When I was 15, I was working for a radio band in Shreveport. Cliff Bruner, the hottest Texas fiddler of them all, was on the same package shows, playing for Jimmie Davis.
A tragedy's first act is crowded with supporting players, policeman scribbling in pads and making radio calls, witnesses crimping their faces, EMS guys folding equipment.
As I was born and brought up in Himachal Pradesh, I used to listen to a lot of Hindi songs over radio apart from ghazals, western music, and 'Himachali' folk songs.
Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.
I don't feel like I've changed as much as radio formats have changed.
Radio is so fragmented, it's unbelievable.
I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio.
My school had a radio show, and when I first decided to become a rapper, I was on there, and I would, like, freestyle.
I don't own a radio. I listen to everything through apps or on my iPhone. And then I download the shows I like. Shows like 'Fresh Air', 'Radiolab', 'Snap Judgement', all those shows.
The first science fiction show on television was 'Tales Of Tomorrow' using scripts from the radio show 'X-1' which used stories from 'Galaxy Magazine' as its source material.
When I was little, people like Talking Heads were on the radio. There was something geeky yet groundbreaking about them.
I was raised in the Methodist Church, which is a very Germanic, military kind of music they have there. I heard this other music on the radio: Pentecostal. That was right up my street.
We don't go around the world counting ticket and record sales, nor do we glue our ears to the radio to hear what's trendy at the moment - we're not that type of band.
I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio.
A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
The part that I loved about radio wasn't getting on the air - it was all this great stuff my listeners would tell me.
In 1918, when I was 6 or 7 years old, radio was just coming into use in the Great War.
It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.
I would listen to something on the radio and try to tap out the melody, then the harmonies.
I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
