, not even announcers, usually. And terrestrial radio sucks in D.C.
I do still listen to WCLK (on line), a great little jazz station at Clark Atlanta University. During the day it veers toward “urban contemporary,” but at night—especially late at night—it is very good. “Serenade to the City” starts at 10:00 p.m. EDT. They’ve rejiggered the lineup, but they used to have a guy named Abdul who always started his midnight show with “A Love Supreme.” He played a mix of new and old-school stuff that was great.
David in NY
@Butch: Welcome to the Upper Peninsula, where our one option for local programming still plays “Ferry ‘Cross the Mersey” several times a day.
@Mustang Bobby: I listen to Interlochen Public Radio’s classical music station from the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan via the internet at work.
Well, there’s a possible solution, though won’t get you any country or blues.
different-church-lady
@Bobby B.:
Untrue. The 20 somethings that run the cafe I frequent have been locked into various 70s playlists for weeks now.
Ruckus
Internet radio I listen to Groove Salad or Sonic Universe. Haven’t listened in a while and they do tend to repeat a bit much.
But the best local radio I knew of was CSLB had a station back in the 80s that played punk from 4 to 6 and then switched to classical. Once before I knew they switched, was working alone, doors locked and came back into the shop and classical was blaring out of the speakers. “Who the hell changed that?” A little disconcerting to say the least.
David in NY
@Steeplejack: We got a trial subscription to Sirius with our Prius three years ago, but we didn’t, find much that we thought was worth paying for. I mean, there was the Frank Sinatra channel, proving that Frankie would sing just about anything, not all of it good, and less than a handful of other genres not mostly to our liking, so we let it lapse. So what do you like that we’re missing?
Steeplejack
“Ode to Billie Joe.” Summer of ’67. I was between sophomore and junior years of high school, and my father had just gotten word that we were being transferred from west Texas, which I thought was the ass end of the universe, to Okinawa, which introduced me to the surprising concept that things can always get worse.
My memory is that I spent the whole summer making endless trips to the dump, taking stuff that we were jettisoning before the move, and “Ode to Billie Joe” was always on the radio. Perfectly fit the heat, the glare and the dusty dirt road out to the dump. I was sometimes accompanied by Cheryl, the girl across the street, on whom I had a minor (and definitely unrequited) crush, and this song is fused in my memory with that hopeless high school feeling of “Yeah, this is never going to happen.”
Still thinking about my favorite forgotten song. Now that you can find almost anything on YouTube, my memories of “forgotten” have gotten a little skewed.
Steeplejack
@Butch:
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
different-church-lady
@Ruckus:
[hearts] Soma FM.
Jeff R.
We get our Irish* on every Saturday from 3 to 6 with WGBH’s “A Celtic Sojourn.” It’s local for us, but you can live stream it and they constant stream of old shows.
*It’s actually all the Celtic countries and England, but does tend to be pretty Irish.
different-church-lady
@Jeff R.: I can’t believe the MBA assholes who have taken over ‘GBH haven’t exiled him yet. “What’s this? There’s still non-talking programming on this station? How we gonna pry dollars out of corporations with this crap?”
Ruckus
@Steeplejack:
Thank you for the morning laugh. It is refreshing to have this hit you upside the head every once in a while. Not necessarily refreshing in a good way mind you but I’ll take what I can get.
Steeplejack
@Mustang Bobby:
Yeah, I get them using that music for the geezer-demographic ads, but it is surprising to see them also using it for products (like Cadillac) that are presumably being pitched to a younger, hipper market. My personal half-baked theory is that music listening has become so Balkanized into separate and distinct genres that the advertisers have to reach back to the oldies to get something that (they think) will appeal to a wide audience.
Shakezula
Local radio is craptastic. I listened to Pandora for a long time but more recently I’ve become hooked on Musica Antiqua, which is a station on Live 365.
My favorite forgotten song? I forgot. I
recently got “Walkin’ in rhythm’ stuck in my head for no apparent reason. I’ve had worse earworms.
Joel Hanes
“Ten at 10:00”, at 10:00 AM and 10:00 PM every day, on KFOG San Francisco/KFFG San Jose
Ten great songs (chosen by the DJ) from one great (randomly-chosen) year, along with the odd bit of radio news (Nixon resigns, Apollo landing) or movie dialogue (Jack Nicholson orders wheat toast in “Five Easy Pieces”) from the same year. I think the range of years is roughly 1962 – present. Theme song: “Let’s Do The Time Warp Again”
The show has been running for 25 years, and they sometimes do an all-day marathon of old Ten At 10:00 shows. The original DJ, Dave Morey, was better, and Don Pardo no longer does the intro, but it’s still great radio.
HW3
Locally in the ol’ fashioned FM, it’s 90.3 KEXP for me.
Mustang Bobby
@David in NY: Actually, IPR is pretty eclectic in their programming. They have a program called “The New Jazz Archives” with Jeff Haas, son of the late Karl Haas (“Adventures in Good Music”) and a variety of folk and acoustic music in other slots.
dedc79
Sound Opinions (I think it’s out of Chicago’s public radio station, but I listen as a podcast)
Everything on KCRW, but especially Morning Becomes Eclectic. Also they have a 24/7 all-music channel
It’s more of a once-a-year thing, but Yo La Tengo does an annual fundraiser for WFMU where they take requests for covers and play them right then and there.
ranchandsyrup
I try to catch the My Old Kentucky Blog Radio Show and Hipster Runoff on XM.
Brunch with Bob (Marley) and Friends was great on weekend mornings but it’s just on the internet now. They play a lot of great live stuff.
The Moar You Know
Keep in mind that “oldies” for today’s youngsters include such ancient acts as Britney Spears.
If you really want to go digging back for the youngs, throw on some Nirvana or Pearl Jam. That was the crap their parents listened to when they were kids.
Led Zeppelin to them is like Art Smith was to me back in the 1980s, my grandparents knew who he was and that was about it. That shit was so old I had a hard time finding a record player capable of playing back 78RPM stuff.
DougJ
@RSR:
I’ll have to check it out!
DougJ
@Steeplejack:
No static at all.
Steeplejack
@Ruckus:
Well, I have to say that once we got to Okinawa I enjoyed my last two years of high school there, but, jeez, moving anytime in high school is tough! I think a lot of my RWNJ brother’s problems stem from the fact that right before his senior year he had to move from North Dakota, which he liked, to Biloxi, Mississippi, which was about like what you would expect. That was a kick in the nard.
Mustang Bobby
@Steeplejack: I spent the summer of ’67 at summer school in Newport, Rhode Island, before my freshman year there. WBZ was the Top-40 station out of Boston, and “Ode to Billie Joe” was in heavy rotation. That song takes me back to that miserable hot summer of algebra and homesickness. The only bright spot was the Newport Jazz Festival where I was introduced to the music of Nina Simone. She made me forget all about the quadratic equation.
Steeplejack
Okay, forgotten song(s). I’ma go with two from the ’70s: the Dwight Twilley Band’s “I’m on Fire” and Les Dudek’s “Old Judge Jones.”
Both of them hit big and were everywhere for a short time, then they suddenly disappeared, never to be heard again, not even as “oldies.” Totally undeserved fate.
I will admit that Les Dudek may be a regional Southern thing and that the Juice night crew is probably sick of me posting it all the time. Not Little Boots/“Heard It in a Love Song” sick, let’s get that straight, but still.
Svensker
Any blues/gospel (also bluegrass and country) fans out there should tune into WFDU 89.1 Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. in Teaneck, NJ. They stream. They have a lot of good shows but my favorite lineup is on Wednesday from 6:00 AM to 5:00 PM, just blues blues blues with 3 different DJs. EB is pretty much classic blues, Bob Putignano is more blue-eyed soul, and Jimmy Bleu goes for hard-core blues and he just loves him some Jimmy Hendrix. Great stuff.
On Sunday at WFDU at 7-9 is the Group Harmony Ally with Christine Vitale with real NJ/NY acapella singers in the 50s style. Christine is hardcore group harmony and also has the BEST NJ accent evah.
It’s a great station, with dedicated and really nice DJs. I’ve been a big supporter for years. You should listen.
brian
Bobby Gentry was good. I’ve been always been partial to the version recorded by Henry Kaiser and crew:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWo698d-eVk
Distorted guitars and fiddles!
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
WSYO is about the only decent music radio station I get to listen to over-the-air any more, and that’s only when I’m visiting central Ohio. I find FM radio is mostly a wasteland these days. :-( We’ve got a Sirius/XM subscription, but I find it’s horribly repetitious if I listen for more than a few hours a week and that’s even with flipping between about 5 channels.
(sigh)
Cheers,
Scott.
dr. luba
Weird……I just found a CD of Bobby Gentry’s greatest hits at the local salvation Army two days ago, and listened to it all yesterday. I liked it, an had never heard anything except Ode to Billie Joe before. I’m still not sure what happened, but reading the Wikipedia article gave me a better idea. Apparently the original version had many more verses and no orchestra, and was a bit less enigmatic.
Being an old myself now, a few of the kids in the extended family are expressing interest in my music collection now. I have a lot of vinyl, quite a bit of it punk/new wave that has never been re-released on CD. It’s good being the cool aunt.
kindness
I hardly listen to radio any more. When I do it’s (the now dreaded) NPR and the local Classic Rock stations of N. Cal. My i-pod propels me more than anything in my car.
I did just get a couple really good CD’s though. Tom Petty’s new one Hypnotic Eye (which is really quite good). Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young’s CSNY 1974 ( think 4 Way Street for their 74 tour, also very good). And Humble Pie’s Performance – Rockin’ The Fillmore – The Complete Recordings (it’s all 4 complete shows the original Rockin’ The Fillmore double album was made from and it is excellent). OK so I’m an (relative) old. Sue me.
Jazzman
The Midnight Special with Rich Warren is still well worth seeking out (the University of Indianapolis station WICR-FM recently dropped it, for which I still haven’t forgiven them.) In Indianapolis it’s mostly a litany of loss: a few years back the soulless corporate drones at Cumulus ordered their Indy outlet WFMS-FM to drop “Saturday Night Gold”, one of the best country oldies shows in the nation. Hosted first by Darren Tandy and then Steve Rogers, two DJs who knew and loved the music, you were likely to hear any country recording from the 1920’s on, from Uncle Dave Macon and The Carter Family on up to Cash, Haggard and Owens.
As to great records you never hear on the radio anymore, I nominate anything by Junior Walker and the All Stars (HOLLA, South Bend, Indiana!)
Sanjuro
WUKY – Lexington KY – Rock and Roots 9AM-3PM. Nice Mix of new, not so new and oldies.
As for old songs that see little light of day.
Drivin’ Wheel – Foghat
(She’s Just A) Fallen Angel – Starz
E.T.I. (Extra Terrestrial Intelligence – Blue Oyster Cult
Butch
@Steeplejack: There’s lots to love about the UP, but you’re not exactly on the cutting edge of pop culture up here.
Steve in the ATL
The Old 97’s, “Murder (or a Heart Attack)”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlKmYiLN-7Q
True story: when my mother was a young girl, she used to sit on the Tallahatchie Bridge (that’s the bridge Billy Joe jumped off in “Ode tp Billy Joe”) and shoot snakes on the riverbank with a .22 rifle. She’s a good shot.
Steeplejack
@David in NY:
Re SiriusXM:
It has a lot of channels that I use for background music while working at home or while I’m in the car, i.e., not “serious listening” situations. There’s a swath of oldies channels—“Sixties on 6,” “Seventies on 7,” etc., up to the ’00s—that are almost guaranteed to give you something pretty good to listen to while you’re out running errands, etc. The jazz channel (Real Jazz?) is good, and even the “smooth jazz” channel, Watercolors, is okay. There is an old-school country channel that I listen to occasionally when I want to get back to my Crackro-American roots. Probably my most listened to channel is Soul Town, which is “classic soul and Motown.”
The big thing about all these channels, and SiriusXM in general, is that they play “deep cuts.” They really go into the catalogue and dig out lesser nuggets in each genre. So you get more than just the top 50 oldies in each category.
And there are some more exotic channels that I like. There is one channel (The Joint?) that plays what could be described as techno-trance reggae, and there’s one called (I think) Chill that plays surprisingly good New Age/ambient stuff. I actually like the Sinatra channel, because it’s really a “great American songbook” channel; yes, you do get Frank plowing through some bottom-of-the-barrel stuff occasionally, but you get a lot of other singers doing the whole Tin Pan Alley/movie-musicals canon. And, again, with deep cuts. There are also channels for Elvis, the Grateful Dead, Springsteen and Jimmy Buffett (?!). I think there’s also one for Nirvana.
Occasionally I’ll just spin the dial and park it on an unknown channel for a while. Usually find something interesting that way.
My big beef with SiriusXM is that most of the channels have ridiculous names (see above, plus “The Blend,” “Coffeehouse,” etc.) that make it hard to figure out (or remember) what kind of music they play.
Oh, yeah, SiriusXM also has a boatload of comedy, talk-radio and sports channels. I sometimes listen to a baseball or football game when I’m in the car. I have even occasionally muted the TV audio and used SiriusXM as a “simulcast’ for audio.
I don’t know if they still do it, but I think you can go to the SiriusXM Web site and listen for free for a trial period. (I think you can “register” at the site without buying a subscription.) If not, I think you can still see the channel lineups and what’s playing now.
I’m not saying SiriusXM is the ultimate, but it really works for me. I always have music on in the car, and I have played a CD only a handful of times in the three years that I have had satellite radio.
Jazzman
Oh, and almost forgot to plug what has become my favorite local radio program: Stolen Moments on WFYI-FM Indianapolis, hosted by Steven Stolen. An hourlong eclectic mix of show tunes, opera, folk and popular music. AM stations like WGN Chicago used to program music mixes like this all the time, before they were overrun by sports jabber and political vitriol (“AM” now stands for “Angry Morons”).
john fremont
The R&B Jukebox with Rolando Garcia KUVO 89.3 FM on Saturday night. Everything from Louis Jordan, Fats Domino and into the late sixties/early seventies soul.
Songs I miss on classic rock radio
Waterloo Sunset and Victoria by the Kinks.
Gone by Chilliwak. This Ol Cowboy by Marshall Tucker
Andrew
Robo-play things like pandora and sirius murder music. Living breathing DJs are so much more fun to spend time with.
Indy stations I love, online:
WWOZ New Orleans, especially the weekday 4PM (their time) jazz shows
WPKN Bridgeport CT. Whatever your taste, I promise at least a few of the DJs on this motley station will become a must-listen for you.
Radio Paradise is a dependable mix of classic and modern rock. Highest audio quality internet radio, in case you listen through a high-end system.
KCRW is OK smooth eclectic pop
WPFW – jazz and justice
Steeplejack
@Andrew:
Would (mildly) disagree about Sirius. On the channels that I listen to for extended periods, e.g., Soul Town, I can detect the presence of a live human programmer/scheduler doing the sets.
Death Panel Truck
BBC World Service. “The World’s Radio Station.” Not local. It’s eight hours ahead of me.
cmorenc
I’ve had Sirius Satellite Radio for several years in my own car, and was brutally reminded why I’ve foregone even bothering with “regular” AM-FM stations ever since when three years ago, I drove my older daughter’s car out from North Carolina to Salt Lake City for her and re-discovered how overwhelmingly “regular” radio is a crapfest wasteland not worth sifting through for worthwhile nuggets (those I can mostly get on Sirius if I want them). I also don’t understand why you consider Pandora “going over to the dark side” – if you like blues, the “Slide the Groove” station is right up your alley. I love how if I find a particular artist or song I like, I can explore the related genre of music by creating a channel for that artist – and if it doesn’t work out, simply delete it and perhaps try again to jump off into it using a different artist as the channel kernel.
Back before satellite radio or even the internet, I used to get my roots and bluegrass fix on a weekly local PBS channel program “back porch music”, but unfortunately for quite some time every other week it was hosted by some dude who had maybe been in the Peace Corps or an exchange student in South America, and instead far too many nights when he hosted it, the selection was dominated by a genre best described as “Peruvian Llama music” – way too many flutes, but without any of the mystical spirituality of Native North American traditional music and without any of the vibrancy of salsa music. When that dude finally handed his turn doing the program over to someone else – HALLELUJAH! With Pandora, there’s ample room for people who like spending a couple of hours listening to “Llama” music to create their own channel without cutting into (or having to listen to) my preference for a channel concentrating on hard-driving bluegrass and traditional music (try the “Rhonda Vincent” channel for that).
Steeplejack
@Jazzman:
“Stolen Moments”—my all-time favorite jazz song. Here’s a beautiful take by the Ahmad Jamal Trio.
Central Planning
One more – on Pandora I really like the Delta Blues channel. It’s usually old, single guitar blues.
Commenting at Balloon Juice Since 1937
I stream WNCW from NC. Its an NPR station that plays bluegrass, folk, AMericana, big band, jazz and whever else depending on whose birthday it is.
I seeded Pandora with The Be Good Tanyas and never ‘LIKE’ anything for maximum variety. If you ‘like’ anything on Pandora, pretty soon that’s all you’ll be hearing.
Deecarda
@Steeplejack: Only reason I continue to pay Sirius is Bluesville (ch 70).
Great mix of old blues & contemporary artists like Joe Bonnamassa.
Heliopause
Haven’t read the comments, but I assume someone’s pointed out that Ode to Billie Joe didn’t come out in the 70s.
And regarding Ohio Players albums, rumor has it a vinyl record was often enclosed with the cover art.
Mzrad
We are a 6 month old low power station out of Morro Bay, California just a few short miles from Happy Town (aka San Luis Obispo). My show is Friday 2-3pm PST: “X Marks the Spot with Central Coast Foodie” but we have 50 air talent who present all kinds of great programming across the spectrum throughout the week. Just like old time FM radio, played by humans. For example, we have 3.5 hours of blues, soul, and R&B on Monday with no commercials. Listen to our station: it is so good! Every community should have one of these stations. 100% volunteer power baby
Mzrad
We stream at EsteroBayRadio.org.
way2blue
KPIG 107.5 out of Freedom, California [née KFAT during my UCSC student days] for anyone looking for a central California surfer vibe. They dropped their repeater in the [SF] east bay hills, so I have to stream them these days [http://www.kpig.com]…
Steeplejack
@Deecarda:
Have hit it occasionally, will check it out in more detail.
rodandchance
I have listened to stations all across the USA and always go back to KBSU on Saturdays 6 to 10 am for Full Circle & 10am to 2pm for Private Idaho. I guess one would call it ‘eclectic’, blues, r&b& americana songs that you rarely hear from albums both new & old. I purchase a lot of music that I first hear on KBSU.
CARPE DIEM
Ballooners