What's your favorite radio station(s)?

[adorshki]

I searched to see if this had come up before, but the closest was "what are you listening to now?" I bet most of us listen to music as opposed to talk radio during drive time for example. My favorite is a local NPR from a college that plays all jazz 24/7, with periodic pledge campaigns. We're talkin' the real thing, from Armstrong on Basin Street through Basie and Brubeck and on up to Coltrane and Wes Montgomery and even brand new stuff. They explicitly promise not to play Kenny G for instance. They have a web stream by the way at KCSM.net Anyway I find myself occasionally thinking "I wonder how that would translate to guitar?". It also lets new compositional techniques and styles slip in to my creative subconscious. And when I do occasionally switch over to the classic rock channel(s), for a little change of pace, I hear the arrangements of stuff I may not have particularly cared for originally, in new ways.
A lot of my co-workers are surprised I don't like to listen to music at work. Too many interruptions. Do you listen at work?
As a correlation to the jazz thing, anybody here a Larry Coryell or Bill Frisell fan? Just curious.

 

[Frosty]

National Public Radio has enriched my life for years. When it's time for music I play CDs.

 

[Qvart]

I bet most of us listen to music as opposed to talk radio during drive time for example.

I don't spend much time in my car, and when I do it's very early morning (before 6am), around early afternoon, then my drive home in the afternoon. About 15-20 minutes each time. Don't care much for the music stations around here so I use my iPod Nanos for music (just got a Sony CD player with a USB plug on the front). Usually I listen to NPR on the way to work then Air America (we have an AM affiliate here) for my short drives in the afternoon. I normally catch part of the Ed Schultz show.

 

[fronobulax]

Classical WETA. 8)

 

[Ridgemont]

It has typically been NPR and CDs for me. I recently started listening to Pandora through my computer. It is a live streaming radio that plays the specific genre you are interested in. It gets pretty specific too. Recently I have been listening to their Delta Blues station. Acoustic blues only!

 

[Scratch]

KNBT 92.1; Mostly Americana and featuring for the most part, Central/South Central artists: http://www.lonestarmusic.com/artists.asp?id=1404

 

[southernGuild]

RADIO RADIO!!!!!
GREAT thread Adorshki ! That station you are listening to sounds like one I would like also, i love that old Jazz ( my DOGS name is 'Jasper', but in full, he is Mr JAZZ-paw Jellyroll!..he's a pug....Well,he almost got named after Buddy Bolden.....or BIX BIEDERBICK! :lol: ) so I might check out that cool streaming site of yours.
What you are saying about that jazz permiating the brain is TRUE. When at College I lived in the dorms, and to sleep i played the radio all night, just loud enough to drown out the noise, but it was on a Jazz only station and THAT took my mind places in the night! Great dreams! and during the day....Id be in the srerile classroom but bopping in my mind to a song i didnt remember at all! :shock: And like you Ridge... I love those acoustic blues too, CANT get enough, but when I think i have...and Thanks to streaming....I get to hear some great 'classic rock stations".
In Australia, we have the "ABC radio national", which is like NPR, I always enjoy listening and learning about new stuff there.....but More than anything else I listen to my CDS. I have many, and enjoy going into that zone of listening anew to songs I know so well, but keep rediscovering them as I read More of the history and stories behind these songs. Ill just play Delta blues artists, or Dylan all day, or Neil young....Or Tom Waits, john Hyatt, country blues, early Folk, Harry Smith anthology ( new and old incarnations) Etc, etc, etc....Thankfully, theres most always Music in the house. My daughter picks up on the starngest songs....and just loves them! we all do!
Late at night. ....as Steely Dan says, ' the radio is tuned to Southern stations"
Cheers, Southern :wink:

 

[adorshki]

My daughter picks up on the strangest songs....and just loves them!
Cheers, Southern :wink:

You better keep an eye on that one. Sounds like she might be sliding down that long slippery slope to..... SHOW BUSINESS! Heaven Forbid! :lol:
PS You saw Suzanne Vega live? I am SO jealous! :wink:

 

[alpep]

if you are anywhere near philly and you are a musician you have been listening to Wxpn for many years

 

[mad dog]

+1 jazz in general
+1 Larry Coryell and Bill Frisell in particular

My radio faves here in north jersey are WKCR, jazz, classical and much other, WFDU, blues, all kinds of cool stuff, WFMU, formerly a college radio station, now not, but still as out there as you could want.

Much of my life I've spent listening to radio 8 plus hours a day. Big influence on my musical tastes and world view. I owe much to this media outlet.

Michael D.

 

[dapmdave]

I bet most of us listen to music as opposed to talk radio during drive time for example.

I don't spend much time in my car, and when I do it's very early morning (before 6am), around early afternoon, then my drive home in the afternoon. About 15-20 minutes each time. Don't care much for the music stations around here so I use my iPod Nanos for music (just got a Sony CD player with a USB plug on the front). Usually I listen to NPR on the way to work then Air America (we have an AM affiliate here) for my short drives in the afternoon. I normally catch part of the Ed Schultz show.

Most stations around here are talk, classic rock (meaning endless repetition of someone's favorite 50 songs or so) or top 40. Not much of merit, I'm afraid. But...

A big thumbs up on the USB port in the car audio system. I picked up one of these (mine's a JVC) a few years ago and it's been the best! I just load up a little USB memory stick. You can download great stuff from NPR for free.

Dave