I'm glad to have grown up in the 60s and 70s (yes, I know I look much younger) when music was really going through a revolution. Of course, it was reflecting the times, and like many other parts of life, it was radically different from what came before. How cool to hear the DJ introduce the latest single from the Beatles the first day it was on the radio! Or to see my parents grimace at the opening screams of Sly Stone's "Dance To The Music." That whole era was a hard act to follow, and at some point, I fell into the doldrums that seem to catch most of us, feeling that the golden age was over. (Some fortunate encounters with a few progressive radio stations, and some new music-loving friends, thankfully proved that I was wrong.)

Somehow, I wound up in north Florida doing production for a news-talk radio station. I also hosted a college radio program there for about nine years, focusing on newer artists that the commercial world had passed by (some of whom were "discovered" by the mainstream, and the folks who compile soundtracks for Hollywood, a few years later.) That's where Mike Roe found me, and asked me to be one of the first to join him in this crazy enterprise that he had set up in his guest room. I was a little hesitant about getting back into the "oldies" that I hadn't paid attention to in years. but, as corny as it sounds, it was really like hearing them again for the first time. It was also a good excuse to buy old albums by bands I didn't hear too much the first time around, and proved that there really is always something new to discover.

With io70s Rock, I wanted to replicate what you may have heard on some of the legendary FM stations of that era, from the late 60s onward. and not to be just a typical classic-rock jukebox. Of course, for those times when you do need that old time rock and roll, there's ioClassicRock--it's just what it says, no nonsense, straight-up rock. The goal of ioHistory of Rock is to bring you all the fun and innovation of rock, from the earliest days to the present. And now, with Classic Acoustic Rock, we spotlight the easy-going side of the classic rock years, from the folk-rock of the 60s, to the singer-songwriters of the 70s and beyond. It's truly rare in the radio biz to be able to play a variety of music like this, and I'm glad to share it with you!