burkphoto wrote:
I thought I knew a lot about music when I left college radio. I was Operations Manager of a small student station back in the mid-70s.
We had about 15,000 albums in our library. We played classical, many flavors of jazz, blues, bluegrass, rock, rock-and-roll, pop, jazz fusion, new-age before it was called that, German and Italian art rock, African percussion, and a category called "random experimental noise," but we had very little country music in our collection, for some reason.
The record companies only sent us the really cool crossover stuff, like Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, NRPS, Linda Ronstadt, etc. So we never got the hard core country from Nashville's more obscure musicians.
So when my first job out of college was a mid-day post at a country station, I got a rapid indoctrination in a culture I had never known. It was fascinating, disgusting, hilarious, depressing, boring, and enlightening, all in the same breath. I don't miss it.
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Sounds like one hell of a great way to make a living, not easy by any means, but a good time. DJ on a 24 hour Jazz station, one of my dream jobs.