By Friday, please post

A short paragraph on a memorable listening or recording experience.  This can be listening to or recording music, voice, performance, a radio show or station, whatever it may be.  Hook us into what you like, what you remember, and how those experiences shape your thoughts on sound.

Here's one from me.

In college I was a DJ for WNUR, which broadcast all across Chicagoland.  I did the blues show on Sunday nights, and played old time blues, primarily pre-electrification/amplification, so a lot of old folk blues, Alan Lomax recordings, Bessie Smith, etc.  But I occasionally would play some artists who did not fit that bill.  I especially liked Koko Taylor, because she had the kind of voice that the classic blues queens had.  One night I got a call from an elderly woman on the South Side.  We chatted a while and she said she had noticed that I hadn't played any Koko Taylor that night, and she asked me to play a certain song.  I realized that she knew I played Koko Taylor almost every week, and that I had not played any that night.  From this, I knew she was a loyal listener.  She paid attention.  I played her song that night, and tried not to forget from there on out.  When I did forget, my friend would call me and let me know about it.  The lesson:  people listen.  Sometimes you think you're creating for no one but yourself, that it doesn't really matter, but there is an audience out there, unknown to you.  Put it out there, and people will pay attention.