At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.
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I grew up on a farm where we had one radio station and it was all country.
I'm from Middlesboro, Ky., a little town on the Tennessee and Virginia border.
I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.
I grew up in Dolton, just south of Chicago, about a 20-minute drive from old Comiskey Park.
I grew up about 60 miles northwest of New York, in Middletown, NY.
As a touring musician over the last 15 years, before streaming and iPods, you had to listen to terrestrial radio wherever you were. That's always been my way of connecting to a location. Turn on the radio, search through the dial.
Carbondale, Ill. is where I went to college, and it's where I first started putting on shows.
I grew up in Danville, Illinois, right in the middle of the state.
Where I grew up, in the Detroit area, there was a really good station. Sometimes you would hear songs for the first time on the radio, and if a really special song came on, somebody would turn it up, and everybody would just stop talking.
I grew up in a farm town in Indiana. In the early years I played by myself, because there were no other musicians around.