Introducing: Rick’s Canteen on KLKT
Since late January/early February, I’ve been taking the required steps towards getting a radio show on the upstart community radio station in Lockhart (107.9, KLKT.org).
It’s been a process.
With my live-event DJ experience, I thought being a radio DJ would be simple/easy, but I’m finding out there’s a whole lot of room for improvement.
My initial show proposal to the KLKT board was:
“Rick’s Canteen will focus primarily on Jazz, Soul, Blues, Swamp Pop, and Doo Woop (85% focus), with an occasional Classic Country, Americana, or 21st Century Indie (15%) sprinkled in from time to time to mix things up while also noting spheres of influence and any other interesting connections.”
As things have progressed, I’ve tried to play jazz for the first hour and feature mostly soul, R&B, blues, and funk for the back half of the two-hour program.
For the most part, I construct the playlist through Spotify.
I mostly play vinyl and often come across situations where the vinyl tracks included in the set aren’t available on Spotify. That said, I still try to piece the sets together digitally before spinning records in the studio.
You can find Episode Five‘s digital playlist without any live on-air ramblings or any of the radio station’s underwriting below here on Spotify. Or…
A note about the spotify playlists– the repeated tracks such as “Thank You All the Same” and “Feelm Intermission” and other similar repeated tracks are the ones used for the “bed” music (the tunes used when a DJ is chatting about whatever).
…Or you can listen to how my set was recorded live– complete with all my blathering and such here (file below).
If your device’s media player doesn’t work well with WordPress’s audio player, you can also find all the live audio files in this google folder (provided Google treats you better than WordPress).
A note about the recorded files. The first bit of audio you’ll hear is the tail-end of the 6pm-8pm program belonging to DJ Russet Burbank. Rick’s Canteen doesn’t generally get goin until three or so minutes after 8pm.
Episode Four – 6.25.24
And the spotify playlist–
Episode Three – 6.18.24
My first three shows were cut to one hour due to scheduling concerns for the board members.
The recording below is two hours, but my show only ran from 8pm-9pm. It’ll be easy to tell once it cuts to automation.
Episode Two – 6.11.24
Same as Episode Three. One hour of Rick’s Canteen and another of automation.
Episode One – 6.4.24
Same as Episodes Three and Two. One hour of Rick’s Canteen and another of automation.
I’ve actually never asked anybody to follow any social media account.
But, here’s the show’s ig.
Cheers and thanks for listening!