i wisd i could turn on the radio and find music
that I like to listen to..."americana" is one
name given to the genre--acoustic, "folk",
bluegrass, when i go to look for my favorite
music in a record store they usually lump it
under the label country...which is not exactly
right...often the theme of songs i like the best
is rural--or small town--"sitting on the back porch",
walking down a road, or "herding cattle in an
air-conditioned cadillac soupe de ville", but
one of the radio stations not far from here recently
cancelled a blue grass show which had been on for
almost 20 years, in favor of changing over to jazz
programming...I just have to keep tapes in the car
for those times when the radio is just not delivering
programming of interest...some say they solve this by
subscribing the XM radio, but i often check out books
on tape from the library to put on when i just have to
turn the radio off..