I love how Purcell makes the sly NCAA hoops reference below. That's dangerous, you know, in the presence of a bunch of music nuts ;-) D. At 09:01 AM 3/18/99 -0500, you wrote: >Evan wrote: > >> Maybe it's just the djs at my radio station, but I think the >> roots-rock of the 80s was more acceptable to the alt-rock (wasn't >> it called college-rock back then) hipsters of the mid 80s than it >> is today. > >That was definitely the case in these parts. I discovered a lot of the >80s roots rock thru WOXY/97X, a great (well it used to be, dunno if >it still is) independent station out of Miami, OH (home of Wally >Szerbiak) that Jennifer Heffron and I bonded over. They'd think >nothing of playing Steve Earle, Green on Red or Dwight next to the >Cure & U2. I vaguely remember Dwight's version of Little Sister >being one of their most played and requested songs one year. I >haven't listened since I moved back to town, but by the early 90s, I >know they'd switched almost exclusively to "modern rock" (or was >it postmodern?). > >Also, on the local university/hipster music scene, some of the >most popular bands were rootsy ones (Libertines, Bucking Strap, >Warsaw Falcons, and so on). Now, the closest thing in that scene >to a popular rootsy band is the Ass Ponys. > >I <heart> Green on Red. So does Paul Kirsch, I hear... > >Dave > > >*** >Dave Purcell, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Northern Ky Roots Music: http://w3.one.net/~newport >Twangfest: http://www.twangfest.com >
