I remember, when I was a kid, that we always had the same radio station on-- WJR in Detroit-- and it was mostly middle of the road music, but there were some stand-outs. There was Karl Haas with classical music (see recent thread) and they also carried the Refro Valley Gathering on Sunday mornings. I can't say that I liked the music from the Gathering, but I realized years later that it had an influence on me.

The soundtrack of my school years was MOTOWN-- The Temptations, The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson, Martha Reeves & the Vandellas. It was also the time of the British "invasion"-- I was more of a Stones fan than the Beatles. And then of course there was local boy Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band.

Along the way, my taste went to Jethro Tull and the Moody Blues.

I got a chance to see Pete Seeger & Arlo Guthrie in concert about 15 years ago. Saw Holly Near & Ronny Gilbert for the first time about then, too.

Thanks, Jerry, for starting a very interesting thread.

Maryanne