Little Steven's Essay

IMing with a friend this morning, we got to talking about podcasting, broadcasting, satellite radio and on line music services. She said that radio will always be the nexus of her musical adventures because she needs a guide to sift through the chaff. That subject is worth a post on it's own, but we got around to who her guide was.. and it was Little Steven. Little Steven's Underground Garage is carried on a bunch of stations (WCSX is it's Detroit home), and XM has dedicated a channel to his direction. He does an excellent job of connecting then to now, his playlists are an eclectic mix of everything from seminal 60s to today's worthy foot soldiers and his garage essays show a scholar's appreciation of the genre. I always find something new (old) to add to my personal library when I listen to his program. It's another reminder of how the magic that was happening at WKNR in the 60s still influences the state of the art.