Georgia Music Show on WRAS

Last night on the way home from class, I had the radio tuned to WRAS, because they still let the college kids run it at night.

Tuesday from 8 - 10 is the Georgia Music Show. Last night, for the first time I know of, they featured some jazz by Georgia artists. Here are two I think are worth sharing:

Larry Wilson:  Our Thing

Stephen Cox: Transitions


The name I give in each case above is the album name; track names linked to vary.

The track played on WRAS following the Larry Wilson number is also worth sharing, and I didn't catch the name. If I learn that, I'll edit the post to include it.

The story of WRAS is . . . complicated. When I arrived in Georgia 21 years ago, Album 88 was one of my first signs that I could make a home here. It seemed to be the only place on the radio dial that wasn't fully corporatized and programmed into utterly uniform blandness. (WREK's signal didn't make it out that far back then, and WRFG was just talk, talk, talk.) Then Georgia State helped Georgia Public Broadcasting take it away from the students. There was wailing, gnashing of teeth, protesting, etc. but in the end . . . let me just say Bill Nigut has a lot to answer for.