My latest radio phase

I think that the current horrific cold snap might have something to do with it, but I've started listening to Whole Wheat Radio quite a lot. WWR comes out of the town of Talkeetna, Alaska, and the thing that made me curious as to what they sounded like was a recommendation that said that it was like listening to the radio station from Northern Exposure.

And it is like that. Lots of music, and then occasionally someone comes in to sit at the mike and talk for a while. The music is eclectic and leans towards the folky (they are big boosters of the sort of artists that are doing the whole thing out of their basement and show up to do a set in your living room).

It's the sort of thing that you love to find as you roll through the radio dial at about ten or eleven on a long drive in the middle of nowhere. It's winter, it's biting cold, but the moon's out and lighting up the snowbanks. With the right music on you can drive another few hours, and this is just right indeed.