Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Shack My Crit Up!




"They're playing that??!!"

One of the way more cool — in my opinion — Chicago classic rock radio stations, WDRV The Drive 97.1 FM (look for their live stream on their website!) is doing their twice- or three-times-a-year "The Drive A to Z," where they select around 2000 titles from their library and then play through them in alphabetical order. It takes them about eight days to get through them, and it's something I enjoy immensely when I get the chance to listen, because they invariably play some songs you just don't hear on the radio very often any more...if at all.

This evening I was driving alone in the cab while they were playing through the Ds, when I heard what my brain couldn't process as reality: Dueling Banjos.

"Dueling Banjos??!! They have that in their library?!"

Naturally, I cranked the tune, as I haven't heard it in years, certainly not in its entirety.

After the final, electronically reverberated, curt chord dissolved into silence, the DJ's voice intoned, "Yes we did."

It's rare that subtle DJ humor so effectively elicits a belly laugh from me, but this was too absurd. Crack up I did!



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