Listening: KAOS Olympia

Playing a weird mix of Floyd/English psych circa-'69 plus some Xtian rock for Easter, plus Mississipi John Hurt? God Bless the Left of the Dial. "Just sittin' here with my pot full of gremlins," right.

Hearing this show reminds me of how exciting it was as a kid to hear John Hurt and Lightning Hopkins and all those mountain wailers on KPFK over at my dad and Erma's. God bless them, through whom I discovered country music wasn't (just) music for drunk hicks, that an acoustic guitar could really move people. Oh, and first heard, let's see: Shostakovich, Miles Davis, the Carter Family, Josh White, Jonathan Hartford, Sonny Terry, Lightning Hopkins, Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey and the Morgan/Shorter Messengers, Ian and Sylvia, and on the radio R & B on KDAY and Kinks and Stones and Beatles on the rock and roll AM station. Music, music, all the time which is why to this day new things to hear and make for others to hear represent the expanding universe for me.