Every year, UNESCO designates February 13 as World Radio Day. WVBR wanted to honor it with 24 hours of live DJs. Well, many of them were live when they recorded a special show for the day. As the new Salt Creek DJ, I didn't expect to get to do the hour we were granted. But before it was revealed people didn't have to be live, I had offered to go in from 5-7 a.m. thinking no one else would want that slot. In the end, I was on live for an hour starting at 5. Management encourages the Now Playing function be used, and I enjoy it even if I sometimes race against the end of the song to post it. It didn't get turned off when I was finished so this is what the website looked like for the next two hours. Anyone streaming would have had Now Playing: Nancy Griffith Listen to Your Radio displayed. No better advice.
Except for my intro, where I talked a little about World Radio Day, and the 63-year history of the Salt Creek Show, I played this song before I remembered to start recording.
Listen to 57 minutes here: World Radio Day: Salt Creek Hour Or just read the set list in a few seconds:
Setlist: World Radio Day 2/13/26 5 a.m.-6 a.m. Host: Joe McMahon
Radio Boogie Hotrize Satellite Radio Steve Earle Border Radio Dave Alvin One More Song the Radio Won't Like Kathleen Edwards Far Away Eyes The Rolling Stones Around the Dial The Kinks Heard It On the X ZZ Top Spirit of the Radio Rush Do You Remember Rock and Roll? The Ramones Talking Reality Television Blues Todd Snider Clap for the Wolfman The Guess Who Turn Your Radio On John Hartford Listen to the Radio Nancy Griffith
John Simon and Gregory James came into the studio in the evening, representing another weekend specialty shows that's been on WVBR since about the day radio was invented: Rockin' Remnants. You can listen to their hour too. Check out their blog.
It was a white, male dominated show, but I couldn't find some songs I'd hoped to play; lots of Canadians though. There were a few songs I left off because I knew the other weekend DJs would include in their hour.
Still got home with enough time to walk the dog, eat, and walk to work. That's when I had this wormhole experience and found myself walking down the street behind myself from 35-years-ago. Of course, I would have had a hat on, and no one used a backpack in the 80s, but he pretty much nailed the socks on this 8 F morning.
Being the last day before vacation, I took some time to check out a display of work from an art class in the school. This painting caught my eye but I didn't get the name of the creator. Probably No Socks from the morning.
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