like failing to find maple syrup in vermont

[cos]

Lame: Driving all the way through West Virginia, Morgantown to Charleston, and on to appalachian Kentucky, through Morehead, scanning the radio dial repeatedly, looking for bluegrass music ... and failing to find any, all day.

Kentucky redeemed itself the following evening. Driving from Lexington to Louisville, I caught Red Barn Radio's best of 2003 show, on Central Kentucky Public Radio, and it was good. But that's not in Appalachia. I'd been expecting some bluegrass on Morehead State Public Radio, and got none either on the drive in or the drive out three days later. Looking at their schedule online now, I see that all their weekday bluegrass is after 8pm.

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Kentucky in October

[beardedone.livejournal.com]

When I drove through Kentucky in October, on a week of vacation after teaching a computer class to my fellow revenue agents in Atlanta, I found it hard to get any music on the road other than rap, hip-hop, and country. My personal preference is 80's, and I got lucky a few times and managed to find mirror stations to the one we have here in Seattle. (All owned by the same company.)

Of course, I don't think that they have any WBRS like stations in Kentucky. On the other hand, if you happened to drive through Pigeon Forge in the southeast corner of the state (before you get to the Great Smoky Mountains and the Cherokee Nation,) you have Dollywood, Lisa Mandrell, a number of gospel music halls, and surprisingly, a number of permanent resident bluegrass groups.

[lil-brown-bat.livejournal.com]

There was a bowl of maple drops (maple-flavored hard candy) sitting around at werk this morning. Yes, in Vermont.

Hee hee.

public radio mysteries

[diatom.livejournal.com]

public radio seems so hit-or-miss sometimes. it's scandalous when certain areas just don't carry fave programs. even more mysterious is finding some great song, and trying to track it down. i fell in love with dar williams because of public radio.

your woe has me thinking of the mystery of airplane "radio"... mysterious programming! hard to pounce on! i once heard an amazing hawaiicana program, including some elvis numbers. maybe today's the day to track this stuff down... :j