Comments on: The best college radio stations

By: AJones

AJones — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 02:40:05 +0000

I forgot to mention that Concordia Seminary is in St. Louis.

By: AJones

AJones — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:39:32 +0000

While it may not qualify anymore as a college radio station on the Campus of Concordia Seminary KFUO AM is the longest continuously running religious radio station in America. The ACLU sued because the station hired seminary students who tended to be Lutheran can you imagine. KFUO FM is a clasical music radio station which is also housed at the Seminary.

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By: menliketreeswalking

menliketreeswalking — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:54:45 +0000

Man, I love the KEXP session mp3’s that you find floating around the internet.

While we’re on the subject of good indie music, let me also plug Noise Trade for a moment here and say that you can download great independent artists for free there! Derek Webb (formerly of Caedmon’s Call), a Christian and a pioneer in the music industry, started it up. You should check it out!

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By: Sawgunner

Sawgunner — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:49:39 +0000

In Austin Tom Allen’s “Country Gold” radio show on KVET dotcom is great. He gives the “story behind the song” along the lines of: “the writer tried and tried to get various artists to record it and they refused. When at last he wound up cutting the song himself it was a million seller.” I love those stories. The song “Aint Gonna Need this Old House” has a good story behind it.
Remind me later for the rest of the story.

How many college radio deejays go on to work for commercial stations later on? I’ve always heard the saying “the softer the deejay’s voice the lower his/her pay” which sez something about NPR, no?

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By: Chas

Chas — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:36:07 +0000

This is no longer true to the extent it once was, but when I lived in Virginia, WAMU,88.5FM, a NPR station run by American University, was the station for Bluegrass and old country music.
My favorite was Jerry Gray who played country/western of the 30’s, 40’s & 50’s from “the Gray gallery of grammaphone country greats.” Also, Eddy Stubbs, Dick Spotswood,(Ph.D. in something to do with music lore,) and (forgot his name) who once worked on “Border Radio” in Texas/Mexico. (”border to border and coast to coast”) Jerry Gray is no longer on. They usually played Blue Grass during drive time.

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