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turbo
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My Sony 400-CD carousel died last week, and I have been waiting all that time for a replacement to arrive. My collection (about 75% of it fits in that player) is a mix of blues, rock, country, country/rock (think Poco, Buffalo Springfield, etc), bluegrass, R&B, etc. I unloaded all my CDs from that CD-eating monster, and have been stuck listening to FM radio. What a wasteland! Every radio station up here seems to be owned by a huge conglomerate, and is programmed by idiots. I normally leave my carousel on shuffle mode, so every time a song plays, the machine switches to another track, regardless of which disk it is on. I might hear a song by T-bone Walker, then Vince Gill, then Robben Ford, then Allison Krause and Union Station, then Muddy Waters, then Emmylou Harris, then John Lee Hooker, then Led Zep... Why are there no radio stations that can pull this off? Stephen King's radio station (yes the horror-author from Bangor) has a fair mix of rock and blues, but still doesn't cut it. Too many repeats, too many top-40 fall-backs. Surely, these stations have FAR more CDs than I do. Where is the variety, the deep album cuts, etc? [/rant]