Big article in Sunday's NYT about radio, or the lack of terrestrial radio opportunities for developing artists. Nothing mentioned specifically about the "legacy" artists that aren't served by trad radio, though. Haggard and Jones, Jackson Browne and Michael Brecker are left to fend for themselves.
Pandora is certainly part of the solution, but not everybody is hip to internet "radio" (need a new term - it's either radio or it's not, y'know?) and the tech of all this is beyond most casual computer users. I'm betting that a lot of corporate/government networks filter these kind of sites out anyway, based on P2P paranoia. I have five or six Pandora channels, from Haggard to Hall to Mae to Ian and Sylvia, and beyond. There are some gaps but this is really a great way to get (low-fi) from your internet connection. Trouble is, it's not portable, and it takes quite a bit of tweaking to really get it set up to feed you what you really want. I've got the Jim Hall channel on while I'm posting, but when I shut down for the day, it's goe - it doesn't come on the bus with me and there's no way to save the stream for future reference. You can click and buy from iTunes and Amazon, of course. It's good to keep a notepad or hotkey handy to mark the unfamiliar gems that come along with the old faves.
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