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Remember seeing Jo Jo and the Falcons at the Menai Hotel in Burnie Tas all those years ago! Mighty, mighty band. I'd love to get to the reunion but doubt if I will make it. Thanks Joe and boys for the brilliant memories and memorable music.
Willie Dixon had to sue Led Zeppelin to get any satisfaction. One of the landmark cases that led Willie to establish the Heaven foundation to try to get some justice for blues musicians who had been ripped off by those who professed to idolise them. Love in Vain credited to Woody Payne (aka Jagger/Richards) might have been in the public domain but should have been acknowledged as a Robert Johnson song. Lots of other examples. Dig into Willie Dixon. The amount of songs that he wrote that have been covered by all and sundry would astound a lot who don't know the man! You Shook Me (covered by Led Zep on their first album) Little Red Rooster, Spoonful..
Love the variety of music. Don't become an easy listening folk/adult oriented pop music station. I think the strength is that you have some people who don't like all of the music. Some of the stuff isn't my cup of tea - possibly the tribal music actually (although I'm really not sure what tribal music is - African? urban tribal doof doof?) Anyway I like my listening habits being challenged occasionally.
I must admit that I haven't listened for a while due to personal circumstances, so I'm not sure if the 'quirky' station IDs are still happening - the faux funny ones about Schoppenhauer etc., but if they aren't, I'm a happy man. They were one of the few things that really aggravated me about your fine station. Yeah, ok. The announcements of the album of the week with the strange emphases on seemingly random words bugs me a bit too.
Keep up the good work
Couldn't be presumptuous enough to say that I can say the album of the year as there's heaps that I've missed no doubt!
Ones that I've enjoyed are:
Nothing Gold Can Stay - The Duke and the King
To Be Still - Adela Diane
Killingsworth - The Minus 5
Middle Cyclone - Neko Case