I feel a little luckier.  Up here in the Uppr Valley of the Connecticut River
we at least have one or two decent rock stations (plus two NPR outlets!)
 Strangely, I first got into the Connells over the radio, because
"Slackjawed" was placed on heavy rotation on 99 Rock here in Hanover (which
is the dartmouth student station but is a commercial AM-FM outlet with ads
and a format and everything.  Their only concession to being a college
station is that they do follow the college-radio tradition of only hiring
squeaky-voiced newsreaders who speak in halting monotones and stumble over
all the proper nouns in the wire-service copy.  Otherwise, they are a
professional commercial station.)
 
Anyway, "Slackjawed" came along when I was in a particularly romantically
despairing mood, and I was made a fan...
 
--Tim Horrigan
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