Conception Crest radio

This station was originally devoted to one song seed, one of my favorite John Coltrane songs, "Central Park West." (My other favorite Coltrane tunes are "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise" and "Naima".) I wanted this station to play more Coltrane music so I added John Coltrane as an additional artist seed in 2010, then I added Charlie Parker as the other main artist seed in 2010. I added Richard Strauss when Pandora expanded to Classical artists in 2012 and I added Dizzy Gillespie as the third feature artist in 2014. This station is now one of my top "Go-To" Jazz stations ! I listened to it every night for a week straight in the Spring of 2016, eight years after I created it (April 15, 2016). http://www.pandora.com/station/11724234241386670

Bobby "Bojangles" radio

When I first created this station in 2007, it consisted simply of two song seeds: KRIS KRISTOFFERSON'S "ME AND BOBBY MCGHEE" AND THE NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND'S "MR. BOJANGLES" - these were the two most lonesome songs of the seventies, two poignant character studies that touched me deeply when I first heard them in the late 70s/early 80s. So I conceived this station around these two songs and my thinking was (as far as I can remember), that if my "High Time" station is meant to re-create the feel and context of the sixties, this station intends to do the same for the 1970s. IN 2010, when I was living in New Milford NJ, I decided this station should be a showcase for Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin, two people who were meant for each other if ever there was two star-crossed lovers and blues mavericks it was them two. I ALWAYS THOUGHT WERE MEANT TO BE TOGETHER, THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN THE GREATEST MUSICAL COUPLE EVER. In 2010, when I moved to Mass., I added Joan Baez and Leonard Cohen, thinking they would provide the ballast to set this station afloat and in 2016, nine years after this station's conception it took a new evolutionary step. I deleted Kristofferson's version of 'Bobby McGee' and replaced it the more popular version by Janis and I deleted the old version of 'Bojangles' in favor of the one that really spoke to me, the one by Sammy Davis Jr. I also added the artist seed "Canned Heat" because I accidentally deleted my Pandora station called "Red Wing" when I was using my mother's computer with my eyes shut. Oops, I'll never do that again ! (May 13, 2016) http://www.pandora.com/station/223925052074666158