Nearly 25 years ago, BackTracking was launched at a small town commercial radio station. I loved playing the music but hated the commercial platform. Backtracking is a return to the great days of FM radio heard decades ago: short breaks, long songs, and DJs who knew more about the music they were playing than I did.

There are hundreds of Classic Rock stations today, but for the most part, they are all streamed from one or two syndicated programs. They have more noise than music, and DJs who have as much personality as unsweetened oatmeal and wouldn’t know a 45 from a 12″ lp, let alone the speed each played at.

I do my best not to play a song a second time for at least a year, checking every week’s playlist against Spinitron’s previous 52 weeks of BT playlists. Every song is “leveled” so as to provide even playback volumes despite original recording levels. Any song knowingly containing profanity has been edited for airplay.

 Sunday 11:00 PM

Playlist on this link