David Goren

@mattblaze@federate.social Yeah! I’ve got some digitizied…I’ll try to put them up soon.

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I’ve probably got about 100 hours worth of the Road Gang on cassette…a digitization project I should get to post haste given I recorded them in the mid-late 80s.

@mattblaze And he was a collector of vintage country music on Sunday mornings between 4-6 AM he had a specialty show called “Country Music the Way It Used to Was.” I"d stay up all night to tape it and would switch over the WRVA to catch The Silver Star Quartet an old school Black Gospel harmony group doing request sfor people who were getting up for church. Caught a few of those on tape.

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With Big John Trimble! My favorite though was Big John Parker, the weekend guy on the Road Gang…he was what I like call to a “cornball nihilist” He’d come up with these crazy pranks for the truckers to do…like look for the missing hour during the change back to standard time. And he would record the truckers who would call in and then he’d edit the tape to make them say weird things.

@mattblaze Also I miss the clear channel (the band allocation, not the company) overnight Trucker shows. The Road Gang from WWL New Orleans was my favorite.

@mattblaze “produce a glorious mush” that is

@mattblaze@federate.social The graveyard still produce a glorious at night…and this past winter I spent some time Sunset Skipping…and can still hear some local daytime stations in Virginina/Tennesee/North Carolina playing country gospel with local small business ads from my QTH in Brooklyn…but not like it used to be.