Dreamland Blues Radio
All the Blues you can use!

These days 'Change' is all the buzz and Dreamland Blues is no exception. Over the next few days I'll be making some significant changes to the station; I hope you'll all approve.

- Increase the bitrate to 128kbps. This will result in a dramatic increase in the sound quality of the station at the cost of increased internet bandwidth. The majority of you that have 'broadband' (cable modems, FiOS, etc.) connections should have nothing to worry about. If this renders the stream unlistenable for you please let me know.

Sorry about that folks -- Live365 did a bit of system maintenance and it brought down my stream.

All better now!

Wow! (Yes, I do say that a lot) This is another of those wonderful surprises I get now-and-then. The latest from NYC based Sweet Suzi Smith, Unbroken, came across my email inbox today.

I've just finished uploading the last of 584 new tracks into the Dreamland Blues Radio playlist. This is a complete rebuild of the playlist from scratch.

I've re-encoded all the tracks and 'normalized' the levels. What this means to you, dear listener, is a consistent volume level of all the music tracks. I can't speak for the 'ads' because I don't control those.

Take a second and let me know what you think! I value your input!

Thanks for listening!

T.

Yes, I know the Now Playing list is in reverse order. ;-)

I've just been too busy to have a look at fixing it. This 'serial startup artist' stuff is really time-consuming, sleep-depriving work!

T.

WOW! I was lead to the Detroit group Atomic Fireballs by a post on one of the 'geek news' sites I frequent. I thought it odd that they would post something like this so it must be impressive. Wow.

I've just updated the software that drives the site. Despite the lack of posts, things are churning under the covers at Dreamland Blues!

Please let me know if things aren't working as you expect.

In other news... I have several photo galleries from shows over the summer that I am preparing to post. Stay tuned!

One of the great features of Live365 is GEO stats. This gives me a view into the geographic location of my listeners on a country-by-country basis. The results are surprising.

The top two entries are no big surprise:

1) United Stats
2) Canada

But here is where things start to get interesting:

I receive submissions for airplay consideration a few times a week. I do listen to all of them but the vast majority don't tickle that part of my brain that flags tracks for play on Dreamland Blues.

The one is different.

You know that image we all have of record executives; overweight, balding, cigar smoking, weasely guys in shiny suits and $1,200 shoes that are more con-artist than 'executive', well... It's wrong.

None of the record execs I have met smoke cigars.