Grinny Music
Posted by TFG on January 23rd, 2008
I finally got in range of KNBT while driving back from Laredo tonight, and they played Ryan Bingham’s Bread & Water. Picked me up considerable. I hope it means something for Bingham, too…KNBT is a nationally-recognized Americana station, and hopefully, he’ll get some good exposure. Better than this dumb blog and the cab of my truck, anyway.
When you click thru that splash page, you’ll get to hear Southside of Heaven, as good a song as any to introduce yourself to Mr. Bingham. And it’s another one of my faves from Mescalito.
However, in other stoopid news, proving the deck is stacked against real musicians, NASCAR announces a return to their roots…by hiring Garth Brooks and Brooks & Dunn. <sigh>
January 24th, 2008 at 9:30 am
There’s an article in the Chronicle this morning where they project the end of the stick antenna. They list a bunch of reasons.
That’s gonna hurt. My truck, with a real antenna, has 100 times the reception of the Buick, with a windshield “antenna”. Which is right next to no antenna at all. Satellite radio, I guess, is where we’re all gonna have to go if we want to use mobile radio at all. This kind of stuff is set up for people who live and mostly stay in urban areas with many broadcast stations very close. I don’t think they care much about people in, say, Sonora, Big Lake.
January 24th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
But then on the flip side, all the terrestrial stations are pushing this HD radio crap, which I haven’t investigated at all. I’m a high-tech dude, but sometimes, I just want the damn radio to play, you know. No satellites, no MP3s, no iPods…just a freaking radio, with local DJs who know their shit. I guess I’m lucky getting that KNBT, because they’re pretty good, if horribly cheesy at times.