![]() During the week prior to a shift, I stopped in the station and flipped through the LPs in the massive library, mapping out my playlist. I (usually) got a good night’s sleep beforehand. and hiking across campus while bleary-eyed was a rarity. After a night of…well, I won’t say debauchery, but it was college…and State College, the home of the Penn State mothership, is nicknamed “Happy Valley” for a reason. slot – usually meant I had to be in studio by 6 a.m. I’ve written about those times before, but for those who haven’t seen those posts: It was a two- or sometimes three-times a month gig, depending on the schedule laid out by Folk Show overlord (and friendly grad student) Jerry, and – aside from the occasional 10 a.m. (It’s now a professionally-run station, with WKPS filling the void for students.) ![]() They were one of several of the era’s new folk-flavored acts that I discovered while deejaying the weekend Folk Show on Penn State’s studio-run radio station at the time, WPSU. When was it? Fall of ’85? Spring of ’86? Difficult to say, but I suspect it was sometime in the spring that I first heard 10,000 Maniacs.
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