Maybe I'm just a hopeless conspiracy theorist, but it seems like as far as commercial radio here in Atlanta goes, they are slowly but surely phasing out the decent free music stations, so you have to pay to hear the good stuff.
Our oldies station went extinct a couple of years ago, then our only decent classic rock station bit the dust last year after being on the air 30 years...its ridiculous I tell ya, that you have to pay to hear the good stuff nowadays. A city this size with no Chuck Berry, Motown, Stax, early Beatles, Elvis, etc on our airwaves....you're darn lucky when you hear the occasional Stones, Floyd or Zep tune these days on free radio.
For instance, I have never, ever heard Joe Bonamassa on the radio here (not even on either of our college radio blues shows, or our public access station's 3 hour blues show every weekday morning!) --- but my boss, who has XM radio, says they play Joe B. all the time! Haven't heard any of the new Mavis Staples cd either ( with Ry Cooder playing on it) on the radio here either, until I rode in my boss' car! Guess I'll have to break down and get Sirus or XM one of these days. (..darn it, I hate having to pay yet another bill every month...grumble grumble....dadgum corporate America...)
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