Rural radio

Rural radio in Niagara Falls

with an expanding musical pallette,

There was a tiny station out of Buffalo called The Lake.

They were way up in the nosebleed section

of the dial--107.7--

and the signal was a lot weaker

than the other Buffalo stations.

Sometimes it came in, sometimes it didn't.

But they played the most diverse

and amazing range of music I'd ever experienced:

old, grizzled bluesmen,

deep cuts from rock groups,

alternative artists that never

get a look-in on most stations.

there even was  Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

thanks to them,

 They played Red Right Hand,

and the song still makes a view  of a dark night,

the empty streets,

the moon overhead,

the rumbling engine of a half-dead 78 Grand Marquis beneath Cave's dirgy drawl.