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I was born in St. Louis and grew up here, Minneapolis and San Jose, California...a multi-city childhood that prepared me well for the rock band-style, gypsy touring life that is a career in radio.
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I came back to StL for good in 2006 to take care of family matters and have been with THE ARCH since June of 2007. It is the most perfect music station I have ever worked for, allowing me to indulge my rawk side as much as my love for pop music. It's my passion to bring all kinds of music to you and to dig around for the fun facts and stories behind the tunes and the people who make them.
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School of Rock - Wednesday 5/27: FLOOD
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With any big news story or event, I always think about ways to bring attention to the subject through music, and so tonight's song is just the right song to highlight the recent local heavy rains and severe flooding with high water as well as learn a little about the band that made the song in tonight's lesson from "Simon's School of Rock".
JARS OF CLAY is a Christian rock band that is based in Tennessee, but met at Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois only about 50 miles from St. Louis. Their name has a biblical meaning, coming from a passage in 2 Corinthians 4:7.
Upon hearing them live, progressive rock group King Crimson's Adrian Belew offered to produce their first few songs and one of those songs, "FLOOD" made it onto the band's debut album in 1995, which sold several million copies and was one of the biggest hits ever for a band on a Christian label. The band has since kept a much lower profile, but has released an interesting string of albums including their tenth and most recent just put out last month, called "The Long Fall To Earth".
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IMAGES COURTESY OF THE FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS (www.fas.org). The satellite photo above is a comparison of conditions in the St. Louis area before and after the Flood of 1973. The image below is a composite of thermal and terrain radar satellite imagery showing the height of the flooding and ground saturation during the Great Flood of '93. Note the purple areas of saturation and the farmland beneath.
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